The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 110 101 140
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +39
Contract jobs citing MySQL 94 131 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.480% 1.664% 1.063%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.802% 9.161% 5.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 81 71
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1382 1430 1857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.76% 18.17% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1040 1030 1391
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
London

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 98 (49.75%) PHP
2 81 (41.12%) CSS
3 78 (39.59%) JavaScript
4 66 (33.50%) HTML
4 66 (33.50%) Linux
5 57 (28.93%) Apache
6 55 (27.92%) MVC
7 52 (26.40%) SQL
8 51 (25.89%) Java
9 48 (24.37%) jQuery
10 40 (20.30%) OO
11 36 (18.27%) SQL Server
11 36 (18.27%) Open Source
11 36 (18.27%) HTML5
12 34 (17.26%) Scrum
13 33 (16.75%) J2EE
14 29 (14.72%) Zend
15 28 (14.21%) Multithreading
15 28 (14.21%) .NET
15 28 (14.21%) MS Excel
15 28 (14.21%) Finance
16 27 (13.71%) Web Services
16 27 (13.71%) Spring
17 26 (13.20%) UNIX
17 26 (13.20%) TDD
18 25 (12.69%) JSON
18 25 (12.69%) Drupal
18 25 (12.69%) Git (software)
19 24 (12.18%) CSS3
19 24 (12.18%) Subversion

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 81 (41.12%) CSS
2 66 (33.50%) HTML
3 48 (24.37%) jQuery
4 36 (18.27%) HTML5
5 33 (16.75%) J2EE
6 28 (14.21%) .NET
7 27 (13.71%) Web Services
7 27 (13.71%) Spring
8 25 (12.69%) JSON
9 24 (12.18%) CSS3
10 23 (11.68%) XHTML
11 22 (11.17%) WebSphere
12 21 (10.66%) Ajax
13 20 (10.15%) XML
14 19 (9.645%) Spring MVC
14 19 (9.645%) RESTful
15 18 (9.137%) LAMP
16 17 (8.629%) SOAP
16 17 (8.629%) Struts
17 16 (8.122%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 57 (28.93%) Apache
2 25 (12.69%) Drupal
3 19 (9.645%) WebSphere MQ
4 15 (7.614%) Tomcat
4 15 (7.614%) MSMQ
5 13 (6.599%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.569%) CMS
6 9 (4.569%) Amazon AWS
7 7 (3.553%) IIS
7 7 (3.553%) Magento
8 6 (3.046%) Route 53
8 6 (3.046%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.046%) nginx
8 6 (3.046%) Alfresco
8 6 (3.046%) SharePoint
9 5 (2.538%) WordPress
10 3 (1.523%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.523%) Apache Solr
10 3 (1.523%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (1.523%) CloudStack
Applications
1 28 (14.21%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.538%) MS Office
2 5 (2.538%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.015%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.508%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.508%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 6 (3.046%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.508%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.508%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.508%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.17%) Internet
2 10 (5.076%) Firewall
3 9 (4.569%) HTTP
4 7 (3.553%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.538%) SAN
5 5 (2.538%) DNS
5 5 (2.538%) VoIP
6 4 (2.030%) SSL
7 3 (1.523%) IPsec
7 3 (1.523%) DHCP
7 3 (1.523%) FTP
7 3 (1.523%) VPN
7 3 (1.523%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.523%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.523%) FWSM
8 2 (1.015%) NAS
8 2 (1.015%) SMTP
8 2 (1.015%) Intranet
8 2 (1.015%) Extranet
9 1 (0.508%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.27%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.629%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.584%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.569%) Redis
5 7 (3.553%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.046%) MarkLogic
6 6 (3.046%) MS Access
6 6 (3.046%) Sybase IQ
6 6 (3.046%) DataStage
7 5 (2.538%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.030%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.030%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.523%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.523%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (1.523%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.523%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.523%) Big Data
10 2 (1.015%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.015%) HBase
10 2 (1.015%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (12.69%) Git (software)
2 24 (12.18%) Subversion
3 15 (7.614%) Rhino Mocks
4 14 (7.107%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.584%) Selenium
6 10 (5.076%) JIRA
7 8 (4.061%) Maven
8 7 (3.553%) Eclipse
9 6 (3.046%) Mercurial
9 6 (3.046%) Talend Open Studio
10 5 (2.538%) Ant
10 5 (2.538%) GitHub
11 4 (2.030%) WinDbg
11 4 (2.030%) RSpec
12 3 (1.523%) JUnit
12 3 (1.523%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.523%) AnthillPro
12 3 (1.523%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (1.523%) PHPUnit
12 3 (1.523%) Gerrit
General
1 28 (14.21%) Finance
2 22 (11.17%) Banking
3 15 (7.614%) Front Office
4 13 (6.599%) Marketing
5 9 (4.569%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.553%) Publishing
7 4 (2.030%) Games
7 4 (2.030%) Advertising
7 4 (2.030%) Back Office
8 3 (1.523%) Retail
