The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Berkshire 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
MySQL
Rank 98 102 90
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing MySQL 25 37 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.033% 1.214% 1.177%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.869% 12.25% 6.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 17
Average daily rate £355 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £252 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
426 302 579
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 17.60% 9.905% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 132 264
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 52
Average hourly rate £34.00 £45.00 £42.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +5.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £16.75 £32.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Berkshire MySQL Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MySQL Daily Rate Trend

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire MySQL Daily Rate Histogram

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Reading +15 12 £378 +7.85%
Slough -9 10 £350 -9.09%
Maidenhead -5 2 - -
Newbury 0 1 - -
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MySQL also 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 that cited MySQL.

1 25 (50.00%) PHP
2 24 (48.00%) Oracle
3 20 (40.00%) Perl
4 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (30.00%) UNIX
6 14 (28.00%) HTML
6 14 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (26.00%) SQL
7 13 (26.00%) CSS
7 13 (26.00%) Linux
7 13 (26.00%) OO
7 13 (26.00%) Greenplum
8 12 (24.00%) Telecoms
9 11 (22.00%) Apache
10 10 (20.00%) Subversion
11 9 (18.00%) Windows
11 9 (18.00%) XML
11 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
12 8 (16.00%) Java
12 8 (16.00%) jQuery
13 7 (14.00%) PHP5
13 7 (14.00%) Ericsson
13 7 (14.00%) MVC
13 7 (14.00%) CMS
14 6 (12.00%) Back Office
14 6 (12.00%) Nokia
14 6 (12.00%) OOP
14 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
14 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (12.00%) SQL Server

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing MySQL also 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 that cited MySQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (28.00%) HTML
2 13 (26.00%) CSS
3 9 (18.00%) XML
4 8 (16.00%) jQuery
5 6 (12.00%) Ajax
5 6 (12.00%) HTML5
6 5 (10.00%) XHTML
7 4 (8.000%) LAMP
7 4 (8.000%) CSS3
7 4 (8.000%) Zend Framework
7 4 (8.000%) Web Services
8 3 (6.000%) Hibernate
8 3 (6.000%) .NET
9 2 (4.000%) J2EE
9 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET
9 2 (4.000%) EJB
9 2 (4.000%) JMS
9 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 1 (2.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.00%) Apache
2 7 (14.00%) CMS
3 5 (10.00%) Drupal
3 5 (10.00%) WebLogic
4 4 (8.000%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (4.000%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.000%) WordPress
6 1 (2.000%) ExpressionEngine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (12.00%) Nokia NetAct
2 5 (10.00%) Internet
3 4 (8.000%) 3G
3 4 (8.000%) HTTP
4 2 (4.000%) DNS
5 1 (2.000%) Broadband
5 1 (2.000%) DSL
5 1 (2.000%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (6.000%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (4.000%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (2.000%) Adabas
7 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (2.000%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Subversion
2 3 (6.000%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.000%) Maven
4 1 (2.000%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (24.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (12.00%) Back Office
3 3 (6.000%) Marketing
4 1 (2.000%) Automotive
4 1 (2.000%) Games
4 1 (2.000%) Music
Job Titles
1 31 (62.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) PHP Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Software Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Programmer
4 6 (12.00%) OSS Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Back Office Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Drupal Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Web Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (6.000%) PHP Programmer
6 2 (4.000%) Administrator
6 2 (4.000%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (4.000%) Web Programmer
6 2 (4.000%) Database Developer
6 2 (4.000%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.000%) Junior Developer
6 2 (4.000%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (8.000%) Wiki
3 3 (6.000%) Open Source
3 3 (6.000%) Clustering
4 2 (4.000%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.000%) Replication
5 1 (2.000%) APACS
5 1 (2.000%) EPoS
5 1 (2.000%) EMV
5 1 (2.000%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.000%) IPTV
5 1 (2.000%) Streaming Music
5 1 (2.000%) Online Games
5 1 (2.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) UNIX
2 13 (26.00%) Linux
3 9 (18.00%) Windows
4 3 (6.000%) Solaris
5 2 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.000%) AIX
6 1 (2.000%) HPUX
6 1 (2.000%) FreeBSD
6 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.000%) SUSE
6 1 (2.000%) OpenBSD
6 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.000%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) OO
2 7 (14.00%) MVC
3 6 (12.00%) OOP
3 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (8.000%) Scrum
5 4 (8.000%) E-Commerce
5 4 (8.000%) Performance Management
5 4 (8.000%) Change Control
6 3 (6.000%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.000%) OOD
6 3 (6.000%) Web Development
7 2 (4.000%) Migration
7 2 (4.000%) TDD
8 1 (2.000%) Project Planning
8 1 (2.000%) Operations Management
8 1 (2.000%) Load Balancing
8 1 (2.000%) Test Scripting
8 1 (2.000%) ITIL
8 1 (2.000%) UML
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) PHP
2 20 (40.00%) Perl
3 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (26.00%) SQL
5 8 (16.00%) Java
6 7 (14.00%) PHP5
7 6 (12.00%) Korn
8 3 (6.000%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.000%) Python
9 2 (4.000%) C
9 2 (4.000%) Bash shell
10 1 (2.000%) Scala
10 1 (2.000%) C#
10 1 (2.000%) C++
10 1 (2.000%) NATURAL
10 1 (2.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.000%) RHCE
2 1 (2.000%) HPUX Certification
2 1 (2.000%) SCSA
2 1 (2.000%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.000%) QA
2 1 (2.000%) SLA
2 1 (2.000%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (2.000%) Xen
1 1 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.000%) Postfix
1 1 (2.000%) Sendmail
1 1 (2.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (2.000%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (2.000%) OpenView
1 1 (2.000%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Oracle
2 13 (26.00%) Greenplum
3 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (14.00%) Ericsson
5 6 (12.00%) Nokia
6 5 (10.00%) Zend
7 3 (6.000%) Huawei
7 3 (6.000%) JBoss
7 3 (6.000%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.000%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 2 (4.000%) IBM
8 2 (4.000%) HP
8 2 (4.000%) VMware
9 1 (2.000%) Google
9 1 (2.000%) Veritas
9 1 (2.000%) Remedy
9 1 (2.000%) Intel
9 1 (2.000%) Hyperion
9 1 (2.000%) Sun
9 1 (2.000%) Facebook
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