The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 60 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 27 58 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 2.697% 4.146% 5.229%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.764% 4.262% 5.513%
Number of salaries quoted 19 47 52
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,260 £34,100
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
977 1361 1179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.60% 97.28% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 845 1113 980
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
East of England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Salary Trend

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

Essex DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Basildon -11 8 £37,500 -16.66%
Brentwood -11 4 £50,000 +25.00%
Colchester - 1 £32,500 -
DBA
East of England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

1 48 (92.31%) SQL
1 48 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 31 (59.62%) Finance
3 30 (57.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (55.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
6 22 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
6 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
6 22 (42.31%) SQL Server 2000
7 21 (40.38%) Oracle
8 17 (32.69%) MySQL
8 17 (32.69%) Oracle 11g
9 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
10 14 (26.92%) Windows
10 14 (26.92%) Replication
11 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 12 (23.08%) ETL
11 12 (23.08%) SQL Server 2012
12 11 (21.15%) PL/SQL
12 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (19.23%) RDBMS
13 10 (19.23%) Linux
13 10 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
14 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (17.31%) Oracle 8/8i
14 9 (17.31%) MCDBA
14 9 (17.31%) Java
14 9 (17.31%) Service Delivery

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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
1 2 (3.846%) ODBC
2 1 (1.923%) COM
2 1 (1.923%) .NET
2 1 (1.923%) HTML
2 1 (1.923%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
1 8 (15.38%) Apache
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.923%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.615%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) SAN
2 1 (1.923%) HTTP
2 1 (1.923%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 30 (57.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 29 (55.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
5 22 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
5 22 (42.31%) SQL Server 2000
6 17 (32.69%) MySQL
6 17 (32.69%) Oracle 11g
7 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (23.08%) SQL Server 2012
9 10 (19.23%) RDBMS
10 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 9 (17.31%) Oracle 8/8i
10 9 (17.31%) Oracle 10g
11 8 (15.38%) SQLPlus
11 8 (15.38%) Oracle 9i
11 8 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (11.54%) DTS
13 3 (5.769%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (1.923%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (59.62%) Finance
2 1 (1.923%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Replication
2 8 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (3.846%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (19.23%) Linux
4 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (15.38%) UNIX
5 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) ETL
2 10 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (17.31%) Service Delivery
4 8 (15.38%) Workflow
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
5 5 (9.615%) CRM
5 5 (9.615%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (9.615%) Release Management
6 3 (5.769%) ITIL
6 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.846%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.846%) BCP
7 2 (3.846%) High Availability
7 2 (3.846%) Database Tuning
7 2 (3.846%) Fund Management
8 1 (1.923%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 48 (92.31%) SQL
2 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
3 11 (21.15%) PL/SQL
4 9 (17.31%) Java
5 8 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.692%) VBA
7 1 (1.923%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (17.31%) MCDBA
3 8 (15.38%) MCITP
4 5 (9.615%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 8 (15.38%) Tivoli
1 8 (15.38%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.923%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (40.38%) Oracle
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
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
Colchester, Essex
Oversees disaster recovery requirements... It is essential you have experience of the current supported version (Oracle 10 or 11) Good working knowledge of Relational Database Management system tools...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013