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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 55 43 44
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 28 22 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 2.737% 3.390% 3.939%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.896% 3.503% 4.042%
Number of salaries quoted 26 22 29
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,750 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
967 628 767
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.53% 96.76% 97.46%
Number of salaries quoted 834 558 696
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
Oxfordshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 36 (59.02%) SQL Server
2 29 (47.54%) SQL
3 24 (39.34%) Oracle
4 23 (37.70%) SAN
5 20 (32.79%) Windows
6 19 (31.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (26.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (21.31%) Oracle RAC
8 13 (21.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (21.31%) Data Guard
8 13 (21.31%) Finance
8 13 (21.31%) RDBMS
9 12 (19.67%) SLA
9 12 (19.67%) MS Excel
9 12 (19.67%) Resource Management
9 12 (19.67%) QA
9 12 (19.67%) Statistics
10 11 (18.03%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
10 11 (18.03%) Clustering
11 10 (16.39%) Replication
12 9 (14.75%) Oracle 11g
12 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
13 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (13.11%) Linux
13 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (13.11%) T-SQL
14 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (3.279%) HTML
1 2 (3.279%) CSS
2 1 (1.639%) Middleware
2 1 (1.639%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) IIS
2 2 (3.279%) Apache
3 1 (1.639%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.639%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.836%) BPCS
1 6 (9.836%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 23 (37.70%) SAN
2 1 (1.639%) Internet
2 1 (1.639%) DHCP
2 1 (1.639%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.639%) VPN
2 1 (1.639%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (59.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (31.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 16 (26.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (21.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 13 (21.31%) RDBMS
5 9 (14.75%) Oracle 11g
5 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
7 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2008
7 7 (11.48%) SQL Server 2012
8 6 (9.836%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (9.836%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (6.557%) MySQL
10 3 (4.918%) MOLAP
10 3 (4.918%) MongoDB
11 2 (3.279%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (3.279%) QlikView
12 1 (1.639%) DTS
General
1 13 (21.31%) Finance
2 6 (9.836%) Marketing
3 2 (3.279%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Statistics
2 11 (18.03%) Clustering
3 10 (16.39%) Replication
4 6 (9.836%) iSeries
5 2 (3.279%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Windows
2 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (13.11%) Linux
3 4 (6.557%) Solaris
4 2 (3.279%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.639%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) Resource Management
2 11 (18.03%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (9.836%) Analytics
5 6 (9.836%) Volume Testing
5 6 (9.836%) Marketing Analytics
5 6 (9.836%) Business Analysis
5 6 (9.836%) Data Analysis
5 6 (9.836%) Project Management
5 6 (9.836%) ERP
6 5 (8.197%) ITIL
6 5 (8.197%) High Availability
7 3 (4.918%) Incident Management
7 3 (4.918%) Problem Management
8 2 (3.279%) Database Security
8 2 (3.279%) Data Management
8 2 (3.279%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.279%) CRM
8 2 (3.279%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) SQL
2 8 (13.11%) T-SQL
3 6 (9.836%) C
4 4 (6.557%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.279%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.279%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (9.836%) Degree
2 6 (9.836%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) SLA
1 12 (19.67%) QA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.639%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.639%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.639%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Oracle
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.836%) Cognos
4 2 (3.279%) Tableau
4 2 (3.279%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.279%) VMware
Oxford, Oxfordshire
An excitingopportunity has arisen for a SQL Server DBA to join my market-leading clientbased in Oxford. The SQL Server DBA will be working in an experienced andtalented...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
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You must have experience in SQL Server Administration; T-SQL and Replication, Backups, Mirroring and Performance Tuning... Knowledge of SAN. Experience in at least one other part of...
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Salary: From £35,000 to £47,000 per annum + bonus + benefits
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