Database Administrator jobs in London
47 current database administrator openings in London, aggregated from public boards and linking straight to the employer's own posting. 30 employers are hiring across this list right now.
Working as a database administrator in London
The deepest job market in the UK by a distance, spanning fintech, media and enterprise. Pay is 20-35% above the rest of the country for the same title and housing takes more than that back, so the London premium is smaller in practice than it looks on paper.
Most of the hiring in this list clusters around Shoreditch, King's Cross, the City and Canary Wharf. Location on a posting is not always literal — check whether a role is genuinely on site, and whether "remote" means remote within the country or remote from anywhere, because the two are priced differently.
Job Title: Database Administrator (AWS, Aurora and RDS) Rate: £500 - £565 Clearance required: BPSS SC (It needs to be an active SC with a government agency used within th…
Job Title: Database Administrator (AWS, Aurora and RDS) Rate: £500 - £565 Clearance required: BPSS SC (It needs to be an active SC with a government agency used within th…
Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements: We require deep expertise in AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, and PostgreSQL. We require strong database architecture and solution design exp…
Job Description Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31, 2026 Work Set Up: Hybrid Clearance Required: BPSS SC. Active SC clearance must be with a government age…
DSP Company Overview: DSP offers award-winning consultancy and managed services for Oracle, Microsoft and Google technologies. We specialise in data platform management, …
Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15…
We are seeking a skilled and motivated SQL Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Database Services team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the administr…
Req ID: 385884 Competitive salary | UK/Europe: Fully remote possible; occasionally Sheffield preferred At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything …
Description Objective: Sales Operations at Fortinet manages systems and databases used by all the employees in Sales plus other departments. Over the past 10 years the da…
SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR (AWS AURORA / POSTGRESQL) £525 per day via Umbrella Initial contract until 31/12/2026 Croydon based Active SC Clearance required WHO WE ARE?…
SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR (AWS AURORA / POSTGRESQL) £525 per day via Umbrella Initial contract until 31/12/2026 Croydon based Active SC Clearance required WHO WE ARE?…
SQL Server DBA / Data Engineer - Data-Driven Software Company - London / Hybrid (Tech stack: SQL Server DBA / Data Engineer, Database Administrator, Database Developer, T…
Database SME - PostgreSQL, Azure £410 per day Outside IR35 Primarily Remote 2 Month Contract (20 Hours per Week) We're looking for an experienced PostgreSQL DBA with stro…
Service Delivery Manager Remote - occasional travel to Croydon and other client sites Up to £670 per day inside ir35 Initial 3-month contract (extension likely) Active SC…
Service Delivery Manager Remote - occasional travel to Croydon and other client sites Up to £670 per day inside ir35 Initial 3-month contract (extension likely) Active SC…
Systems Data Analyst – SQL / NoSQL / Data Migration 6-Month Contract We are recruiting an experienced Systems Data Analyst to support a major application modernisation an…
Database SME - PostgreSQL, Azure £410 per day Outside IR35 Primarily Remote 2 Month Contract (20 Hours per Week) We're looking for an experienced PostgreSQL DBA with stro…
Salary: £50,000 - 55,000 per year Requirements: Experience with Azure or Azure DevOps Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Experience in application support o…
We are looking for a bright Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science graduate who enjoys data analysis to join the Risk Management team for 6 mon…
Junior Data Administrator Location: Twickenham Salary: To £29K Bens Contract: Full-time, permanent About the Role We are looking for an organised and detail-focused Junio…
Position: C# .NET Developer Location: London Contract: 6 Months Initially Pay: £416 Umbrella/day Company: Leading provider of IT services to one of the major Japanese ban…
Membership and Customer Service Administrator Merrifield Consultants is delighted to be recruiting a Membership and Customer Service Administrator for an international me…
Membership and Customer Service Administrator Merrifield Consultants is delighted to be recruiting a Membership and Customer Service Administrator for an international me…
Description Are you an experienced IT Systems Leader with experience of Terminal Operating Systems looking to drive technology across one of the UK's most advanced logist…
Position Overview: The Trading Infrastructure Support Engineer will be part of a highly talented team of support engineers responsible for ensuring high availability of S…
hackajob is collaborating with Atos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are looking for a PostgreSQL database administrator with strong data …
Tier 1 Investment bank based in Canary Wharf. Role - C# Developer - Desktop Applications Duration - 6 months with likely extension Rate - £416 p/d (inside IR35) Location …
Role & Responsibilities DSP is looking for an experienced SQL Server DBA with proven SQL Azure skills to join our team. This role will be within our managed services team…
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Reception & Conference Facilitator Location: Central London Contract: Temporary Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 The Opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proacti…
Membership and Customer Service Administrator, part-time job share (Wednesdays and Thursdays) 9:30-17:30, permanent hybrid, London, Professional Membership Body, £30,600 …
Description Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS) Join our Group Business Solutions (GBS) division and help ensure the stability, performance, and reliability of the c…
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Admin Support with Excel We are currently recruiting for a 2-3 Administration Assistants to start 12th August for 10 days- 3 weeks; working on a full-time basis and is pa…
The role: The Development and Advocacy Department are looking to appoint a Development Assistant on a part-time fixed-term basis. This role will provide general administr…
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Are you looking to benefit from a new career in Programming? Skills shortages in the IT sector are driving the need for qualified, entry-level career seekers and career c…
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Database Administrator pay and hiring, asked properly
What salary can a database administrator expect?
In India, roughly 6–14 LPA at mid-level and 18–35 LPA senior, with Oracle and large-scale production experience at the top. The US band is about $85,000–$130,000, the UK £40,000–£70,000. On-call responsibility is usually what explains the gap between two otherwise similar offers.
Is the DBA role disappearing into cloud managed services?
The routine half is — patching, backups and failover are handled by the provider now. What has not gone away is query performance, schema design, capacity and the incident at two in the morning. The title increasingly appears as database reliability or data platform engineer, and it pays better under those names.
What do interviews actually test?
Performance diagnosis, more than administration. Expect to explain why a query got slow, how you would read an execution plan, what an index costs on writes, and how you would restore to a point in time. Being able to talk through a real outage you handled is worth more than any product knowledge.
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