The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 54 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 4 18 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.816% 3.203% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.870% 3.390% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 0
Average salary £30,000 £38,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
460 531 362
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 93.88% 94.48% 97.05%
Number of salaries quoted 409 484 309
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
North West

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire DBA Salary Trend

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -2 2 £30,000 -26.82%
Colne - 1 - -
DBA
North West

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 18 (100.00%) SQL
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 15 (83.33%) T-SQL
3 14 (77.78%) DTS
3 14 (77.78%) Replication
3 14 (77.78%) SQL Server 2005
3 14 (77.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (72.22%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (66.67%) Clustering
6 11 (61.11%) SAN
6 11 (61.11%) VLDB
6 11 (61.11%) Windows
6 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (61.11%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Cognos
7 2 (11.11%) SLA
7 2 (11.11%) IBM
7 2 (11.11%) ETL
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
7 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
8 1 (5.556%) Logistics
8 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (5.556%) Data Guard
8 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10gAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 14 (77.78%) DTS
2 14 (77.78%) SQL Server 2005
2 14 (77.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (72.22%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (61.11%) VLDB
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Replication
2 12 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
1 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (11.11%) ETL
2 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.556%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (83.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cognos
1 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle