Oxfordshire DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Driffield Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast 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 Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	40
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	11	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.698 %	2.310 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£270
Average daily rate	£310	£274
% change on same period last year	+13.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£278
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£373
% change on same period last year	-5.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£27.33
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£30.67
% change on same period last year	+22.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.57	£28.83
% change on same period last year	+37.22 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	648	606
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.864 %	0.613 %
Daily rates quoted	128	119
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£311
Average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	144	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.70	£20.16
Average hourly rate	£20.33	£21.65
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.96	£23.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
DBA South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Oxford	-5	4	£310	+9.15 %
Bicester	-	1	-	-

DBA South East

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 19 (54.29 %) Oracle 2 14 (40.00 %) UNIX 3 10 (28.57 %) Oracle RAC 4 9 (25.71 %) SQL 4 9 (25.71 %) RDBMS 5 8 (22.86 %) SQL Server 6 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 7 6 (17.14 %) Data Modelling 7 6 (17.14 %) Ingres 8 5 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 8 5 (14.29 %) Solaris 8 5 (14.29 %) Marketing 8 5 (14.29 %) Replication 8 5 (14.29 %) SC Cleared

8 5 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (11.43 %) Oracle 9i 10 3 (8.571 %) DTS 10 3 (8.571 %) Windows Server 2003 10 3 (8.571 %) UML 10 3 (8.571 %) HPUX 10 3 (8.571 %) Government 10 3 (8.571 %) Migration 10 3 (8.571 %) Oracle RMAN 11 2 (5.714 %) Oracle EBS 11 2 (5.714 %) Project Management 11 2 (5.714 %) Shell Script 11 2 (5.714 %) Intel 11 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 7 11 2 (5.714 %) PL/SQL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 (2.857 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.857 %) SAS
Business Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (5.714 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (2.857 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.857 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.857 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (25.71 %) RDBMS 2 8 (22.86 %) SQL Server 3 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (17.14 %) Ingres 5 5 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 6 4 (11.43 %) Oracle 9i 7 3 (8.571 %) DTS 8 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (5.714 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (5.714 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (5.714 %) Data Mining 8 2 (5.714 %) ETL 8 2 (5.714 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (2.857 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (2.857 %) MySQL 9 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (2.857 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 5 (14.29 %) Marketing 2 3 (8.571 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 5 (14.29 %) Replication 2 1 (2.857 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 14 (40.00 %) UNIX 2 5 (14.29 %) Solaris 3 3 (8.571 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (8.571 %) HPUX 4 1 (2.857 %) Windows 4 1 (2.857 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (17.14 %) Data Modelling 2 5 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 2 5 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (8.571 %) Migration 3 3 (8.571 %) UML 4 2 (5.714 %) OO 4 2 (5.714 %) Project Management 4 2 (5.714 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (5.714 %) Data Migration 5 1 (2.857 %) Logistics 5 1 (2.857 %) Quality Management 5 1 (2.857 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.857 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (2.857 %) RUP 5 1 (2.857 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.857 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 9 (25.71 %) SQL 2 2 (5.714 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (5.714 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (5.714 %) Shell Script 3 1 (2.857 %) VBScript	System Software 1 10 (28.57 %) Oracle RAC 2 3 (8.571 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (2.857 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 19 (54.29 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.714 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.714 %) Intel 3 1 (2.857 %) Sun 3 1 (2.857 %) Sybase