Yorkshire DBA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Database Administrator (DBA)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Ayr Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Esher Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	43
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	55	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.133 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	3.458 %
Daily rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£318
Average daily rate	£388	£324
% change on same period last year	+19.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£38.67
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£40.50
% change on same period last year	-50.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£42.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.80	£36.34
% change on same period last year	-15.25 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2420	3615
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.837 %	3.848 %
Daily rates quoted	539	839
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£339
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	277	339
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.71	£21.46
Average hourly rate	£21.03	£22.88
% change on same period last year	-8.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.35	£24.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
DBA England

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
West Yorkshire	-7	32	£392	+18.93 %
North Yorkshire	+5	9	£400	+37.93 %
South Yorkshire	+15	5	£350	-

DBA England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 72 (58.54 %) SQL 1 72 (58.54 %) Oracle 2 46 (37.40 %) SQL Server 3 41 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 4 30 (24.39 %) Oracle RAC 5 27 (21.95 %) Windows 6 25 (20.33 %) Solaris 7 24 (19.51 %) Linux 7 24 (19.51 %) PL/SQL 8 23 (18.70 %) SQL Server 2005 9 19 (15.45 %) SQL Server 2000 9 19 (15.45 %) Migration 9 19 (15.45 %) Oracle 9i 10 18 (14.63 %) DB2 11 17 (13.82 %) DTS

11 17 (13.82 %) Microsoft 12 16 (13.01 %) Transact-SQL 13 15 (12.20 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 14 (11.38 %) MS Excel 14 14 (11.38 %) Windows Server 2003 15 13 (10.57 %) Replication 15 13 (10.57 %) UNIX 16 12 (9.756 %) ITIL 16 12 (9.756 %) Finance 17 11 (8.943 %) Data Migration 18 10 (8.130 %) WebLogic 19 9 (7.317 %) Visual Studio 19 9 (7.317 %) Clustering 19 9 (7.317 %) SQL Server Integration Services 20 8 (6.504 %) Health

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 8 (6.504 %) WebServices 2 6 (4.878 %) Oracle Streams 3 3 (2.439 %) .NET 4 2 (1.626 %) CSS 4 2 (1.626 %) XML 4 2 (1.626 %) XHTML 4 2 (1.626 %) ISPF 5 1 (0.813 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 10 (8.130 %) WebLogic 2 5 (4.065 %) WebLogic Portal 3 4 (3.252 %) Apache 4 3 (2.439 %) Tomcat 5 2 (1.626 %) Tuxedo 5 2 (1.626 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 1 (0.813 %) ArcGIS 6 1 (0.813 %) Oracle Application Server 6 1 (0.813 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 14 (11.38 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.813 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 6 (4.878 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (1.626 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (1.626 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.252 %) SAN 2 3 (2.439 %) Internet 3 1 (0.813 %) ATM 3 1 (0.813 %) LAN 3 1 (0.813 %) PBX 3 1 (0.813 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (37.40 %) SQL Server 2 41 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 23 (18.70 %) SQL Server 2005 4 19 (15.45 %) SQL Server 2000 4 19 (15.45 %) Oracle 9i 5 18 (14.63 %) DB2 6 17 (13.82 %) DTS 7 15 (12.20 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 9 (7.317 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 8 (6.504 %) OLAP 9 8 (6.504 %) MySQL 10 7 (5.691 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 7 (5.691 %) RDBMS 11 6 (4.878 %) MS Access 12 5 (4.065 %) Oracle Reports 12 5 (4.065 %) TOAD 12 5 (4.065 %) Oracle 11g 13 4 (3.252 %) Oracle OLAP 13 4 (3.252 %) OLTP 14 3 (2.439 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 9 (7.317 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (4.878 %) ERwin 3 5 (4.065 %) PeopleTools 4 1 (0.813 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 12 (9.756 %) Finance 2 8 (6.504 %) Health 3 1 (0.813 %) Legal 3 1 (0.813 %) Government 3 1 (0.813 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 13 (10.57 %) Replication 2 9 (7.317 %) Clustering 3 5 (4.065 %) Client/Server 4 4 (3.252 %) N-Tier 4 4 (3.252 %) Mainframe 5 2 (1.626 %) Data Integration 5 2 (1.626 %) NHS 6 1 (0.813 %) HACMP	Operating Systems 1 27 (21.95 %) Windows 2 25 (20.33 %) Solaris 3 24 (19.51 %) Linux 4 14 (11.38 %) Windows Server 2003 5 13 (10.57 %) UNIX 6 8 (6.504 %) AIX 6 8 (6.504 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 6 (4.878 %) zOS 8 5 (4.065 %) HPUX 9 4 (3.252 %) Red Hat Linux 10 2 (1.626 %) Tru64 10 2 (1.626 %) Windows 2000 11 1 (0.813 %) NetWare 11 1 (0.813 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (15.45 %) Migration 2 12 (9.756 %) ITIL 3 11 (8.943 %) Data Migration 4 6 (4.878 %) Disaster Recovery 5 5 (4.065 %) Data Modelling 6 3 (2.439 %) Project Management 6 3 (2.439 %) Continuous Integration 6 3 (2.439 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (1.626 %) Data Management 7 2 (1.626 %) ERP 8 1 (0.813 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (0.813 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (0.813 %) Time Management 8 1 (0.813 %) Performance Management 8 1 (0.813 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 72 (58.54 %) SQL 2 24 (19.51 %) PL/SQL 3 16 (13.01 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (6.504 %) C 4 8 (6.504 %) C# 5 7 (5.691 %) Shell Script 6 3 (2.439 %) Java 7 2 (1.626 %) COBOL 7 2 (1.626 %) VB 7 2 (1.626 %) JCL 8 1 (0.813 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (1.626 %) Degree 2 1 (0.813 %) Oracle Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.439 %) SLA 2 2 (1.626 %) QA
System Software 1 30 (24.39 %) Oracle RAC 2 6 (4.878 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 4 (3.252 %) OpenView 1 4 (3.252 %) MAINVIEW
Vendors 1 72 (58.54 %) Oracle 2 17 (13.82 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.691 %) Sun 4 6 (4.878 %) HP 4 6 (4.878 %) BMC 5 5 (4.065 %) PeopleSoft 6 4 (3.252 %) Red Hat 6 4 (3.252 %) ESRI 7 3 (2.439 %) BEA 8 2 (1.626 %) IBM 8 2 (1.626 %) MicroStrategy 9 1 (0.813 %) NetApp 9 1 (0.813 %) Siemens 9 1 (0.813 %) Lotus 9 1 (0.813 %) Cisco 9 1 (0.813 %) Citrix 9 1 (0.813 %) Avaya