The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server 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 SQL Server 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
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank 436 396 376
Rank change year-on-year
-40 -20
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 96 150 209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.222% 0.283% 0.365%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.240% 0.306% 0.394%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 100 119
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £438 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 10
Average hourly rate £51.00 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+124.17% -24.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -24.16%
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%
SQL Server DBA
UK

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

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 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 -2 41 £350 - 22
South East +24 17 £368 +18.54% 14
Yorkshire +13 11 £213 -34.53% 1
West Midlands +11 8 £313 -13.19% 8
East of England +19 7 £375 +7.14% 3
North East - 5 £300 -
South West +5 2 - - 2
North West -3 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £350 - 1
SQL Server DBA
UK

SQL Server DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 174 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 130 (74.71%) SQL
3 90 (51.72%) SQL Server 2008
4 78 (44.83%) T-SQL
5 70 (40.23%) SQL Server 2005
6 66 (37.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 53 (30.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
9 38 (21.84%) Windows
10 36 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 35 (20.11%) Replication
12 32 (18.39%) Clustering
13 26 (14.94%) SQL Server 2012
13 26 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (14.37%) Oracle
15 23 (13.22%) .NET
16 19 (10.92%) Capacity Planning
16 19 (10.92%) Security Cleared
16 19 (10.92%) Migration
17 18 (10.34%) Finance
17 18 (10.34%) SQL Server 2000
17 18 (10.34%) MS Excel
18 17 (9.770%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (9.195%) Data Warehouse
20 15 (8.621%) Windows Server 2003
21 13 (7.471%) ETL
21 13 (7.471%) ITIL
21 13 (7.471%) Linux
21 13 (7.471%) High Availability
22 12 (6.897%) Banking

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 23 (13.22%) .NET
2 8 (4.598%) Web Services
3 5 (2.874%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.724%) XML
5 1 (0.575%) WCF
5 1 (0.575%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.575%) MDX
5 1 (0.575%) Middleware
5 1 (0.575%) ASP
5 1 (0.575%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.023%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (4.023%) WebLogic
1 7 (4.023%) IIS
1 7 (4.023%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.724%) Apache
3 2 (1.149%) Windows Azure
3 2 (1.149%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.575%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.575%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 18 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.149%) MS Office
3 1 (0.575%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.575%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.874%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (2.874%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.149%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.575%) RMDS
3 1 (0.575%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.598%) SAN
2 4 (2.299%) HTTP
3 2 (1.149%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.149%) Internet
3 2 (1.149%) NAS
4 1 (0.575%) Firewall
4 1 (0.575%) VPN
4 1 (0.575%) ATM
4 1 (0.575%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 90 (51.72%) SQL Server 2008
3 70 (40.23%) SQL Server 2005
4 66 (37.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 53 (30.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 26 (14.94%) SQL Server 2012
8 18 (10.34%) SQL Server 2000
9 16 (9.195%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
11 11 (6.322%) Oracle 8/8i
12 8 (4.598%) Oracle 11g
13 7 (4.023%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 7 (4.023%) SQLPlus
13 7 (4.023%) DTS
14 6 (3.448%) OLAP
15 5 (2.874%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (2.299%) MS Access
16 4 (2.299%) Oracle 9i
16 4 (2.299%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.874%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (2.299%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.149%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.149%) Oracle APEX
General
1 18 (10.34%) Finance
2 12 (6.897%) Banking
3 7 (4.023%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.724%) Retail
5 2 (1.149%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.149%) Advertising
5 2 (1.149%) Games
6 1 (0.575%) Marketing
6 1 (0.575%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.11%) Replication
2 32 (18.39%) Clustering
3 8 (4.598%) Statistics
4 5 (2.874%) SaaS
5 4 (2.299%) NHS
6 2 (1.149%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.149%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.149%) Online Games
7 1 (0.575%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.575%) Data Extraction
7 1 (0.575%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.575%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.84%) Windows
2 17 (9.770%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (8.621%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (7.471%) Linux
5 8 (4.598%) UNIX
6 7 (4.023%) Solaris
7 4 (2.299%) AIX
8 2 (1.149%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.149%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.149%) Android
8 2 (1.149%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.575%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.575%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.575%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (10.92%) Capacity Planning
2 19 (10.92%) Migration
3 13 (7.471%) ETL
3 13 (7.471%) ITIL
3 13 (7.471%) High Availability
4 11 (6.322%) Change Management
5 9 (5.172%) Data Modelling
6 8 (4.598%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (4.598%) Database Security
7 5 (2.874%) Scrum
7 5 (2.874%) MVC
7 5 (2.874%) PRINCE2
8 4 (2.299%) Workflow
8 4 (2.299%) BCP
8 4 (2.299%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (2.299%) Incident Management
8 4 (2.299%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (1.724%) Resource Management
9 3 (1.724%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 130 (74.71%) SQL
2 78 (44.83%) T-SQL
3 12 (6.897%) C#
4 6 (3.448%) Perl
4 6 (3.448%) VB.NET
5 4 (2.299%) Java
5 4 (2.299%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.724%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.724%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.724%) VBA
7 2 (1.149%) Korn
8 1 (0.575%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.575%) VB
8 1 (0.575%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.322%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.023%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.023%) MCDBA
4 5 (2.874%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.299%) OCP
5 4 (2.299%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.299%) MCITP
6 2 (1.149%) Degree
6 2 (1.149%) MCTS
7 1 (0.575%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.575%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.598%) SLA
2 4 (2.299%) QA
3 3 (1.724%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.575%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (4.023%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.448%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.874%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.149%) SRDF
5 1 (0.575%) LiteSpeed
5 1 (0.575%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.724%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.149%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (1.149%) WMI
3 1 (0.575%) BMC Performance Manager
3 1 (0.575%) Zenoss
3 1 (0.575%) Foglight
3 1 (0.575%) Nagios
3 1 (0.575%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 40 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.37%) Oracle
3 10 (5.747%) VMware
4 6 (3.448%) Mercator
5 3 (1.724%) Business Objects
5 3 (1.724%) Sybase
5 3 (1.724%) HP
6 2 (1.149%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.149%) BMC
6 2 (1.149%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.575%) Lagan
7 1 (0.575%) Orchard
7 1 (0.575%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.575%) Red Gate
7 1 (0.575%) BT
7 1 (0.575%) NetApp
7 1 (0.575%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.575%) Reuters
7 1 (0.575%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.575%) Remedy
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Rate: From £285 to £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
The role needs a strong SQL database developer who has the ability to develop strong T-SQL, stored procedures and replication code along with a good knowledge of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 June 2013
London
SQL DBA... The candidate will have substantial experience with SQL 2008 R2 and will be required to assist with an extensive SQL migration and CRM project... Skills Required: -...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Job Description: To work as a SQL Server Database Administrator within a DBA Team.Key Responsibilities:*SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installations and planning.*Creation and support of...
JAM
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Key Responsibilities: *SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installations and planning... *Database capacity planning... Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience *Experience and knowledge of supporting SQL server 2005 and 2008 databases...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
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Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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