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The table below looks at the demand for the SQL 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 jobs that have cited SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSQL Database Administrator (DBA)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank214236
Rank change on same period last yearUp+22
Matching permanent IT job ads14761782
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.854 %0.767 %
As % of the category below1.000 %0.878 %
Salaries quoted12511449
Average minimum salary£39,366£38,896
Average salary£41,862£41,531
% change on same period last year+0.79 %
Average maximum salary£44,357£44,165
UK excluding London average salary£36,886£37,863
% change on same period last year-2.58 %
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads147664202900
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled85.48 %87.31 %
Salaries quoted124179163979
Average minimum salary£39,004£40,365
Average salary£42,652£44,143
% change on same period last year-3.37 %
Average maximum salary£46,300£47,921
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
SQL DBA UKSQL DBA
UK

SQL DBA
Demand Trend

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

England SQL DBA Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Trend

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

England SQL DBA Salary Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 England region over the 3 months to 10 October 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+47634£48,694+1.37 %
South EastDown-50293£39,361-3.85 %
East MidlandsUp+62132£37,039+22.33 %
YorkshireUp+1598£35,777+12.50 %
North WestDown-2292£34,253-0.34 %
East of EnglandDown-289£40,346-0.03 %
South WestUp+4082£31,794+2.92 %
West MidlandsDown-451£36,826-12.87 %
MidlandsUp+116--
North EastUp+235£27,500-33.46 %
SQL DBA UKSQL DBA
UK

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

12744 (85.86 %)SQL Server
22638 (82.54 %)SQL
31592 (49.81 %)SQL Server 2005
41074 (33.60 %)SQL Server 2000
5896 (28.04 %)Transact-SQL
6795 (24.87 %)Windows
7752 (23.53 %)Microsoft
8680 (21.28 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9563 (17.62 %)Finance
10555 (17.37 %)DTS
11553 (17.30 %)Oracle
12533 (16.68 %)Replication
13446 (13.95 %)Clustering
13446 (13.95 %)MS Excel
14440 (13.77 %)Windows Server 2003
15406 (12.70 %)Microsoft Certification
16405 (12.67 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
17392 (12.27 %).NET
18335 (10.48 %)Datawarehouse
19310 (9.700 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
20289 (9.043 %)Disaster Recovery
21280 (8.761 %)MCDBA
22279 (8.730 %)Banking
23219 (6.852 %)UNIX
24212 (6.633 %)OLAP
25198 (6.195 %)VB
26192 (6.008 %)Degree
27186 (5.820 %)C#
28177 (5.538 %)RDBMS
29169 (5.288 %)Business Intelligence

