The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 19 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 East Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 66 76 75
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 17 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.328% 0.449% 0.675%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.438% 0.483% 0.729%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
Average daily rate £300 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £328 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £348 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £321 £345
% change year-on-year
+15.35% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £22.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.27%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1182 1243 1372
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 92.34% 93.04% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 619 629
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 90 117
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -32.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £33.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
DBA
England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire +1 8 £293 - 2
Northamptonshire +10 4 £350 - 3
Leicestershire -4 2 - - 1
Derbyshire +6 1 - - 2
Lincolnshire - - - -
DBA
England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 15 (57.69%) SQL
1 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (46.15%) Oracle
2 12 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (34.62%) Windows
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (23.08%) PL/SQL
5 5 (19.23%) T-SQL
5 5 (19.23%) UNIX
5 5 (19.23%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (19.23%) Oracle 10g
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (15.38%) SAN
6 4 (15.38%) ETL
6 4 (15.38%) Linux
7 3 (11.54%) .NET
7 3 (11.54%) Oracle 9i
7 3 (11.54%) ArcGIS
7 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (11.54%) Red Gate
7 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (7.692%) Data Migration

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (7.692%) NAS
2 2 (7.692%) Intranet
2 2 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (23.08%) SQL Server 2000
3 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (19.23%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (19.23%) Oracle 10g
5 4 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle 9i
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (7.692%) DTS
8 1 (3.846%) MySQL
8 1 (3.846%) OLTP
8 1 (3.846%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.846%) GIS
8 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (3.846%) Finance
1 1 (3.846%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Replication
1 2 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.692%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) UNIX
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.692%) AIX
5 1 (3.846%) HPUX
5 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) ETL
2 3 (11.54%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) Data Migration
3 2 (7.692%) Memory Management
3 2 (7.692%) Resource Management
4 1 (3.846%) ITIL
4 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.846%) BCP
4 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.846%) Service Management
4 1 (3.846%) Validation
4 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.846%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.846%) Database Tuning
4 1 (3.846%) Performance Testing
4 1 (3.846%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.846%) Database Security
4 1 (3.846%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 5 (19.23%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.846%) VBA
4 1 (3.846%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.846%) OCP
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (3.846%) MCSE
1 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.846%) vSphere
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Red Gate
4 2 (7.692%) ESRI
4 2 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (3.846%) IBM
5 1 (3.846%) VMware
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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