North West DBA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs within the North West 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 DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dalkeith Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	76
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	240	325
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.133 %
As % of the category below	2.153 %	2.545 %
Salaries quoted	212	264
Average minimum salary	£34,527	£33,847
Average salary	£36,792	£36,282
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Average maximum salary	£39,058	£38,718
UK excluding London average salary	£39,299	£39,752
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	11148	12772
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.885 %	5.230 %
Salaries quoted	9407	10740
Average minimum salary	£32,555	£34,146
Average salary	£36,431	£37,829
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,307	£41,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
DBA England

DBA
Demand Trend

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

DBA
Salary Trend

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

DBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

DBA
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-6	91	£36,690	+5.54 %
Cheshire	-16	82	£38,152	-0.99 %
Merseyside	+11	42	£36,902	+16.29 %
Lancashire	-30	16	£29,667	-18.30 %

DBA England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 306 (61.45 %) Oracle 2 292 (58.63 %) SQL 3 230 (46.18 %) SQL Server 4 207 (41.57 %) Oracle 10g 5 174 (34.94 %) Oracle 9i 6 140 (28.11 %) UNIX 7 137 (27.51 %) SQL Server 2005 8 131 (26.31 %) Windows 9 111 (22.29 %) SQL Server 2000 10 82 (16.47 %) Oracle RAC 10 82 (16.47 %) PL/SQL 11 79 (15.86 %) Oracle Applications 12 76 (15.26 %) Transact-SQL 13 74 (14.86 %) Linux 14 61 (12.25 %) DTS

15 59 (11.85 %) Microsoft 16 57 (11.45 %) Oracle RMAN 17 56 (11.24 %) Finance 17 56 (11.24 %) Oracle 11i 18 55 (11.04 %) Datawarehouse 19 51 (10.24 %) Oracle Reports 20 49 (9.839 %) Pensions 21 47 (9.438 %) SQL Server Integration Services 22 45 (9.036 %) Oracle Application Server 22 45 (9.036 %) RDBMS 23 40 (8.032 %) Security Cleared 24 38 (7.631 %) Health 24 38 (7.631 %) Migration 24 38 (7.631 %) AIX 25 37 (7.430 %) Replication

