Merseyside DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the Merseyside region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Driffield Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	44
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	9	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.542 %	0.711 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£520	£280
Average daily rate	£520	£280
% change on same period last year	+85.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£520	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.97	£29.35
% change on same period last year	+25.97 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	354	422
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.467 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	99	134
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£295
Average daily rate	£345	£311
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.66	£19.90
Average hourly rate	£20.60	£21.66
% change on same period last year	-4.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.55	£23.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
DBA North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DBA across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DBA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+15	9	£520	+85.71 %

DBA North West

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 14 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (85.71 %) Oracle 9i 3 11 (78.57 %) Solaris 3 11 (78.57 %) Oracle RAC 4 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Application Server 4 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Forms 4 10 (71.43 %) Oracle 11i 4 10 (71.43 %) UNIX 4 10 (71.43 %) Oracle 10g 4 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Applications 5 9 (64.29 %) Change Management 5 9 (64.29 %) Sun 5 9 (64.29 %) Middleware 5 9 (64.29 %) Windows 5 9 (64.29 %) Linux

5 9 (64.29 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 9 (64.29 %) Oracle RMAN 6 4 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (21.43 %) XML 7 3 (21.43 %) Finance 7 3 (21.43 %) Government 8 2 (14.29 %) E-business 8 2 (14.29 %) EAI 8 2 (14.29 %) ETL 8 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Financials 8 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (14.29 %) C 8 2 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 9 1 (7.143 %) Oracle OLAP 9 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 11g

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (64.29 %) Middleware 2 3 (21.43 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Application Server 2 9 (64.29 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 10 (71.43 %) Oracle 11i 1 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (85.71 %) Oracle 9i 2 10 (71.43 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (14.29 %) ETL 3 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle OLAP 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 11g 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 4 1 (7.143 %) OLAP 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle OWB	Development Applications 1 10 (71.43 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 3 (21.43 %) Finance 1 3 (21.43 %) Government 2 1 (7.143 %) Banking 2 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 11 (78.57 %) Solaris 2 10 (71.43 %) UNIX 3 9 (64.29 %) Windows 3 9 (64.29 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (64.29 %) Change Management 2 4 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (14.29 %) E-business 3 2 (14.29 %) EAI 3 2 (14.29 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) C 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL	System Software 1 11 (78.57 %) Oracle RAC 2 9 (64.29 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 14 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 9 (64.29 %) Sun 3 1 (7.143 %) Sybase