The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 97 111 95
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -16
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 18 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.836% 0.611% 1.408%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.894% 0.649% 1.482%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 11
Average daily rate £325 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £346 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £354 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £314 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.78% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
Average hourly rate £26.00 £11.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+136.36% -63.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £29.25 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -4.09%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2013 2772 2497
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.45% 94.06% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1031 1306 1087
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 279 329
Average hourly rate £23.50 £26.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +26.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.75 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.90 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Norfolk +6 4 - -
East Anglia +14 3 £300 -
Hertfordshire +3 3 £375 -
Cambridgeshire +5 2 £350 -
Essex - 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 2 £350 -
Suffolk - 2 £255 -
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 29 (96.67%) SQL
2 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
3 16 (53.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (46.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (43.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (43.33%) T-SQL
6 11 (36.67%) Clustering
7 10 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (30.00%) Windows
9 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
10 6 (20.00%) OLTP
10 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
11 5 (16.67%) OLAP
11 5 (16.67%) Replication
12 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (10.00%) Intranet
13 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
13 3 (10.00%) Oracle
13 3 (10.00%) Java
13 3 (10.00%) Moodle
13 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
13 3 (10.00%) Windows Azure
13 3 (10.00%) Wiki
13 3 (10.00%) Web Development
13 3 (10.00%) VLE
13 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 (3.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Moodle
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Intranet
2 2 (6.667%) SAN
3 1 (3.333%) VPN
3 1 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (53.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (46.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 13 (43.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (20.00%) OLTP
7 5 (16.67%) OLAP
8 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (3.333%) MySQL
10 1 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (3.333%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
10 1 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
General
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Clustering
2 5 (16.67%) Replication
3 3 (10.00%) VLE
3 3 (10.00%) Wiki
4 2 (6.667%) SaaS
5 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.00%) Web Development
4 2 (6.667%) ITIL
5 1 (3.333%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.333%) High Availability
5 1 (3.333%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.333%) Project Management
5 1 (3.333%) Service Management
5 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.333%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (3.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) MCDBA
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.333%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (3.333%) HP
3 1 (3.333%) BMC
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