Data Professionals' Earnings Compared, Analyzed in Study

The Independent Oracle (News - Alert) Users Group has released a study from a worldwide community of more than 20,000 members that are Oracle technology professionals, called “The What Data Professionals Earn” study, on, well, guess what subject.

 

It found that almost 30 percent of DBAs overseeing critical IT operations now receive six-figure incomes for their skills. Developer and analyst salaries came in around $75,000. More than 30 percent of the IT management category makes in excess of $100,000.

 

“However,” study officials say, “IT management was less likely to have seen annual increases this past year as opposed to DBAs, developers and analysts.” The survey also found DBAs with certifications moved ahead sooner than those without.

The study identified three primary categories of data professionals and determined that company size, geographic location and certification can make “a significant difference” in salary, with a significant number of data professionals earning six-figure and higher compensation.

The survey covered salary trends of three primary groups – database administrators, developers and analysts, and IT management. Salaries reported were base salaries only, not including bonuses, incentives, benefits or stock options, and all figures were requested in U.S. dollars.

 

Factors that affected six-figure salary attainment include size of organization, level of experience, complexity of the technology environment and geographic location, as 34 percent of DBAs reported base incomes exceeding $100,000 among organizations with more than 10,000 employees.

 

Forty percent of DBAs with more than a decade of experience reported salaries exceeding $100,000, 44 percent of DBAs managing large and complex database environments reported earning more than $100,000 and coincidentally 44 percent of DBAs working in the western region (including the Mountain and Pacific states) had annual salaries of more than $100,000.

Ian Abramson, IOUG president, said in his opinion “IOUG members command higher salaries than non-members, with nearly 80 percent of IOUG members receiving annual salaries of $80,000 or more, while only 60 percent of non-members receive annual salaries over $80,000.”

 

In August, Oracle announced the new Oracle CRM On Demand Integration to Siebel CRM, described by company officials as “a comprehensive, prebuilt integration that creates a single customer view across on-demand and on-premise CRM deployments.”

 

The product is intended to provide a “holistic” view of the sales pipeline for sales and executive managers, as well as “the ability to perform analytics against it by synchronizing customer data from Oracle CRM On Demand and Oracle’s Siebel CRM.”

 

The idea, Oracle officials said, is that the integration helps companies with on-premise functionality for industry and process-centric CRM, as well as on-demand CRM for remote offices and mobile sales and other users.

 

The product is based on Oracle’s standards-based Oracle Application Integration architecture and Oracle Fusion Middleware. It’s billed as reducing the integration risk and solving “the data silo problem through integration between on-premise and on-demand CRM.”