West Sussex DBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the West Sussex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Driffield Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	38
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	12	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.464 %	2.311 %
Daily rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£370
Average daily rate	£338	£385
% change on same period last year	-12.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£366
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.50
Average hourly rate	-	£37.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.78	£30.21
% change on same period last year	+25.06 %
Job Titles West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	487	649
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.649 %	0.647 %
Daily rates quoted	168	224
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£331
Average daily rate	£372	£345
% change on same period last year	+7.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.86	£20.62
Average hourly rate	£22.28	£21.77
% change on same period last year	+2.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.71	£22.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
DBA South East

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.

DBA
Demand Trend

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

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Gatwick	+5	6	£400	-
Horsham	+6	3	£250	-
Crawley	-7	3	£383	+9.52 %

DBA South East

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 11 (68.75 %) SQL Server 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (43.75 %) .NET 5 6 (37.50 %) VB 5 6 (37.50 %) VB.NET 5 6 (37.50 %) VB6 6 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 5 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 6 5 (31.25 %) DTS 7 4 (25.00 %) Business Continuity 7 4 (25.00 %) BCP 7 4 (25.00 %) Disaster Recovery 7 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services

8 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 3 (18.75 %) Release Management 8 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 8 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (18.75 %) Government 8 3 (18.75 %) MS Access 8 3 (18.75 %) VBA 9 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (12.50 %) C# 9 2 (12.50 %) MCDBA 9 2 (12.50 %) Migration 9 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2008 10 1 (6.250 %) Pensions

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 7 (43.75 %) .NET 2 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (68.75 %) SQL Server 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 5 (31.25 %) DTS 5 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 3 (18.75 %) MS Access 6 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2008	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Government 2 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) BCP 1 4 (25.00 %) Disaster Recovery 1 4 (25.00 %) Business Continuity 2 3 (18.75 %) Release Management 2 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (12.50 %) Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (62.50 %) SQL 2 6 (37.50 %) VB 2 6 (37.50 %) VB.NET 2 6 (37.50 %) VB6 3 5 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 4 3 (18.75 %) VBA 5 2 (12.50 %) C# 6 1 (6.250 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCDBA 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle