DBA Jobs in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 21 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 Scotland region.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 97 94 118
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 58 57 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.831% 1.634% 1.205%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.933% 1.725% 1.273%
Number of salaries quoted 38 27 31
Average salary £43,750 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,250 £31,400 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £45,200 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 3000 3304 3220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.70% 94.70% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1791 2412 2426
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
UK

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland DBA Salary Histogram

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow -18 25 £45,000 +5.88%
Aberdeen +16 16 £40,250 -0.72%
Edinburgh +4 6 £47,500 +11.76%
West Lothian - 6 £52,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £40,500 -
DBA
UK

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 73 (68.87%) Oracle
2 68 (64.15%) SQL
3 58 (54.72%) SQL Server
4 41 (38.68%) Oracle 11g
5 28 (26.42%) PL/SQL
6 27 (25.47%) Oracle 10g
7 22 (20.75%) Degree
8 20 (18.87%) Oracle 9i
9 19 (17.92%) Oracle 8/8i
9 19 (17.92%) Windows
9 19 (17.92%) Replication
9 19 (17.92%) Finance
10 18 (16.98%) Migration
10 18 (16.98%) SQL Server 2008
11 17 (16.04%) Microsoft
12 16 (15.09%) SQL Server 2000
12 16 (15.09%) UNIX
13 15 (14.15%) RDBMS
13 15 (14.15%) SQL Server 2005
13 15 (14.15%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (13.21%) Oracle RAC
15 13 (12.26%) Banking
15 13 (12.26%) ERP
16 12 (11.32%) Performance Management
17 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning
17 11 (10.38%) MS Excel
17 11 (10.38%) Shell Script
17 11 (10.38%) Sybase
17 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2003

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (3.774%) HTML
2 1 (0.943%) Middleware
2 1 (0.943%) COM
2 1 (0.943%) XML
2 1 (0.943%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.660%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (3.774%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (10.38%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.660%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.717%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (2.830%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (2.830%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.887%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (1.887%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.943%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.887%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.887%) SAN
2 1 (0.943%) HTTP
2 1 (0.943%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (54.72%) SQL Server
2 41 (38.68%) Oracle 11g
3 27 (25.47%) Oracle 10g
4 20 (18.87%) Oracle 9i
5 19 (17.92%) Oracle 8/8i
6 18 (16.98%) SQL Server 2008
7 16 (15.09%) SQL Server 2000
8 15 (14.15%) RDBMS
8 15 (14.15%) SQL Server 2005
9 8 (7.547%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (6.604%) MySQL
11 5 (4.717%) OLTP
12 4 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.887%) SQL Server 2012
13 2 (1.887%) Sybase ASE
13 2 (1.887%) Informix
13 2 (1.887%) DB2
14 1 (0.943%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.943%) Sybase IQ
14 1 (0.943%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (4.717%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.887%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.943%) Subversion
General
1 19 (17.92%) Finance
2 13 (12.26%) Banking
3 1 (0.943%) Investment Banking
3 1 (0.943%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.92%) Replication
2 7 (6.604%) Clustering
3 6 (5.660%) Data Extraction
4 2 (1.887%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (1.887%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.943%) HACMP
5 1 (0.943%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.943%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.92%) Windows
2 16 (15.09%) UNIX
3 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (9.434%) Linux
5 7 (6.604%) Solaris
6 4 (3.774%) AIX
7 1 (0.943%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.98%) Migration
2 15 (14.15%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (12.26%) ERP
4 12 (11.32%) Performance Management
5 11 (10.38%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (9.434%) Data Management
6 10 (9.434%) ITIL
6 10 (9.434%) Database Security
7 9 (8.491%) Incident Management
8 7 (6.604%) Capacity Management
9 6 (5.660%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (4.717%) Volume Testing
10 5 (4.717%) Database Tuning
10 5 (4.717%) Data Modelling
10 5 (4.717%) Project Planning
11 4 (3.774%) Service Management
11 4 (3.774%) CRM
12 3 (2.830%) Configuration Management
12 3 (2.830%) Security Management
13 2 (1.887%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (64.15%) SQL
2 28 (26.42%) PL/SQL
3 11 (10.38%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.660%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.717%) Perl
6 2 (1.887%) Korn
6 2 (1.887%) Python
6 2 (1.887%) Java
6 2 (1.887%) C#
6 2 (1.887%) C++
7 1 (0.943%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 22 (20.75%) Degree
2 8 (7.547%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.830%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.887%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.887%) MCTS
5 1 (0.943%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.943%) MCP
5 1 (0.943%) MCSE
5 1 (0.943%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.887%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.943%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (8.491%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.887%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (1.887%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.943%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 6 (5.660%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (5.660%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.943%) Legato
2 1 (0.943%) Foglight
Vendors
1 73 (68.87%) Oracle
2 17 (16.04%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.38%) Sybase
4 7 (6.604%) Sun
5 4 (3.774%) Veritas
6 2 (1.887%) IBM
7 1 (0.943%) EMC
7 1 (0.943%) Cisco
7 1 (0.943%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.943%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.943%) VMware
SQL Server DBA - SQL Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Scotland
Experience of designing, deploying and administering SQL Server instances... The successful SQL Server DBA / SQL Subject Matter Expert (SME) will need to be able to undergo SC Clearance.
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £57,000 per annum Negotiable Salary and Benefits Package includi
Posted: 18 May 2013
Senior Oracle DBA - Glasgow
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Senior Oracle DBA Developer - Database Administrator/ Developer, PL/SQL, SQL, 11, data warehousing. My client, a leading blue chip based in Poole is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + BENIFITS
Posted: 17 May 2013
SQL Database Administrator / SQL DBA - SQL Server
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Identifies problems at the database and system level, and work on resolutions - Performs relational database design, object, integrity, and security implementation - Implements database privileges to users and/or...
NES Global Talent
Salary: £30000 to £450000 per annum - Excelent benefits including pension &am
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oracle Database Administrator / Production DBA - Glasgow
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My client, a global blue chip within finance, is currently seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join an established team providing production and development support for a...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Informix Database Administrator - SQL Developer - SQL DBA
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Due to continued growth they are in urgent need of an experienced Informix Database Administrator / Informix Developer to take an instrumental client facing position. To be considered for...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oracle EBS Database Administrator
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Experience with E-Business Suite DBA required to support an Oracle E-Business Suite ERP application in a production environment... Experience working with Oracle related utilities and tools...
Connectus
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Sybase DBA
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Writing Tools and Utilities - in shell, perl/sybperl, awk, sed, C, Web/cgi etc... Perl / Sybperl. Awk, Sed... Physical Data Modelling... Sybase utilities (ISQL, BCP, Defncopy etc... Sybase...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: Excellent salary & benefits package
Posted: 14 May 2013
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