Hertfordshire SQL DBA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Ayr Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Guildford Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Redhill Scotland Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	84
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	3	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.326 %	0.688 %
Daily rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£374
Average daily rate	£392	£382
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£351
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.43	£37.72
% change on same period last year	-11.37 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
SQL 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.

SQL DBA
Demand Trend

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

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL DBA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) E-business 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Load Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Sybase 2 1 (33.33 %) DB2 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XSL 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX

2 1 (33.33 %) AIX 2 1 (33.33 %) DTS 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 2 1 (33.33 %) BPR 2 1 (33.33 %) Tru64

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XSL	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2 1 1 (33.33 %) DTS	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (33.33 %) BPR 1 1 (33.33 %) E-business 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Security 1 1 (33.33 %) Load Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Sybase