The first table below looks at the demand for Database Tuning skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Database Tuning over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Tuning
Rank 58 56 59
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 10 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.684% 1.391% 0.179%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.227% 1.990% 0.267%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 1
Average salary £45,000 £36,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.28% -1.35%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
449 402 374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.59% 69.91% 66.91%
Number of salaries quoted 389 343 303
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Database Tuning
West Midlands

Database Tuning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Database Tuning across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Staffordshire Database Tuning Jobs Demand Trend

Database Tuning
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Database Tuning across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Database Tuning Salary Trend

Database Tuning
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Tuning within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Burton-upon-Trent -3 10 £45,000 +23.28%
Database Tuning
West Midlands

Database Tuning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Database Tuning also 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 that cited Database Tuning.

1 20 (100.00%) SQL
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 17 (85.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (85.00%) Clustering
2 17 (85.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (85.00%) Replication
2 17 (85.00%) ITIL
2 17 (85.00%) DTS
3 13 (65.00%) ETL
3 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (65.00%) T-SQL
3 13 (65.00%) MS Excel
3 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (30.00%) VMware
4 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (20.00%) NHS
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Database Security
6 3 (15.00%) OLAP
6 3 (15.00%) OLTP
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification

Database Tuning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Database Tuning also 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 that cited Database Tuning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 13 (65.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 17 (85.00%) DTS
2 17 (85.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (15.00%) OLTP
6 3 (15.00%) OLAP
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) DBA
1 20 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 17 (85.00%) Administrator
2 17 (85.00%) Teradata DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Senior SQL DBA
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Replication
1 17 (85.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) ITIL
1 17 (85.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (65.00%) ETL
2 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (15.00%) Database Security
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware