SQL DBA Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 329 284 228
Rank change year-on-year
-45 -56
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 225 334 480
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.486% 0.572% 0.773%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.527% 0.619% 0.834%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 196 263
Average daily rate £340 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.36% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 21
Average hourly rate £26.00 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.30 £16.50 £23.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £34.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -15.57%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

SQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

SQL DBA Hourly Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -36 200 £350 +0.14%
London -50 83 £350 -
South East +4 34 £375 +3.44%
City of London -2 25 £325 -13.33%
Yorkshire +14 23 £213 -31.37%
North West -1 19 £381 +32.60%
East of England +19 18 £325 -7.14%
Scotland -8 18 £338 +29.80%
South Yorkshire +10 10 £170 -45.16%
Surrey +8 9 £300 -29.82%
West Midlands +7 9 £313 -
West Yorkshire +5 9 £300 -2.43%
Glasgow -28 9 £338 -
Cheshire +3 7 £388 +24.00%
South West +14 6 £200 -37.50%
East Sussex +10 6 £375 -
Chester +1 6 £388 +3.33%
Sheffield - 6 £165 -
Edinburgh - 6 £350 -
Brighton - 5 £375 -
Worcester - 5 - -
Worcestershire - 5 - -
Berkshire +18 4 £375 +33.92%
Norfolk +3 4 - -
Norwich +2 4 - -
Manchester +1 4 £331 +20.45%
Merseyside 0 4 £175 -41.66%
Leeds -5 4 - -
Taunton - 4 - -
Somerset - 4 - -

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title.

1 419 (88.21%) SQL
2 406 (85.47%) SQL Server
3 196 (41.26%) SQL Server 2008
4 180 (37.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 167 (35.16%) T-SQL
6 157 (33.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 151 (31.79%) SQL Server 2005
8 107 (22.53%) Windows
8 107 (22.53%) Microsoft
9 97 (20.42%) Replication
10 93 (19.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 75 (15.79%) Clustering
12 65 (13.68%) Oracle
13 64 (13.47%) Finance
14 60 (12.63%) Migration
14 60 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
15 54 (11.37%) SQL Server 2000
16 53 (11.16%) SQL Server 2012
17 52 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
18 47 (9.895%) ETL
18 47 (9.895%) .NET
19 41 (8.632%) Windows Server 2008
20 38 (8.000%) Security Cleared
21 36 (7.579%) MS Excel
22 34 (7.158%) ITIL
23 32 (6.737%) Windows Server 2003
23 32 (6.737%) Disaster Recovery
23 32 (6.737%) Capacity Planning
24 31 (6.526%) Banking
24 31 (6.526%) OLTP

