The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank 187 210 227
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 77 55 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.956% 0.643% 0.474%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.007% 0.664% 0.500%
Number of salaries quoted 68 48 43
Average salary £47,500 £47,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.06% +17.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £35,000 £30,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £45,800
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7648 8284 9399
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 94.98% 96.91% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6622 7043 8033
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England SQL Server DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server DBA
Salary Trend

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

East of England SQL Server DBA Salary Trend

SQL Server DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England SQL Server DBA Salary Histogram

SQL Server DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire +30 29 £51,000 +13.33% 1
Essex +8 17 £50,000 -
Bedfordshire - 16 £47,500 -
Cambridgeshire +6 9 £35,000 -25.53% 3
Suffolk 0 6 £40,000 +14.28%
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title.

1 132 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 106 (80.30%) SQL
3 80 (60.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 77 (58.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 74 (56.06%) SQL Server 2008
6 65 (49.24%) T-SQL
7 49 (37.12%) Windows
8 48 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 48 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 45 (34.09%) Finance
10 42 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
11 40 (30.30%) Replication
11 40 (30.30%) Clustering
12 34 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (21.21%) Migration
14 27 (20.45%) Windows Server 2003
14 27 (20.45%) DTS
15 26 (19.70%) Microsoft
16 23 (17.42%) BizTalk Server
16 23 (17.42%) Windows Server 2008
16 23 (17.42%) SQL Server 2012
17 20 (15.15%) Incident Management
18 19 (14.39%) SQL Server 2000
19 18 (13.64%) MS Excel
20 17 (12.88%) RDBMS
20 17 (12.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
21 16 (12.12%) Retail
21 16 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
22 15 (11.36%) Data Extraction
23 14 (10.61%) ITIL

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (4.545%) Web Services
1 6 (4.545%) MDX
2 2 (1.515%) .NET
3 1 (0.758%) HTML
3 1 (0.758%) COM
Application Platforms
1 23 (17.42%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (4.545%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.545%) Windows Azure
2 6 (4.545%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (0.758%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 18 (13.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.091%) SAN
2 7 (5.303%) Internet
3 1 (0.758%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 80 (60.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 77 (58.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 74 (56.06%) SQL Server 2008
5 48 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 42 (31.82%) SQL Server 2005
7 34 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (20.45%) DTS
9 23 (17.42%) SQL Server 2012
10 19 (14.39%) SQL Server 2000
11 17 (12.88%) RDBMS
11 17 (12.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 9 (6.818%) MongoDB
12 9 (6.818%) Hadoop
13 8 (6.061%) MySQL
14 7 (5.303%) NoSQL
15 6 (4.545%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (4.545%) Big Data
16 5 (3.788%) Oracle 11g
16 5 (3.788%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (0.758%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (0.758%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (34.09%) Finance
2 16 (12.12%) Retail
3 12 (9.091%) Banking
3 12 (9.091%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 40 (30.30%) Replication
1 40 (30.30%) Clustering
2 15 (11.36%) Data Extraction
3 8 (6.061%) SaaS
4 6 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.545%) Social Media
4 6 (4.545%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.788%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.515%) Telematics
Operating Systems
1 49 (37.12%) Windows
2 27 (20.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 23 (17.42%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.515%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (21.21%) Migration
3 20 (15.15%) Incident Management
4 16 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (10.61%) ITIL
6 10 (7.576%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (6.818%) Database Security
7 9 (6.818%) ETL
7 9 (6.818%) Service Delivery
8 8 (6.061%) High Availability
9 7 (5.303%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (5.303%) Data Migration
9 7 (5.303%) CRM
10 6 (4.545%) Data Security
10 6 (4.545%) E-Commerce
10 6 (4.545%) ERP
10 6 (4.545%) Mobile Application Development
11 5 (3.788%) Business Continuity
12 4 (3.030%) BCP
12 4 (3.030%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 106 (80.30%) SQL
2 65 (49.24%) T-SQL
3 12 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 12 (9.091%) Perl
4 2 (1.515%) VBA
5 1 (0.758%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.758%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (6.818%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.545%) MCITP
3 5 (3.788%) MCDBA
4 3 (2.273%) Degree
5 1 (0.758%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.091%) Solvency II
2 3 (2.273%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.273%) SLA
3 1 (0.758%) QA
3 1 (0.758%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.758%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.758%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.061%) Nimsoft
3 6 (4.545%) Salesforce.com
3 6 (4.545%) Oracle
4 1 (0.758%) VMware
Hertfordshire, South East
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SQL Server DBA to join this global organisation in this varied role which will include managing current systems, roadmapping, design,...
GSA Techsource
Salary: GBP0 to GBP45000 per annum + Benefits: + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Opportunity: This is a great opportunity to use your SQL Server experience in a dynamic and fast paced environment.We are looking for a Database Administrator (DBA) to...
BGL Group
Salary: Unspecified competitive plus excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
SQL monitoring, troubleshooting, tuning and high-availability strategies in a Windows / SQL Server 24/7 production environment... *Provide expertise in T-SQL for SQL Server to the software...
OSM Ltd
Salary: £42000 - £48000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Skills Required:- 1 years+ experience of configuration of SQL Server 2008 SSIS & SSAS Detailed knowledge of T-SQL Good knowledge of MDX Queries Administration/creating SSIS packages ETL...
IT Connections
Salary: to £35,000 + Bonus + Good Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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