The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 20 June 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 City of London 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 132 115 115
Rank change year-on-year
-17 0
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 85 107 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.233% 1.406% 1.357%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.334% 1.538% 1.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 67 92
Average daily rate £381 £400 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.68% -9.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £265 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £524 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £321 £345
% change year-on-year
+13.79% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £51.00 £47.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.36% +171.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £22.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+34.06% -17.27%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6373 6957 9193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.43% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4718 5070 6689
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £285 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £619 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 166 220
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.30 £42.50 £45.00
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 95 (61.69%) SQL
2 83 (53.90%) Oracle
3 69 (44.81%) SQL Server
4 46 (29.87%) Oracle 11g
5 40 (25.97%) SQL Server 2008
5 40 (25.97%) Linux
6 38 (24.68%) Banking
7 37 (24.03%) Finance
8 31 (20.13%) Oracle 10g
9 30 (19.48%) T-SQL
9 30 (19.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (18.83%) Oracle RAC
11 25 (16.23%) SQL Server 2005
11 25 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (15.58%) Shell Script
13 22 (14.29%) Migration
14 21 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
14 21 (13.64%) Replication
14 21 (13.64%) Data Guard
15 20 (12.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 20 (12.99%) Oracle EBS
15 20 (12.99%) ETL
15 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
15 20 (12.99%) UNIX
16 19 (12.34%) Security Cleared
17 18 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
18 17 (11.04%) Windows
19 15 (9.740%) ITIL
19 15 (9.740%) DV Cleared
19 15 (9.740%) SQL Server Analysis Services

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (4.545%) Middleware
2 6 (3.896%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.247%) XML
4 4 (2.597%) .NET
5 2 (1.299%) MDX
5 2 (1.299%) WebCenter
6 1 (0.649%) jQuery
6 1 (0.649%) JSP
6 1 (0.649%) Web Services
6 1 (0.649%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.195%) WebLogic
2 7 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (3.247%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.597%) SAS
4 4 (2.597%) IIS
5 3 (1.948%) Oracle 10gAS
5 3 (1.948%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.948%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.299%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.649%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.649%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.649%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (3.896%) MS Excel
1 6 (3.896%) MS Office
2 2 (1.299%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.649%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 20 (12.99%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (7.792%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (3.247%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (2.597%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.948%) SAP BPC
6 2 (1.299%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (1.299%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.649%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.649%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.649%) HFM
7 1 (0.649%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.649%) RMDS
7 1 (0.649%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.896%) HTTP
2 3 (1.948%) SAN
3 1 (0.649%) NAS
3 1 (0.649%) Network Security
3 1 (0.649%) DNS
3 1 (0.649%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.649%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (44.81%) SQL Server
2 46 (29.87%) Oracle 11g
3 40 (25.97%) SQL Server 2008
4 31 (20.13%) Oracle 10g
5 30 (19.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (16.23%) SQL Server 2005
6 25 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (12.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (9.740%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (8.442%) Oracle 8/8i
9 13 (8.442%) SQL Server 2012
10 9 (5.844%) Oracle 9i
10 9 (5.844%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (4.545%) DTS
11 7 (4.545%) Oracle Exadata
12 6 (3.896%) RDBMS
12 6 (3.896%) SQL Server 2000
13 5 (3.247%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (3.247%) OLAP
14 4 (2.597%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (3.247%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (2.597%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.597%) ERwin
3 3 (1.948%) Subversion
4 1 (0.649%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (24.68%) Banking
2 37 (24.03%) Finance
3 12 (7.792%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.948%) Marketing
4 3 (1.948%) Retail
4 3 (1.948%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.948%) Advertising
5 2 (1.299%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.649%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.649%) Law
