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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 15 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 5.190% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.639% - -
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 0
Average salary £44,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
266 301 269
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 92.04% 89.05% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 239 279 255
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
London

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 28 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (64.29%) SQL Server
3 15 (53.57%) Finance
4 14 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (32.14%) Oracle
5 9 (32.14%) UNIX
6 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
7 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
7 5 (17.86%) AIX
7 5 (17.86%) Linux
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Degree
8 4 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
8 4 (14.29%) MCDBA
8 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
8 4 (14.29%) MySQL
8 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 4 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
8 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
9 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.71%) OLTP
9 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
9 3 (10.71%) PHP
9 3 (10.71%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (10.71%) Solaris
9 3 (10.71%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (10.71%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2005

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 Development
1 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 4 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) OLTP
4 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.571%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.571%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) UNIX
2 5 (17.86%) AIX
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Solaris
4 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (7.143%) Migration
4 2 (7.143%) Quality Management
5 1 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.571%) QMS
5 1 (3.571%) Release Management
5 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.71%) PHP
4 1 (3.571%) C#
4 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.571%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
1 4 (14.29%) MCDBA
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.571%) MCTS
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft