The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 23 May 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 Chester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 15 20 16
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 10 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.092% 1.724% 4.878%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.463% 1.802% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £394 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 111 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.04% 95.69% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 50
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £156 £240 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.74 £50.00 £10.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
Cheshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (70.00%) VLDB
5 6 (60.00%) OLTP
5 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (60.00%) Replication
5 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
6 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (50.00%) IDMS
7 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (40.00%) Change Management
7 4 (40.00%) Load Testing
7 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (30.00%) MySQL
8 3 (30.00%) ITIL
9 2 (20.00%) Retail
9 2 (20.00%) Degree
9 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (10.00%) Local Government
10 1 (10.00%) VMware
10 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (70.00%) VLDB
4 6 (60.00%) OLTP
5 5 (50.00%) IDMS
6 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (30.00%) MySQL
8 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
1 6 (60.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Load Testing
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) Data Security
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) VMware
Chester, North West
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