The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 69 79 60
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -19
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 4 2 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.467% 0.181% 1.845%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.511% 0.197% 2.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £393 £280 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.17% -37.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £280 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £411 £280 £530
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
783 1015 908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.47% 91.86% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 342 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £218 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 57 38
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.00 £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
Berkshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (80.95%) Oracle
2 15 (71.43%) SQL
3 11 (52.38%) Windows
4 10 (47.62%) PL/SQL
5 9 (42.86%) UNIX
5 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (38.10%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (33.33%) ITIL
8 6 (28.57%) LAN
8 6 (28.57%) Finance
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
9 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
10 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
10 4 (19.05%) Firewall
11 3 (14.29%) Clustering
11 3 (14.29%) Retail
11 3 (14.29%) SSL
11 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (14.29%) Data Guard
12 2 (9.524%) Banking
12 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
12 2 (9.524%) SolarWinds
12 2 (9.524%) Windows Azure
12 2 (9.524%) HP SIM
12 2 (9.524%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (9.524%) IBM
12 2 (9.524%) Microsoft

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (9.524%) .NET
1 2 (9.524%) Web Services
2 1 (4.762%) Middleware
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Windows Azure
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (9.524%) IIS
1 2 (9.524%) Apache
1 2 (9.524%) Tomcat
1 2 (9.524%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
2 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (19.05%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) SSL
5 2 (9.524%) WAN
5 2 (9.524%) HTTP
5 2 (9.524%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (38.10%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.524%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.762%) MSDE
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (9.524%) Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.762%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.524%) Replication
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) UNIX
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000
7 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (9.524%) Data Modelling
3 2 (9.524%) ERP
3 2 (9.524%) Performance Management
3 2 (9.524%) Change Management
4 1 (4.762%) ITSM
4 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.762%) Data Management
4 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.762%) SOA
4 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.524%) VB
4 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) OCP
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (9.524%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.762%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.524%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Data Guard
2 2 (9.524%) HP SIM
2 2 (9.524%) MOM
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) SolarWinds
2 2 (9.524%) IBM
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) VMware
2 2 (9.524%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.762%) Siebel
Reading, Berkshire
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Experis IT
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 15 May 2013