The first table below looks at the demand for MCDBA 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 MCDBA 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Rank 202 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MCDBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.106% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £180
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +94.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCDBA
London

MCDBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MCDBA across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London MCDBA Jobs Demand Trend

MCDBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCDBA across the City of London region.

City of London MCDBA Daily Rate Trend

MCDBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCDBA across the City of London region.

City of London MCDBA Hourly Rate Trend

MCDBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA.

1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) MCITP
4 2 (40.00%) PowerPivot
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) MCSD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) DTS
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
5 1 (20.00%) MS Project
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (20.00%) SAP
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL

MCDBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) PowerPivot
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) DTS
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 7
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (20.00%) QlikView
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DBA
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
1 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Business Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Server DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft BI Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) MCITP
3 2 (40.00%) MCSD
4 1 (20.00%) RHCE
4 1 (20.00%) RHCT
4 1 (20.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau