The first table below looks at the demand for MCDBA in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDBA over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Rank 117 96 88
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -8
Permanent jobs citing MCDBA 1 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.059% 0.270% 0.223%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.189% 1.018% 0.638%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Average salary £42,500 £48,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.82% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £42,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-28.23% +25.00%
All Qualifications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
528 393 470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.06% 26.52% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 419 340 389
Average salary £43,250 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCDBA
West Midlands

MCDBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCDBA across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Birmingham MCDBA Jobs Demand Trend

MCDBA
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham MCDBA Salary Trend

MCDBA
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
2 2 (66.67%) WSH
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) UniData
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005

MCDBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) UniData
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Teradata DBA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) VBScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix