The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 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 South East 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
SQL Server Database Administrator
Rank 205 221 214
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 18 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.230% 0.256% 0.364%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.249% 0.277% 0.393%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 14
Average daily rate £378 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.96% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £394 £430 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-3.38% -20.38%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East SQL Server DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East SQL Server DBA Daily Rate Histogram

SQL Server DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East SQL Server DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL Server 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 Server DBA within the South East 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
Hampshire - 6 £375 -
Berkshire +17 3 - -
Surrey +14 2 £340 +6.25%
Kent - 2 - -
West Sussex +17 1 £400 +30.08%
Oxfordshire +8 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
SQL Server DBA
England

SQL Server DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title.

1 34 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (64.71%) SQL
3 19 (55.88%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
5 11 (32.35%) Replication
6 10 (29.41%) T-SQL
7 9 (26.47%) Windows
8 8 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (23.53%) SQL Server 2012
9 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (20.59%) MS Excel
9 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
9 7 (20.59%) Clustering
10 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (17.65%) Oracle
11 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (11.76%) BCP
12 4 (11.76%) Finance
12 4 (11.76%) Java
12 4 (11.76%) WebLogic
12 4 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
12 4 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2000
13 3 (8.824%) Shell Script
13 3 (8.824%) Perl

SQL Server DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited SQL Server 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 Server DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.824%) .NET
2 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.941%) Web Services
2 1 (2.941%) XML
2 1 (2.941%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (5.882%) Windows Azure
3 2 (5.882%) Apache
4 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.941%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (55.88%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (23.53%) SQL Server 2012
5 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (8.824%) TOAD
7 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (8.824%) SQLPlus
8 2 (5.882%) MySQL
8 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.882%) DTS
8 2 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (5.882%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.941%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (2.941%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (5.882%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Replication
2 7 (20.59%) Clustering
3 1 (2.941%) Data Extraction
3 1 (2.941%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.941%) AIX
4 1 (2.941%) Solaris
4 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (11.76%) BCP
3 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (8.824%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (8.824%) High Availability
5 2 (5.882%) Change Control
5 2 (5.882%) E-business
5 2 (5.882%) Scrum
5 2 (5.882%) Regression Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Database Tuning
5 2 (5.882%) Capacity Management
5 2 (5.882%) Database Security
6 1 (2.941%) Change Management
6 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.941%) ERP
6 1 (2.941%) Data Modelling
6 1 (2.941%) SOA
6 1 (2.941%) ETL
6 1 (2.941%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) T-SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Java
4 3 (8.824%) Perl
4 3 (8.824%) PL/SQL
4 3 (8.824%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.824%) Korn
5 2 (5.882%) C#
6 1 (2.941%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) DV Cleared
1 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.882%) SRDF
3 1 (2.941%) LiteSpeed
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.941%) VMware
3 1 (2.941%) Red Gate