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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 30 31 43
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 11 13 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 3.986% 4.276% 3.325%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.231% 4.333% 3.431%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 13
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
All Job Titles
Devon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
260 300 408
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 94.20% 98.68% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 218 255 354
Average salary £33,000 £30,212 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.22% +0.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
South West

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Devon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Devon DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Devon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Exeter +5 7 £40,000 +6.66%
Exmouth - 1 £36,000 -
DBA
South West

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 20 (90.91%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
3 9 (40.91%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (31.82%) Oracle
4 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (27.27%) T-SQL
6 5 (22.73%) Linux
6 5 (22.73%) DTS
6 5 (22.73%) SAN
6 5 (22.73%) VMware
7 4 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (18.18%) IBM
7 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
7 4 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (18.18%) AIX
7 4 (18.18%) .NET
7 4 (18.18%) C#
7 4 (18.18%) Java
7 4 (18.18%) PHP
7 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
7 4 (18.18%) Data Guard
7 4 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (13.64%) Marketing
8 3 (13.64%) Red Gate
8 3 (13.64%) Digital Media

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 4 (18.18%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 9 (40.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (22.73%) DTS
5 4 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (4.545%) VLDB
7 1 (4.545%) MySQL
General
1 3 (13.64%) Marketing
1 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Digital Media
1 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (13.64%) Scrum
3 1 (4.545%) ETL
3 1 (4.545%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) PHP
3 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) IBM
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) Red Gate