The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 25 35 37
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 28 32 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 5.166% 4.678% 2.544%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.11% 18.39% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 5
Average daily rate £253 £303 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.52% +2.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £215 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £335 £480
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 - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
93 174 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.16% 25.44% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 92 43
Average daily rate £300 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £443 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
East of England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cambridge -5 14 £280 -7.43%
Peterborough - 6 £225 -
MySQL
East of England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 40 (76.92%) PHP
2 34 (65.38%) CSS
3 30 (57.69%) HTML
4 26 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 25 (48.08%) Linux
6 23 (44.23%) Apache
7 22 (42.31%) jQuery
8 19 (36.54%) JSON
9 17 (32.69%) Drupal
10 15 (28.85%) OO
11 13 (25.00%) Git (software)
11 13 (25.00%) Subversion
12 12 (23.08%) Zend
13 11 (21.15%) Web Development
13 11 (21.15%) Symfony
13 11 (21.15%) SQL
14 10 (19.23%) Oracle
14 10 (19.23%) XML
14 10 (19.23%) PHP5
15 9 (17.31%) WordPress
15 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
15 9 (17.31%) Degree
15 9 (17.31%) TDD
15 9 (17.31%) Java
15 9 (17.31%) MVC
15 9 (17.31%) CMS
16 8 (15.38%) Tomcat
16 8 (15.38%) Ajax
16 8 (15.38%) RESTful
16 8 (15.38%) Memcached

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 34 (65.38%) CSS
2 30 (57.69%) HTML
3 22 (42.31%) jQuery
4 19 (36.54%) JSON
5 11 (21.15%) Symfony
6 10 (19.23%) XML
7 8 (15.38%) Ajax
7 8 (15.38%) RESTful
7 8 (15.38%) Memcached
8 7 (13.46%) Web Services
9 5 (9.615%) LAMP
9 5 (9.615%) Hibernate
9 5 (9.615%) Spring
9 5 (9.615%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (7.692%) Node.js
10 4 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (7.692%) Java EE
10 4 (7.692%) Swing
10 4 (7.692%) J2EE
10 4 (7.692%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 23 (44.23%) Apache
2 17 (32.69%) Drupal
3 9 (17.31%) WordPress
3 9 (17.31%) CMS
4 8 (15.38%) Tomcat
5 4 (7.692%) Magento
5 4 (7.692%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.692%) concrete5
6 3 (5.769%) nginx
7 2 (3.846%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.923%) Joomla!
8 1 (1.923%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.846%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.923%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.846%) CODA-Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
1 7 (13.46%) Redis
2 4 (7.692%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.846%) MS Access
4 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.923%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Subversion
1 13 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (7.692%) Maven
General
1 2 (3.846%) Finance
2 1 (1.923%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 40 (76.92%) Developer
2 29 (55.77%) PHP Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 7 (13.46%) PHP Web Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Administrator
6 5 (9.615%) Drupal Developer
6 5 (9.615%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 4 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (7.692%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.769%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.769%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.769%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.769%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (3.846%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.923%) Development Manager
10 1 (1.923%) Analyst
10 1 (1.923%) Programmer
10 1 (1.923%) Data Analyst
10 1 (1.923%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.692%) Informatics
1 4 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 4 (7.692%) Open Source
2 2 (3.846%) Biology
2 2 (3.846%) W3C
2 2 (3.846%) LIMS
3 1 (1.923%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.923%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Linux
2 4 (7.692%) Debian
2 4 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) OO
2 11 (21.15%) Web Development
3 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
3 9 (17.31%) MVC
3 9 (17.31%) TDD
4 7 (13.46%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (9.615%) OOP
6 4 (7.692%) Information Management
6 4 (7.692%) SEO
7 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
8 2 (3.846%) OOD
8 2 (3.846%) Web Design
8 2 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (3.846%) System Testing
8 2 (3.846%) Time Management
8 2 (3.846%) Information Architecture
9 1 (1.923%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (76.92%) PHP
2 26 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.15%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) PHP5
5 9 (17.31%) Java
6 5 (9.615%) C#
6 5 (9.615%) Python
7 4 (7.692%) Lisp
7 4 (7.692%) Ruby
7 4 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) PhD
2 4 (7.692%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.923%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Zend
2 10 (19.23%) Oracle
3 4 (7.692%) JBoss
3 4 (7.692%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.692%) VMware
4 2 (3.846%) CODA
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Essential Skills Solid experience in a modern scripting language (We use modern Perl and Ruby. The job will initially involve coming to grips with our Perl-based code.)...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Rate: £29750 - £37525 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
May also be required to visit a staff member for advice and support at short notice, including telephone support.3.Support staff in the preparation, cleansing, matching, validation,...
Sand Resources
Rate: £100 - £120 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013