Bristol DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the Bristol region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Driffield Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	46
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	9	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	1.092 %	2.347 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£285
Average daily rate	£297	£316
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£22.13	£32.21
% change on same period last year	-31.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£33.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.97	£29.35
% change on same period last year	+25.97 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	824	1108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.087 %	1.103 %
Daily rates quoted	284	411
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£328
Average daily rate	£332	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	126	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.43	£25.46
Average hourly rate	£27.23	£28.04
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.03	£30.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
DBA South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DBA across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 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 DBA in their job title.

1 19 (59.38 %) SQL 2 16 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 14 (43.75 %) Oracle 4 10 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 5 8 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 6 7 (21.88 %) .NET 6 7 (21.88 %) Oracle 9i 6 7 (21.88 %) Oracle 10g 7 6 (18.75 %) Replication 7 6 (18.75 %) Telecoms 7 6 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC 7 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 5 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 8 5 (15.63 %) Microsoft 8 5 (15.63 %) VLDB

8 5 (15.63 %) Siebel 8 5 (15.63 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (15.63 %) UNIX 8 5 (15.63 %) DB2 9 4 (12.50 %) ETL 9 4 (12.50 %) OLTP 9 4 (12.50 %) AIX 9 4 (12.50 %) SAN 9 4 (12.50 %) Migration 9 4 (12.50 %) Oracle RMAN 9 4 (12.50 %) Data Migration 10 3 (9.375 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (9.375 %) NetBackup 10 3 (9.375 %) Government 10 3 (9.375 %) OpenView

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 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 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (21.88 %) .NET 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Streams 2 1 (3.125 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.250 %) WebLogic 1 2 (6.250 %) IIS 1 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 9iAS 1 2 (6.250 %) Oracle Workflow 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 10 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (21.88 %) Oracle 9i 3 7 (21.88 %) Oracle 10g 4 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 5 (15.63 %) VLDB 5 5 (15.63 %) DB2 6 4 (12.50 %) ETL 6 4 (12.50 %) OLTP 7 3 (9.375 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (9.375 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (6.250 %) OLAP 9 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (3.125 %) DTS 9 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (3.125 %) RDBMS 9 1 (3.125 %) Star Schema 9 1 (3.125 %) TOAD	Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle APEX 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 6 (18.75 %) Telecoms 2 3 (9.375 %) Government 3 2 (6.250 %) Finance 3 2 (6.250 %) Music	Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.75 %) Replication 2 1 (3.125 %) French Language 2 1 (3.125 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 5 (15.63 %) UNIX 2 4 (12.50 %) AIX 3 3 (9.375 %) Solaris 3 3 (9.375 %) Windows 4 1 (3.125 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.125 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 1 5 (15.63 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (12.50 %) Migration 2 4 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 3 (9.375 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (6.250 %) Workflow 4 2 (6.250 %) Performance Management 5 1 (3.125 %) Dimensional Modelling 5 1 (3.125 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (3.125 %) Logistics 5 1 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (3.125 %) ITIL 5 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.125 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (3.125 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 19 (59.38 %) SQL 2 8 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (9.375 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (6.250 %) Java 5 1 (3.125 %) Shell Script 5 1 (3.125 %) VB	System Software 1 6 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC 2 4 (12.50 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (9.375 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 3 (9.375 %) OpenView 2 2 (6.250 %) Netcool 2 2 (6.250 %) EMC Navisphere 3 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 14 (43.75 %) Oracle 2 5 (15.63 %) Microsoft 2 5 (15.63 %) Siebel 3 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 3 2 (6.250 %) HP 3 2 (6.250 %) EMC 3 2 (6.250 %) VERITAS 3 2 (6.250 %) Remedy 4 1 (3.125 %) Teradata 4 1 (3.125 %) IBM 4 1 (3.125 %) Cognos