The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 152 120 134
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +14
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 604 825 809
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.396% 1.558% 1.413%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.509% 1.684% 1.526%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 481 435
Average daily rate £375 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £321 £345
% change year-on-year
+15.35% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 21
Average hourly rate £35.00 £22.75 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -17.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £16.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £22.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.27%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
DBA
UK

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England DBA Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England 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
London -55 263 £375 -5.06% 72
South East +36 117 £375 +9.48% 44
Yorkshire +11 58 £325 +4.83% 22
North West -13 46 £400 +33.33% 11
East of England +20 36 £350 -1.40% 13
South West -2 31 £420 +32.28% 24
West Midlands +7 25 £313 -3.10% 18
East Midlands +10 17 £300 -11.11% 8
North East +8 5 £300 +14.28% 2
Midlands +3 1 - -
DBA
UK

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 663 (57.60%) SQL
2 598 (51.95%) Oracle
3 535 (46.48%) SQL Server
4 314 (27.28%) Oracle 11g
5 266 (23.11%) UNIX
6 253 (21.98%) Oracle RAC
7 252 (21.89%) Linux
8 240 (20.85%) SQL Server 2008
9 222 (19.29%) Finance
10 221 (19.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 220 (19.11%) Oracle 10g
12 176 (15.29%) T-SQL
13 170 (14.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 169 (14.68%) SQL Server 2005
15 157 (13.64%) Windows
16 146 (12.68%) Shell Script
17 144 (12.51%) Replication
18 141 (12.25%) Migration
19 140 (12.16%) Microsoft
20 128 (11.12%) Data Guard
21 119 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
22 118 (10.25%) PL/SQL
23 117 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
24 105 (9.123%) Oracle RMAN
25 104 (9.036%) Banking
25 104 (9.036%) SQL Server Analysis Services
26 102 (8.862%) Oracle 8/8i
27 97 (8.427%) Security Cleared
28 88 (7.646%) ETL
29 87 (7.559%) Disaster Recovery

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 64 (5.560%) .NET
2 49 (4.257%) Middleware
3 32 (2.780%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (1.825%) Web Services
5 17 (1.477%) XML
6 14 (1.216%) ASP.NET
7 8 (0.695%) WebCenter
7 8 (0.695%) jQuery
8 7 (0.608%) WCF
8 7 (0.608%) ASP
9 6 (0.521%) Oracle Streams
9 6 (0.521%) Oracle ADF
10 5 (0.434%) Dojo
10 5 (0.434%) HTML
11 4 (0.348%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.348%) MDX
11 4 (0.348%) SAP Basis
12 2 (0.174%) HTML5
12 2 (0.174%) Flash
12 2 (0.174%) COM
Application Platforms
1 68 (5.908%) WebLogic
2 43 (3.736%) Oracle Application Server
3 30 (2.606%) IIS
4 29 (2.520%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.651%) Apache
6 14 (1.216%) Oracle 10gAS
7 10 (0.869%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (0.782%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.695%) SAS
9 8 (0.695%) Oracle BPEL
10 6 (0.521%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.521%) Windows Azure
10 6 (0.521%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (0.521%) ArcIMS
11 5 (0.434%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.348%) Drupal
13 3 (0.261%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.261%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.261%) WebLogic Portal
13 3 (0.261%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 61 (5.300%) MS Excel
2 12 (1.043%) MS Office
3 3 (0.261%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.174%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.174%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.174%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.087%) MS Project
5 1 (0.087%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 79 (6.864%) Oracle EBS
2 60 (5.213%) Oracle EBS R12
3 56 (4.865%) Oracle Applications
4 18 (1.564%) Oracle 11i
5 12 (1.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.608%) Oracle Retail
7 6 (0.521%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.348%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.261%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.261%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.174%) Movex
10 2 (0.174%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.174%) RMDS
11 1 (0.087%) Maximo
11 1 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 1 (0.087%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
11 1 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.087%) HFM
11 1 (0.087%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.041%) SAN
2 26 (2.259%) Internet
3 16 (1.390%) HTTP
4 9 (0.782%) NAS
4 9 (0.782%) Intranet
