The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 19 June 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 Cheshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 46 36 36
Rank change year-on-year
-10 0
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 21 31 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.897% 3.804% 3.970%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.148% 4.139% 4.394%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 25
Average daily rate £400 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £321 £345
% change year-on-year
+15.35% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £22.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.27%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
667 749 842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 92.00% 91.90% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 404 467
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
DBA
North West

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire DBA Daily Rate Histogram

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chester +6 10 £394 +5.00%
Crewe - 6 £280 -
Macclesfield - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Warrington - - - -
DBA
North West

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 22 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 21 (87.50%) SQL
3 16 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (54.17%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (54.17%) SQL Server 2000
6 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
7 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
7 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (33.33%) VLDB
9 7 (29.17%) Replication
9 7 (29.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
10 6 (25.00%) OLTP
11 5 (20.83%) IDMS
11 5 (20.83%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (16.67%) Load Testing
12 4 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
12 4 (16.67%) Change Management
12 4 (16.67%) Finance
12 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (12.50%) MySQL
13 3 (12.50%) ITIL
13 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
14 2 (8.333%) Retail
14 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
14 2 (8.333%) Degree
14 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
14 2 (8.333%) Windows

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (58.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 13 (54.17%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (54.17%) SQL Server 2000
5 8 (33.33%) VLDB
6 7 (29.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (25.00%) OLTP
8 5 (20.83%) IDMS
9 4 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (12.50%) MySQL
10 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Replication
2 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (16.67%) Load Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
7 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
7 2 (8.333%) ETL
7 2 (8.333%) Migration
8 1 (4.167%) Data Security
8 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
8 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (4.167%) Systems Analysis
8 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
8 1 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (4.167%) VMware
2 1 (4.167%) Northgate
2 1 (4.167%) Capita