The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 106 96 87
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 8 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.474% 0.276% 0.308%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.501% 0.287% 0.321%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 4
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -22.72%
UK excluding London average salary £40,995 £42,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year
-3.54% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1598 1396 1246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.41% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1340 1245 1079
Average salary £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Oracle DBA
West Midlands

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle DBA
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle DBA Salary Trend

Oracle DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Birmingham Oracle DBA Salary Histogram

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 25 (86.21%) Oracle 11g
3 23 (79.31%) Data Guard
3 23 (79.31%) Oracle RMAN
4 22 (75.86%) Oracle 10g
4 22 (75.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 21 (72.41%) ITIL
5 21 (72.41%) UNIX
5 21 (72.41%) Oracle RAC
6 19 (65.52%) Banking
7 18 (62.07%) Shell Script
8 15 (51.72%) BladeLogic
8 15 (51.72%) Degree
8 15 (51.72%) Risk Analysis
9 6 (20.69%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
10 4 (13.79%) Informix
10 4 (13.79%) Sun
10 4 (13.79%) TOAD
10 4 (13.79%) Foglight
10 4 (13.79%) Finance
10 4 (13.79%) Replication
10 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (13.79%) Database Security
11 3 (10.34%) Change Management
11 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (10.34%) Sybase
12 2 (6.897%) WebLogic
12 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (6.897%) AIX

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.448%) HTML
1 1 (3.448%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.897%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (86.21%) Oracle 11g
2 22 (75.86%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (13.79%) Informix
4 4 (13.79%) TOAD
5 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.897%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (3.448%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle APEX
General
1 19 (65.52%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Replication
2 1 (3.448%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) UNIX
2 2 (6.897%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) ITIL
2 15 (51.72%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (13.79%) Database Security
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
5 1 (3.448%) Analytics
5 1 (3.448%) OO
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.448%) C#
2 1 (3.448%) Java
2 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.897%) OCP
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 23 (79.31%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (72.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Data Guard
2 22 (75.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 15 (51.72%) BladeLogic
4 4 (13.79%) Foglight
5 1 (3.448%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.448%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Sun
3 3 (10.34%) Sybase