The first table below looks at the demand for MCDBA in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCDBA over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Rank 526 538 561
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +23
Contract jobs citing MCDBA 9 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.021% 0.021% 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.115% 0.120% 0.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
Average daily rate £300 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.87 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7854 9187 9004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.94% 17.33% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4163 4855 4475
Average daily rate £380 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 474 633
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.75% -8.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCDBA
UK

MCDBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MCDBA Jobs Demand Trend

MCDBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England MCDBA Daily Rate Trend

MCDBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MCDBA Hourly Rate Trend

MCDBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCDBA within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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 +20 4 £400 +68.42% 1
North East - 4 £300 -
East of England +10 1 - -
South East - - - - 1
South West - - - - 6
Yorkshire - - - - 1
MCDBA
UK

MCDBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA.

1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 17 (80.95%) SQL
4 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
4 11 (52.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (42.86%) T-SQL
6 8 (38.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (38.10%) Replication
7 7 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (28.57%) Oracle
8 6 (28.57%) ITIL
9 5 (23.81%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (23.81%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (23.81%) Statistics
9 5 (23.81%) Clustering
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle 11g
10 4 (19.05%) MCITP
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (19.05%) High Availability
10 4 (19.05%) Database Security
10 4 (19.05%) OCP
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (19.05%) Windows
10 4 (19.05%) Solaris

MCDBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) OLE DB
2 2 (9.524%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) ADO.NET
2 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
2 2 (9.524%) Web Services
3 1 (4.762%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) WebLogic
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.762%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.524%) PowerPivot
3 1 (4.762%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (9.524%) Internet
3 1 (4.762%) Firewall
3 1 (4.762%) NAS
3 1 (4.762%) LDAP
3 1 (4.762%) DHCP
3 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.762%) VPN
3 1 (4.762%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (52.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (38.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (23.81%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (23.81%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (14.29%) DTS
8 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
9 1 (4.762%) MySQL
9 1 (4.762%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 7
9 1 (4.762%) OLTP
9 1 (4.762%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
1 1 (4.762%) Legal
1 1 (4.762%) Advertising
1 1 (4.762%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) DBA
2 11 (52.38%) SQL DBA
3 8 (38.10%) Administrator
4 7 (33.33%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (14.29%) Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Server Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Senior SQL DBA
6 1 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft BI Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Business Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Senior DBA
6 1 (4.762%) Senior SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.762%) Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Replication
2 5 (23.81%) Clustering
2 5 (23.81%) Statistics
3 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 2 (9.524%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.762%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
1 4 (19.05%) Solaris
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) ITIL
1 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (19.05%) High Availability
2 4 (19.05%) Database Security
3 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (9.524%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.524%) Release Management
4 2 (9.524%) Database Tuning
5 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.762%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.762%) Migration
5 1 (4.762%) Scrum
5 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.762%) Project Management
5 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.524%) C#
5 1 (4.762%) VBScript
5 1 (4.762%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (19.05%) OCP
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (19.05%) MCITP
3 3 (14.29%) MCTS
4 2 (9.524%) MCSD
5 1 (4.762%) MCSE
5 1 (4.762%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.762%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (4.762%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.762%) SAP
4 1 (4.762%) HP
4 1 (4.762%) EMC
4 1 (4.762%) BMC
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