The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 19 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 South West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database Administrator
Rank 80 111 113
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 21 21 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.045% 0.672% 0.496%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.119% 0.715% 0.530%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 9
Average daily rate £425 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £263 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £455 £414
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 £37.50 £21.50 £27.37
% change year-on-year
+74.41% -21.44%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1876 2937 2830
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.38% 93.92% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1118 1762 1405
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £485 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 175 256
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% -1.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.58 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dorset +7 11 £384 +14.55% 1
Wiltshire +7 6 £438 -5.40%
Bristol +17 2 £425 +61.90%
Gloucestershire +15 1 - -
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 32 (100.00%) Oracle
2 21 (65.63%) Oracle 11g
3 17 (53.13%) Oracle 10g
3 17 (53.13%) Oracle RAC
4 16 (50.00%) Linux
5 12 (37.50%) SQL
6 11 (34.38%) Middleware
7 10 (31.25%) Shell Script
7 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
8 9 (28.13%) WebLogic
8 9 (28.13%) UNIX
9 8 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 8 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (25.00%) Data Guard
10 7 (21.88%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (18.75%) Oracle BI EE
11 6 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
11 6 (18.75%) Oracle 10gAS
12 5 (15.63%) Migration
12 5 (15.63%) OLTP
12 5 (15.63%) Solaris
12 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
13 4 (12.50%) Siebel
13 4 (12.50%) Hyperion
13 4 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
13 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (12.50%) Finance

Oracle DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 11 (34.38%) Middleware
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (12.50%) WebCenter
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 9 (28.13%) WebLogic
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle 10gAS
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.375%) NAS
1 3 (9.375%) SAN
2 2 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (65.63%) Oracle 11g
2 17 (53.13%) Oracle 10g
3 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
4 8 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (18.75%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (15.63%) OLTP
7 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (9.375%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (6.250%) RDBMS
9 2 (6.250%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (3.125%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) UNIX
3 5 (15.63%) Solaris
4 3 (9.375%) AIX
5 2 (6.250%) Windows
5 2 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Migration
2 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (9.375%) Incident Management
3 3 (9.375%) ETL
4 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.250%) ITIL
4 2 (6.250%) Data Modelling
4 2 (6.250%) E-business
4 2 (6.250%) Identity Management
4 2 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.125%) High Availability
5 1 (3.125%) Change Control
5 1 (3.125%) Build Automation
5 1 (3.125%) Database Security
5 1 (3.125%) Database Tuning
5 1 (3.125%) Stress Testing
5 1 (3.125%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.125%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.125%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.375%) OCP
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.250%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.125%) Degree
3 1 (3.125%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) SLA
2 1 (3.125%) QA
2 1 (3.125%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Siebel
2 4 (12.50%) Hyperion
3 2 (6.250%) Informatica
4 1 (3.125%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.125%) Business Objects
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