The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 110 102 93
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 10 3 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.410% 0.113% 0.749%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.442% 0.121% 0.794%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
Average daily rate £350 - £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £350 £378
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -7.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £30.00
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2260 2488 2644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.66% 93.92% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1220 1303
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £216 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 110 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Oracle DBA
UK

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Oracle DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow - 6 £358 -
Aberdeen - 3 £350 -
Edinburgh +8 1 - -
Oracle DBA
UK

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (60.87%) UNIX
3 11 (47.83%) Oracle 10g
3 11 (47.83%) Finance
4 10 (43.48%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (43.48%) SQL
5 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
6 8 (34.78%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (34.78%) Oracle 9i
6 8 (34.78%) Windows
7 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
7 7 (30.43%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (30.43%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (26.09%) Data Guard
9 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (21.74%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
9 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
9 5 (21.74%) Solaris
9 5 (21.74%) Linux
10 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
10 4 (17.39%) Migration
10 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
11 3 (13.04%) SRDF
11 3 (13.04%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (13.04%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (13.04%) SQLPlus
11 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (13.04%) DNS

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (13.04%) OC4J
2 1 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) LDAP
1 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (34.78%) Oracle 8/8i
2 8 (34.78%) Oracle 9i
3 7 (30.43%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
5 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
6 3 (13.04%) SQLPlus
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (4.348%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (4.348%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Subversion
1 1 (4.348%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Back Office
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) UNIX
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Solaris
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.348%) AIX
4 1 (4.348%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Migration
1 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
2 2 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (8.696%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (8.696%) Change Control
2 2 (8.696%) BCP
2 2 (8.696%) Change Management
3 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (13.04%) SRDF
4 1 (4.348%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) NetApp
4 2 (8.696%) HP
5 1 (4.348%) Embarcadero
5 1 (4.348%) Sun
5 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.348%) VMware
5 1 (4.348%) Red Gate
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Skills /Essential: o R11/R12 Oracle e-Business Application Database Administration o e-Business Patching, Cloning, Installation o Oracle RMAN / DataGuard / RAC o Oracle RDBMS 9i,10g, 11g -...
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Posted: 17 May 2013