Buckinghamshire DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire 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	48	58
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	33	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	2.718 %	2.200 %
Daily rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£348
Average daily rate	£316	£369
% change on same period last year	-14.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	£36.00
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£36.00
% change on same period last year	+5.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.50	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.97	£29.35
% change on same period last year	+25.97 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1214	1500
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.602 %	1.494 %
Daily rates quoted	364	347
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£296
Average daily rate	£345	£311
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	175	184
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.58	£26.74
Average hourly rate	£20.66	£27.67
% change on same period last year	-25.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.74	£28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
DBA South East

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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+17	24	£300	-

DBA South East

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 34 (77.27 %) SQL Server 2 18 (40.91 %) SQL 3 17 (38.64 %) Oracle 4 15 (34.09 %) DB2 4 15 (34.09 %) Security Cleared 5 14 (31.82 %) Disaster Recovery 5 14 (31.82 %) Finance 5 14 (31.82 %) Windows 6 13 (29.55 %) UNIX 6 13 (29.55 %) Oracle RMAN 6 13 (29.55 %) SC Cleared 6 13 (29.55 %) DB2 UDB 7 12 (27.27 %) NetBackup 7 12 (27.27 %) Sybase 8 11 (25.00 %) MCDBA

8 11 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 11 (25.00 %) Government 9 7 (15.91 %) Clustering 10 6 (13.64 %) SAN 10 6 (13.64 %) Business Intelligence 11 5 (11.36 %) DTS 11 5 (11.36 %) Transact-SQL 11 5 (11.36 %) AIX 11 5 (11.36 %) OLAP 11 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 3 (6.818 %) Legal 12 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 10g 12 3 (6.818 %) MAINVIEW 12 3 (6.818 %) JCL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (6.818 %) ISPF 2 1 (2.273 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.273 %) Apache
Business Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 6 (13.64 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (77.27 %) SQL Server 2 15 (34.09 %) DB2 3 13 (29.55 %) DB2 UDB 4 11 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 5 (11.36 %) DTS 5 5 (11.36 %) OLAP 5 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (4.545 %) MySQL 8 1 (2.273 %) GIS 8 1 (2.273 %) Informix 8 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Reports 8 1 (2.273 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (2.273 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 1 (2.273 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (2.273 %) Oracle BI EE	Development Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Visual Studio
General 1 14 (31.82 %) Finance 2 11 (25.00 %) Government 3 3 (6.818 %) Legal 4 2 (4.545 %) Banking 5 1 (2.273 %) Health 5 1 (2.273 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 7 (15.91 %) Clustering 2 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 2 3 (6.818 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (4.545 %) Replication 4 1 (2.273 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 14 (31.82 %) Windows 2 13 (29.55 %) UNIX 3 5 (11.36 %) AIX 4 2 (4.545 %) Linux 5 1 (2.273 %) HPUX 5 1 (2.273 %) Solaris 5 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP 5 1 (2.273 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (34.09 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (31.82 %) Disaster Recovery 3 13 (29.55 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (13.64 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.273 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (2.273 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (2.273 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.273 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 18 (40.91 %) SQL 2 5 (11.36 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (6.818 %) JCL 3 3 (6.818 %) C# 3 3 (6.818 %) REXX 4 1 (2.273 %) VB6 4 1 (2.273 %) Shell Script 4 1 (2.273 %) PHP 4 1 (2.273 %) VB	Qualifications 1 11 (25.00 %) MCDBA 1 11 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.273 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.273 %) QA	System Software 1 13 (29.55 %) Oracle RMAN 2 12 (27.27 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.273 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 3 (6.818 %) MAINVIEW	Vendors 1 17 (38.64 %) Oracle 2 12 (27.27 %) Sybase 3 3 (6.818 %) IBM 3 3 (6.818 %) BMC 4 1 (2.273 %) VMware 4 1 (2.273 %) OpenLink 4 1 (2.273 %) Sun 4 1 (2.273 %) HP 4 1 (2.273 %) Sage 4 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft