The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 18 June 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 125 100 105
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 11 37 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.489% 1.581% 0.836%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.514% 1.682% 0.885%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 11
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% -9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £38,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2138 2200 1808
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.98% 93.98% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1742 1858 1478
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
Berkshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Reading region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Reading DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 24 (63.16%) Oracle
2 16 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 16 (42.11%) SQL
3 15 (39.47%) Finance
4 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
5 13 (34.21%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (28.95%) Data Guard
6 11 (28.95%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (28.95%) SLA
7 10 (26.32%) Oracle Applications
7 10 (26.32%) Statistics
7 10 (26.32%) Resource Management
7 10 (26.32%) QA
8 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
8 9 (23.68%) Oracle 9i
9 8 (21.05%) T-SQL
9 8 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
9 8 (21.05%) SQLPlus
10 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (18.42%) MS Excel
10 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
10 7 (18.42%) Oracle BI EE
11 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (15.79%) MySQL
11 6 (15.79%) RDBMS
11 6 (15.79%) Clustering
12 5 (13.16%) Oracle Application Server
12 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
12 5 (13.16%) Windows
12 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (7.895%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.632%) Apache
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.632%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (7.895%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (5.263%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (2.632%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (2.632%) Epicor iScala
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (2.632%) Firewall
2 1 (2.632%) LAN
2 1 (2.632%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (23.68%) Oracle 9i
4 8 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
4 8 (21.05%) SQLPlus
5 7 (18.42%) Oracle BI EE
5 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (15.79%) RDBMS
6 6 (15.79%) MySQL
7 5 (13.16%) OLTP
7 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (7.895%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (7.895%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
11 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (2.632%) DTS
11 1 (2.632%) DB2
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Statistics
2 6 (15.79%) Clustering
3 2 (5.263%) Replication
4 1 (2.632%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) UNIX
3 3 (7.895%) Linux
4 2 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (2.632%) AIX
5 1 (2.632%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Resource Management
2 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.263%) High Availability
4 2 (5.263%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.632%) Change Control
5 1 (2.632%) Migration
5 1 (2.632%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.632%) Business Analysis
5 1 (2.632%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.632%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.632%) ITIL
5 1 (2.632%) CRM
5 1 (2.632%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) SQL
2 8 (21.05%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.632%) MCTS
2 1 (2.632%) Degree
2 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) SLA
2 10 (26.32%) QA
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (28.95%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Data Guard
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Oracle
2 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.895%) Hyperion
4 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.632%) VMware
5 1 (2.632%) Sun
5 1 (2.632%) IBM