The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Database Administrator
Rank 47 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.546% 1.592% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.601% 1.672% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £289 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
+12.30% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -2.50%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
499 658 500
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 90.89% 95.22% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 317 235
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 73 91
Average hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.82% +142.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
DBA
East of England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire DBA Daily Rate Histogram

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Peterborough +2 2 £350 +2.94%
Cambridge +1 1 £228 -35.00%
DBA
East of England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
4 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) DB2
4 3 (37.50%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) BCP
4 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
6 1 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 (12.50%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) UNIX
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) BCP
1 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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Posted: 14 May 2013