The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank - 71 64
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 0 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.410% 1.311%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.438% 1.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL DBA
South East

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (20.00%) Statistics
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Movex
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Cognos
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) DTS
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) ETL

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Movex
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) DTS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cognos