The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 274 288 333
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +45
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 104 123 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.481% 0.457% 0.326%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.522% 0.494% 0.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 70 46
Average daily rate £400 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £330 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £502 £525 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £30.00
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
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 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Oracle DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Oracle DBA Daily Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle DBA across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Oracle DBA Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Oracle DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +20 36 £425 -2.85%
West Drayton - 1 - -
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Oracle
2 96 (54.24%) Oracle 11g
3 78 (44.07%) Linux
4 65 (36.72%) UNIX
5 64 (36.16%) Oracle 10g
6 62 (35.03%) SQL
7 60 (33.90%) Oracle RAC
8 48 (27.12%) Shell Script
9 45 (25.42%) Finance
10 37 (20.90%) Data Guard
11 36 (20.34%) Banking
11 36 (20.34%) PL/SQL
11 36 (20.34%) Oracle 9i
12 31 (17.51%) Oracle EBS
13 30 (16.95%) WebLogic
14 28 (15.82%) Oracle RMAN
15 27 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 26 (14.69%) ITIL
16 26 (14.69%) Red Hat
17 25 (14.12%) Oracle Application Server
18 24 (13.56%) Oracle EBS R12
19 23 (12.99%) Middleware
19 23 (12.99%) SQL Server
20 22 (12.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
20 22 (12.43%) Migration
21 21 (11.86%) Service Management
21 21 (11.86%) Oracle Fusion
22 20 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
23 19 (10.73%) Oracle Reports
23 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 23 (12.99%) Middleware
2 21 (11.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.695%) XML
4 2 (1.130%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.130%) Oracle Streams
4 2 (1.130%) .NET
4 2 (1.130%) Flash
5 1 (0.565%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.565%) JMS
5 1 (0.565%) J2EE
5 1 (0.565%) ASP
5 1 (0.565%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.565%) JSP
5 1 (0.565%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.565%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.565%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 30 (16.95%) WebLogic
2 25 (14.12%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (2.825%) Oracle 10gAS
4 3 (1.695%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.695%) SAS
5 2 (1.130%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.565%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.565%) Apache
6 1 (0.565%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.565%) IIS
6 1 (0.565%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.695%) MS Office
2 2 (1.130%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.565%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.565%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 31 (17.51%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (13.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 16 (9.040%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (2.825%) Oracle 11i
4 5 (2.825%) Oracle HRMS
5 4 (2.260%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.565%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.565%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.565%) LatentZero
6 1 (0.565%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.955%) Internet
2 2 (1.130%) HTTP
2 2 (1.130%) SAN
3 1 (0.565%) SSL
3 1 (0.565%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.565%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.565%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.565%) LDAP
3 1 (0.565%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.565%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (54.24%) Oracle 11g
2 64 (36.16%) Oracle 10g
3 36 (20.34%) Oracle 9i
4 23 (12.99%) SQL Server
5 20 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (10.73%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (9.605%) Oracle 8/8i
8 11 (6.215%) Oracle Exadata
9 10 (5.650%) Oracle Discoverer
10 8 (4.520%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.520%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.825%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (2.260%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (2.260%) DTS
13 3 (1.695%) SQL Server 2000
13 3 (1.695%) OLTP
13 3 (1.695%) SQL Server 2005
14 2 (1.130%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.130%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
14 2 (1.130%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.390%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (2.825%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.565%) ERwin
General
1 45 (25.42%) Finance
2 36 (20.34%) Banking
3 9 (5.085%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.260%) Marketing
5 3 (1.695%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.130%) Music
6 2 (1.130%) Back Office
7 1 (0.565%) Front Office
7 1 (0.565%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.565%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.565%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.565%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.650%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.085%) Replication
