The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 39 28 47
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 13 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.858% 3.846% 1.587%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.153% 3.846% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 3
Average salary £41,000 £21,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+95.23% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
313 156 236
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 92.88% 100.00% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 167 132 228
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £46,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
Cheshire

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

Chester DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title.

1 43 (91.49%) SQL
2 39 (82.98%) SQL Server
3 34 (72.34%) T-SQL
4 33 (70.21%) SQL Server 2005
4 33 (70.21%) SQL Server 2008
5 28 (59.57%) SQL Server 2000
6 27 (57.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (51.06%) Replication
7 24 (51.06%) Clustering
8 21 (44.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (36.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (34.04%) Migration
10 16 (34.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (31.91%) Data Modelling
12 12 (25.53%) Data Transformation
13 11 (23.40%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (23.40%) DTS
14 10 (21.28%) OLTP
15 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
15 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (19.15%) High Availability
16 8 (17.02%) Agile Software Development
17 6 (12.77%) HTTP
18 5 (10.64%) ETL
18 5 (10.64%) Finance
18 5 (10.64%) Database Security
19 4 (8.511%) Capacity Management
19 4 (8.511%) SQL Server 2012
19 4 (8.511%) E-Commerce
19 4 (8.511%) MySQL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.383%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.128%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (6.383%) MS Project
1 3 (6.383%) MS Office
1 3 (6.383%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.128%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.128%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.128%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) HTTP
2 1 (2.128%) LAN
2 1 (2.128%) WAN
2 1 (2.128%) DHCP
2 1 (2.128%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.128%) VPN
2 1 (2.128%) DNS
2 1 (2.128%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.128%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.128%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (82.98%) SQL Server
2 33 (70.21%) SQL Server 2005
2 33 (70.21%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (59.57%) SQL Server 2000
4 27 (57.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (44.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (34.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (23.40%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (23.40%) DTS
8 10 (21.28%) OLTP
9 4 (8.511%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (8.511%) MySQL
10 3 (6.383%) Oracle 9i
10 3 (6.383%) RDBMS
10 3 (6.383%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (4.255%) IDMS
11 2 (4.255%) VLDB
11 2 (4.255%) OLAP
12 1 (2.128%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (2.128%) Data Mining
General
1 5 (10.64%) Finance
2 1 (2.128%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 24 (51.06%) Replication
1 24 (51.06%) Clustering
2 2 (4.255%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.128%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.128%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.128%) Windows
1 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (2.128%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (34.04%) Migration
3 15 (31.91%) Data Modelling
4 12 (25.53%) Data Transformation
5 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (19.15%) High Availability
6 8 (17.02%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (10.64%) ETL
7 5 (10.64%) Database Security
8 4 (8.511%) Capacity Management
8 4 (8.511%) E-Commerce
9 3 (6.383%) ITIL
9 3 (6.383%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (6.383%) Unit Testing
9 3 (6.383%) Release Management
10 2 (4.255%) Database Tuning
10 2 (4.255%) Change Management
11 1 (2.128%) Project Management
11 1 (2.128%) Workflow
11 1 (2.128%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (91.49%) SQL
2 34 (72.34%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.128%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (6.383%) OCP
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.128%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (6.383%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.128%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.128%) vSphere
2 1 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.383%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.128%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.128%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.128%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.511%) Oracle
3 3 (6.383%) Sun
3 3 (6.383%) Veritas
4 1 (2.128%) NetApp
4 1 (2.128%) HP
4 1 (2.128%) Dell
4 1 (2.128%) Citrix
4 1 (2.128%) VMware
Chester, North West
An expert level Database Administrator is required to join and lead a large production support team, for my household name client in Chester.
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013