The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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 London 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
Database Administrator
Rank 171 116 155
Rank change year-on-year
-55 +39
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 263 440 403
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.153% 1.655% 1.281%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.254% 1.788% 1.386%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 272 226
Average daily rate £375 £395 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% -7.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £321 £345
% change year-on-year
+15.35% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
Average hourly rate £51.00 £35.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+43.66% -4.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.20 £20.00 £20.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.12 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £22.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.27%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20976 24602 29086
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.99% 92.53% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14169 15932 18722
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 607 665
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
DBA
England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

London DBA Hourly Rate Histogram

DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the London 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
City of London -16 84 £388 -3.12% 20
Docklands, London -1 4 £538 +19.44%
Chiswick - - - -
Brentford - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Feltham - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
New Malden - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Wembley - - - -
DBA
England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 297 (60.24%) SQL
2 255 (51.72%) Oracle
3 225 (45.64%) SQL Server
4 119 (24.14%) Oracle 11g
5 118 (23.94%) Linux
6 105 (21.30%) Finance
7 99 (20.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 98 (19.88%) SQL Server 2008
8 98 (19.88%) UNIX
9 90 (18.26%) Banking
10 81 (16.43%) Oracle 10g
10 81 (16.43%) Oracle RAC
11 73 (14.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 72 (14.60%) Migration
12 72 (14.60%) Microsoft
13 71 (14.40%) SQL Server 2005
14 68 (13.79%) T-SQL
15 62 (12.58%) Replication
16 60 (12.17%) Shell Script
17 55 (11.16%) Data Warehouse
18 54 (10.95%) Windows
19 51 (10.34%) Data Guard
20 46 (9.331%) ETL
21 44 (8.925%) Capacity Planning
21 44 (8.925%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 41 (8.316%) PL/SQL
23 40 (8.114%) ITIL
24 39 (7.911%) Disaster Recovery
24 39 (7.911%) Oracle RMAN
24 39 (7.911%) High Availability

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 28 (5.680%) .NET
2 24 (4.868%) Middleware
3 21 (4.260%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (1.420%) XML
5 6 (1.217%) ASP.NET
6 4 (0.811%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.609%) Web Services
7 3 (0.609%) MDX
7 3 (0.609%) WebCenter
8 2 (0.406%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (0.406%) jQuery
8 2 (0.406%) Flash
8 2 (0.406%) HTML
8 2 (0.406%) ASP
8 2 (0.406%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.203%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.203%) CSS
9 1 (0.203%) JSP
9 1 (0.203%) SOAP
9 1 (0.203%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 27 (5.477%) WebLogic
2 23 (4.665%) Oracle Application Server
3 14 (2.840%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.028%) IIS
5 6 (1.217%) Oracle 10gAS
6 5 (1.014%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (0.811%) Drupal
7 4 (0.811%) SAS
7 4 (0.811%) Apache
8 3 (0.609%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.609%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (0.609%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.406%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.406%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.406%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.203%) CMS
10 1 (0.203%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.203%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.203%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 33 (6.694%) MS Excel
2 10 (2.028%) MS Office
3 3 (0.609%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.203%) MS Project
4 1 (0.203%) SPSS
4 1 (0.203%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.203%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 34 (6.897%) Oracle EBS
2 25 (5.071%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (2.637%) Oracle Applications
4 7 (1.420%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.217%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.609%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.609%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.406%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.406%) RMDS
8 1 (0.203%) LatentZero
8 1 (0.203%) HFM
8 1 (0.203%) Maximo
8 1 (0.203%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.203%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.203%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.203%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.840%) SAN
2 13 (2.637%) Internet
3 8 (1.623%) HTTP
4 4 (0.811%) NAS
5 3 (0.609%) LDAP
5 3 (0.609%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.406%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.406%) VoIP
7 1 (0.203%) FTP
7 1 (0.203%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.203%) DNS
7 1 (0.203%) SSL
7 1 (0.203%) Network Security
7 1 (0.203%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (45.64%) SQL Server
2 119 (24.14%) Oracle 11g
3 99 (20.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 98 (19.88%) SQL Server 2008
5 81 (16.43%) Oracle 10g
6 73 (14.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 71 (14.40%) SQL Server 2005
8 55 (11.16%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (8.925%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 38 (7.708%) MySQL
11 36 (7.302%) Oracle 9i
12 35 (7.099%) SQL Server 2012
13 32 (6.491%) Oracle 8/8i
14 23 (4.665%) RDBMS
14 23 (4.665%) SQL Server 2000
15 21 (4.260%) DTS
16 20 (4.057%) Oracle Reports
17 18 (3.651%) Sybase ASE
18 15 (3.043%) Oracle Exadata
19 14 (2.840%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.217%) Oracle APEX
1 6 (1.217%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (1.014%) ERwin
3 3 (0.609%) Subversion
4 2 (0.406%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (21.30%) Finance
2 90 (18.26%) Banking
3 35 (7.099%) Investment Banking
4 12 (2.434%) Marketing
5 9 (1.826%) Financial Institution
6 7 (1.420%) Retail
7 6 (1.217%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.014%) Law
9 4 (0.811%) Front Office
9 4 (0.811%) Advertising
10 3 (0.609%) Back Office
10 3 (0.609%) Legal
11 2 (0.406%) Games
12 1 (0.203%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.203%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.203%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.203%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.203%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.58%) Replication
2 35 (7.099%) Clustering
3 15 (3.043%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.028%) NHS
5 8 (1.623%) Visualisation
6 7 (1.420%) Statistics
7 6 (1.217%) Grid Computing
8 5 (1.014%) Computer Science
8 5 (1.014%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.811%) Digital Media
9 4 (0.811%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.811%) Open Source
9 4 (0.811%) SaaS
10 3 (0.609%) HACMP
10 3 (0.609%) Mathematics
11 2 (0.406%) Oracle Exalytics
11 2 (0.406%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.406%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.406%) Data Integration
11 2 (0.406%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 118 (23.94%) Linux
2 98 (19.88%) UNIX
3 54 (10.95%) Windows
4 37 (7.505%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (5.477%) AIX
5 27 (5.477%) Solaris
6 25 (5.071%) Windows Server 2008
7 21 (4.260%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (1.217%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.609%) Windows 2000
9 3 (0.609%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.406%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.406%) Android
10 2 (0.406%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.203%) HPUX
11 1 (0.203%) zOS
11 1 (0.203%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.203%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.203%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (14.60%) Migration
2 46 (9.331%) ETL
3 44 (8.925%) Capacity Planning
4 40 (8.114%) ITIL
5 39 (7.911%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (7.911%) High Availability
6 38 (7.708%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (5.680%) Data Modelling
8 20 (4.057%) Database Security
9 18 (3.651%) Configuration Management
10 17 (3.448%) Service Management
10 17 (3.448%) Change Management
10 17 (3.448%) E-Commerce
11 13 (2.637%) Service Delivery
12 12 (2.434%) Data Analysis
12 12 (2.434%) Performance Management
12 12 (2.434%) CRM
12 12 (2.434%) PRINCE2
13 11 (2.231%) Data Migration
13 11 (2.231%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 297 (60.24%) SQL
2 68 (13.79%) T-SQL
3 60 (12.17%) Shell Script
4 41 (8.316%) PL/SQL
5 15 (3.043%) Java
6 13 (2.637%) C#
7 9 (1.826%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.623%) Perl
9 7 (1.420%) VBA
10 6 (1.217%) Korn
10 6 (1.217%) C
10 6 (1.217%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.014%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.811%) PHP
12 4 (0.811%) VB
13 2 (0.406%) Bash shell
13 2 (0.406%) Python
13 2 (0.406%) VBScript
13 2 (0.406%) C++
14 1 (0.203%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (5.680%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.260%) DV Cleared
3 15 (3.043%) Degree
4 10 (2.028%) MCITP
4 10 (2.028%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.826%) MCTS
6 6 (1.217%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (1.217%) MCDBA
7 5 (1.014%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.811%) OCP
8 4 (0.811%) HND
9 3 (0.609%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.406%) HP ASE
10 2 (0.406%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.651%) SLA
2 14 (2.840%) QA
3 2 (0.406%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.406%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.203%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.203%) Data Quality
System Software
1 81 (16.43%) Oracle RAC
2 39 (7.911%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (2.028%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.420%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.811%) SRDF
6 1 (0.203%) Samba
6 1 (0.203%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.203%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.203%) Snort
6 1 (0.203%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.203%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.203%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 51 (10.34%) Data Guard
2 24 (4.868%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (2.434%) Nagios
4 5 (1.014%) BMC PATROL
5 4 (0.811%) Tivoli
5 4 (0.811%) Legato
6 3 (0.609%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.609%) Foglight
6 3 (0.609%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 3 (0.609%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (0.609%) Zenoss
7 2 (0.406%) WMI
7 2 (0.406%) BMC Performance Manager
7 2 (0.406%) OpenView
7 2 (0.406%) Control-M
8 1 (0.203%) SCOM
8 1 (0.203%) Oracle Statspack
8 1 (0.203%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.203%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.203%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 255 (51.72%) Oracle
2 72 (14.60%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.708%) Sybase
4 35 (7.099%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.043%) Informatica
5 15 (3.043%) VMware
6 14 (2.840%) Remedy
7 12 (2.434%) Teradata
8 10 (2.028%) SAP
9 9 (1.826%) Hyperion
10 8 (1.623%) Business Objects
11 7 (1.420%) HP
11 7 (1.420%) Netezza
12 6 (1.217%) EMC
12 6 (1.217%) IBM
13 5 (1.014%) Tableau
14 4 (0.811%) Veritas
14 4 (0.811%) Salesforce.com
15 3 (0.609%) Reuters
15 3 (0.609%) Bloomberg
London
An experienced SQL DBA is required with excellent background and knowledge of SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 for a major Central London Organisation. The SQL DBA will provide...
Connectus
Rate: £385 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sidcup, Kent
Data Base Administrator to work for a major Public Sector organisation. Our customer is looking for a DBA to join their team based in Sidcup for a 6...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sidcup, South East
Essential: DBA for SQL 2005 and 2008. Manage SQL Data warehouse, supporting application integration. SQL Reporting. You must have completed an SQL course or have a SQL Certification.
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
SQL DBA required a highly skilled DBA to work on the development of a global risk solution. The role will involve installation, monitoring and building databases; there will...
Aston Carter
Rate: £525 - £575 per day + Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
There is an opportunity for a Database Administrator to join a large international asset management firm... The successful candidate will have; * Experience in database (SQL Server 2005/2008R2/...
Venn Group
Rate: £35000 - 45000 Per Annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
TEKsystems
Rate: £425 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
JAM
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £50 - £52.60 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 to GBP450 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Experis IT
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
MRP-Global.com
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Church International
Rate: Competitive
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £55000 - £58000 per annum + BONUS, PENSION, LIFE ASSURANCE
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
South East London
Fusion People
Salary: £250 - £260 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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