3 7 (3.955%) Grid Computing
4 4 (2.260%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.130%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.130%) Oracle Exalytics
5 2 (1.130%) Statistics
5 2 (1.130%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.130%) Clustering
6 1 (0.565%) EFT
6 1 (0.565%) EFTPOS
6 1 (0.565%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.565%) Wiki
6 1 (0.565%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.565%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (0.565%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 78 (44.07%) Linux
2 65 (36.72%) UNIX
3 27 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (10.17%) Solaris
5 13 (7.345%) AIX
6 7 (3.955%) Windows
7 2 (1.130%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.565%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.565%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.565%) HPUX
8 1 (0.565%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.565%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.565%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.69%) ITIL
2 22 (12.43%) Migration
3 21 (11.86%) Service Management
4 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (9.605%) Capacity Planning
6 15 (8.475%) High Availability
7 14 (7.910%) Data Modelling
8 13 (7.345%) ETL
8 13 (7.345%) Configuration Management
8 13 (7.345%) Database Security
9 9 (5.085%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (5.085%) Data Analysis
10 8 (4.520%) Service Delivery
11 7 (3.955%) BCP
11 7 (3.955%) Performance Management
12 6 (3.390%) Database Tuning
12 6 (3.390%) SOA
13 5 (2.825%) Change Control
14 4 (2.260%) Capacity Management
14 4 (2.260%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.03%) SQL
2 48 (27.12%) Shell Script
3 36 (20.34%) PL/SQL
4 12 (6.780%) Java
5 2 (1.130%) VB
6 1 (0.565%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.565%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.565%) Perl
6 1 (0.565%) PHP
6 1 (0.565%) VBScript
6 1 (0.565%) C
6 1 (0.565%) C#
6 1 (0.565%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 17 (9.605%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.780%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.390%) Degree
3 6 (3.390%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (2.260%) OCP
5 3 (1.695%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.130%) MCITP
6 2 (1.130%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.130%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.565%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.520%) QA
2 4 (2.260%) SLA
3 3 (1.695%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.130%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.565%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (33.90%) Oracle RAC
2 28 (15.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.565%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.565%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.565%) Samba
3 1 (0.565%) Snort
Systems Management
1 37 (20.90%) Data Guard
2 22 (12.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (3.390%) Nagios
4 4 (2.260%) Legato
5 3 (1.695%) BMC PATROL
5 3 (1.695%) Foglight
6 2 (1.130%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.565%) Control-M
7 1 (0.565%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 177 (100.00%) Oracle
2 26 (14.69%) Red Hat
3 17 (9.605%) Remedy
4 11 (6.215%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.390%) Informatica
6 5 (2.825%) Sybase
7 4 (2.260%) HP
8 3 (1.695%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.695%) Business Objects
9 2 (1.130%) Endeca
9 2 (1.130%) SAP
9 2 (1.130%) IBM
9 2 (1.130%) ATG
9 2 (1.130%) VMware
9 2 (1.130%) Symantec
9 2 (1.130%) Charles River
9 2 (1.130%) Salesforce.com
9 2 (1.130%) EMC
9 2 (1.130%) Sun
10 1 (0.565%) CommVault
London
Oracle DBA (Oracle Database Administrator)My client is searching for a successful Oracle DBA (Oracle Database Administrator) to begin a 6 month contract within London.
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013
City, London
Around 5 years database administration ideally in banking or Business Critical IT environments. Experience of supporting Production, User Acceptance, Test and Development databases. Excellent working knowledge of Oracle...
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £425 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
You must also have experience of PL/SQL, OAS, OID INIX Scripts, SQL Server 2005/2008, BIDS and SSIS... In addition, the DV cleared Infrastructure Oracle DBA will...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £451 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
City of London
DV Cleared Oracle DBA Rate: £BestMarketRate **Capita Resourcing are the Managed Service Provider for various Central Government Clients which require the Highest level of UK Security Clearance** Main...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 7 May 2013
London
our client is searching for an Oracle DBA to Work with project team on the DBA elements of One-Oracle - set up and support of databases during the...
Universe Technology Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
our client is searching for an Oracle DBA to Work with project team on the DBA elements of One-Oracle - set up and support of databases during the...
Universe Technology
Posted: 17 May 2013