The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL 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 SQL 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 176 167 184
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +17
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 27 50 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.420% 0.636% 0.537%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.454% 0.695% 0.585%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 34
Average daily rate £325 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £250 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £470 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.34% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £51.00 £47.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.36% +115.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -15.57%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL DBA
London

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London SQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title.

1 55 (94.83%) SQL
2 46 (79.31%) SQL Server
3 29 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (44.83%) T-SQL
5 22 (37.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
6 17 (29.31%) SQL Server 2005
7 14 (24.14%) Finance
8 12 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (20.69%) Windows
8 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
9 10 (17.24%) Replication
10 9 (15.52%) Migration
11 8 (13.79%) Clustering
11 8 (13.79%) Banking
11 8 (13.79%) CRM
11 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (12.07%) SQL Server 2012
12 7 (12.07%) ETL
13 6 (10.34%) ITIL
13 6 (10.34%) Oracle
13 6 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (8.621%) High Availability
14 5 (8.621%) .NET
14 5 (8.621%) Linux
14 5 (8.621%) DTS
14 5 (8.621%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (6.897%) VMware
15 4 (6.897%) Security Cleared

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.621%) .NET
2 2 (3.448%) Hibernate
2 2 (3.448%) XML
3 1 (1.724%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.172%) IIS
1 3 (5.172%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.448%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.724%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.724%) MS Office
1 1 (1.724%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.724%) RMDS
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.897%) HTTP
2 1 (1.724%) SAN
2 1 (1.724%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (79.31%) SQL Server
2 29 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 22 (37.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (29.31%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (12.07%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (8.621%) DTS
9 3 (5.172%) OLAP
9 3 (5.172%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (5.172%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (3.448%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (3.448%) OLTP
10 2 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (3.448%) SQLPlus
11 1 (1.724%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (1.724%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.724%) ERwin
1 1 (1.724%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (24.14%) Finance
2 8 (13.79%) Banking
3 4 (6.897%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.724%) Retail
4 1 (1.724%) Law
4 1 (1.724%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.724%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Replication
2 8 (13.79%) Clustering
3 3 (5.172%) SaaS
4 2 (3.448%) Statistics
5 1 (1.724%) NHS
5 1 (1.724%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.724%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.724%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (8.621%) Linux
3 5 (8.621%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (5.172%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.724%) UNIX
5 1 (1.724%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.52%) Migration
2 8 (13.79%) CRM
3 7 (12.07%) ETL
4 6 (10.34%) ITIL
4 6 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (8.621%) High Availability
6 4 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (5.172%) E-Commerce
7 3 (5.172%) Service Delivery
7 3 (5.172%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (3.448%) Change Control
8 2 (3.448%) Data Transformation
8 2 (3.448%) Database Security
8 2 (3.448%) Database Tuning
8 2 (3.448%) Workflow
8 2 (3.448%) Scrum
8 2 (3.448%) Performance Management
8 2 (3.448%) Data Migration
8 2 (3.448%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 55 (94.83%) SQL
2 26 (44.83%) T-SQL
3 4 (6.897%) C#
4 3 (5.172%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.448%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.448%) Perl
5 2 (3.448%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.724%) VB
6 1 (1.724%) VB6
6 1 (1.724%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.897%) Security Cleared
1 4 (6.897%) MCITP
1 4 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.172%) MCTS
2 3 (5.172%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.448%) MCDBA
3 2 (3.448%) IBM Certification
3 2 (3.448%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.724%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.724%) Degree
4 1 (1.724%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.448%) SLA
2 1 (1.724%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.172%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.448%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.448%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.724%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.724%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1 (1.724%) Nagios
1 1 (1.724%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.724%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (1.724%) BMC Performance Manager
1 1 (1.724%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 4 (6.897%) VMware
4 3 (5.172%) Sybase
5 2 (3.448%) Red Gate
5 2 (3.448%) HP
5 2 (3.448%) Business Objects
5 2 (3.448%) IBM
6 1 (1.724%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.724%) BMC
6 1 (1.724%) NetApp
6 1 (1.724%) Tableau