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SQL 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 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (9.895%) .NET
2 11 (2.316%) Web Services
3 10 (2.105%) ASP
4 9 (1.895%) ASP.NET
5 6 (1.263%) XML
6 4 (0.842%) Middleware
7 3 (0.632%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.421%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.421%) MDX
8 2 (0.421%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.211%) WSH
9 1 (0.211%) DHTML
9 1 (0.211%) HTML
9 1 (0.211%) CSS
9 1 (0.211%) ODBC
9 1 (0.211%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.211%) Ajax
9 1 (0.211%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.211%) WCF
9 1 (0.211%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 20 (4.211%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.158%) IIS
3 12 (2.526%) WebLogic
4 9 (1.895%) Oracle Application Server
5 6 (1.263%) Windows Azure
6 5 (1.053%) Apache
6 5 (1.053%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.632%) Moodle
8 2 (0.421%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.211%) CICS
9 1 (0.211%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (0.211%) MTS
9 1 (0.211%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.211%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.211%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.211%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 36 (7.579%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.842%) MS Office
3 1 (0.211%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.474%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (1.053%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.053%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 3 (0.632%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.211%) Movex
4 1 (0.211%) Maximo
4 1 (0.211%) RMDS
4 1 (0.211%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.211%) Epicor iScala
4 1 (0.211%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.368%) SAN
2 9 (1.895%) Internet
3 8 (1.684%) HTTP
3 8 (1.684%) Intranet
4 4 (0.842%) NAS
5 2 (0.421%) VPN
6 1 (0.211%) DNS
6 1 (0.211%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.211%) Wireless
6 1 (0.211%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (85.47%) SQL Server
2 196 (41.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 180 (37.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 157 (33.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 151 (31.79%) SQL Server 2005
6 93 (19.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 54 (11.37%) SQL Server 2000
8 53 (11.16%) SQL Server 2012
9 52 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (6.526%) OLTP
10 31 (6.526%) DTS
11 22 (4.632%) RDBMS
12 21 (4.421%) Oracle 8/8i
13 19 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
14 17 (3.579%) Oracle 11g
15 16 (3.368%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 15 (3.158%) MySQL
17 14 (2.947%) SQLPlus
18 11 (2.316%) OLAP
19 10 (2.105%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (1.263%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (1.053%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (0.842%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (0.842%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.632%) Subversion
5 2 (0.421%) ERwin
General
1 64 (13.47%) Finance
2 31 (6.526%) Banking
3 19 (4.000%) Investment Banking
4 9 (1.895%) Retail
5 7 (1.474%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.053%) Law
7 4 (0.842%) Legal
7 4 (0.842%) Front Office
8 3 (0.632%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.421%) German Language
9 2 (0.421%) Games
10 1 (0.211%) Back Office
10 1 (0.211%) Advertising
10 1 (0.211%) Billing
10 1 (0.211%) International Banking
10 1 (0.211%) Marketing
10 1 (0.211%) Local Government
10 1 (0.211%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.42%) Replication
2 75 (15.79%) Clustering
3 13 (2.737%) Statistics
4 6 (1.263%) SaaS
4 6 (1.263%) NHS
5 5 (1.053%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.842%) Data Integration
6 4 (0.842%) Computer Science
6 4 (0.842%) AS400
6 4 (0.842%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.632%) VLE
7 3 (0.632%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.632%) Wiki
7 3 (0.632%) Data Extraction
8 2 (0.421%) Online Games
8 2 (0.421%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.421%) Visualisation
8 2 (0.421%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.421%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.211%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 107 (22.53%) Windows
2 41 (8.632%) Windows Server 2008
3 32 (6.737%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (5.474%) Linux
5 25 (5.263%) UNIX
6 10 (2.105%) Solaris
7 7 (1.474%) AIX
8 4 (0.842%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.842%) Windows NT
9 3 (0.632%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.421%) Android
10 2 (0.421%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.421%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.211%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.211%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.211%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.211%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (12.63%) Migration
1 60 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (9.895%) ETL
3 34 (7.158%) ITIL
4 32 (6.737%) Disaster Recovery
4 32 (6.737%) Capacity Planning
5 27 (5.684%) High Availability
6 25 (5.263%) Data Modelling
7 18 (3.789%) Database Security
8 14 (2.947%) Incident Management
9 12 (2.526%) Capacity Management
10 11 (2.316%) Change Management
10 11 (2.316%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (2.105%) Data Migration
11 10 (2.105%) Service Management
11 10 (2.105%) CRM
11 10 (2.105%) Project Management
12 9 (1.895%) BCP
12 9 (1.895%) PRINCE2
12 9 (1.895%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 419 (88.21%) SQL
2 167 (35.16%) T-SQL
3 18 (3.789%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.368%) Shell Script
4 16 (3.368%) C#
5 13 (2.737%) PL/SQL
6 12 (2.526%) Perl
7 11 (2.316%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.895%) Korn
9 7 (1.474%) VBA
9 7 (1.474%) Java
10 6 (1.263%) VB
11 4 (0.842%) VBScript
12 2 (0.421%) Bash shell
12 2 (0.421%) VB6
12 2 (0.421%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.211%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.211%) Python
13 1 (0.211%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 19 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (4.000%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.316%) MCDBA
4 10 (2.105%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.895%) Oracle Certification
5 9 (1.895%) Degree
5 9 (1.895%) MCITP
6 4 (0.842%) MCTS
6 4 (0.842%) MCSA
6 4 (0.842%) OCA
7 3 (0.632%) OCP
8 2 (0.421%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.421%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.211%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.211%) MCSE
9 1 (0.211%) MCT
9 1 (0.211%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.474%) SLA
2 18 (3.789%) QA
3 3 (0.632%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.421%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.421%) Oracle RAC
2 20 (4.211%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.737%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.316%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (1.053%) SRDF
6 4 (0.842%) LiteSpeed
7 3 (0.632%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.421%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.211%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.211%) Samba
9 1 (0.211%) VMware ESX
9 1 (0.211%) Snort
9 1 (0.211%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.211%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.105%) Data Guard
2 5 (1.053%) SCOM
3 3 (0.632%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (0.421%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.421%) BMC Performance Manager
4 2 (0.421%) HP SIM
4 2 (0.421%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (0.421%) Zenoss
4 2 (0.421%) WMI
4 2 (0.421%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.421%) Nagios
4 2 (0.421%) OpenView
5 1 (0.211%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.211%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 107 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 65 (13.68%) Oracle
3 22 (4.632%) VMware
4 7 (1.474%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.474%) Sybase
5 6 (1.263%) Citrix
5 6 (1.263%) HP
5 6 (1.263%) Mercator
6 5 (1.053%) Cognos
7 4 (0.842%) Red Gate
7 4 (0.842%) NetApp
8 3 (0.632%) Veritas
8 3 (0.632%) BMC
8 3 (0.632%) IBM
8 3 (0.632%) EMC
8 3 (0.632%) CommVault
8 3 (0.632%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.421%) IronPort
9 2 (0.421%) Capita
9 2 (0.421%) Business Objects
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London
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Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
SQL Server DBA
Nottinghamshire
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Posted: 17 May 2013
SQL DBA
Liverpool, North West
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
SQL DBA (Production) - 2 months+ - Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Posted: 15 May 2013
SQL server DBA, Production support, Projects
City, London
A large financial services client is looking for a production support SQL server DBA with the following experience: - Extensive experience in MS SQL server 2000, 2005 and 2008... -...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
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SQL DBA / Database Administrator
London
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Gonnadoo
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
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SQL DBA - Migration / Optimisation / Tuning / Mirroring / Replication - London £350-400pd
London
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Rate: GBP350 to GBP400 per day
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SQL Server DBA - Urgent Contract - 3+months
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Posted: 4 May 2013
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West Midlands
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Rate: Market rates
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Essex
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Chester, North West
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Rate: £350.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Senior SQL DBA
Glasgow, Scotland
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Rate: £300.00 - £350 per day
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