The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank 193 156 155
Rank change year-on-year
-37 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 11 29 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.219% 0.636% 0.503%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.228% 0.664% 0.526%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 19
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £34,250 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,500 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4823 4368 3992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.92% 95.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3997 3832 3397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SQL Server DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server DBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SQL Server DBA Salary Trend

SQL Server DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands SQL Server DBA Salary Histogram

SQL Server DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Staffordshire -14 5 £47,500 +5.55%
Birmingham -19 4 £43,750 -7.89%
Coventry -30 1 £50,000 +2.56%
Wolverhampton - 1 £35,000 -
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA in their job title.

1 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 44 (91.67%) SQL
3 24 (50.00%) Windows
4 19 (39.58%) T-SQL
5 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2003
5 17 (35.42%) Migration
5 17 (35.42%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 17 (35.42%) SQL Server 2008
6 16 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
6 16 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (33.33%) Investment Banking
6 16 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 16 (33.33%) Banking
6 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 15 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (27.08%) Replication
9 12 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (20.83%) OLAP
11 10 (20.83%) ETL
12 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (18.75%) MS Excel
12 9 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (16.67%) OLTP
14 7 (14.58%) SQL Server 2000
15 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
16 5 (10.42%) OpenVMS
16 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
16 5 (10.42%) SAP

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.167%) WSH
2 1 (2.083%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) SAP Business One
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (35.42%) SQL Server 2005
2 17 (35.42%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (20.83%) OLAP
7 9 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (16.67%) OLTP
9 7 (14.58%) SQL Server 2000
10 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
11 5 (10.42%) PerformancePoint
12 3 (6.250%) RDBMS
13 1 (2.083%) DTS
13 1 (2.083%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
13 1 (2.083%) Big Data
13 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 16 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 16 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (4.167%) Finance
2 2 (4.167%) Law
3 1 (2.083%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Replication
2 1 (2.083%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (50.00%) Windows
2 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2003
2 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (10.42%) OpenVMS
3 5 (10.42%) UNIX
3 5 (10.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Migration
2 16 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 16 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 16 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 10 (20.83%) ETL
4 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (10.42%) Resource Management
6 4 (8.333%) Database Security
7 3 (6.250%) Database Tuning
8 1 (2.083%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.083%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.083%) Scrum
8 1 (2.083%) Data Architecture
8 1 (2.083%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.083%) Data Analysis
8 1 (2.083%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.083%) BCP
8 1 (2.083%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (2.083%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 44 (91.67%) SQL
2 19 (39.58%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.250%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.167%) VBScript
5 1 (2.083%) C
5 1 (2.083%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.167%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.167%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) SAP
3 3 (6.250%) VMware
4 2 (4.167%) Oracle
5 1 (2.083%) Sybase
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Experience of managing multiple SQL 2000/2005 RDBMS in a large scale, high volume OLTP environment supporting transactional replication and log shipping . - SQL Server Replication - SQL Server Profiler .
Smart Sourcing
Salary: Unspecified Highly negotiable salary plus Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
SQL Server Developer required for expanding privately owned company based in Shirley Solihull... They would like you to be to be familiar with DML, as well as DDL,...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Salary Dependant On Experience
Posted: 23 May 2013
Staffordshire, West Midlands
You should have experience of: Gathering requirements and proficiency in developing complex database solutions from informal specifications Experience of large transactional databases (100GB+) Excellent TSQL Good knowledge of...
Salt
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Car, Bonus, Pension, 5 weeks holiday
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
REQUIREMENTS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES: Substantial industry experience in database design and administration requiredExperience in T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012 required.Experience with Power...
i4 Recruitment
Salary: £40k - 45k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
REQUIREMENTS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES: Substantial industry experience in database design and administration required Experience in T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012 required... Experience with...
Salt
Salary: £45000 per annum + Work From Home
Posted: 21 May 2013