5 7 (0.608%) Firewall
6 6 (0.521%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.434%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.348%) LDAP
8 4 (0.348%) VPN
8 4 (0.348%) WAN
9 3 (0.261%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.261%) LAN
9 3 (0.261%) VoIP
10 2 (0.174%) SSL
11 1 (0.087%) Network Security
11 1 (0.087%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.087%) DNS
11 1 (0.087%) ATM
11 1 (0.087%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (46.48%) SQL Server
2 314 (27.28%) Oracle 11g
3 240 (20.85%) SQL Server 2008
4 221 (19.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 220 (19.11%) Oracle 10g
6 170 (14.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 169 (14.68%) SQL Server 2005
8 119 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
9 104 (9.036%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 102 (8.862%) Oracle 8/8i
11 77 (6.690%) MySQL
12 76 (6.603%) RDBMS
13 73 (6.342%) SQL Server 2012
14 63 (5.474%) Oracle 9i
15 62 (5.387%) SQL Server 2000
16 49 (4.257%) Oracle Reports
17 38 (3.301%) Oracle BI EE
18 34 (2.954%) DTS
19 33 (2.867%) OLTP
20 29 (2.520%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 26 (2.259%) Oracle Forms
2 17 (1.477%) Oracle APEX
3 10 (0.869%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.521%) JDeveloper
5 5 (0.434%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.434%) ERwin
6 4 (0.348%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (0.348%) ProC
6 4 (0.348%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 3 (0.261%) Subversion
7 3 (0.261%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.087%) JIRA
8 1 (0.087%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.087%) ClearQuest
General
1 222 (19.29%) Finance
2 104 (9.036%) Banking
3 42 (3.649%) Investment Banking
4 31 (2.693%) Retail
5 16 (1.390%) Telecoms
6 14 (1.216%) Marketing
7 12 (1.043%) Financial Institution
8 6 (0.521%) French Language
9 5 (0.434%) Advertising
9 5 (0.434%) Law
9 5 (0.434%) Legal
10 4 (0.348%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.348%) Front Office
10 4 (0.348%) Back Office
11 3 (0.261%) Games
11 3 (0.261%) Local Government
12 2 (0.174%) Electronics
13 1 (0.087%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.087%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.087%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 144 (12.51%) Replication
2 82 (7.124%) Clustering
3 22 (1.911%) Management Information System
4 19 (1.651%) NHS
5 16 (1.390%) Statistics
6 9 (0.782%) Data Integration
6 9 (0.782%) Open Source
7 8 (0.695%) SaaS
7 8 (0.695%) Visualisation
7 8 (0.695%) Computer Science
8 7 (0.608%) Oracle Exalytics
9 6 (0.521%) AS400
9 6 (0.521%) Grid Computing
10 5 (0.434%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.434%) Digital Media
11 4 (0.348%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.348%) HACMP
11 4 (0.348%) Wiki
12 3 (0.261%) VLE
12 3 (0.261%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 266 (23.11%) UNIX
2 252 (21.89%) Linux
3 157 (13.64%) Windows
4 83 (7.211%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 80 (6.950%) AIX
6 61 (5.300%) Solaris
7 53 (4.605%) Windows Server 2008
8 44 (3.823%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (0.782%) HPUX
10 6 (0.521%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.434%) zOS
12 4 (0.348%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.261%) Windows XP
13 3 (0.261%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.174%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.174%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.174%) Android
15 1 (0.087%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.087%) Windows 2000 Server
15 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (12.25%) Migration
2 117 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (7.646%) ETL
4 87 (7.559%) Disaster Recovery
5 75 (6.516%) ITIL
6 66 (5.734%) Capacity Planning
7 54 (4.692%) Data Modelling
8 52 (4.518%) High Availability
9 45 (3.910%) Database Security
10 37 (3.215%) Data Migration
11 34 (2.954%) Change Management
12 31 (2.693%) SOA
13 29 (2.520%) Service Delivery
14 27 (2.346%) E-Commerce
15 26 (2.259%) Database Tuning
16 24 (2.085%) Service Management
17 20 (1.738%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (1.738%) Configuration Management
18 19 (1.651%) E-business
19 17 (1.477%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 663 (57.60%) SQL
2 176 (15.29%) T-SQL
3 146 (12.68%) Shell Script
4 118 (10.25%) PL/SQL
5 31 (2.693%) Java
6 29 (2.520%) C#
7 23 (1.998%) Perl
8 20 (1.738%) Korn
9 18 (1.564%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.303%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.216%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.043%) VBA
13 11 (0.956%) C
14 10 (0.869%) VB
14 10 (0.869%) Python
15 6 (0.521%) PHP
16 5 (0.434%) C++
17 4 (0.348%) VBScript
17 4 (0.348%) VB6
18 3 (0.261%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 97 (8.427%) Security Cleared
