The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server 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 Server 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank 114 126 112
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -14
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 6 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.275% 0.170% 0.542%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.294% 0.181% 0.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
Average daily rate £255 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.14% +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -20.76%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2038 2765 2452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.49% 94.14% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1044 1303 1080
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £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 258 285 319
Average hourly rate £24.90 £25.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.30% +25.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England SQL Server DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England SQL Server DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 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 Server DBA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire +7 2 £350 -
Suffolk - 2 £255 -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 - -
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Clustering
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (37.50%) Oracle
6 3 (37.50%) OLAP
7 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (25.00%) SaaS
7 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
8 1 (12.50%) High Availability
8 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
8 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
8 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 1 (12.50%) Firewall
8 1 (12.50%) Finance
8 1 (12.50%) Replication
8 1 (12.50%) MySQL
8 1 (12.50%) MCITP
8 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (37.50%) OLAP
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (12.50%) MySQL
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (12.50%) High Availability
1 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
1 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCITP
1 1 (12.50%) MCDBA
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) BMC