The first table below looks at the demand for the MySQL DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MySQL 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL Database Administrator
Rank 810 844 800
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 31 22 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.019% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.020% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 29 18 41
Average salary £47,500 £41,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.15% +17.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £53,250 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-0.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
MySQL DBA
UK

MySQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MySQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL DBA
Salary Trend

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

England MySQL DBA Salary Trend

MySQL DBA
Salary Histogram

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

England MySQL DBA Salary Histogram

MySQL DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the England 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
London +63 23 £50,000 +5.26%
South East +8 3 £37,250 -29.04%
North West +6 3 £47,500 -
West Midlands -18 2 £35,000 -6.66%
MySQL DBA
UK

MySQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited MySQL 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 MySQL DBA in their job title.

1 88 (100.00%) MySQL
2 54 (61.36%) Linux
3 51 (57.95%) SQL
4 31 (35.23%) Replication
5 29 (32.95%) Python
6 24 (27.27%) PHP
7 23 (26.14%) CentOS
8 22 (25.00%) Hadoop
9 19 (21.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (20.45%) Java
10 18 (20.45%) Data Modelling
10 18 (20.45%) Statistics
11 17 (19.32%) Perl
12 15 (17.05%) NoSQL
13 14 (15.91%) Bash shell
13 14 (15.91%) UNIX
14 13 (14.77%) Debian
14 13 (14.77%) Red Hat
15 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
15 12 (13.64%) Apache
16 11 (12.50%) XML
16 11 (12.50%) OLAP
16 11 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (12.50%) E-Commerce
16 11 (12.50%) Migration
16 11 (12.50%) Games
16 11 (12.50%) Big Data
16 11 (12.50%) Degree
16 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
17 10 (11.36%) Ruby

MySQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited MySQL 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 MySQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (12.50%) XML
2 10 (11.36%) LAMP
2 10 (11.36%) Web Services
3 8 (9.091%) Django
3 8 (9.091%) XSD
4 5 (5.682%) HTML
5 4 (4.545%) Regular Expression
5 4 (4.545%) MapReduce
5 4 (4.545%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.409%) HTML5
6 3 (3.409%) Smarty
7 2 (2.273%) CSS
8 1 (1.136%) JDBC
8 1 (1.136%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.136%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (13.64%) Apache
2 10 (11.36%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (3.409%) CMS
4 2 (2.273%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.136%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.409%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.545%) Internet
2 2 (2.273%) DNS
3 1 (1.136%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (100.00%) MySQL
2 22 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 15 (17.05%) NoSQL
4 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
5 11 (12.50%) OLAP
5 11 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (12.50%) Big Data
6 10 (11.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (9.091%) OLTP
9 7 (7.955%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.409%) Pentaho
10 3 (3.409%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.273%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
12 1 (1.136%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (1.136%) CouchDB
12 1 (1.136%) HBase
12 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2008
12 1 (1.136%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Git (software)
1 3 (3.409%) Subversion
General
1 11 (12.50%) Games
2 10 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (4.545%) Marketing
4 3 (3.409%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.409%) Retail
5 2 (2.273%) Electronics
6 1 (1.136%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 31 (35.23%) Replication
2 18 (20.45%) Statistics
3 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 9 (10.23%) Clustering
5 6 (6.818%) Open Source
6 5 (5.682%) SaaS
7 1 (1.136%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.136%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 54 (61.36%) Linux
2 23 (26.14%) CentOS
3 14 (15.91%) UNIX
4 13 (14.77%) Debian
5 6 (6.818%) Solaris
6 4 (4.545%) Windows
7 3 (3.409%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (3.409%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.273%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (20.45%) Data Modelling
3 11 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 11 (12.50%) Migration
4 9 (10.23%) ETL
4 9 (10.23%) Analytics
4 9 (10.23%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (6.818%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (5.682%) ITIL
6 5 (5.682%) Data Security
6 5 (5.682%) Data Management
7 4 (4.545%) Load Testing
7 4 (4.545%) Database Tuning
7 4 (4.545%) Mobile Marketing
7 4 (4.545%) Game Development
7 4 (4.545%) Change Management
8 3 (3.409%) OO
8 3 (3.409%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (3.409%) High Availability
8 3 (3.409%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.95%) SQL
2 29 (32.95%) Python
3 24 (27.27%) PHP
4 18 (20.45%) Java
5 17 (19.32%) Perl
6 14 (15.91%) Bash shell
7 10 (11.36%) Ruby
8 3 (3.409%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.409%) PHP5
9 2 (2.273%) Bourne shell
9 2 (2.273%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.273%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.136%) C
10 1 (1.136%) C#
10 1 (1.136%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (4.545%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.545%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.545%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.955%) Oracle
4 4 (4.545%) Percona
5 3 (3.409%) HP
6 2 (2.273%) Google
6 2 (2.273%) Apple
7 1 (1.136%) Tableau
Tyneside
DBA, Big Data, Web, Open Source, LINUX... systems and processes to maximise velocity and uptime. Input into strategic design of infrastructure specifically but not exclusively where MySQL is...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £28,000 to £37,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The role requires a professional with considerable experience in high availability tasks such as clustering and replication... Key Skills: Extensive MySQL Database Administration Experience High Availability Experience (MySQL...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Impressive Benefits Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
North East
The successful DBA will have - A degree in computer science (or another numerate discipline) 5+ years DBA Admin experience in an Internet-related or other high-availability environment.....
Nigel Wright Consultancy
Salary: 35000-45000
Posted: 22 May 2013
Covent Garden, London. South East, United Kingdom
Proficiency in BASH scripting and one of Perl/Python/PHP... - Understanding of Java, MySQL Connector/J and Hibernate concepts. - Understanding of Hadoop and Map/Reduce concepts a plus.
Marin Software
Salary: Very competitive + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013