The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior DBA role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Database Administrator
Rank 499 552 545
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 41 29 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.087% 0.050% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.054% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 14
Average daily rate £450 £435 £407
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +7.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £385 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £550 £484
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior DBA Jobs Demand Trend

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior DBA Daily Rate Trend

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Senior DBA Daily Rate Histogram

Senior DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior DBA Hourly Rate Trend

Senior DBA
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +57 41 £450 +3.44%
South East +46 23 £450 -
London +12 16 £450 -10.00%
Kent - 16 £450 -
City of London +14 5 £450 -18.18%
Staines - 4 - -
Surrey - 4 - -
Tonbridge - 2 £450 -
North West - 1 £448 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
East Sussex - 1 £450 -
Cheshire - 1 £448 -
Sheffield - 1 £400 -
Brighton - 1 £450 -
Brentford - 1 £475 -

Senior DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title.

1 49 (76.56%) Oracle
2 37 (57.81%) UNIX
3 36 (56.25%) Linux
3 36 (56.25%) Finance
4 34 (53.13%) Oracle RAC
5 24 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
6 23 (35.94%) SQL
7 20 (31.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 19 (29.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (28.13%) Red Hat
10 16 (25.00%) SQL Server
11 14 (21.88%) Oracle 10g
12 12 (18.75%) Sybase
13 10 (15.63%) AIX
14 8 (12.50%) Solaris
14 8 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
15 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
15 7 (10.94%) Banking
15 7 (10.94%) Investment Management
16 6 (9.375%) Performance Management
16 6 (9.375%) Data Guard
16 6 (9.375%) Fund Management
16 6 (9.375%) Microsoft
16 6 (9.375%) Data Security
16 6 (9.375%) Business Intelligence
16 6 (9.375%) Windows
17 5 (7.813%) ITIL
17 5 (7.813%) MySQL
17 5 (7.813%) ETL
17 5 (7.813%) MS Excel

Senior DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.563%) Middleware
1 1 (1.563%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.125%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (3.125%) IIS
2 1 (1.563%) SAS
2 1 (1.563%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.813%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.250%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.563%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.563%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.688%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
2 16 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 14 (21.88%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (7.813%) MySQL
4 5 (7.813%) Sybase ASE
4 5 (7.813%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (7.813%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.813%) TimesTen
5 4 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (4.688%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (4.688%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.563%) DataStage
7 1 (1.563%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.563%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (1.563%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.563%) DTS
General
1 36 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (10.94%) Banking
3 3 (4.688%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.563%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.563%) Marketing
4 1 (1.563%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.813%) Oracle Exalytics
2 4 (6.250%) Replication
3 3 (4.688%) Clustering
4 1 (1.563%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.563%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.563%) Statistics
4 1 (1.563%) Wiki
4 1 (1.563%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.563%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (57.81%) UNIX
2 36 (56.25%) Linux
3 19 (29.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (15.63%) AIX
5 8 (12.50%) Solaris
6 6 (9.375%) Windows
7 2 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.563%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.563%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (10.94%) Investment Management
3 6 (9.375%) Performance Management
3 6 (9.375%) Fund Management
3 6 (9.375%) Data Security
3 6 (9.375%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (7.813%) ITIL
4 5 (7.813%) ETL
4 5 (7.813%) Database Security
5 4 (6.250%) High Availability
5 4 (6.250%) Capacity Management
5 4 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 4 (6.250%) Data Modelling
6 3 (4.688%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.125%) Change Control
7 2 (3.125%) Metadata Management
7 2 (3.125%) Migration
7 2 (3.125%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.250%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.125%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.563%) C#
5 1 (1.563%) VB
5 1 (1.563%) VB6
5 1 (1.563%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.125%) MCITP
1 2 (3.125%) MCTS
1 2 (3.125%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.563%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.563%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.250%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.688%) SLA
3 2 (3.125%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.125%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.563%) QA
System Software
1 34 (53.13%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (4.688%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.125%) SRDF
4 1 (1.563%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (9.375%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.563%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.563%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 49 (76.56%) Oracle
2 18 (28.13%) Red Hat
3 12 (18.75%) Sybase
4 6 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.688%) Murex
5 3 (4.688%) EMC
6 2 (3.125%) Informatica
7 1 (1.563%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.563%) Red Gate
7 1 (1.563%) Netezza
7 1 (1.563%) Teradata
7 1 (1.563%) VMware
Glasgow, Scotland
Senior SQL DBA/ 3 months Contract/ Glasgow/ £ negiotable Responsibilities :-- BAU tasks - DTS -> SSIS package conversions - Commvault backup migration from native SQL backups - Operational documentation - Operational system troubleshooting etc...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Tonbridge, South East
This is a fantastic 3 month initial contract based in Tonbridge for 2 x Senior Oracle DBA's.
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 25 April 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
The Successful Oracle DBAs must have experience with : ** Oracle Database 11gR2 (Standalone and RAC) ** Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 (including Clusterware, ASM and Oracle Restart) ** PL/SQL or SQL...
e-Recruiter
Rate: £2000 - £2400 per week
Posted: 16 May 2013
Tonbridge, South East
Excellent skills in the following areas must include: * Recent Oracle Database 11gR2 (Standalone and RAC) skills and a proven investment management and / or financial services... * Detailed Oracle Enterprise...
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
Tonbridge, South East
Excellent skills in the following areas must include:* Recent Oracle Database 11gR2 (Standalone and RAC) skills and a proven investment management and / or financial services.* Proven Oracle Grid...
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Kent, South East
Senior Oracle DBA Location: KentDuration: 3 monthsRate: TBAMy client, a leading fund management company, is looking for a Senior Oracle DBA with extensive Engineering and Automation experience from...
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013