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This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDatabase Administrator (DBA)
Location
3 months to 18 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank8690
Rank change on same period last yearUp+4
Matching permanent IT job ads43344731
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.263 %1.952 %
As % of the category below2.612 %2.248 %
Salaries quoted35333633
Average minimum salary£41,961£41,667
Average salary£44,915£44,508
% change on same period last year+0.91 %
Average maximum salary£47,869£47,350
UK excluding London average salary£39,233£39,804
% change on same period last year-1.43 %
Job Titles EnglandJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads165898210449
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled86.61 %86.82 %
Salaries quoted137742168606
Average minimum salary£38,946£40,805
Average salary£42,588£44,619
% change on same period last year-4.55 %
Average maximum salary£46,231£48,433
UK excluding London average salary£38,227£39,513
% change on same period last year-3.25 %
DBA UKDBA
UK

DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England DBA Demand Trend

DBA
Salary Trend

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

England DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

England DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing DBA within the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+252251£50,271+0.04 %
South EastDown-15740£42,042-1.27 %
YorkshireDown-19286£37,872+5.81 %
South WestUp+7255£37,665-13.48 %
North WestDown-16254£36,816+0.98 %
East of EnglandDown-10232£37,595+2.57 %
West MidlandsDown-11157£38,999-3.22 %
East MidlandsUp+54149£38,268+11.00 %
MidlandsUp+1824£45,333+11.85 %
North EastDown-179£30,714-21.94 %
DBA UKDBA
UK

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

15887 (62.96 %)SQL
24976 (53.22 %)Oracle
34437 (47.45 %)SQL Server
42913 (31.16 %)Oracle 10g
52565 (27.43 %)Finance
62407 (25.74 %)UNIX
72274 (24.32 %)SQL Server 2005
82021 (21.61 %)Oracle 9i
91900 (20.32 %)SQL Server 2000
101756 (18.78 %)Windows
111513 (16.18 %)Linux
121512 (16.17 %)Oracle RAC
131344 (14.37 %)PL/SQL
141291 (13.81 %)Replication
151252 (13.39 %)Oracle RMAN
161241 (13.27 %)Transact-SQL
171110 (11.87 %)Microsoft
18993 (10.62 %)Banking
19948 (10.14 %)Solaris
20934 (9.989 %)Shell Script
21839 (8.973 %)Sybase
22787 (8.417 %)Disaster Recovery
23761 (8.139 %)Datawarehouse
24759 (8.118 %)DTS
25738 (7.893 %)MS Excel
26701 (7.497 %)RDBMS
27691 (7.390 %)Clustering
28642 (6.866 %)SQL Server Integration Services
29624 (6.674 %)Microsoft Certification
30608 (6.503 %)SQL Server 7

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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
1567 (6.064 %).NET
2157 (1.679 %)XML
3147 (1.572 %)JDBC
4134 (1.433 %)J2EE
5125 (1.337 %)ASP.NET
6116 (1.241 %)ODBC
798 (1.048 %)ASP
870 (0.749 %)Middleware
963 (0.674 %)HTML
1038 (0.406 %)SAP Basis
1038 (0.406 %)WebServices
1135 (0.374 %).NET Framework
1234 (0.364 %)Oracle Streams
1330 (0.321 %)MDX
1421 (0.225 %)WebSphere
1517 (0.182 %)ISPF
1616 (0.171 %)EDI
1616 (0.171 %)ADO.NET
1616 (0.171 %)XSL
1714 (0.150 %)CSS
Application Platforms
1292 (3.123 %)Oracle Application Server
2206 (2.203 %)IIS
3174 (1.861 %)Oracle 10gAS
495 (1.016 %)SharePoint
585 (0.909 %)Oracle 9iAS
678 (0.834 %)Apache
754 (0.578 %)JBoss
754 (0.578 %)MS Exchange
847 (0.503 %)SAS
943 (0.460 %)Oracle Workflow
1042 (0.449 %)Tomcat
1133 (0.353 %)Exchange Server 2000
1229 (0.310 %)WebLogic
1326 (0.278 %)Exchange Server 2003
1425 (0.267 %)BizTalk Server
1425 (0.267 %)OpenEdge
1524 (0.257 %)CICS
1622 (0.235 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1718 (0.193 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1817 (0.182 %)ColdFusion
Applications
1738 (7.893 %)MS Excel
285 (0.909 %)MS Office
371 (0.759 %)MS Visio
422 (0.235 %)SPSS
59 (0.096 %)MS Project
67 (0.075 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.011 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.011 %)CATIA
71 (0.011 %)PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1575 (6.150 %)Oracle Applications
2512 (5.476 %)Oracle EBS
3392 (4.193 %)Oracle 11i
495 (1.016 %)Oracle Financials
512 (0.128 %)Oracle HRMS
611 (0.118 %)Oracle iRecruitment
611 (0.118 %)AWD
79 (0.096 %)SAP Business One
79 (0.096 %)RMDS
88 (0.086 %)Navision
97 (0.075 %)Great Plains
97 (0.075 %)Dynamics CRM
106 (0.064 %)Tesseract
106 (0.064 %)Oracle ERP
113 (0.032 %)SAP SD
113 (0.032 %)SAP Oil and Gas
113 (0.032 %)SalesLogix
113 (0.032 %)SAP ERP
113 (0.032 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
122 (0.021 %)Oracle ASCP
Communications & Networking
1345 (3.690 %)SAN
2170 (1.818 %)Internet
3112 (1.198 %)TCP/IP
485 (0.909 %)WAN
575 (0.802 %)LAN
661 (0.652 %)VPN
752 (0.556 %)Intranet
752 (0.556 %)Firewall
845 (0.481 %)DNS
927 (0.289 %)FTP
1021 (0.225 %)HTTP
1021 (0.225 %)LDAP
1119 (0.203 %)SMTP
1217 (0.182 %)Broadband
1314 (0.150 %)2G
1413 (0.139 %)SSH
1413 (0.139 %)DHCP
1510 (0.107 %)ISDN
169 (0.096 %)SSL
178 (0.086 %)MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
14437 (47.45 %)SQL Server
22913 (31.16 %)Oracle 10g
32274 (24.32 %)SQL Server 2005
42021 (21.61 %)Oracle 9i
51900 (20.32 %)SQL Server 2000
6761 (8.139 %)Datawarehouse
7759 (8.118 %)DTS
8701 (7.497 %)RDBMS
9642 (6.866 %)SQL Server Integration Services
10608 (6.503 %)SQL Server 7
11529 (5.658 %)Oracle 8/8i
12479 (5.123 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
13390 (4.171 %)DB2
14389 (4.160 %)OLAP
15362 (3.872 %)MySQL
16354 (3.786 %)ETL
17320 (3.422 %)Oracle Reports
18316 (3.380 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
19234 (2.503 %)Oracle 11g
20217 (2.321 %)Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1187 (2.000 %)Oracle Forms
277 (0.824 %)Visual Studio
357 (0.610 %)ClearCase
438 (0.406 %)VSS/SourceSafe
516 (0.171 %)Subversion
613 (0.139 %)Oracle Designer/2000
711 (0.118 %)PowerBuilder
810 (0.107 %)JDeveloper
810 (0.107 %)Oracle APEX
97 (0.075 %)PVCS
97 (0.075 %)Eclipse
97 (0.075 %)InstallShield
97 (0.075 %)Log4j
106 (0.064 %)ClearQuest
106 (0.064 %)JIRA
115 (0.053 %)FrontPage
123 (0.032 %)ERwin
132 (0.021 %)Dreamweaver
141 (0.011 %)TestDirector
141 (0.011 %)ProC
General
12565 (27.43 %)Finance
2993 (10.62 %)Banking
3439 (4.695 %)Investment Banking
4355 (3.797 %)Health
5338 (3.615 %)Pensions
6314 (3.358 %)Insurance
7219 (2.342 %)Games
8206 (2.203 %)Retail
9184 (1.968 %)Telecoms
10159 (1.701 %)Marketing
11148 (1.583 %)Financial Institution
12135 (1.444 %)Online Games
13116 (1.241 %)Government
14101 (1.080 %)Education
1579 (0.845 %)Legal
1670 (0.749 %)Law
1764 (0.684 %)Music
1852 (0.556 %)Publishing
1951 (0.545 %)Manufacturing
2042 (0.449 %)Music Industry
Miscellaneous
11291 (13.81 %)Replication
2691 (7.390 %)Clustering
392 (0.984 %)Asset Management
474 (0.791 %)Statistics
562 (0.663 %)Client/Server
