The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 290 247 264
Rank change year-on-year
-43 +17
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 87 178 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.402% 0.661% 0.592%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.436% 0.715% 0.640%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 111 116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £386
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £250 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £447 £475 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
Average hourly rate £51.00 £36.75 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.77% +38.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
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 450 624 677
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%
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London SQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London SQL DBA Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA 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 -5 27 £338 -10.00%
Canary Wharf - 1 £300 -
Paddington - 1 - -
Bromley - 1 £290 -
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 171 (91.94%) SQL
2 150 (80.65%) SQL Server
3 74 (39.78%) SQL Server 2008
4 73 (39.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 61 (32.80%) SQL Server 2005
6 60 (32.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 59 (31.72%) T-SQL
8 46 (24.73%) Microsoft
9 38 (20.43%) Windows
10 35 (18.82%) Migration
11 34 (18.28%) Finance
12 31 (16.67%) Banking
13 29 (15.59%) Replication
13 29 (15.59%) Clustering
14 28 (15.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 25 (13.44%) .NET
16 24 (12.90%) Oracle
17 21 (11.29%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (11.29%) SQL Server 2012
18 20 (10.75%) Capacity Planning
19 18 (9.677%) Investment Banking
19 18 (9.677%) Windows Server 2003
19 18 (9.677%) SQL Server 2000
19 18 (9.677%) ETL
19 18 (9.677%) Data Warehouse
20 16 (8.602%) MS Excel
20 16 (8.602%) High Availability
21 14 (7.527%) DTS
21 14 (7.527%) Business Intelligence
21 14 (7.527%) Disaster Recovery

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 25 (13.44%) .NET
2 4 (2.151%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.613%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.075%) Web Services
4 2 (1.075%) XML
5 1 (0.538%) ASP
5 1 (0.538%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.538%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.538%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.538%) MDX
5 1 (0.538%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 8 (4.301%) IIS
1 8 (4.301%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.613%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (1.075%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.075%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.538%) Apache
4 1 (0.538%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.538%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.538%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 16 (8.602%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.613%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.075%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.075%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.538%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.538%) Maximo
2 1 (0.538%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.301%) SAN
2 4 (2.151%) HTTP
3 3 (1.613%) NAS
4 1 (0.538%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.538%) DNS
4 1 (0.538%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (80.65%) SQL Server
2 74 (39.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 73 (39.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 61 (32.80%) SQL Server 2005
5 60 (32.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 28 (15.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (11.29%) SQL Server 2012
8 18 (9.677%) SQL Server 2000
8 18 (9.677%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (7.527%) DTS
10 8 (4.301%) Oracle 8/8i
10 8 (4.301%) OLTP
10 8 (4.301%) SQLPlus
11 6 (3.226%) Oracle 11g
11 6 (3.226%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (2.688%) MySQL
12 5 (2.688%) OLAP
13 4 (2.151%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 3 (1.613%) MS Access
14 3 (1.613%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (1.075%) ERwin
1 2 (1.075%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (18.28%) Finance
2 31 (16.67%) Banking
3 18 (9.677%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.688%) Law
5 4 (2.151%) Legal
6 2 (1.075%) Retail
6 2 (1.075%) Front Office
6 2 (1.075%) Games
7 1 (0.538%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.538%) Advertising
7 1 (0.538%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.538%) Billing
7 1 (0.538%) International Banking
7 1 (0.538%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Replication
1 29 (15.59%) Clustering
2 5 (2.688%) Statistics
3 4 (2.151%) NHS
4 3 (1.613%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.613%) SaaS
5 2 (1.075%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.075%) Visualisation
5 2 (1.075%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.075%) Online Games
5 2 (1.075%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.075%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.538%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.538%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.538%) EFT
6 1 (0.538%) EFTPOS
6 1 (0.538%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.538%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.538%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.538%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.43%) Windows
2 21 (11.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (9.677%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (5.914%) Linux
4 11 (5.914%) UNIX
5 3 (1.613%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.613%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.075%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.075%) Android
6 2 (1.075%) AIX
6 2 (1.075%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.538%) Solaris
7 1 (0.538%) Windows 2000
7 1 (0.538%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (0.538%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.538%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.82%) Migration
2 20 (10.75%) Capacity Planning
3 18 (9.677%) ETL
4 16 (8.602%) High Availability
5 14 (7.527%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (7.527%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (5.914%) Data Modelling
7 10 (5.376%) ITIL
8 8 (4.301%) PRINCE2
8 8 (4.301%) CRM
9 6 (3.226%) Incident Management
9 6 (3.226%) Workflow
9 6 (3.226%) Change Management
9 6 (3.226%) E-Commerce
9 6 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (3.226%) Database Security
10 5 (2.688%) Data Migration
11 4 (2.151%) Performance Management
11 4 (2.151%) Problem Management
11 4 (2.151%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (91.94%) SQL
2 59 (31.72%) T-SQL
3 11 (5.914%) C#
4 6 (3.226%) Perl
4 6 (3.226%) VB.NET
5 5 (2.688%) VBA
5 5 (2.688%) VB
5 5 (2.688%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.151%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.613%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.075%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.075%) VBScript
9 1 (0.538%) Python
9 1 (0.538%) C
9 1 (0.538%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.538%) VB6
9 1 (0.538%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (3.763%) Security Cleared
1 7 (3.763%) MCITP
2 6 (3.226%) DV Cleared
2 6 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.151%) MCTS
3 4 (2.151%) MCDBA
4 3 (1.613%) Degree
5 2 (1.075%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.075%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.538%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.538%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.538%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.914%) SLA
2 5 (2.688%) QA
3 1 (0.538%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (4.301%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (4.301%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.688%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.075%) SRDF
4 1 (0.538%) Samba
4 1 (0.538%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.538%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.538%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.538%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.538%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (1.075%) WMI
1 2 (1.075%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (1.075%) Zenoss
1 2 (1.075%) Data Guard
1 2 (1.075%) HP SIM
1 2 (1.075%) BMC Performance Manager
1 2 (1.075%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (1.075%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (1.075%) Nagios
2 1 (0.538%) OpenView
2 1 (0.538%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.538%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.538%) SCOM
2 1 (0.538%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 46 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle
3 11 (5.914%) VMware
4 4 (2.151%) Sybase
4 4 (2.151%) HP
5 3 (1.613%) Veritas
5 3 (1.613%) IBM
5 3 (1.613%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.075%) Capita
6 2 (1.075%) IronPort
6 2 (1.075%) Citrix
6 2 (1.075%) BMC
6 2 (1.075%) NetApp
6 2 (1.075%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.075%) Sophos
6 2 (1.075%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.075%) Cisco
7 1 (0.538%) Tableau
7 1 (0.538%) EMC
7 1 (0.538%) Remedy
London
Any knowledge of SQL Server 2012 is very desirable... Essential Skills: Excellent SQL Server Production Support DBA. Strong knowledge of SQL Server 2008 (any knowledge of 2012 is...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
SQL Server Production DBA / SQL Server 2008 R2 / SSRS / SSIS / DBA / SQL / T-SQL / Developer / Programming / London / £300 - £350 per day + long term contract required to support and...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Potential to extend
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
A large financial services client is looking for a production support SQL server DBA with the following experience: - Extensive experience in MS SQL server 2000, 2005 and 2008... -...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
For this role you will have demonstrable experience in SQL Server Database Administration including managing, clustering, monitoring and tuning multiple large MS SQL 2000, 2005 & 2008 RDBMS... Keywords -...
Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 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