The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Brighton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 12 23 8
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -15
Contract jobs citing MySQL 14 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 9.790% 4.198% 13.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.18% 12.64% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
Average daily rate £175 £278 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.93% +11.00%
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 - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
34 87 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 23.78% 33.21% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 18
Average daily rate £363 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.44% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £330 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £525 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
MySQL
East Sussex

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton MySQL Daily Rate Trend

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 18 (90.00%) PHP
3 17 (85.00%) HTML
4 14 (70.00%) LAMP
5 11 (55.00%) MVC
5 11 (55.00%) jQuery
5 11 (55.00%) OOP
6 8 (40.00%) OO
6 8 (40.00%) XML
7 6 (30.00%) JSON
7 6 (30.00%) XHR
8 4 (20.00%) HTML5
9 3 (15.00%) Digital Media
9 3 (15.00%) Moodle
9 3 (15.00%) XHTML
10 2 (10.00%) Apache
10 2 (10.00%) XSLT
10 2 (10.00%) UNIX
10 2 (10.00%) Linux
10 2 (10.00%) Java
10 2 (10.00%) Perl
10 2 (10.00%) SQL
10 2 (10.00%) Oracle
10 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
10 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
10 2 (10.00%) Mason
10 2 (10.00%) XQuery
10 2 (10.00%) SQLite
10 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 17 (85.00%) HTML
3 14 (70.00%) LAMP
4 11 (55.00%) jQuery
5 8 (40.00%) XML
6 6 (30.00%) JSON
6 6 (30.00%) XHR
7 4 (20.00%) HTML5
8 3 (15.00%) XHTML
9 2 (10.00%) XSLT
9 2 (10.00%) Mason
10 1 (5.000%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Moodle
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.00%) SQLite
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 18 (90.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (15.00%) LAMP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) UNIX
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) MVC
1 11 (55.00%) OOP
2 8 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Web Development
4 1 (5.000%) Content Management
4 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (90.00%) PHP
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) XQuery
3 2 (10.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle