The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank - 72 65
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 0 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.295% 0.943%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.314% 0.991%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.38% -20.38%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
733 956 1009
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 93.02% 94.09% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 414 383
Average daily rate £313 £315 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.79% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £189
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 76 102
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.26 £11.67 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £32.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
SQL Server DBA
South East

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL Server DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire SQL Server DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server DBA
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware