The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 18 19 17
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 6 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 4.380% 2.609% 3.750%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.580% 2.727% 4.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £388 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £314 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.78% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £29.25 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -4.09%
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
131 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.62% 95.65% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 52
Average daily rate £325 £375 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +5.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +292.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.54 £50.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
SQL DBA
Cheshire

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) OLTP
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (50.00%) VLDB
4 3 (50.00%) IDMS
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (33.33%) Replication
5 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Security
6 1 (16.67%) Finance
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 1 (16.67%) MySQL
6 1 (16.67%) ITIL
6 1 (16.67%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited SQL 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 SQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) OLTP
4 3 (50.00%) VLDB
4 3 (50.00%) IDMS
5 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (16.67%) MySQL
6 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
Chester, North West
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