The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff 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 18 June 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 58 43 50
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 7 11 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.235% 2.663% 3.503%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.261% 2.736% 3.607%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 22
Average salary £40,000 £34,000 £27,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% +24.77%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
555 402 610
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 97.88% 97.34% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 470 378 572
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
South Wales

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) PL/SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) UNIX
3 7 (46.67%) sed
3 7 (46.67%) AWK
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
3 7 (46.67%) Perl
4 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (20.00%) Statistics
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
7 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) ETL
7 2 (13.33%) Law
7 2 (13.33%) Replication
8 1 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (6.667%) Finance
8 1 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (6.667%) Cognos
8 1 (6.667%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (13.33%) Law
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Statistics
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
1 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (13.33%) ETL
2 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) PL/SQL
3 7 (46.67%) Perl
3 7 (46.67%) AWK
3 7 (46.67%) sed
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Cognos
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft