The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 112 132 124
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 9 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.384% 0.189% 0.199%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.422% 0.208% 0.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £370 £335 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.44% +15.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £386 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.35% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+74.41% -21.44%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2133 2885 2713
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.11% 91.01% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1058 1043
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 111 175
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.68% -12.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Oracle DBA
South East

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Oracle DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Oracle DBA Daily Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Oracle DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +11 4 £393 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Crowthorne - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Slough - - - - 1
Oracle DBA
South East

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Oracle 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Oracle DBA in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (73.33%) Oracle 11g
2 11 (73.33%) UNIX
3 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (53.33%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 6 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
6 5 (33.33%) SQL
7 4 (26.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 4 (26.67%) C
7 4 (26.67%) Solaris
7 4 (26.67%) ProC
8 3 (20.00%) Data Guard
8 3 (20.00%) Windows
8 3 (20.00%) ITIL
8 3 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 2 (13.33%) LAN
9 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
9 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
9 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
9 2 (13.33%) Firewall
9 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
10 1 (6.667%) VMware

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Oracle 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Oracle DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.667%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.667%) SSL
2 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (26.67%) ProC
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Electronics
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) UNIX
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.667%) High Availability
4 1 (6.667%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) HNC
2 1 (6.667%) OCP
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.667%) HP SIM
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.667%) MOM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
2 1 (6.667%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.667%) IBM
2 1 (6.667%) HP
2 1 (6.667%) Red Hat