The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire 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 20 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 79 60 53
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 1 12 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.147% 1.695% 0.933%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.152% 1.786% 1.008%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 5
Average salary - £43,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.35%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
656 672 496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 96.61% 94.92% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 580 596 436
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
East Midlands

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leicester -17 1 - -
DBA
East Midlands

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 8 (72.73%) Oracle
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (54.55%) Solaris
4 5 (45.45%) UNIX
4 5 (45.45%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (36.36%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (27.27%) .NET
7 2 (18.18%) MySQL
7 2 (18.18%) PHP
7 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (18.18%) Linux
7 2 (18.18%) UML
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (18.18%) VC++
7 2 (18.18%) XHTML
7 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
7 2 (18.18%) VB
7 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
7 2 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (18.18%) C++
7 2 (18.18%) HTML
7 2 (18.18%) Java
7 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) ASP
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) JDBC
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) XHTML
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
1 1 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.091%) Replication
1 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Solaris
2 5 (45.45%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) UML
4 1 (9.091%) ERP
4 1 (9.091%) ETL
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VB
2 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
2 2 (18.18%) VC++
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) C++
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 2 (18.18%) VMware