The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 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 Edinburgh 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
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 56 63 67
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 1 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% 0.182% 0.386%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.130% 0.194% 0.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £30.00
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
770 1032 1229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.02% 94.07% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 508 608
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.60% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.70 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Oracle DBA
Scotland

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Oracle DBA Daily Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Oracle DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (55.56%) Data Guard
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (33.33%) SRDF
5 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (33.33%) LDAP
5 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (33.33%) SQLPlus
5 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (22.22%) BCP
6 2 (22.22%) Back Office
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle 9i
6 2 (22.22%) Linux

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (33.33%) SQLPlus
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) UNIX
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) BCP
1 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (22.22%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (33.33%) SRDF
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Data Guard
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Red Gate
3 1 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Embarcadero
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat