The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 71 78 72
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.450% 0.089% 0.200%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.494% 0.096% 0.231%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £393 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £386 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.35% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £21.50 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+86.04% -21.44%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
810 1042 864
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.11% 92.29% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 366 383
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 50 38
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +44.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.85 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Oracle DBA
Berkshire

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Oracle DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Oracle DBA Daily Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Oracle DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (28.57%) LAN
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Guard
6 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 1 (14.29%) HP SIM
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (14.29%) VMware
6 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
6 1 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (14.29%) Clustering

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Oracle 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 Oracle DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) OCP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (14.29%) HNC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Guard
2 1 (14.29%) HP SIM
2 1 (14.29%) MOM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
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Posted: 13 June 2013