DBA Jobs in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator salary in London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 510 642
Rank change year-on-year +80 +132 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 86 106 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 101 173
10th Percentile £55,800 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,873 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% +10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,313 32,109 66,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,649 23,746 34,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,449 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in London

DBA
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in London.

Salary trend for DBA in London

DBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in London

DBA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +79 27 £67,000 +16.52% 2
South London -10 2 £58,750 -26.56%
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 53 (61.63%) SQL Server
2 47 (54.65%) SQL
3 36 (41.86%) T-SQL
4 33 (38.37%) Finance
4 33 (38.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (36.05%) Performance Tuning
6 27 (31.40%) AWS
7 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
8 24 (27.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (26.74%) MySQL
10 22 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (25.58%) Azure
11 21 (24.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
13 19 (22.09%) ITIL
14 18 (20.93%) Oracle
15 17 (19.77%) Clustering
16 16 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (18.60%) PowerShell
17 15 (17.44%) High Availability
17 15 (17.44%) Database Security
18 14 (16.28%) Oracle Database
18 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
19 13 (15.12%) Git
19 13 (15.12%) Replication
19 13 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
20 12 (13.95%) Windows
20 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
20 12 (13.95%) Degree

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.40%) AWS
2 22 (25.58%) Azure
3 9 (10.47%) Datadog
4 8 (9.30%) GitHub
4 8 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.81%) Nutanix
6 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.33%) SaaS
8 2 (2.33%) Serverless
9 1 (1.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DAB
2 2 (2.33%) Internet
2 2 (2.33%) SSL
2 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (61.63%) SQL Server
2 33 (38.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 24 (27.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (26.74%) MySQL
5 22 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (24.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 14 (16.28%) Oracle Database
8 13 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
10 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (9.30%) Power BI
11 7 (8.14%) Oracle Database 12c
12 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
13 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
14 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (3.49%) DataStax
15 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
16 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Mercurial
3 5 (5.81%) JIRA
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (38.37%) Finance
2 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Tech for Good
6 7 (8.14%) Back Office
6 7 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.14%) Local Government
6 7 (8.14%) Police
7 2 (2.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) .NET
1 4 (4.65%) XML
2 2 (2.33%) RESTful
3 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Clustering
2 13 (15.12%) Replication
3 7 (8.14%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Windows
2 9 (10.47%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.30%) Unix
4 4 (4.65%) Linux
5 3 (3.49%) Debian
5 3 (3.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.05%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (22.09%) ITIL
3 16 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (17.44%) Database Security
4 15 (17.44%) High Availability
5 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.95%) Customer Service
7 10 (11.63%) Change Management
7 10 (11.63%) ETL
8 9 (10.47%) Observability
8 9 (10.47%) Problem Management
9 8 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (9.30%) Task Automation
10 7 (8.14%) Business Continuity
10 7 (8.14%) Fintech
11 6 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (5.81%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (5.81%) Cloud Operations
12 5 (5.81%) Data Protection
12 5 (5.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.65%) SQL
2 36 (41.86%) T-SQL
3 16 (18.60%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.98%) C#
4 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.65%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.65%) Python
6 3 (3.49%) CQL
7 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Degree
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) MCSA
5 2 (2.33%) MCSE
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Foglight
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Clustering
1 9 (10.47%) Terraform
2 8 (9.30%) Ansible
3 7 (8.14%) Nagios
4 4 (4.65%) Data Guard
4 4 (4.65%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.93%) Oracle
3 7 (8.14%) ArcSight
3 7 (8.14%) HP
3 7 (8.14%) NEC
4 5 (5.81%) Dell
4 5 (5.81%) Veeam
5 3 (3.49%) VMware
6 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.33%) Commvault
6 2 (2.33%) Databricks
6 2 (2.33%) IDERA
6 2 (2.33%) NetApp
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) RedGate