The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 136 168 166
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 143 106 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 1.729% 1.219% 1.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.812% 1.260% 1.090%
Number of salaries quoted 125 91 92
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £50,000 £47,950
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7891 8411 8993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.43% 96.72% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6875 7028 7682
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the East of England region.

East of England SQL DBA Salary Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England SQL DBA Salary Histogram

SQL DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hertfordshire +61 65 £50,000 +19.04%
Essex +2 21 £43,750 -2.77%
Bedfordshire - 18 £42,500 -
Suffolk +5 17 £40,000 +14.28%
Cambridgeshire -25 16 £34,500 -26.59%
East Anglia - 4 £35,000 -
Norfolk +1 2 £40,000 +35.59%
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title.

1 260 (94.55%) SQL Server
2 250 (90.91%) SQL
3 178 (64.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 176 (64.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 155 (56.36%) SQL Server 2008
6 130 (47.27%) T-SQL
7 117 (42.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 112 (40.73%) SQL Server 2005
9 106 (38.55%) Windows
10 97 (35.27%) Microsoft
11 81 (29.45%) Replication
12 80 (29.09%) Finance
13 69 (25.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 64 (23.27%) SQL Server 2012
15 63 (22.91%) Migration
16 53 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
17 50 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
17 50 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 46 (16.73%) Data Warehouse
19 45 (16.36%) MS Excel
19 45 (16.36%) BizTalk Server
19 45 (16.36%) Windows Server 2003
20 43 (15.64%) Clustering
21 40 (14.55%) DTS
22 34 (12.36%) Capacity Planning
23 32 (11.64%) Degree
24 29 (10.55%) Azure SQL Database
24 29 (10.55%) Windows Azure
25 26 (9.455%) ITIL
26 24 (8.727%) Active Directory

