The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank - 60 48
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 0 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes - 0.279% 1.176%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.295% 1.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £260 £284
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
493 679 563
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 94.08% 94.57% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 286 219
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 54 69
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
Buckinghamshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) DB2
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (25.00%) AIX
4 3 (25.00%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (8.333%) DB2 UDB
6 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
6 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (8.333%) Data Guard
6 1 (8.333%) High Availability
6 1 (8.333%) Change Control
6 1 (8.333%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Movex
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.333%) DB2 UDB
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.333%) DTS
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Replication
1 1 (8.333%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) AIX
2 3 (25.00%) Solaris
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.333%) High Availability
3 1 (8.333%) Change Control
3 1 (8.333%) ERP
3 1 (8.333%) ETL
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (8.333%) Cognos