The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Database Administrator
Rank 476 531 539
Rank change year-on-year
+55 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 37 28 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.089% 0.052% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.057% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 12
Average daily rate £450 £410 £432
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.75% -4.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £361 £389
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £550 £486
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior DBA
UK

Senior DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior DBA Daily Rate Trend

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior DBA across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Senior DBA Daily Rate Histogram

Senior DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Senior DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
South East +31 18 £450 -
London +35 17 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
North West - 1 £448 -
Senior DBA
UK

Senior DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title.

1 50 (75.76%) Oracle
2 38 (57.58%) Finance
3 37 (56.06%) Linux
4 36 (54.55%) UNIX
5 33 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
6 25 (37.88%) Oracle 11g
7 24 (36.36%) SQL
8 21 (31.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 20 (30.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (28.79%) Red Hat
11 18 (27.27%) SQL Server
12 16 (24.24%) Oracle 10g
13 12 (18.18%) Sybase
13 12 (18.18%) AIX
14 9 (13.64%) Banking
15 8 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (12.12%) Solaris
16 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
16 7 (10.61%) Shell Script
16 7 (10.61%) Investment Management
17 6 (9.091%) Performance Management
17 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
17 6 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (9.091%) Fund Management
17 6 (9.091%) Data Security
17 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
17 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
17 6 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
17 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
17 6 (9.091%) Data Guard

Senior DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.515%) .NET
1 1 (1.515%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.030%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.030%) IIS
2 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.515%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.88%) Oracle 11g
2 18 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (24.24%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (7.576%) TimesTen
5 5 (7.576%) MySQL
5 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (7.576%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.576%) Sybase ASE
6 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (6.061%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (4.545%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (3.030%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.030%) DTS
9 1 (1.515%) DB2
9 1 (1.515%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.515%) Data Warehouse
General
1 38 (57.58%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (4.545%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.515%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.515%) Retail
4 1 (1.515%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) Oracle Exalytics
2 4 (6.061%) Replication
3 3 (4.545%) Clustering
4 1 (1.515%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.515%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.515%) New Media
4 1 (1.515%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.515%) Wiki
4 1 (1.515%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.06%) Linux
2 36 (54.55%) UNIX
3 20 (30.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (18.18%) AIX
5 8 (12.12%) Solaris
6 5 (7.576%) Windows
7 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.515%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (10.61%) Investment Management
3 6 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 6 (9.091%) Fund Management
3 6 (9.091%) Data Security
3 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (7.576%) Database Security
4 5 (7.576%) ETL
5 4 (6.061%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (6.061%) ITIL
5 4 (6.061%) E-Commerce
5 4 (6.061%) Data Modelling
5 4 (6.061%) Capacity Management
5 4 (6.061%) High Availability
5 4 (6.061%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (3.030%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.030%) Migration
6 2 (3.030%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.030%) Change Control
6 2 (3.030%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.36%) SQL
2 7 (10.61%) Shell Script
3 5 (7.576%) T-SQL
4 4 (6.061%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.515%) R
5 1 (1.515%) C#
5 1 (1.515%) VB
5 1 (1.515%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (3.030%) MCTS
1 2 (3.030%) MCITP
2 1 (1.515%) MCDBA
2 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.061%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.545%) SLA
3 2 (3.030%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.515%) QA
System Software
1 33 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 21 (31.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (9.091%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.515%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.515%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 50 (75.76%) Oracle
2 19 (28.79%) Red Hat
3 12 (18.18%) Sybase
4 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.545%) Murex
5 3 (4.545%) EMC
6 2 (3.030%) VMware
6 2 (3.030%) Informatica
7 1 (1.515%) Red Gate
7 1 (1.515%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.515%) Reuters
7 1 (1.515%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.515%) Remedy
7 1 (1.515%) Teradata
7 1 (1.515%) Netezza
City, London
Around 5 years database administration ideally in banking or Business Critical IT environments. Experience of supporting Production, User Acceptance, Test and Development databases. Excellent working knowledge of Oracle...
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £425 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Tonbridge, Kent
A global financial organisation is currently seeking an experienced Oracle DBA to join an ongoing database project that spans across many business areas across the firm. In order...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £530 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Tonbridge, South East
Excellent skills in the following areas must include:* Recent Oracle Database 11gR2 (Standalone and RAC) skills and a proven investment management and / or financial services.* Proven Oracle Grid...
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Tonbridge, South East
Excellent skills in the following areas must include: * Recent Oracle Database 11gR2 (Standalone and RAC) skills and a proven investment management and / or financial services... * Detailed Oracle Enterprise...
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
Kent, South East
Senior Oracle DBA Key Skills Required:*Oracle Database 11gR2 both standalone and RAC.*Oracle Golden Gate experience. *Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 including Clusterware, ASM and Oracle Restart.*Oracle...
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
Kent, South East
Senior Oracle DBA Location: KentDuration: 3 monthsRate: TBAMy client, a leading fund management company, is looking for a Senior Oracle DBA with extensive Engineering and Automation experience from...
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013