Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Senior DBA role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 Senior Database Administrator
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank581529650
Rank change year-on-year
Down-52Up+121
Matching permanent IT job ads106144334
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.123 %0.169 %0.164 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.131 %0.180 %0.174 %
Salaries quoted91108253
Average salary£55,000£47,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.78 %+5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£38,900£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£60,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£48,750£45,000£42,500
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %+5.880 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
8061279798192141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.19 %93.74 %94.40 %
Salaries quoted6665865582156878
Average salary£41,500£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.790 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-

Senior DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior DBA Demand Trend

Senior DBA
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK.

Senior DBA Salary Trend

Senior DBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior DBA over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 within the UK.

Senior DBA Salary Histogram

Senior DBA
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-6499£52,500+10.52 %
LondonDown-1064£55,000+10.00 %
City of LondonDown-4423£55,000+15.78 %
South EastDown-2112£52,500+16.66 %
ManchesterUp+59£45,000+28.11 %
North WestUp+39£45,000+18.42 %
NottinghamUp+135£100,000-
East MidlandsUp+105£100,000+150.00 %
NottinghamshireUp+85£100,000-
BerkshireDown-35£52,500+8.80 %
East of EnglandDown-294£47,500-5.00 %
ReadingUp+183£52,500+6.06 %
West MidlandsUp+242£38,750+13.97 %
BedfordshireUp+92£47,500+11.76 %
HertfordshireDown-112--
OxfordshireNew entry-2£45,000-
Docklands, LondonNew entry-2£85,000-
HampshireUp+131--
South WestUp+81£45,000-5.26 %
Canary WharfUp+61£65,000-
SurreyDown-31£45,000-
YorkshireDown-51£35,000-17.64 %
MidlandsNew entry-1£50,000-
WarwickshireNew entry-1£42,500-
South YorkshireNew entry-1£35,000-
SheffieldNew entry-1£35,000-
GloucestershireNew entry-1£45,000-
OxfordNew entry-1--
LeatherheadNew entry-1£45,000-
GloucesterNew entry-1£45,000-

Senior DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title.

1163 (77.25 %)SQL
297 (45.97 %)SQL Server
391 (43.13 %)Oracle
466 (31.28 %)Linux
562 (29.38 %)UNIX
658 (27.49 %)Oracle 10g
757 (27.01 %)Oracle RAC
856 (26.54 %)Replication
945 (21.33 %)PL/SQL
945 (21.33 %)SQL Server 2005
945 (21.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1043 (20.38 %)RDBMS
1141 (19.43 %)Datawarehouse
1141 (19.43 %)Oracle 11g
1240 (18.96 %)Finance
1339 (18.48 %)DTS
1435 (16.59 %)Windows
1435 (16.59 %)Microsoft
1533 (15.64 %)SQL Server 2000
1632 (15.17 %)Business Intelligence
1731 (14.69 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1731 (14.69 %)Data Guard
1828 (13.27 %)Degree
1926 (12.32 %)MySQL
1926 (12.32 %)ETL
1926 (12.32 %)Oracle RMAN
2025 (11.85 %)DB2
2124 (11.37 %)Clustering
2223 (10.90 %)Oracle 9i
2223 (10.90 %)SQL Server Analysis Services

Senior DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
112 (5.687 %).NET
112 (5.687 %)XML
210 (4.739 %)Lucene
38 (3.791 %)Middleware
38 (3.791 %)Adobe Flex
44 (1.896 %)Spring
53 (1.422 %)ASP.NET
62 (0.948 %)EJB
62 (0.948 %)JDBC
62 (0.948 %)JSP
62 (0.948 %)Servlets
62 (0.948 %)Struts
62 (0.948 %)Web Services
62 (0.948 %)JavaBeans
62 (0.948 %)J2EE
62 (0.948 %)Hibernate
62 (0.948 %)WebSphere
62 (0.948 %)HTML
62 (0.948 %)Java EE
71 (0.474 %).NET Framework
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (5.213 %)ColdFusion
210 (4.739 %)WebLogic
210 (4.739 %)Apache Solr
36 (2.844 %)Oracle Application Server
43 (1.422 %)Tomcat
52 (0.948 %)SharePoint
52 (0.948 %)WebSphere Application Server
61 (0.474 %)ESB
61 (0.474 %)SharePoint Server 2007
61 (0.474 %)BizTalk Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (6.635 %)MS Excel
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (4.265 %)Oracle Applications
28 (3.791 %)Oracle EBS
36 (2.844 %)Oracle 11i
36 (2.844 %)Oracle EBS R12
43 (1.422 %)RMDS
52 (0.948 %)Siebel Analytics
61 (0.474 %)Oracle BPM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
113 (6.161 %)SAN
28 (3.791 %)Internet
28 (3.791 %)WAN
34 (1.896 %)LAN
42 (0.948 %)VPN
51 (0.474 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
197 (45.97 %)SQL Server
258 (27.49 %)Oracle 10g
345 (21.33 %)SQL Server 2005
345 (21.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
443 (20.38 %)RDBMS
541 (19.43 %)Datawarehouse
541 (19.43 %)Oracle 11g
639 (18.48 %)DTS
733 (15.64 %)SQL Server 2000
831 (14.69 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
926 (12.32 %)ETL
926 (12.32 %)MySQL
1025 (11.85 %)DB2
1123 (10.90 %)Oracle 9i
1123 (10.90 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1220 (9.479 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1220 (9.479 %)Oracle 8/8i
1318 (8.531 %)SQL Server 2008
1417 (8.057 %)DB2 UDB
1512 (5.687 %)Sybase ASE
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (3.791 %)ERwin
22 (0.948 %)Oracle APEX
22 (0.948 %)JUnit
22 (0.948 %)Oracle Forms
31 (0.474 %)Visual Studio
31 (0.474 %)Oracle Designer/2000
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
140 (18.96 %)Finance
214 (6.635 %)Games
312 (5.687 %)Telecoms
411 (5.213 %)Banking
59 (4.265 %)Health
59 (4.265 %)Pensions
66 (2.844 %)Retail
73 (1.422 %)Marketing
82 (0.948 %)Online Games
82 (0.948 %)Law
82 (0.948 %)Government
82 (0.948 %)Insurance
91 (0.474 %)Publishing
91 (0.474 %)Investment Banking
91 (0.474 %)Back Office
91 (0.474 %)Education
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
156 (26.54 %)Replication
224 (11.37 %)Clustering
310 (4.739 %)Statistics
45 (2.370 %)Derivative
54 (1.896 %)Data Extraction
62 (0.948 %)Computer Science
71 (0.474 %)CLARiiON
71 (0.474 %)Symmetrix
71 (0.474 %)N-Tier
71 (0.474 %)HACMP
71 (0.474 %)AS400
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
166 (31.28 %)Linux
262 (29.38 %)UNIX
335 (16.59 %)Windows
414 (6.635 %)Solaris
512 (5.687 %)Windows Server 2003
611 (5.213 %)Windows Server 2008
710 (4.739 %)Red Hat Linux
88 (3.791 %)HPUX
94 (1.896 %)AIX
94 (1.896 %)CentOS
103 (1.422 %)Windows 2000
112 (0.948 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
121 (0.474 %)OS/400
121 (0.474 %)zOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
132 (15.17 %)Business Intelligence
219 (9.005 %)Migration
317 (8.057 %)Capacity Planning
415 (7.109 %)E-Commerce
510 (4.739 %)BCP
510 (4.739 %)SOA
69 (4.265 %)Project Management
69 (4.265 %)Disaster Recovery
69 (4.265 %)Data Security
69 (4.265 %)Time Management
69 (4.265 %)Performance Management
77 (3.318 %)User Acceptance Testing
86 (2.844 %)Enterprise Architecture
86 (2.844 %)Release Management
86 (2.844 %)Data Architecture
86 (2.844 %)ITIL
94 (1.896 %)Data Analysis
94 (1.896 %)Web Development
103 (1.422 %)Data Modelling
112 (0.948 %)Business Continuity
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1163 (77.25 %)SQL
245 (21.33 %)PL/SQL
320 (9.479 %)T-SQL
418 (8.531 %)Shell Script
510 (4.739 %)PHP
67 (3.318 %)C
75 (2.370 %)C#
84 (1.896 %)Java
93 (1.422 %)JavaScript
102 (0.948 %)Perl
102 (0.948 %)XPath
102 (0.948 %)VBA
102 (0.948 %)XQuery
111 (0.474 %)RPG
111 (0.474 %)VBScript
111 (0.474 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
128 (13.27 %)Degree
215 (7.109 %)Security Cleared
39 (4.265 %)SC Cleared
47 (3.318 %)Microsoft Certification
55 (2.370 %)Oracle Certification
64 (1.896 %)MCDBA
72 (0.948 %)HP ASE
72 (0.948 %)Sun Certification
72 (0.948 %)MCTS
72 (0.948 %)MCITP
81 (0.474 %)ITIL Certification
81 (0.474 %)OCP
81 (0.474 %)HNC
81 (0.474 %)HND
81 (0.474 %)MCSA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (1.896 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
157 (27.01 %)Oracle RAC
226 (12.32 %)Oracle RMAN
36 (2.844 %)Veritas Cluster Server
42 (0.948 %)VMware ESX
51 (0.474 %)Citrix Presentation Server
51 (0.474 %)XenApp
51 (0.474 %)SRDF
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
131 (14.69 %)Data Guard
28 (3.791 %)Zenoss
28 (3.791 %)Nagios
33 (1.422 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
42 (0.948 %)EMC NetWorker
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
191 (43.13 %)Oracle
235 (16.59 %)Microsoft
313 (6.161 %)Sybase
412 (5.687 %)Red Hat
57 (3.318 %)Veritas
66 (2.844 %)VMware
74 (1.896 %)EMC
74 (1.896 %)Sun
74 (1.896 %)HP
83 (1.422 %)Citrix
83 (1.422 %)TIBCO
83 (1.422 %)JBoss
92 (0.948 %)Siebel
92 (0.948 %)IBM
92 (0.948 %)Informatica
101 (0.474 %)Perforce
101 (0.474 %)Dell
101 (0.474 %)Cognos
101 (0.474 %)Business Objects
101 (0.474 %)SAP