I would add that in the UK salary rates are still down on what they were 4 years ago.

Outsourcing is more of a risk in the UK.  I put this down to the empire.  Basically, Great Britain was quite comfortable with colonising and conquering great swathes of the planet and the legacy is that outsourcing is simply moving work to former satellites of that empire.

The term DBA doesn't mean what it used to either in the UK.  Like so many other terms (Platinum card, MP, A level) it used to indicate a high level of attainment, now it means one of a herd.

I actually went to a job interview for a DBA position and was asked if I knew T-SQL