The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 41 35 31
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 1 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 0.395% 0.957% 2.222%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.463% 1.136% 2.326%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
216 176 172
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 85.38% 84.21% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 138 91 80
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £20,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
County Antrim

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Belfast DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Belfast region.

Belfast DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (42.86%) OCP
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 3 (42.86%) Sybase
4 3 (42.86%) UNIX
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (42.86%) Data Guard
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Perl
5 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (14.29%) ETL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) OCP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Sybase