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (3.636%) Web Services
2 7 (2.545%) .NET
3 3 (1.091%) MDX
4 2 (0.727%) J2EE
5 1 (0.364%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.364%) COM
5 1 (0.364%) WPF
5 1 (0.364%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.364%) XML
5 1 (0.364%) WinForms
5 1 (0.364%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 45 (16.36%) BizTalk Server
2 29 (10.55%) Windows Azure
3 11 (4.000%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.636%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (2.182%) Moodle
6 2 (0.727%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 45 (16.36%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.455%) FastStats
Business Applications
1 7 (2.545%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.727%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.364%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.455%) SAN
2 7 (2.545%) Internet
3 6 (2.182%) Intranet
4 4 (1.455%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.727%) HTTP
6 1 (0.364%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (94.55%) SQL Server
2 178 (64.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 176 (64.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 155 (56.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 117 (42.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 112 (40.73%) SQL Server 2005
7 64 (23.27%) SQL Server 2012
8 50 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
9 46 (16.73%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (14.55%) DTS
11 29 (10.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (7.636%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 21 (7.636%) MySQL
13 19 (6.909%) OLTP
13 19 (6.909%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (5.818%) Hadoop
14 16 (5.818%) MongoDB
15 12 (4.364%) Oracle 8/8i
16 11 (4.000%) RDBMS
16 11 (4.000%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.727%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.364%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (29.09%) Finance
2 14 (5.091%) Retail
3 12 (4.364%) Retail Banking
3 12 (4.364%) Banking
4 4 (1.455%) Marketing
5 2 (0.727%) Advertising
6 1 (0.364%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 81 (29.45%) Replication
2 43 (15.64%) Clustering
3 15 (5.455%) Data Extraction
4 11 (4.000%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.636%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (3.636%) SaaS
5 10 (3.636%) Social Media
6 7 (2.545%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.545%) Computer Science
7 6 (2.182%) Wiki
7 6 (2.182%) VLE
8 5 (1.818%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.727%) Telematics
10 1 (0.364%) Statistics
10 1 (0.364%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 106 (38.55%) Windows
2 50 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 45 (16.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (2.909%) UNIX
5 6 (2.182%) Windows 2000
6 3 (1.091%) Linux
6 3 (1.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 63 (22.91%) Migration
3 53 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (12.36%) Capacity Planning
5 26 (9.455%) ITIL
6 23 (8.364%) CRM
7 17 (6.182%) Incident Management
8 15 (5.455%) Data Security
9 14 (5.091%) Service Delivery
10 13 (4.727%) E-Commerce
11 12 (4.364%) Data Management
12 11 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (4.000%) ETL
13 10 (3.636%) Mobile Application Development
14 8 (2.909%) Data Migration
14 8 (2.909%) Data Protection
15 7 (2.545%) Business Continuity
15 7 (2.545%) High Availability
16 6 (2.182%) Database Security
16 6 (2.182%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 250 (90.91%) SQL
2 130 (47.27%) T-SQL
3 12 (4.364%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.364%) Perl
4 9 (3.273%) VBA
5 4 (1.455%) VB
6 3 (1.091%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.091%) C#
7 2 (0.727%) C
7 2 (0.727%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.364%) XQuery
8 1 (0.364%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (11.64%) Degree
2 23 (8.364%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (4.000%) MCDBA
3 11 (4.000%) MCITP
4 7 (2.545%) MCTS
5 6 (2.182%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.182%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.364%) Solvency II
2 3 (1.091%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.727%) ISO 9000
3 2 (0.727%) SLA
4 1 (0.364%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.364%) QA
System Software
1 24 (8.727%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.455%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.455%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.364%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.455%) Nagios
1 4 (1.455%) Zenoss
2 1 (0.364%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 97 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.364%) Oracle
3 9 (3.273%) VMware
4 7 (2.545%) Sybase
5 6 (2.182%) Salesforce.com
6 4 (1.455%) Nimsoft
7 3 (1.091%) Red Gate
7 3 (1.091%) HP
8 2 (0.727%) Cisco
9 1 (0.364%) DevExpress
Watford, South East
As the Senior SQL Server DBA you will have strong experience of SQL Server Database administration, SQL Server patch management and expert levels of SQL Server RDBMS installation/...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Essex, South East
Skills and experience essential to the role include; SQL server clustering/Windows server 2003 clustering/ TSQL/ Application support/ Access/SQL Server You will ensure that all database environments...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Essex
Skills and experience essential to the role include; SQL server clustering/Windows server 2003 clustering/ TSQL/ Application support/ Access/SQL Server You will ensure that all database environments...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic SQL DBA, Database Administrator who has experience of working with SSRS and SSIS, to join a growing team working on...
Kyna Associates
Salary: £40000 - 45000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk
DBA skills - Performance tuning - reporting - T-SQL - Stored procedures - Triggers SQL Server 2005 / 2008 - RDBMS - internal liaison and design authority Our client, a growing Business Solutions provider in...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + good benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Good SQL experience -Excellent problem solving -A desire to learn about new technology -Extraordinary attention to detail -A graduate with 0-2 year’s experience If you like...
Interaction Recruitment PLC
Salary: £23k - 26k per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Worldwide IT solutions provider currently seeks an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join their expanding UK headquarters located in Bedfordshire. This is an excellent opportunity for a...
Gregory James
Salary: £40000 to £47000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013
Watford, West Midlands
Technically you msut have excellent Sql Server (2005, 2008, R2) skills, strong knowledge of Virtual environments with VMware, Hyper-V etc, strong Sql and PL/Sql and good...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: To Max £43k + excellent bonus & bens package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Main Responsibilities:*Installation, configuration and upgrading of Database server software and related products.*Database tuning and performance monitoring.*Application tuning and performance monitoring including creating monitoring and early-...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £47500 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Basildon, South East
You .Ideally you'll hold as many of the following skills as possible:*T-SQL Scripting experience*Microsoft MS SQL Service 2000, 2005, 2008 Database Administration Experience*Working...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
You must have at least 5 years experience working with SQL (scripting, triggers, views and stored procedures). You will have 2 years experience working as a SQL DBA...
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Job Requirements Essential Criteria: Have, or be eligible for, security clearance to SC level. Understanding of the principals and practicalities of data protection. Demonstrable experience of Oracle and...
Atos
Salary: £1 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013