DBA Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 76 74 72
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 19 29 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.151% 1.300% 1.161%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.245% 1.400% 1.253%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 12
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £279 £77
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £485 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
+12.30% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £52.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -2.50%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1526 2071 1756
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.43% 92.83% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 944 803
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 171 147
Average hourly rate £18.48 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
DBA
England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DBA across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DBA across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham +4 7 £325 +0.77%
Worcestershire -11 5 - -
Shropshire +9 4 £325 +8.24%
Coventry -4 2 £325 -7.14%
DBA
England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 DBA in their job title.

1 33 (50.77%) RDBMS
2 31 (47.69%) Oracle
3 30 (46.15%) SQL
4 29 (44.62%) SQL Server
5 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
6 16 (24.62%) Migration
7 15 (23.08%) Finance
7 15 (23.08%) UNIX
8 14 (21.54%) Hyperion
8 14 (21.54%) Essbase
9 13 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 13 (20.00%) T-SQL
10 12 (18.46%) Hyperion Planning
10 12 (18.46%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (18.46%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (16.92%) WebLogic
11 11 (16.92%) IIS
11 11 (16.92%) MS Office
11 11 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (15.38%) J2EE
12 10 (15.38%) Replication
13 9 (13.85%) QA
13 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
13 9 (13.85%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (12.31%) Oracle 11g
14 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (10.77%) SQL Server 2005
15 7 (10.77%) Oracle BPEL
15 7 (10.77%) BPEL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (15.38%) J2EE
2 6 (9.231%) Web Services
3 1 (1.538%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.538%) Ajax
3 1 (1.538%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.538%) Oracle Streams
3 1 (1.538%) ASP
3 1 (1.538%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.538%) CSS
3 1 (1.538%) DHTML
3 1 (1.538%) HTML
3 1 (1.538%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (16.92%) WebLogic
1 11 (16.92%) IIS
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle BPEL
3 5 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (6.154%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.538%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.538%) Apache
5 1 (1.538%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (16.92%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Hyperion Planning
2 9 (13.85%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (6.154%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (3.077%) Misys Midas
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.692%) Internet
2 4 (6.154%) Intranet
3 2 (3.077%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (50.77%) RDBMS
2 29 (44.62%) SQL Server
3 14 (21.54%) Essbase
4 13 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (12.31%) Oracle 11g
6 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (10.77%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (10.77%) OLTP
6 7 (10.77%) Oracle BI EE
7 6 (9.231%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (6.154%) MS Access
9 3 (4.615%) DTS
10 2 (3.077%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (1.538%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (1.538%) IDMS
11 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (1.538%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (4.615%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.077%) Retail
4 1 (1.538%) German Language
4 1 (1.538%) Automotive
4 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Replication
2 3 (4.615%) Clustering
3 1 (1.538%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.538%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) UNIX
2 6 (9.231%) AIX
3 2 (3.077%) Solaris
3 2 (3.077%) Linux
3 2 (3.077%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.62%) Migration
2 12 (18.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (10.77%) ITIL
4 7 (10.77%) BPEL
5 6 (9.231%) Resource Management
6 5 (7.692%) Capacity Management
6 5 (7.692%) Data Migration
6 5 (7.692%) MVC
6 5 (7.692%) Workflow
6 5 (7.692%) ETL
7 4 (6.154%) Service Delivery
7 4 (6.154%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (4.615%) Data Management
8 3 (4.615%) Quality Management
8 3 (4.615%) Build Automation
8 3 (4.615%) Database Security
9 2 (3.077%) Database Tuning
9 2 (3.077%) Capacity Planning
10 1 (1.538%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.154%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.538%) VB6
5 1 (1.538%) C#
5 1 (1.538%) Java
5 1 (1.538%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.538%) VBScript
5 1 (1.538%) VB
5 1 (1.538%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (6.154%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (4.615%) OCP
3 2 (3.077%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.077%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.538%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.538%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 3 (4.615%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (9.231%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.692%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.077%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Oracle
2 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) Hyperion
4 5 (7.692%) Mercator
4 5 (7.692%) VMware
5 4 (6.154%) Citrix
6 1 (1.538%) SAP
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