Essex Oracle DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	56
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	16	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.346 %	0.565 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£463	£400
Average daily rate	£500	£400
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£538	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£363
% change on same period last year	+5.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£31.75
Average hourly rate	-	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.17	£31.64
% change on same period last year	+42.76 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	682	708
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.900 %	0.705 %
Daily rates quoted	251	207
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£310
Average daily rate	£302	£333
% change on same period last year	-9.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	89	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.88	£27.25
Average hourly rate	£26.75	£28.03
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.62	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Oracle DBA East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Oracle DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle DBA across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle DBA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Southend-on-Sea	-	4	£650	-
Harlow	-	3	-	-
Chelmsford	-	1	£350	-

Oracle DBA East of England

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 21 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 10g 3 11 (52.38 %) Oracle 9i 4 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 5 8 (38.10 %) AIX 6 7 (33.33 %) IBM 6 7 (33.33 %) XML 6 7 (33.33 %) HACMP 6 7 (33.33 %) Clustering 6 7 (33.33 %) Oracle 11g 7 6 (28.57 %) E-business 8 5 (23.81 %) Finance 8 5 (23.81 %) Government 8 5 (23.81 %) Pharmaceutical 8 5 (23.81 %) UNIX

8 5 (23.81 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (23.81 %) SQL 8 5 (23.81 %) EAI 8 5 (23.81 %) ETL 8 5 (23.81 %) Change Management 9 4 (19.05 %) Oracle Applications 9 4 (19.05 %) Document Management 9 4 (19.05 %) Oracle Application Server 9 4 (19.05 %) Security Management 10 3 (14.29 %) Sun 10 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 10 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 10 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 10 3 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 Development 1 7 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (19.05 %) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications 1 4 (19.05 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (9.524 %) Oracle Financials	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 10g 2 11 (52.38 %) Oracle 9i 3 7 (33.33 %) Oracle 11g 4 5 (23.81 %) ETL 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 5 3 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2008 6 1 (4.762 %) RDBMS
General 1 5 (23.81 %) Finance 1 5 (23.81 %) Government 1 5 (23.81 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 7 (33.33 %) HACMP 1 7 (33.33 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 9 (42.86 %) Solaris 2 8 (38.10 %) AIX 3 5 (23.81 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (28.57 %) E-business 2 5 (23.81 %) EAI 2 5 (23.81 %) Change Management 3 4 (19.05 %) Document Management 3 4 (19.05 %) Security Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 5 (23.81 %) PL/SQL 1 5 (23.81 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (14.29 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (4.762 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 21 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 7 (33.33 %) IBM 3 3 (14.29 %) Sun 3 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.762 %) HP 4 1 (4.762 %) VMware