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1392 (12.27 %).NET
295 (2.972 %)ASP.NET
391 (2.847 %)XML
460 (1.877 %)ASP
541 (1.283 %)HTML
636 (1.126 %)MDX
726 (0.814 %)ODBC
823 (0.720 %)SAP Basis
922 (0.688 %)XSLT
922 (0.688 %).NET Framework
1021 (0.657 %)WebServices
1118 (0.563 %)ADO
1217 (0.532 %)XSL
1217 (0.532 %)DAO
1312 (0.375 %)SOAP
1312 (0.375 %)ADO.NET
1411 (0.344 %)Middleware
1510 (0.313 %)J2EE
169 (0.282 %)OLE
169 (0.282 %)OLE DB
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1127 (3.974 %)IIS
260 (1.877 %)SharePoint
323 (0.720 %)MS Exchange
420 (0.626 %)SAS
516 (0.501 %)Oracle 10gAS
615 (0.469 %)BizTalk Server
710 (0.313 %)SharePoint Server 2007
88 (0.250 %)Oracle Application Server
97 (0.219 %)Apache
97 (0.219 %)Oracle 9iAS
97 (0.219 %)SharePoint Portal Server
105 (0.156 %)CMS
105 (0.156 %)Exchange Server 2003
111 (0.031 %)Exchange Server 2000
111 (0.031 %)WorkSite
111 (0.031 %)Office Project Server
111 (0.031 %)Content Management Server
111 (0.031 %)SmartSockets
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1446 (13.95 %)MS Excel
265 (2.034 %)MS Office
335 (1.095 %)MS Visio
419 (0.594 %)SPSS
56 (0.188 %)Spreadsheet
62 (0.063 %)MS Project
71 (0.031 %)CA Clarity
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
16 (0.188 %)Oracle 11i
16 (0.188 %)SAP Business One
24 (0.125 %)Oracle Applications
33 (0.094 %)Capstone
33 (0.094 %)WebTrends
42 (0.063 %)Tesseract
42 (0.063 %)SAP ERP
51 (0.031 %)Sophis RISQUE
51 (0.031 %)Oracle Financials
51 (0.031 %)Navision
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1118 (3.692 %)SAN
257 (1.783 %)Internet
257 (1.783 %)TCP/IP
351 (1.596 %)WAN
444 (1.377 %)LAN
536 (1.126 %)VPN
624 (0.751 %)SMTP
719 (0.594 %)Intranet
818 (0.563 %)Firewall
911 (0.344 %)HTTP
108 (0.250 %)Broadband
117 (0.219 %)ADSL
117 (0.219 %)CTI
126 (0.188 %)DNS
126 (0.188 %)ISDN
126 (0.188 %)FTP
135 (0.156 %)IPsec
135 (0.156 %)MPLS
143 (0.094 %)IP Telephony
143 (0.094 %)Cisco PIX
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12744 (85.86 %)SQL Server
21592 (49.81 %)SQL Server 2005
31074 (33.60 %)SQL Server 2000
4680 (21.28 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5555 (17.37 %)DTS
6405 (12.67 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
7335 (10.48 %)Datawarehouse
8310 (9.700 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
9212 (6.633 %)OLAP
10177 (5.538 %)RDBMS
11164 (5.131 %)Oracle 10g
12145 (4.537 %)Oracle 9i
13140 (4.380 %)ETL
14133 (4.161 %)Crystal Reports
15130 (4.068 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
16113 (3.536 %)OLTP
1787 (2.722 %)MySQL
1870 (2.190 %)SQL Server 2008
1968 (2.128 %)DB2
2061 (1.909 %)SQL Server 7
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
166 (2.065 %)Visual Studio
248 (1.502 %)VSS/SourceSafe
35 (0.156 %)PVCS
35 (0.156 %)ClearCase
44 (0.125 %)Subversion
53 (0.094 %)ERwin
53 (0.094 %)InstallShield
53 (0.094 %)TestDirector
53 (0.094 %)Oracle Forms
62 (0.063 %)PowerBuilder
62 (0.063 %)Dreamweaver
71 (0.031 %)NUnit
71 (0.031 %)Selenium
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1563 (17.62 %)Finance
2279 (8.730 %)Banking
3165 (5.163 %)Health
4162 (5.069 %)Investment Banking
5151 (4.725 %)Insurance
6137 (4.287 %)Pensions
793 (2.910 %)Retail
868 (2.128 %)Legal
966 (2.065 %)Marketing
1046 (1.439 %)Law
1144 (1.377 %)Games
1239 (1.220 %)Education
1334 (1.064 %)Government
1334 (1.064 %)FMCG
1428 (0.876 %)Music
1525 (0.782 %)Telecoms
1621 (0.657 %)Back Office
1720 (0.626 %)Financial Institution
1819 (0.594 %)Auditing
1917 (0.532 %)Publishing
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1533 (16.68 %)Replication
2446 (13.95 %)Clustering
367 (2.096 %)Management Information System
438 (1.189 %)Mathematics
537 (1.158 %)Statistics
634 (1.064 %)Client/Server
728 (0.876 %)NHS
827 (0.845 %)Data Extraction
919 (0.594 %)Computer Science
109 (0.282 %)Data Protection Act
109 (0.282 %)Social Network
118 (0.250 %)Credit Risk
118 (0.250 %)N-Tier
118 (0.250 %)Fixed Income
127 (0.219 %)EPoS
127 (0.219 %)Cryptography
127 (0.219 %)Market Risk
136 (0.188 %)AS400
144 (0.125 %)BBC
144 (0.125 %)IPTV
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1795 (24.87 %)Windows
2440 (13.77 %)Windows Server 2003
3219 (6.852 %)UNIX
4147 (4.599 %)Windows 2000
5127 (3.974 %)Linux
697 (3.035 %)Windows 2000 Server
758 (1.815 %)Solaris
841 (1.283 %)Windows XP
939 (1.220 %)AIX
1029 (0.907 %)HPUX
1127 (0.845 %)Windows NT
127 (0.219 %)Windows Server 2008
135 (0.156 %)Debian
144 (0.125 %)Tru64
144 (0.125 %)Red Hat Linux
152 (0.063 %)Windows Vista
161 (0.031 %)NetWare
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1289 (9.043 %)Disaster Recovery
2169 (5.288 %)Business Intelligence
3140 (4.380 %)Migration
4136 (4.255 %)ITIL
5115 (3.598 %)E-Commerce
6103 (3.223 %)Data Modelling
761 (1.909 %)PRINCE2
854 (1.690 %)CRM
953 (1.658 %)Project Management
1047 (1.471 %)Data Migration
1145 (1.408 %)Data Analysis
1235 (1.095 %)Asset Management
1331 (0.970 %)Data Management
1331 (0.970 %)Change Management
1331 (0.970 %)UML
1430 (0.939 %)Performance Management
1529 (0.907 %)BCP
1628 (0.876 %)Business Continuity
1628 (0.876 %)Document Management
1727 (0.845 %)Resource Management
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12638 (82.54 %)SQL
2896 (28.04 %)Transact-SQL
3198 (6.195 %)VB
4186 (5.820 %)C#
5125 (3.911 %)PL/SQL
677 (2.409 %)C
774 (2.315 %)VB.NET
867 (2.096 %)VBA
867 (2.096 %)Perl
960 (1.877 %)Shell Script
1057 (1.783 %)VBScript
1147 (1.471 %)PHP
1234 (1.064 %)Java
1328 (0.876 %)Python
1420 (0.626 %)C++
1514 (0.438 %)VB6
1613 (0.407 %)JavaScript
173 (0.094 %)RPG
173 (0.094 %)Korn
182 (0.063 %)FoxPro (VFP)
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1406 (12.70 %)Microsoft Certification
2280 (8.761 %)MCDBA
3192 (6.008 %)Degree
459 (1.846 %)MCITP
555 (1.721 %)MCSE
640 (1.252 %)MCTS
735 (1.095 %)MCP
830 (0.939 %)Oracle Certification
929 (0.907 %)MCSD
1019 (0.594 %)PRINCE2 Certification
119 (0.282 %)Sun Certification
126 (0.188 %)Cisco Certification
126 (0.188 %)CCNA
135 (0.156 %)OCP
144 (0.125 %)ISEB
144 (0.125 %)HND
144 (0.125 %)ISTQB
153 (0.094 %)MCAD
153 (0.094 %)MCSA
162 (0.063 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
145 (1.408 %)QA
234 (1.064 %)SLA
31 (0.031 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.031 %)ISO9001
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1114 (3.567 %)Active Directory
246 (1.439 %)Oracle RMAN
337 (1.158 %)Oracle RAC
414 (0.438 %)NetBackup
57 (0.219 %)VMware Infrastructure
66 (0.188 %)Backup Exec
75 (0.156 %)ISA Server
83 (0.094 %)Citrix Presentation Server
83 (0.094 %)LiteSpeed
92 (0.063 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
101 (0.031 %)Terminal Services
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
111 (0.344 %)Foglight
210 (0.313 %)Oracle Statspack
38 (0.250 %)EMC NetWorker
38 (0.250 %)AutoSys
46 (0.188 %)Unicenter
55 (0.156 %)Legato
55 (0.156 %)MOM
63 (0.094 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
72 (0.063 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
72 (0.063 %)MIMEsweeper
81 (0.031 %)CONTROL-M
81 (0.031 %)ARCserve
81 (0.031 %)ServiceCenter
81 (0.031 %)SCOM
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1752 (23.53 %)Microsoft
2553 (17.30 %)Oracle
3146 (4.568 %)Sybase
448 (1.502 %)SAP
545 (1.408 %)Citrix
639 (1.220 %)Business Objects
738 (1.189 %)Sun
836 (1.126 %)HP
929 (0.907 %)VMware
1027 (0.845 %)Hummingbird
1121 (0.657 %)EMC
1220 (0.626 %)VERITAS
1220 (0.626 %)Remedy
1316 (0.501 %)IBM
1412 (0.375 %)Charles River
1511 (0.344 %)NetApp
1610 (0.313 %)Progress
178 (0.250 %)Cisco
178 (0.250 %)Hyperion
178 (0.250 %)ProClarity