The first table below looks at the demand for the Database Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Database Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Analyst
Rank 509 567 542
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Database Analyst 20 17 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.043% 0.029% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.032% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 9
Average daily rate £263 £319 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £300 £172
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £359 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £413
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% -21.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- -21.42%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Database Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Database Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Database Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK.

Database Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Database Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Database Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Database Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK.

Database Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Database Analyst
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +49 19 £263 -16.00%
London +43 13 £169 -47.05%
South East +17 4 £348 -
City of London +14 4 £169 -49.05%
Surrey +15 2 £350 -
West Midlands - 2 £263 -
Staffordshire - 2 £263 -
Woking +5 1 £350 -
Guildford -11 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £345 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Worthing - 1 £345 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £275 -

Database Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Database Analyst 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 Database Analyst in their job title.

1 32 (47.06%) SQL
2 26 (38.24%) SQL Server
3 22 (32.35%) Marketing
4 19 (27.94%) Oracle
5 17 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 17 (25.00%) T-SQL
6 16 (23.53%) Finance
7 13 (19.12%) MS Access
7 13 (19.12%) CRM
8 12 (17.65%) VBA
8 12 (17.65%) Migration
8 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
8 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
9 11 (16.18%) Java
10 10 (14.71%) C#
10 10 (14.71%) Banking
11 9 (13.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis
11 9 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
12 8 (11.76%) Investment Banking
12 8 (11.76%) Sybase
12 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (10.29%) ETL
13 7 (10.29%) Oracle 10g
13 7 (10.29%) Reuters
13 7 (10.29%) Bloomberg
13 7 (10.29%) VB
13 7 (10.29%) Derivative
13 7 (10.29%) Direct Marketing
13 7 (10.29%) Equities

Database Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Database Analyst 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 Database Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.941%) ASP
1 2 (2.941%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.941%) .NET
2 1 (1.471%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.471%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.941%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.471%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.471%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.471%) SAS
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 17 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (8.824%) FastStats
3 2 (2.941%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.941%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.471%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.471%) MS Project
4 1 (1.471%) MS Office
4 1 (1.471%) SPSS
4 1 (1.471%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.471%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.941%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (2.941%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.471%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (1.471%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.471%) LatentZero
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.471%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.12%) MS Access
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (13.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (10.29%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (7.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.412%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (1.471%) DB2
9 1 (1.471%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.471%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (1.471%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (1.471%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (1.471%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.471%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.471%) TOAD
9 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (1.471%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (4.412%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (1.471%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.471%) ERwin
General
1 22 (32.35%) Marketing
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.882%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.471%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Derivative
1 7 (10.29%) Equities
2 4 (5.882%) Statistics
3 2 (2.941%) Data Conversion
4 1 (1.471%) NHS
4 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.471%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.824%) Linux
2 5 (7.353%) UNIX
2 5 (7.353%) Windows
3 3 (4.412%) Solaris
4 2 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.471%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) CRM
2 12 (17.65%) Migration
3 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis
3 9 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.29%) ETL
5 7 (10.29%) Direct Marketing
5 7 (10.29%) Portfolio Management
5 7 (10.29%) Analytics
6 4 (5.882%) UML
6 4 (5.882%) Data Modelling
6 4 (5.882%) Data Entry
7 3 (4.412%) Email Marketing
7 3 (4.412%) Data Protection
7 3 (4.412%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (4.412%) Data Management
7 3 (4.412%) Database Marketing
7 3 (4.412%) Scrum
8 2 (2.941%) Change Management
8 2 (2.941%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) SQL
2 17 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 12 (17.65%) VBA
4 11 (16.18%) Java
5 10 (14.71%) C#
6 7 (10.29%) VB
7 5 (7.353%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.412%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.941%) Delphi
9 2 (2.941%) PHP
10 1 (1.471%) R
10 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.471%) ABAP
10 1 (1.471%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (2.941%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.471%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) Oracle
2 8 (11.76%) Sybase
3 7 (10.29%) Reuters
3 7 (10.29%) Bloomberg
4 6 (8.824%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.353%) JD Edwards
5 5 (7.353%) Cognos
6 4 (5.882%) SAP
7 3 (4.412%) NetApp
8 1 (1.471%) thinkFolio
8 1 (1.471%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.471%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.471%) Sun
8 1 (1.471%) Fidessa
8 1 (1.471%) SunGard
8 1 (1.471%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.471%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (1.471%) Websense
8 1 (1.471%) VMware