9 2 (1.015%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.015%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.508%) Automotive
10 1 (0.508%) Electronics
10 1 (0.508%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 141 (71.57%) Developer
2 47 (23.86%) PHP Developer
3 20 (10.15%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.629%) Web Developer
5 16 (8.122%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.614%) .NET Developer
6 15 (7.614%) Front-End Developer
7 14 (7.107%) Administrator
8 13 (6.599%) Drupal Developer
9 10 (5.076%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.076%) Analyst
10 8 (4.061%) PHP Drupal Developer
11 7 (3.553%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.553%) Linux Administrator
11 7 (3.553%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.553%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 7 (3.553%) Senior PHP Developer
12 6 (3.046%) Mobile Developer
12 6 (3.046%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (3.046%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.27%) Open Source
2 15 (7.614%) Inversion of Control
3 11 (5.584%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.046%) Data Integration
4 6 (3.046%) Semantic Web
4 6 (3.046%) Clustering
5 5 (2.538%) Replication
5 5 (2.538%) Computer Science
6 4 (2.030%) Digital Media
6 4 (2.030%) SWIFT
6 4 (2.030%) Social Media
7 3 (1.523%) CLARiiON
7 3 (1.523%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.523%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.015%) SaaS
8 2 (1.015%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.508%) DTV
9 1 (0.508%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.508%) Streaming Video
9 1 (0.508%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 66 (33.50%) Linux
2 26 (13.20%) UNIX
3 21 (10.66%) Windows
4 12 (6.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.553%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (3.553%) CentOS
5 7 (3.553%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (3.046%) Debian
7 4 (2.030%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.523%) Gentoo
9 2 (1.015%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.015%) VMS
10 1 (0.508%) AIX
10 1 (0.508%) HPUX
10 1 (0.508%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.92%) MVC
2 40 (20.30%) OO
3 34 (17.26%) Scrum
4 28 (14.21%) Multithreading
5 26 (13.20%) TDD
6 20 (10.15%) E-Commerce
7 16 (8.122%) Web Development
8 15 (7.614%) Memory Management
9 14 (7.107%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (5.584%) ETL
10 11 (5.584%) BDD
11 10 (5.076%) Unit Testing
12 9 (4.569%) Content Management
12 9 (4.569%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (4.061%) OOP
13 8 (4.061%) Configuration Management
14 7 (3.553%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (3.553%) Automated Testing
15 6 (3.046%) Analytics
15 6 (3.046%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (49.75%) PHP
2 78 (39.59%) JavaScript
3 52 (26.40%) SQL
4 51 (25.89%) Java
5 24 (12.18%) C#
6 15 (7.614%) PHP5
7 13 (6.599%) Ruby
8 9 (4.569%) Python
9 8 (4.061%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.553%) Perl
11 6 (3.046%) Bash shell
11 6 (3.046%) XQuery
12 4 (2.030%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.030%) ActionScript
12 4 (2.030%) VBScript
13 2 (1.015%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.015%) C++
13 2 (1.015%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.508%) AWK
14 1 (0.508%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 8 (4.061%) Degree
2 6 (3.046%) CIPD
3 4 (2.030%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.523%) CCNA
4 3 (1.523%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.523%) RHCE
5 2 (1.015%) MCSE
6 1 (0.508%) CISA
6 1 (0.508%) CISM
6 1 (0.508%) RHCT
6 1 (0.508%) CEH
6 1 (0.508%) CCSA
6 1 (0.508%) MCSA
6 1 (0.508%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.508%) CISSP
6 1 (0.508%) CCSP
6 1 (0.508%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.061%) QA
2 1 (0.508%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.553%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.046%) vCloud
2 6 (3.046%) Squid
3 5 (2.538%) Varnish
4 4 (2.030%) NFS
5 3 (1.523%) VMware ESX
5 3 (1.523%) vSphere
6 2 (1.015%) XenApp
6 2 (1.015%) XenDesktop
6 2 (1.015%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.508%) qmail
7 1 (0.508%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.508%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (4.569%) Puppet
2 8 (4.061%) Nagios
3 3 (1.523%) Zenoss
4 2 (1.015%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.015%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.508%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 29 (14.72%) Zend
2 24 (12.18%) Oracle
3 15 (7.614%) Red Hat
4 13 (6.599%) VMware
5 12 (6.091%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.569%) Sybase
6 9 (4.569%) Cisco
7 7 (3.553%) EMC
8 6 (3.046%) Talend
8 6 (3.046%) Percona
8 6 (3.046%) Infobright
8 6 (3.046%) F5
8 6 (3.046%) Cognos
8 6 (3.046%) Informatica
8 6 (3.046%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (3.046%) NetApp
8 6 (3.046%) Business Objects
8 6 (3.046%) JBoss
9 4 (2.030%) Plumtree
9 4 (2.030%) Lotus
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