The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 21 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 Glasgow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 65 48 33
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -15
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 15 13 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.567% 1.682% 3.801%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.654% 1.766% 3.994%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 20
Average daily rate £350 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £313 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £382 £313 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
907 736 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.78% 95.21% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 350 379
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
Scotland

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
3 14 (53.85%) SQL
4 12 (46.15%) Oracle
5 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (26.92%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (26.92%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 6 (23.08%) PL/SQL
7 6 (23.08%) Oracle 9i
7 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (19.23%) Migration
8 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (19.23%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (19.23%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (19.23%) UNIX
9 4 (15.38%) Solaris
9 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (15.38%) Subversion
9 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
9 4 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
10 3 (11.54%) OC4J
10 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
11 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
11 2 (7.692%) DTS
11 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11i
11 2 (7.692%) Windows

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (11.54%) OC4J
2 1 (3.846%) XML
2 1 (3.846%) XSL
2 1 (3.846%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (26.92%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (26.92%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (23.08%) Oracle 9i
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (19.23%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (19.23%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
8 2 (7.692%) DTS
8 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (3.846%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Front Office
3 1 (3.846%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) UNIX
2 4 (15.38%) Solaris
3 2 (7.692%) Windows
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.846%) AIX
4 1 (3.846%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
2 5 (19.23%) Migration
3 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
5 2 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.846%) ITIL
6 1 (3.846%) ETL
6 1 (3.846%) Service Management
6 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.846%) VBA
3 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Oracle
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.692%) Sybase
3 1 (3.846%) HP
3 1 (3.846%) CommVault
Glasgow, Scotland
Senior SQL DBA/ 3 months Contract/ Glasgow/ £ negiotable Responsibilities :-- BAU tasks - DTS -> SSIS package conversions - Commvault backup migration from native SQL backups - Operational documentation - Operational system troubleshooting etc...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Skills /Essential: o R11/R12 Oracle e-Business Application Database Administration o e-Business Patching, Cloning, Installation o Oracle RMAN / DataGuard / RAC o Oracle RDBMS 9i,10g, 11g -...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 17 May 2013