The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 20 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 Merseyside 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 29 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 4 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.860% 2.703% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.932% 2.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £175 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.40% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £29.25 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -4.09%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
207 246 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.28% 94.98% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 114 113
Average daily rate £330 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 44 35
Average hourly rate £11.50 £21.86 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.39% +50.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.66 £11.37 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £25.00 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL DBA
North West

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) MDX
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (25.00%) CommVault
4 1 (25.00%) NHS
4 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) LiteSpeed
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) MDX
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) LiteSpeed
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CommVault