South East SQL DBA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts within the South East 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 SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Ayr Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rotherham Scotland South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	177	178
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	70	120
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.121 %
As % of the category below	0.641 %	0.766 %
Daily rates quoted	28	45
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£368
Average daily rate	£343	£387
% change on same period last year	-11.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£368
% change on same period last year	-8.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.33	£31.11
Average hourly rate	£39.50	£33.22
% change on same period last year	+18.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.67	£35.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.75	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+14.94 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	10913	15672
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.36 %	15.84 %
Daily rates quoted	2841	4021
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£337
Average daily rate	£353	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1271	2066
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.91	£24.95
Average hourly rate	£24.44	£26.43
% change on same period last year	-7.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£27.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
SQL DBA England

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.

SQL DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL DBA across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL DBA across the South East region.

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL DBA across the South East region.

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Surrey	+13	16	£358	-15.00 %
Hampshire	+23	12	£467	+39.93 %
Buckinghamshire	+18	11	£295	-21.33 %
West Sussex	+19	10	£306	-22.13 %
Berkshire	+11	6	£400	+5.72 %
Middlesex	-3	4	-	-
Oxfordshire	-10	4	-	-
East Sussex	+6	2	-	-
Kent	+13	2	£363	+20.83 %
Thames Valley	+3	1	£275	-

SQL DBA England

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title.

1 111 (89.52 %) SQL Server 2 88 (70.97 %) SQL 3 49 (39.52 %) SQL Server 2005 4 31 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 5 29 (23.39 %) Transact-SQL 6 27 (21.77 %) Oracle 7 26 (20.97 %) DTS 8 23 (18.55 %) Finance 9 21 (16.94 %) Security Cleared 9 21 (16.94 %) Windows 10 19 (15.32 %) SC Cleared 10 19 (15.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 19 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 11 18 (14.52 %) MCDBA 12 17 (13.71 %) UNIX

12 17 (13.71 %) .NET 12 17 (13.71 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 17 (13.71 %) Government 13 14 (11.29 %) Replication 14 12 (9.677 %) Migration 15 10 (8.065 %) Microsoft 15 10 (8.065 %) Oracle 10g 15 10 (8.065 %) Clustering 15 10 (8.065 %) Disaster Recovery 16 9 (7.258 %) Sybase 16 9 (7.258 %) Visual Studio 16 9 (7.258 %) UML 17 8 (6.452 %) Crystal Reports 17 8 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003 17 8 (6.452 %) Oracle 9i

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (13.71 %) .NET 2 3 (2.419 %) ODBC 3 1 (0.806 %) HTML 3 1 (0.806 %) ASP 3 1 (0.806 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (0.806 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.032 %) IIS 2 3 (2.419 %) Oracle Application Server 3 2 (1.613 %) Office Project Server 3 2 (1.613 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.806 %) Oracle 9iAS 4 1 (0.806 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 2 (1.613 %) MS Project 1 2 (1.613 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (5.645 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 111 (89.52 %) SQL Server 2 49 (39.52 %) SQL Server 2005 3 31 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 26 (20.97 %) DTS 5 19 (15.32 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 17 (13.71 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 10 (8.065 %) Oracle 10g 8 8 (6.452 %) Crystal Reports 8 8 (6.452 %) Oracle 9i 9 6 (4.839 %) OLAP 9 6 (4.839 %) Datawarehouse 9 6 (4.839 %) SQLPlus 10 5 (4.032 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 5 (4.032 %) DB2 10 5 (4.032 %) RDBMS 10 5 (4.032 %) DB2 UDB 10 5 (4.032 %) SQL Server 2008 11 4 (3.226 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 3 (2.419 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 3 (2.419 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 9 (7.258 %) Visual Studio
General 1 23 (18.55 %) Finance 2 17 (13.71 %) Government 3 5 (4.032 %) Telecoms 4 4 (3.226 %) Legal 5 3 (2.419 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.806 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.806 %) Health 6 1 (0.806 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.806 %) Banking 6 1 (0.806 %) Retail 6 1 (0.806 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.806 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 14 (11.29 %) Replication 2 10 (8.065 %) Clustering 3 1 (0.806 %) Tandem 3 1 (0.806 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 21 (16.94 %) Windows 2 17 (13.71 %) UNIX 3 8 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (4.032 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (2.419 %) Tru64 5 3 (2.419 %) AIX 5 3 (2.419 %) Solaris 6 2 (1.613 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.806 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (16.94 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (15.32 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (9.677 %) Migration 4 10 (8.065 %) Disaster Recovery 5 9 (7.258 %) UML 6 7 (5.645 %) RUP 7 5 (4.032 %) Business Intelligence 8 4 (3.226 %) BCP 8 4 (3.226 %) Business Continuity 8 4 (3.226 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (2.419 %) E-Commerce 9 3 (2.419 %) ITIL 9 3 (2.419 %) Project Management 10 2 (1.613 %) CRM 10 2 (1.613 %) OO 10 2 (1.613 %) Change Management 10 2 (1.613 %) Data Modelling 10 2 (1.613 %) Programme Management 10 2 (1.613 %) Data Migration 11 1 (0.806 %) Data Mapping
Programming Languages 1 88 (70.97 %) SQL 2 29 (23.39 %) Transact-SQL 3 6 (4.839 %) Perl 4 5 (4.032 %) PL/SQL 4 5 (4.032 %) VB 4 5 (4.032 %) C# 5 4 (3.226 %) Shell Script 5 4 (3.226 %) VBA 6 3 (2.419 %) VB.NET 6 3 (2.419 %) VB6 7 1 (0.806 %) SQR 7 1 (0.806 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 19 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 2 18 (14.52 %) MCDBA 3 2 (1.613 %) Degree 4 1 (0.806 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.419 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (4.032 %) Oracle RMAN 2 4 (3.226 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 8 (6.452 %) Oracle Statspack 2 2 (1.613 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 27 (21.77 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.065 %) Microsoft 3 9 (7.258 %) Sybase 4 2 (1.613 %) Peregrine 5 1 (0.806 %) Intel 5 1 (0.806 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (0.806 %) SAP