661 (0.652 %)Management Information System
760 (0.642 %)Fixed Income
855 (0.588 %)Computer Science
947 (0.503 %)Mainframe
1044 (0.471 %)Mathematics
1142 (0.449 %)N-Tier
1241 (0.439 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1339 (0.417 %)AS400
1438 (0.406 %)Equities
1537 (0.396 %)Derivative
1635 (0.374 %)Data Extraction
1729 (0.310 %)Data Integration
1826 (0.278 %)Data Protection Act
1925 (0.267 %)Social Network
2024 (0.257 %)NHS
Operating Systems
12407 (25.74 %)UNIX
21756 (18.78 %)Windows
31513 (16.18 %)Linux
4948 (10.14 %)Solaris
5426 (4.556 %)AIX
6365 (3.904 %)Windows Server 2003
7305 (3.262 %)Windows 2000
8244 (2.610 %)Windows NT
9233 (2.492 %)HPUX
1040 (0.428 %)Windows XP
1132 (0.342 %)zOS
1219 (0.203 %)MVS
1310 (0.107 %)FreeBSD
1310 (0.107 %)Tru64
147 (0.075 %)Windows CE
154 (0.043 %)SUSE
163 (0.032 %)Debian
163 (0.032 %)VMS
163 (0.032 %)OpenVMS
163 (0.032 %)Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1787 (8.417 %)Disaster Recovery
2441 (4.717 %)Business Intelligence
3410 (4.385 %)Migration
4313 (3.348 %)ITIL
5292 (3.123 %)Data Modelling
6248 (2.652 %)E-Commerce
7220 (2.353 %)Project Management
8206 (2.203 %)Security Cleared
9173 (1.850 %)Data Management
10146 (1.561 %)PRINCE2
11135 (1.444 %)Change Management
12113 (1.209 %)CRM
13103 (1.102 %)Data Migration
14101 (1.080 %)Data Analysis
1599 (1.059 %)Web Development
1697 (1.037 %)ERP
1793 (0.995 %)Business Continuity
1891 (0.973 %)User Acceptance Testing
1985 (0.909 %)E-business
2081 (0.866 %)Problem Management
Programming Languages
15887 (62.96 %)SQL
21344 (14.37 %)PL/SQL
31241 (13.27 %)Transact-SQL
4934 (9.989 %)Shell Script
5349 (3.733 %)Java
6307 (3.283 %)VB
7257 (2.749 %)C#
8233 (2.492 %)Perl
9156 (1.668 %)C
10103 (1.102 %)VBA
11102 (1.091 %)VB.NET
1285 (0.909 %)PHP
1377 (0.824 %)VBScript
1451 (0.545 %)C++
1544 (0.471 %)Python
1639 (0.417 %)Korn
1733 (0.353 %)VB6
1826 (0.278 %)JavaScript
1925 (0.267 %)JCL
2024 (0.257 %)COBOL
Qualifications
1624 (6.674 %)Microsoft Certification
2516 (5.519 %)Degree
3486 (5.198 %)MCDBA
4440 (4.706 %)Oracle Certification
5268 (2.866 %)OCP
6124 (1.326 %)MCITP
780 (0.856 %)MCSE
862 (0.663 %)MCTS
945 (0.481 %)OCA
1043 (0.460 %)MCP
1127 (0.289 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1219 (0.203 %)MCSD
1316 (0.171 %)CCNA
1316 (0.171 %)Cisco Certification
1414 (0.150 %)ITIL Certification
1511 (0.118 %)HND
168 (0.086 %)MCDST
177 (0.075 %)MCSA
183 (0.032 %)HNC
183 (0.032 %)MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1144 (1.540 %)QA
2115 (1.230 %)SLA
36 (0.064 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.011 %)HL7
41 (0.011 %)ISO9000
System Software
11512 (16.17 %)Oracle RAC
21252 (13.39 %)Oracle RMAN
3138 (1.476 %)Active Directory
444 (0.471 %)NetBackup
511 (0.118 %)Backup Exec
610 (0.107 %)LiteSpeed
76 (0.064 %)Citrix Presentation Server
85 (0.053 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
94 (0.043 %)VMware Infrastructure
94 (0.043 %)Cronacle
94 (0.043 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
103 (0.032 %)Terminal Services
112 (0.021 %)VMware ESX
112 (0.021 %)ISA Server
112 (0.021 %)Novell eDirectory
121 (0.011 %)Samba
121 (0.011 %)MetaFrame
Systems Management
1220 (2.353 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
2111 (1.187 %)Oracle Statspack
325 (0.267 %)Foglight
421 (0.225 %)OMEGAMON
421 (0.225 %)Tivoli
514 (0.150 %)AutoSys
610 (0.107 %)Legato
79 (0.096 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
88 (0.086 %)MOM
88 (0.086 %)SCOM
97 (0.075 %)Unicenter
106 (0.064 %)BMC Performance Manager
115 (0.053 %)OpenView
124 (0.043 %)Nagios
124 (0.043 %)MIMEsweeper
124 (0.043 %)EMC NetWorker
133 (0.032 %)CONTROL-M
142 (0.021 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
142 (0.021 %)ServiceCenter
151 (0.011 %)RepliStor
Vendors
14976 (53.22 %)Oracle
21110 (11.87 %)Microsoft
3839 (8.973 %)Sybase
4323 (3.455 %)Sun
5197 (2.107 %)VERITAS
6177 (1.893 %)Red Hat
7176 (1.882 %)HP
8138 (1.476 %)IBM
9134 (1.433 %)Citrix
10121 (1.294 %)SAP
1199 (1.059 %)Business Objects
1282 (0.877 %)Remedy
1361 (0.652 %)VMware
1451 (0.545 %)EMC
1546 (0.492 %)Progress
1631 (0.332 %)ProClarity
1730 (0.321 %)Cognos
1730 (0.321 %)CA
1828 (0.299 %)Reuters
1926 (0.278 %)TIBCO
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