The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Dorset 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 20 30 37
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 10 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 4.630% 1.111% 0.984%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.87% 8.571% 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
Average daily rate £200 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
53 35 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 24.54% 12.96% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 23
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £350 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £417 £425 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £25.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
MySQL
South West

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Poole +1 6 £200 -
Bournemouth - 2 £325 -
MySQL
South West

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 13 (86.67%) PHP
2 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (80.00%) CSS
3 11 (73.33%) HTML
3 11 (73.33%) jQuery
4 9 (60.00%) MVC
5 7 (46.67%) Linux
5 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
6 4 (26.67%) OO
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) CMS
7 3 (20.00%) Git (software)
7 3 (20.00%) Web Design
7 3 (20.00%) Twitter
7 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (13.33%) Social Media
8 2 (13.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (13.33%) CSS3
8 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
8 2 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (13.33%) InDesign
8 2 (13.33%) Open Source
8 2 (13.33%) Symfony
8 2 (13.33%) XML
8 2 (13.33%) Advertising
8 2 (13.33%) Adobe
8 2 (13.33%) .NET
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
8 2 (13.33%) XHTML

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 12 (80.00%) CSS
2 11 (73.33%) HTML
2 11 (73.33%) jQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (13.33%) CSS3
3 2 (13.33%) Symfony
3 2 (13.33%) XML
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) XHTML
4 1 (6.667%) JSP
4 1 (6.667%) SOAP
4 1 (6.667%) Web Services
4 1 (6.667%) LAMP
4 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.667%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (6.667%) Google Maps API
4 1 (6.667%) HTML5
4 1 (6.667%) RichFaces
4 1 (6.667%) JSF
4 1 (6.667%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (6.667%) Drupal
2 1 (6.667%) WordPress
2 1 (6.667%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (13.33%) InDesign
1 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) POP3
1 1 (6.667%) SMTP
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
1 1 (6.667%) DNS
1 1 (6.667%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.667%) Intranet
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
1 1 (6.667%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 7 (46.67%) MySQL Developer
3 7 (46.67%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Semantic Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Social Media
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
2 2 (13.33%) Open Source
3 1 (6.667%) W3C
3 1 (6.667%) Semantic Web
3 1 (6.667%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.667%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) MVC
2 4 (26.67%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) Web Design
4 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.667%) RDF
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PHP
2 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.667%) Java
5 1 (6.667%) PHP5
5 1 (6.667%) SPARQL
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Twitter
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Zend
3 1 (6.667%) Google
3 1 (6.667%) Facebook