September 16, 2009 at 11:06 am
Steve, i meant the guy doing the work. The 'middleman' rates are always hugely variable depending on the influence they have and how they market you. Some contractors i know have two or three middlemen too like if you live in Florida and someone finds you a project up in California say, and you are desperate for the work...The pie gets cut in huge pieces and very little comes down to the person below. But sometimes due to the influence these contract agencies have you can land in real good places where individuals cannot get into also. Like a freind of mine went to this plum datawarehousing project in a leading bank that would not hire anyone outside of the contracting company. What he lost by way of $ though the experience on the project made up and he is making twice he used to now. So it all depends.
September 16, 2009 at 11:11 am
I think the guy doing the work can get a variety of rates.
I'd expect short term rates to be in the $75-150/hr range, depending on experience. Longer term rates would be lower.
If you're working for a consulting company, I'd think either salary, which is common, or the $40-75/hr range.
September 16, 2009 at 11:18 am
Yes that is about what i have seen also. Oracle DBAs though make more than double of what SQL Server DBAs do, that is another area of huge difference. Also DBA + BI Developer is a very hot combo especially if you are certified both ways.
September 17, 2009 at 9:13 am
dma-669038 (9/16/2009)
Yes that is about what i have seen also. Oracle DBAs though make more than double of what SQL Server DBAs do, that is another area of huge difference. Also DBA + BI Developer is a very hot combo especially if you are certified both ways.
Certification must be a serious thing stateside, maybe it does increase your salary or rate. but if I even contemplated getting certified, I know that it would make absolutely no difference to my contract rate.
I have only one serious gap in my skills and that is OLAP and datawarehousing, purely because I have never been at a client where, one it is used or two I have access to it. It isnt something I can fix easily either. I am not saying I cannot do it, just that unless you can show serious experience in datawarehousing, you have no chance in getting the role. and learning from a book or online might educate you in how to do things, it will not get you the role.
Maybe if i had got my oracle certs, when I was an oracle dba. that might have made me more employable as an oracle/sql server specialist perhaps.
How employable are you stateside if you can dba oracle/sqlserver/sybase? , are multi-skilled dbas in demand?
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September 17, 2009 at 9:25 am
Sometimes they do, if you land in a really big corporation that uses all 3 platforms and then of course you do make better than someone who knows just one coz they do save $ paying one person instead of two even if they pay more. Where I work they have some vendor software on Oracle, one DBA who knows just enough Oracle to maintain that and does SQL mostly - he makes more than we do coz he knows Oracle to the extent they need it. Now he has been given the task of service packing those servers on Oracle and he simply hates it coz it is so much dumb work and he loses out on sql learning and experience. They asked me too if i would want that last year, were even willing to send me for training but i said no. They are two big domains of learning, Oracle and SQL Server, and within SQL, with the advent of Gemini and so on BI is taking on its own huge form as well. I don't spread myself thin, yes even in return for money. It might help with one job but overall it does not help me hone skills well and is a frustrating experience.
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