The first table below looks at the demand for MCDBA in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCDBA over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Rank 373 411 436
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +25
Contract jobs citing MCDBA 4 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.018% 0.015% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.126% 0.105% 0.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
Average daily rate £400 £238 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.42% -36.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £180
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +94.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.87 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCDBA
England

MCDBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MCDBA Jobs Demand Trend

MCDBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCDBA across the London region.

London MCDBA Daily Rate Trend

MCDBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCDBA across the London region.

London MCDBA Hourly Rate Trend

MCDBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCDBA within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
City of London - 1 - -
MCDBA
England

MCDBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA.

1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
3 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (41.67%) Replication
6 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
7 4 (33.33%) ITIL
7 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 3 (25.00%) Tableau
8 3 (25.00%) MCITP
8 3 (25.00%) MCTS
8 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (25.00%) DTS
8 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
8 3 (25.00%) ETL
9 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
9 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
9 2 (16.67%) MCSD
9 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (16.67%) Release Management
9 2 (16.67%) Internet
9 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
9 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery

MCDBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCDBA also 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 that cited MCDBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) PowerPivot
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (25.00%) DTS
5 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 7
7 1 (8.333%) QlikView
7 1 (8.333%) MySQL
7 1 (8.333%) OLTP
7 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Legal
1 1 (8.333%) Advertising
1 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DBA
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft BI Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Business Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Database Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Business Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Senior DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Server Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Senior SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 2 (16.67%) Clustering
4 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.333%) Database Security
5 1 (8.333%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (8.333%) Migration
5 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
4 1 (8.333%) Perl
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
4 1 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (25.00%) MCITP
2 3 (25.00%) MCTS
3 2 (16.67%) MCSD
4 1 (8.333%) RHCT
4 1 (8.333%) RHCE
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (8.333%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) Business Objects
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
3 1 (8.333%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) EMC
3 1 (8.333%) Red Hat