SQL DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halesowen Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Rochester Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	258	219
Rank change on same period last year	-39
Matching contract IT job ads	410	695
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.546 %	0.703 %
As % of the category below	0.607 %	0.767 %
Daily rates quoted	153	252
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£368
Average daily rate	£349	£390
% change on same period last year	-10.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£360
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.15	£33.76
Average hourly rate	£35.46	£36.33
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.78	£38.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.94	£36.23
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL DBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

The 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 Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL DBA
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	-43	377	£345	-11.62 %
London	-6	207	£364	-11.73 %
City of London	-26	70	£360	-23.40 %
South East	-34	68	£327	-14.16 %
South West	+17	30	£298	+1.90 %
North West	-16	18	£283	-19.93 %
Buckinghamshire	+3	18	£304	-18.39 %
Milton Keynes	+8	17	£296	-
East of England	-10	17	£311	-0.19 %
Surrey	+6	16	£324	-13.73 %
Yorkshire	+7	15	£400	-4.19 %
Wales	+4	13	£380	-
South Wales	+6	12	£380	-
Cardiff	+9	12	£380	-
Scotland	+26	11	£373	+24.16 %
West Midlands	-11	8	£284	-14.40 %
East Midlands	+11	8	£336	-
Cambridge	+9	8	£313	+16.45 %
West Yorkshire	+1	8	£400	-2.43 %
Hampshire	+10	8	-	-
Cambridgeshire	0	8	£313	+16.45 %
Cheshire	-8	8	£225	-27.80 %
Berkshire	-38	7	£337	-15.89 %
Northern Ireland	+3	7	£450	-
Dorset	+12	6	£327	+8.86 %
Wiltshire	+5	6	£300	+8.10 %
West Sussex	+2	6	£300	-28.57 %
Manchester	-25	6	£340	-8.23 %
Bristol	+11	6	£291	-4.50 %
County Antrim	-2	6	£450	-

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

1 710 (87.01 %) SQL Server 2 583 (71.45 %) SQL 3 437 (53.55 %) SQL Server 2005 4 322 (39.46 %) SQL Server 2000 5 164 (20.10 %) Finance 6 160 (19.61 %) Windows 7 157 (19.24 %) Transact-SQL 8 151 (18.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 143 (17.52 %) Microsoft 10 137 (16.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 121 (14.83 %) Oracle 12 113 (13.85 %) DTS 13 99 (12.13 %) Replication 14 96 (11.76 %) .NET 15 89 (10.91 %) Clustering

16 85 (10.42 %) SQL Server 7 17 83 (10.17 %) Migration 17 83 (10.17 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 18 73 (8.946 %) UNIX 19 63 (7.721 %) Banking 20 51 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 21 48 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 22 47 (5.760 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 23 46 (5.637 %) MS Excel 23 46 (5.637 %) Oracle 10g 24 45 (5.515 %) Microsoft Certification 24 45 (5.515 %) Disaster Recovery 25 44 (5.392 %) Sybase 26 35 (4.289 %) Windows Server 2003 27 34 (4.167 %) VB

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 96 (11.76 %) .NET 2 28 (3.431 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (2.574 %) XML 4 12 (1.471 %) ASP 5 5 (0.613 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (0.368 %) HTML 6 3 (0.368 %) XSL 6 3 (0.368 %) XSLT 7 2 (0.245 %) COM 7 2 (0.245 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 2 (0.245 %) XML Schema 8 1 (0.123 %) Middleware 8 1 (0.123 %) Hibernate 8 1 (0.123 %) MDX 8 1 (0.123 %) WebServices 8 1 (0.123 %) ODBC 8 1 (0.123 %) WSH	Application Platforms 1 17 (2.083 %) IIS 2 11 (1.348 %) Oracle Application Server 3 7 (0.858 %) SharePoint 4 3 (0.368 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (0.368 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (0.368 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (0.368 %) Office Project Server 5 2 (0.245 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (0.245 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (0.123 %) Apache 6 1 (0.123 %) CMS 6 1 (0.123 %) SAS 6 1 (0.123 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 1 (0.123 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 46 (5.637 %) MS Excel 2 6 (0.735 %) MS Office 3 4 (0.490 %) MS Project 4 3 (0.368 %) MS Visio 4 3 (0.368 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (0.123 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (0.490 %) Cerner Millennium 2 3 (0.368 %) Microsoft CRM 3 2 (0.245 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (0.123 %) Line 500 4 1 (0.123 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.123 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 32 (3.922 %) SAN 2 7 (0.858 %) DNS 3 6 (0.735 %) Intranet 3 6 (0.735 %) Internet 4 4 (0.490 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (0.245 %) WAN 5 2 (0.245 %) DHCP 5 2 (0.245 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 710 (87.01 %) SQL Server 2 437 (53.55 %) SQL Server 2005 3 322 (39.46 %) SQL Server 2000 4 151 (18.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 137 (16.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 113 (13.85 %) DTS 7 85 (10.42 %) SQL Server 7 8 83 (10.17 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 51 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 10 47 (5.760 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 46 (5.637 %) Oracle 10g 12 27 (3.309 %) Oracle 9i 13 26 (3.186 %) OLAP 14 23 (2.819 %) ETL 15 22 (2.696 %) RDBMS 16 20 (2.451 %) Crystal Reports 17 15 (1.838 %) MySQL 17 15 (1.838 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 13 (1.593 %) MS Access 19 11 (1.348 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 12 (1.471 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (0.245 %) WinRunner 3 1 (0.123 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.123 %) Flash	General 1 164 (20.10 %) Finance 2 63 (7.721 %) Banking 3 26 (3.186 %) Law 4 25 (3.064 %) Investment Banking 5 18 (2.206 %) Government 6 16 (1.961 %) Telecoms 7 14 (1.716 %) Insurance 8 13 (1.593 %) Financial Institution 9 10 (1.225 %) Retail 9 10 (1.225 %) Marketing 10 9 (1.103 %) Auditing 10 9 (1.103 %) Pensions 11 8 (0.980 %) Legal 12 7 (0.858 %) Health 13 5 (0.613 %) Billing 14 3 (0.368 %) Back Office 14 3 (0.368 %) Music 14 3 (0.368 %) Retail Banking 15 2 (0.245 %) Local Government 15 2 (0.245 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 99 (12.13 %) Replication 2 89 (10.91 %) Clustering 3 12 (1.471 %) NHS 4 4 (0.490 %) Client/Server 5 3 (0.368 %) Mathematics 6 2 (0.245 %) Equities 7 1 (0.123 %) Tandem 7 1 (0.123 %) E-Learning 7 1 (0.123 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.123 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.123 %) AS400 7 1 (0.123 %) Social Network 7 1 (0.123 %) Market Risk 7 1 (0.123 %) Data Conversion	Operating Systems 1 160 (19.61 %) Windows 2 73 (8.946 %) UNIX 3 48 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 4 35 (4.289 %) Windows Server 2003 5 16 (1.961 %) Windows NT 5 16 (1.961 %) Solaris 6 9 (1.103 %) Linux 7 6 (0.735 %) AIX 8 2 (0.245 %) HPUX 8 2 (0.245 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 83 (10.17 %) Migration 2 45 (5.515 %) Disaster Recovery 3 26 (3.186 %) Business Intelligence 4 25 (3.064 %) Data Migration 5 24 (2.941 %) Data Modelling 6 17 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 7 16 (1.961 %) CRM 8 15 (1.838 %) E-Commerce 9 14 (1.716 %) SC Cleared 10 11 (1.348 %) Release Management 11 10 (1.225 %) ITIL 11 10 (1.225 %) Project Management 11 10 (1.225 %) Scrum 12 8 (0.980 %) Asset Management 12 8 (0.980 %) Document Management 13 7 (0.858 %) Electronic Trading 13 7 (0.858 %) Security Management 13 7 (0.858 %) Configuration Management 14 6 (0.735 %) BCP 14 6 (0.735 %) Benchmarking	Programming Languages 1 583 (71.45 %) SQL 2 157 (19.24 %) Transact-SQL 3 34 (4.167 %) VB 4 31 (3.799 %) C# 5 29 (3.554 %) Perl 6 21 (2.574 %) Shell Script 7 19 (2.328 %) VB.NET 8 16 (1.961 %) PL/SQL 9 13 (1.593 %) VBA 10 12 (1.471 %) VBScript 11 11 (1.348 %) Java 12 9 (1.103 %) VB6 13 8 (0.980 %) C 14 4 (0.490 %) JavaScript 14 4 (0.490 %) C++ 14 4 (0.490 %) Korn 15 3 (0.368 %) FoxPro (VFP) 16 2 (0.245 %) XPath 17 1 (0.123 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 45 (5.515 %) Microsoft Certification 2 33 (4.044 %) MCDBA 3 11 (1.348 %) Degree 4 5 (0.613 %) MCP 5 2 (0.245 %) MCSD 6 1 (0.123 %) MCDST 6 1 (0.123 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.123 %) MCITP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (1.225 %) SLA 2 3 (0.368 %) QA 3 1 (0.123 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 19 (2.328 %) Oracle RMAN 2 16 (1.961 %) Active Directory 3 9 (1.103 %) Oracle RAC 4 7 (0.858 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.123 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (0.123 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.123 %) LiteSpeed	Systems Management 1 5 (0.613 %) Oracle Statspack 2 4 (0.490 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 3 (0.368 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.245 %) AutoSys 4 2 (0.245 %) MIIS 5 1 (0.123 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.123 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.123 %) MOM
Vendors 1 143 (17.52 %) Microsoft 2 121 (14.83 %) Oracle 3 44 (5.392 %) Sybase 4 11 (1.348 %) Business Objects 5 9 (1.103 %) SAP 6 7 (0.858 %) BMC 7 6 (0.735 %) Reuters 8 5 (0.613 %) Charles River 8 5 (0.613 %) Sun 9 4 (0.490 %) Cerner 9 4 (0.490 %) Cognos 9 4 (0.490 %) Bloomberg 9 4 (0.490 %) VERITAS 10 3 (0.368 %) Peregrine 10 3 (0.368 %) Intec 10 3 (0.368 %) Hummingbird 10 3 (0.368 %) Mercator 10 3 (0.368 %) ProClarity 10 3 (0.368 %) HP 11 2 (0.245 %) Dell