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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 129 121 110
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 63 52 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.538% 1.435% 1.517%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.610% 1.488% 1.582%
Number of salaries quoted 38 40 57
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,431
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,750 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3913 3494 3793
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.56% 96.41% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3384 3103 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
SQL DBA
North West

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Trend

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

Manchester SQL DBA Salary Trend

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Sale - 9 £40,250 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 £24,500 -
Oldham - 2 £32,500 -
Rochdale - 2 £33,250 -
Salford - 1 £42,500 -
SQL DBA
North West

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 112 (92.56%) SQL Server
2 99 (81.82%) SQL
3 95 (78.51%) SQL Server 2008
4 70 (57.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 67 (55.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 56 (46.28%) SQL Server 2005
7 45 (37.19%) T-SQL
8 31 (25.62%) Microsoft
9 28 (23.14%) SQL Server 2000
10 27 (22.31%) .NET
10 27 (22.31%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (20.66%) SQL Server 2012
12 24 (19.83%) Replication
13 23 (19.01%) MS Excel
14 21 (17.36%) Clustering
15 20 (16.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 20 (16.53%) Windows
16 19 (15.70%) DTS
16 19 (15.70%) Capacity Planning
17 18 (14.88%) Windows Server 2003
18 17 (14.05%) ETL
19 16 (13.22%) SharePoint
19 16 (13.22%) Advertising
19 16 (13.22%) Database Security
20 15 (12.40%) Oracle
21 14 (11.57%) OLTP
22 13 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
22 13 (10.74%) Finance
23 12 (9.917%) Microsoft Certification
23 12 (9.917%) C#

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Application Development
1 27 (22.31%) .NET
2 11 (9.091%) XML
3 4 (3.306%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.479%) WCF
4 3 (2.479%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 16 (13.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.653%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 23 (19.01%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.826%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.612%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.479%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.438%) SAN
2 6 (4.959%) Firewall
3 2 (1.653%) Intranet
4 1 (0.826%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (92.56%) SQL Server
2 95 (78.51%) SQL Server 2008
3 70 (57.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 67 (55.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 56 (46.28%) SQL Server 2005
6 28 (23.14%) SQL Server 2000
7 27 (22.31%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (20.66%) SQL Server 2012
9 20 (16.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 19 (15.70%) DTS
11 14 (11.57%) OLTP
12 9 (7.438%) RDBMS
13 8 (6.612%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (6.612%) OLAP
14 7 (5.785%) Oracle 8/8i
15 5 (4.132%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (2.479%) Data Mining
16 3 (2.479%) MySQL
17 2 (1.653%) NoSQL
17 2 (1.653%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (0.826%) Hudson
General
1 16 (13.22%) Advertising
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 7 (5.785%) Retail
4 5 (4.132%) Marketing
5 3 (2.479%) Legal
6 2 (1.653%) Local Government
6 2 (1.653%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.826%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Replication
2 21 (17.36%) Clustering
3 6 (4.959%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.479%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.826%) New Media
5 1 (0.826%) NHS
5 1 (0.826%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.826%) Social Network
5 1 (0.826%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.826%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Windows
2 18 (14.88%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (9.091%) Solaris
4 7 (5.785%) Linux
4 7 (5.785%) SUSE
4 7 (5.785%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.653%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.826%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.826%) Windows NT
6 1 (0.826%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.826%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.70%) Capacity Planning
2 17 (14.05%) ETL
3 16 (13.22%) Database Security
4 13 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (8.264%) Change Control
6 9 (7.438%) Data Architecture
7 8 (6.612%) Load Balancing
7 8 (6.612%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (6.612%) CRM
8 7 (5.785%) Risk Management
8 7 (5.785%) High Availability
9 6 (4.959%) Resource Management
9 6 (4.959%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (4.959%) Security Management
10 5 (4.132%) Migration
11 4 (3.306%) Scrum
11 4 (3.306%) Information Security
11 4 (3.306%) Service Delivery
12 3 (2.479%) Information Security Management
12 3 (2.479%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 99 (81.82%) SQL
2 45 (37.19%) T-SQL
3 12 (9.917%) C#
4 10 (8.264%) C
5 2 (1.653%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.653%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.826%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (9.917%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (4.132%) Degree
3 4 (3.306%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.479%) MCDBA
4 3 (2.479%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.653%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.826%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.785%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.785%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.132%) QA
3 4 (3.306%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.438%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.826%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (0.826%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 31 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.40%) Oracle
Manchester, North West
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