6 1 (0.649%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Replication
2 13 (8.442%) Clustering
3 4 (2.597%) Visualisation
4 2 (1.299%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.299%) Statistics
4 2 (1.299%) SaaS
5 1 (0.649%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.649%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.649%) NHS
5 1 (0.649%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.649%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.649%) Oracle Exalytics
5 1 (0.649%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (25.97%) Linux
2 20 (12.99%) UNIX
3 17 (11.04%) Windows
4 13 (8.442%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.792%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (5.195%) Solaris
6 8 (5.195%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (4.545%) AIX
8 3 (1.948%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.649%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.649%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.29%) Migration
2 20 (12.99%) ETL
3 18 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (9.740%) ITIL
5 12 (7.792%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (7.792%) High Availability
6 9 (5.844%) Configuration Management
6 9 (5.844%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (5.844%) Data Modelling
7 6 (3.896%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.247%) Data Security
8 5 (3.247%) Workflow
8 5 (3.247%) Change Control
8 5 (3.247%) Database Security
8 5 (3.247%) Metadata Management
9 4 (2.597%) CRM
9 4 (2.597%) E-Commerce
9 4 (2.597%) SOA
9 4 (2.597%) Data Analysis
9 4 (2.597%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 95 (61.69%) SQL
2 30 (19.48%) T-SQL
3 24 (15.58%) Shell Script
4 13 (8.442%) Java
5 12 (7.792%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.948%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.948%) Perl
6 3 (1.948%) C#
7 2 (1.299%) VB
7 2 (1.299%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.299%) VBA
7 2 (1.299%) Korn
8 1 (0.649%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.649%) VB6
8 1 (0.649%) C
8 1 (0.649%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.740%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.597%) MCTS
3 4 (2.597%) Degree
4 3 (1.948%) MCITP
4 3 (1.948%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.948%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.299%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.299%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.649%) HP ASE
6 1 (0.649%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.649%) OCP
6 1 (0.649%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.299%) SLA
2 1 (0.649%) QA
2 1 (0.649%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.649%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (18.83%) Oracle RAC
2 21 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.597%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.649%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.649%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.649%) SRDF
4 1 (0.649%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (13.64%) Data Guard
2 9 (5.844%) Nagios
3 7 (4.545%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.299%) Legato
4 2 (1.299%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (1.299%) Control-M
4 2 (1.299%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.649%) Zenoss
5 1 (0.649%) BMC Performance Manager
5 1 (0.649%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.649%) Foglight
Vendors
1 83 (53.90%) Oracle
2 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.091%) Sybase
4 12 (7.792%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.494%) Informatica
6 8 (5.195%) Teradata
7 6 (3.896%) Netezza
8 5 (3.247%) VMware
8 5 (3.247%) Hyperion
9 4 (2.597%) SAP
10 3 (1.948%) Salesforce.com
10 3 (1.948%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (1.948%) NCR
10 3 (1.948%) Business Objects
10 3 (1.948%) Cognos
11 2 (1.299%) Tableau
11 2 (1.299%) Symantec
12 1 (0.649%) DataFlux
12 1 (0.649%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.649%) HP
City, London
SQL DBA required a highly skilled DBA to work on the development of a global risk solution. The role will involve installation, monitoring and building databases; there will...
Aston Carter
Rate: £525 - £575 per day + Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
SQL Server DBA/ETL Developer required for a contract in Central London. We're looking for an experienced SQL Server DBA that can maintain ETL routines in production...
TEKsystems
Rate: £425 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
The role needs a strong SQL database developer who has the ability to develop strong T-SQL, stored procedures and replication code along with a good knowledge of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 June 2013
City, London
Key Responsibilities: *SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installations and planning... *Database capacity planning... Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience *Experience and knowledge of supporting SQL server 2005 and 2008 databases...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Job Description: To work as a SQL Server Database Administrator within a DBA Team.Key Responsibilities:*SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installations and planning.*Creation and support of...
JAM
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
City of London
MRP-Global.com
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £55000 - £58000 per annum + BONUS, PENSION, LIFE ASSURANCE
Posted: 10 June 2013