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 25 (5.020 %) Middleware 2 22 (4.418 %) MDX 3 16 (3.213 %) ISPF 3 16 (3.213 %) ODBC 4 11 (2.209 %) .NET 5 5 (1.004 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (0.803 %) J2EE 6 4 (0.803 %) HTML 7 3 (0.602 %) XML 8 2 (0.402 %) ASP 9 1 (0.201 %) COM 9 1 (0.201 %) CSS 9 1 (0.201 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 45 (9.036 %) Oracle Application Server 2 20 (4.016 %) CICS 3 12 (2.410 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 8 (1.606 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 7 (1.406 %) Oracle Workflow 6 6 (1.205 %) IIS 7 4 (0.803 %) JBoss 7 4 (0.803 %) Apache 8 3 (0.602 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (0.402 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 1 (0.201 %) CMS 10 1 (0.201 %) SAS
Applications 1 36 (7.229 %) MS Excel 2 8 (1.606 %) MS Visio 3 2 (0.402 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.201 %) SPSS 4 1 (0.201 %) CATIA 4 1 (0.201 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 79 (15.86 %) Oracle Applications 2 56 (11.24 %) Oracle 11i 3 36 (7.229 %) Oracle EBS 4 10 (2.008 %) Oracle HRMS 5 4 (0.803 %) Oracle Financials 6 1 (0.201 %) AWD 6 1 (0.201 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 23 (4.618 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (1.807 %) WAN 3 5 (1.004 %) LAN 4 3 (0.602 %) Firewall 5 2 (0.402 %) Internet 5 2 (0.402 %) VPN 6 1 (0.201 %) SAN 6 1 (0.201 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.201 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 230 (46.18 %) SQL Server 2 207 (41.57 %) Oracle 10g 3 174 (34.94 %) Oracle 9i 4 137 (27.51 %) SQL Server 2005 5 111 (22.29 %) SQL Server 2000 6 61 (12.25 %) DTS 7 55 (11.04 %) Datawarehouse 8 51 (10.24 %) Oracle Reports 9 47 (9.438 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 45 (9.036 %) RDBMS 11 34 (6.827 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 29 (5.823 %) OLAP 13 28 (5.622 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 26 (5.221 %) DB2 15 22 (4.418 %) OLTP 16 18 (3.614 %) BusinessObjects 17 15 (3.012 %) Oracle Discoverer 18 12 (2.410 %) ETL 18 12 (2.410 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 19 10 (2.008 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 36 (7.229 %) Oracle Forms 2 16 (3.213 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (0.602 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 56 (11.24 %) Finance 2 49 (9.839 %) Pensions 3 38 (7.631 %) Health 4 13 (2.610 %) Government 5 10 (2.008 %) Retail 6 6 (1.205 %) Marketing 7 5 (1.004 %) Insurance 7 5 (1.004 %) Local Government 8 4 (0.803 %) Publishing 8 4 (0.803 %) Law 9 3 (0.602 %) Back Office 9 3 (0.602 %) Banking 10 2 (0.402 %) Corporate Banking 10 2 (0.402 %) Education 11 1 (0.201 %) Pharmaceutical 11 1 (0.201 %) Legal 11 1 (0.201 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (0.201 %) Auditing 11 1 (0.201 %) FMCG
Miscellaneous 1 37 (7.430 %) Replication 2 24 (4.819 %) Mainframe 3 23 (4.618 %) Clustering 4 5 (1.004 %) AS400 5 3 (0.602 %) Data Extraction 5 3 (0.602 %) Client/Server 6 2 (0.402 %) N-Tier 6 2 (0.402 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.201 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 140 (28.11 %) UNIX 2 131 (26.31 %) Windows 3 74 (14.86 %) Linux 4 38 (7.631 %) AIX 5 26 (5.221 %) Windows 2000 5 26 (5.221 %) Solaris 6 20 (4.016 %) zOS 7 17 (3.414 %) MVS 8 9 (1.807 %) Windows NT 9 3 (0.602 %) Windows Server 2003 10 1 (0.201 %) Windows XP 10 1 (0.201 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (8.032 %) Security Cleared 2 38 (7.631 %) Migration 3 36 (7.229 %) Data Modelling 4 33 (6.627 %) Disaster Recovery 5 32 (6.426 %) E-Commerce 6 26 (5.221 %) Business Continuity 7 23 (4.618 %) Data Migration 8 22 (4.418 %) SC Cleared 9 16 (3.213 %) Business Intelligence 10 15 (3.012 %) Service Delivery 11 14 (2.811 %) Resource Management 12 10 (2.008 %) Data Management 13 8 (1.606 %) Business Analysis 14 7 (1.406 %) Workflow 14 7 (1.406 %) ERP 15 6 (1.205 %) Change Management 15 6 (1.205 %) BPR 15 6 (1.205 %) Project Planning 15 6 (1.205 %) Performance Testing 15 6 (1.205 %) DV Cleared	Programming Languages 1 292 (58.63 %) SQL 2 82 (16.47 %) PL/SQL 3 76 (15.26 %) Transact-SQL 4 22 (4.418 %) C 4 22 (4.418 %) Java 5 20 (4.016 %) COBOL 6 19 (3.815 %) Shell Script 7 17 (3.414 %) JCL 8 16 (3.213 %) Assembly Language 9 5 (1.004 %) VB.NET 9 5 (1.004 %) C# 9 5 (1.004 %) Perl 10 4 (0.803 %) PHP 11 2 (0.402 %) Delphi 11 2 (0.402 %) VBScript 11 2 (0.402 %) VB 12 1 (0.201 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 32 (6.426 %) Degree 2 25 (5.020 %) Microsoft Certification 3 15 (3.012 %) MCDBA 3 15 (3.012 %) Oracle Certification 4 8 (1.606 %) OCP 5 7 (1.406 %) MCP 5 7 (1.406 %) MCSE 6 4 (0.803 %) Sun Certification 7 1 (0.201 %) MCITP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.606 %) SLA 2 4 (0.803 %) QA
System Software 1 82 (16.47 %) Oracle RAC 2 57 (11.45 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (0.602 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 16 (3.213 %) OMEGAMON 2 9 (1.807 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 306 (61.45 %) Oracle 2 59 (11.85 %) Microsoft 3 34 (6.827 %) IBM 4 22 (4.418 %) Sun 5 18 (3.614 %) Business Objects 6 16 (3.213 %) Compuware 6 16 (3.213 %) CA 6 16 (3.213 %) TIBCO 7 6 (1.205 %) VMware 7 6 (1.205 %) HP 7 6 (1.205 %) Sybase 8 5 (1.004 %) Red Hat 9 4 (0.803 %) VERITAS 10 2 (0.402 %) Cognos 10 2 (0.402 %) SonicWALL 10 2 (0.402 %) CheckPoint 11 1 (0.201 %) Progress 11 1 (0.201 %) NetApp 11 1 (0.201 %) Sage 11 1 (0.201 %) SAP