The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield 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 17 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 36 56 54
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 22 8 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 4.207% 1.278% 1.523%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.348% 1.320% 1.571%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 9
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
506 606 573
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 96.75% 96.81% 96.95%
Number of salaries quoted 436 523 488
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £44,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
South Yorkshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 46 (90.20%) SQL Server
2 43 (84.31%) SQL
3 40 (78.43%) SQL Server 2008
4 36 (70.59%) SQL Server 2005
5 32 (62.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (60.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (52.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (49.02%) Windows
9 24 (47.06%) Replication
10 22 (43.14%) Clustering
10 22 (43.14%) MS Excel
11 20 (39.22%) Retail
11 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2003
11 20 (39.22%) Windows 7
11 20 (39.22%) Load Balancing
11 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
13 13 (25.49%) T-SQL
14 11 (21.57%) SAN
14 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (19.61%) SLA
15 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (13.73%) Database Security
17 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
17 6 (11.76%) Oracle
18 5 (9.804%) Banking
18 5 (9.804%) Oracle RMAN
18 5 (9.804%) VMware
18 5 (9.804%) UNIX
18 5 (9.804%) Oracle 8/8i

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (5.882%) .NET
2 2 (3.922%) ASP
3 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.961%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
1 3 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 22 (43.14%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.882%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (90.20%) SQL Server
2 40 (78.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 36 (70.59%) SQL Server 2005
4 32 (62.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (60.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (52.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
8 5 (9.804%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (9.804%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (9.804%) Oracle 11g
9 4 (7.843%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (7.843%) DTS
10 3 (5.882%) OLTP
11 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 7
11 1 (1.961%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.961%) OLAP
11 1 (1.961%) Microsoft Analysis Services
General
1 20 (39.22%) Retail
2 5 (9.804%) Banking
3 1 (1.961%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (47.06%) Replication
2 22 (43.14%) Clustering
3 1 (1.961%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.961%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Windows
2 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 20 (39.22%) Windows 7
3 5 (9.804%) Solaris
3 5 (9.804%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Load Balancing
2 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (13.73%) Database Security
4 5 (9.804%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (9.804%) Database Tuning
5 4 (7.843%) ETL
6 3 (5.882%) CRM
6 3 (5.882%) Data Modelling
6 3 (5.882%) Data Management
6 3 (5.882%) Analytics
6 3 (5.882%) Time Management
7 2 (3.922%) ITIL
7 2 (3.922%) Service Management
7 2 (3.922%) Migration
8 1 (1.961%) Data Migration
8 1 (1.961%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (1.961%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 43 (84.31%) SQL
2 13 (25.49%) T-SQL
3 5 (9.804%) C
4 2 (3.922%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.961%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.804%) OCP
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (7.843%) Degree
4 3 (5.882%) MCSE
5 2 (3.922%) MCDBA
6 1 (1.961%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.961%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) SLA
2 1 (1.961%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.804%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (9.804%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle
3 5 (9.804%) VMware
4 1 (1.961%) Red Gate