The first table below looks at the demand for the Database Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Engineer
Rank 531 558 583
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Database Engineer 2 15 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.026% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.028% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
Average daily rate £264 £295 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.59% -39.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £278 £478
10% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £435 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £264 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-34.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £10.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Database Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Database Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Database Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Database Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Database Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Database Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Database Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +51 2 £264 -10.59%
Bristol - 1 £325 -
Maidenhead - 1 £203 -
Berkshire - 1 £203 -
South East - 1 £203 -
South West - 1 £325 -

Database Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Database Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) MS Office
5 4 (22.22%) Workflow
5 4 (22.22%) C#
5 4 (22.22%) Perl
5 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
6 3 (16.67%) BMC
6 3 (16.67%) Hyperion
6 3 (16.67%) NetApp
6 3 (16.67%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (16.67%) Benchmarking
6 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 3 (16.67%) .NET
6 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 3 (16.67%) Essbase
6 3 (16.67%) Data Guard
6 3 (16.67%) NAS
6 3 (16.67%) BMC Performance Manager
6 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (16.67%) Hyperion Planning

Database Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.556%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Office
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (16.67%) Essbase
5 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
5 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 2 (11.11%) DB2
5 2 (11.11%) OLAP
5 2 (11.11%) MS Access
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) German Language
3 1 (5.556%) Portuguese Language
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) UNIX
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Workflow
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Benchmarking
2 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Forensic Accounting
3 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Validation
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.556%) SOA
4 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.556%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) Perl
3 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.556%) VBA
4 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) BMC PATROL
1 3 (16.67%) BMC Performance Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) BMC
3 3 (16.67%) Hyperion
3 3 (16.67%) NetApp
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) Sybase