The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 21 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 Canary Wharf 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 53 48 58
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +10
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.249% 0.262% 0.602%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.270% 0.285% 0.641%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £300 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
371 351 468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 92.29% 91.88% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 217 364
Average daily rate £525 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £350 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
London

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 7 (70.00%) Migration
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (70.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Replication
5 1 (10.00%) Clustering
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (10.00%) DTS
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) MS Office
5 1 (10.00%) MCTS
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (10.00%) MCITP
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile App

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (10.00%) DTS
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 7 (70.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 7 (70.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCTS
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle