The first table below looks at the demand for the Database Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Database Engineer 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Engineer
Rank 306 323 332
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Engineer 12 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.102% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.110% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 2
Average salary £67,500 £70,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.25% +48.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £53,050 £70,500 £35,500
10% offered a salary of more than £74,500 £70,500 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £43,250 £60,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
-27.91% +150.00%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10921 12230 14187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.83% 93.10% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9422 11124 12765
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Database Engineer
London

Database Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Database Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Database Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Database Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Database Engineer Salary Trend

Database Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Database Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Database Engineer Salary Histogram

Database Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Database Engineer 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 Database Engineer in their job title.

1 19 (86.36%) Oracle
2 16 (72.73%) SQL
3 15 (68.18%) SQL Server
3 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (68.18%) Banking
4 14 (63.64%) Database Security
5 13 (59.09%) Information Security
5 13 (59.09%) RDBMS
6 12 (54.55%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (45.45%) Investment Banking
8 6 (27.27%) Finance
9 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
10 3 (13.64%) UNIX
10 3 (13.64%) Project Management
10 3 (13.64%) Linux
11 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
11 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (9.091%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (9.091%) Replication
11 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (9.091%) OLTP
11 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
11 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
11 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
12 1 (4.545%) VB
12 1 (4.545%) .NET

Database Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Database Engineer 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 Database Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.545%) .NET
1 1 (4.545%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) ESB
1 1 (4.545%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) SQL Server
2 13 (59.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.091%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.091%) OLTP
3 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) MySQL
4 1 (4.545%) DB2
4 1 (4.545%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.545%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) ERwin
2 1 (4.545%) MSBuild
General
1 15 (68.18%) Banking
2 10 (45.45%) Investment Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Replication
2 1 (4.545%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) UNIX
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.545%) AIX
2 1 (4.545%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Database Security
2 13 (59.09%) Information Security
3 12 (54.55%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
5 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.545%) CRM
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.545%) ETL
6 1 (4.545%) Process Management
6 1 (4.545%) Scrum
6 1 (4.545%) TDD
6 1 (4.545%) Data Management
6 1 (4.545%) BDD
6 1 (4.545%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.545%) VB
3 1 (4.545%) C#
3 1 (4.545%) Perl
3 1 (4.545%) Korn
3 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Oracle
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.545%) Sybase
3 1 (4.545%) Veritas
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.545%) Red Gate
City of London
Review and recommend security patches, for implementation on MSSQL and Oracle; the ability to apply Microsoft policy based management on SQL Server database and develop suitable alternatives for...
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Posted: 15 May 2013