The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 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 Manchester 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
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 63 64 69
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 12 17 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.251% 1.378% 0.192%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.339% 1.510% 0.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
Average daily rate £368 £405 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.25% -32.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £386 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.35% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+74.41% -21.44%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
896 1126 981
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.43% 91.25% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 542 455
Average daily rate £333 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 88
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 £15.05
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +29.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.20 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Oracle DBA
North West

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Oracle DBA Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 £320 - 4
Bury - - - -
Sale - - - - 1
Oracle DBA
North West

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 17 (94.44%) Oracle RAC
3 15 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
4 14 (77.78%) UNIX
5 13 (72.22%) Data Guard
6 12 (66.67%) SQL
6 12 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
6 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
7 11 (61.11%) PL/SQL
7 11 (61.11%) Finance
8 8 (44.44%) RDBMS
9 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
10 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (22.22%) Unified Communications
11 3 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
11 3 (16.67%) Data Management
11 3 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
11 3 (16.67%) Migration
11 3 (16.67%) Oracle OWB
11 3 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
11 3 (16.67%) Change Management
11 3 (16.67%) Linux
12 1 (5.556%) SOA
12 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (5.556%) AIX
12 1 (5.556%) XML

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (5.556%) XML
1 1 (5.556%) Middleware
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
2 12 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (44.44%) RDBMS
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle OWB
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) UNIX
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
2 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Data Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (5.556%) SOA
4 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
1 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 11 (61.11%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) NetApp
2 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.556%) VMware