2 48 (4.170%) SC Cleared
3 25 (2.172%) Oracle Certification
3 25 (2.172%) DV Cleared
3 25 (2.172%) Degree
4 23 (1.998%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (1.390%) OCP
6 13 (1.129%) MCDBA
7 11 (0.956%) MCITP
8 9 (0.782%) MCTS
9 6 (0.521%) HND
9 6 (0.521%) BC Cleared
10 4 (0.348%) MCSA
10 4 (0.348%) OCA
10 4 (0.348%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.261%) ISEB Practitioner
11 3 (0.261%) ISEB
12 2 (0.174%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.174%) HP AIS
12 2 (0.174%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.693%) SLA
2 19 (1.651%) QA
3 8 (0.695%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.261%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.261%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.087%) Data Quality
System Software
1 253 (21.98%) Oracle RAC
2 105 (9.123%) Oracle RMAN
3 24 (2.085%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.564%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.608%) SRDF
6 4 (0.348%) LiteSpeed
7 3 (0.261%) VMware ESX
7 3 (0.261%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.261%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.087%) Samba
8 1 (0.087%) Snort
8 1 (0.087%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.087%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.087%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.087%) vSphere
8 1 (0.087%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 128 (11.12%) Data Guard
2 74 (6.429%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (1.043%) Nagios
4 9 (0.782%) NetBackup
5 7 (0.608%) OpenView
6 6 (0.521%) BMC PATROL
6 6 (0.521%) Tivoli
7 5 (0.434%) Foglight
8 4 (0.348%) Legato
8 4 (0.348%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.348%) OVSD
9 3 (0.261%) Zenoss
9 3 (0.261%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 3 (0.261%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.174%) HP SIM
10 2 (0.174%) Control-M
10 2 (0.174%) MOM
10 2 (0.174%) BMC Performance Manager
10 2 (0.174%) OMEGAMON
10 2 (0.174%) WMI
Vendors
1 598 (51.95%) Oracle
2 140 (12.16%) Microsoft
3 84 (7.298%) Red Hat
4 47 (4.083%) Sybase
5 37 (3.215%) VMware
6 28 (2.433%) HP
7 25 (2.172%) SAP
7 25 (2.172%) Netezza
8 19 (1.651%) Business Objects
9 18 (1.564%) Teradata
9 18 (1.564%) Cognos
9 18 (1.564%) Informatica
10 15 (1.303%) Remedy
11 13 (1.129%) Hyperion
12 12 (1.043%) JD Edwards
13 10 (0.869%) IBM
14 8 (0.695%) Red Gate
14 8 (0.695%) NetApp
15 7 (0.608%) JBoss
15 7 (0.608%) ESRI
South Yorkshire
My Yorkshire based client has an immediate requirement for a SQL DBA for a 1 month rolling contract. Candidates will need to have a strong SQL background with...
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Unspecified Neg
Posted: 18 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
You should have excellent SQL DBA skills and the key skills for this role will include; - SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2- Replication- Performance Tuning- Data Architecture You should...
Computer Futures
Rate: £1 - £999999999 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
An experienced SQL DBA is required with excellent background and knowledge of SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 for a major Central London Organisation. The SQL DBA will provide...
Connectus
Rate: £385 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sidcup, Kent
Data Base Administrator to work for a major Public Sector organisation. Our customer is looking for a DBA to join their team based in Sidcup for a 6...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sidcup, South East
Essential: DBA for SQL 2005 and 2008. Manage SQL Data warehouse, supporting application integration. SQL Reporting. You must have completed an SQL course or have a SQL Certification.
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £525 - £575 per day + Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Venn Group
Rate: £35000 - 45000 Per Annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Austin Fraser
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
TEKsystems
Rate: £425 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Circle Recruitment
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £285 to £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds
Radiant Info
Posted: 19 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 June 2013
North West England
Computer Futures
Rate: £400 - £401 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Sussex, South East
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP400 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
JAM
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Rate: £300 - £360 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 to GBP450 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Derbyshire
Lucid Support Services
Rate: Competitive Market Rates
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire
Sanderson
Rate: £340 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013