Dorset MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bletchley Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	40
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	7.813 %	5.691 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£275	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£309
% change on same period last year	-7.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.47	£30.13
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Database & Business Intelligence Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	64	123
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	31	70
Average minimum daily rate	£391	£347
Average daily rate	£405	£365
% change on same period last year	+11.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£26.45
Average hourly rate	£23.05	£28.86
% change on same period last year	-20.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.09	£31.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
MySQL South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MySQL within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Poole	-2	2	-	-
Bournemouth	+2	1	£275	-

MySQL South West

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 7 (77.78 %) JavaScript 1 7 (77.78 %) PHP 2 5 (55.56 %) AJAX 2 5 (55.56 %) CSS 2 5 (55.56 %) Apache 3 4 (44.44 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (33.33 %) XHTML 4 3 (33.33 %) XML 4 3 (33.33 %) Linux 4 3 (33.33 %) OOP 4 3 (33.33 %) W3C 4 3 (33.33 %) PHP5 4 3 (33.33 %) PHP4 4 3 (33.33 %) SEO 5 2 (22.22 %) Oracle APEX

5 2 (22.22 %) OO 5 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 6 1 (11.11 %) Ant 6 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects 6 1 (11.11 %) Tomcat 6 1 (11.11 %) J2ME 6 1 (11.11 %) Cognos 6 1 (11.11 %) Eclipse 6 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL 6 1 (11.11 %) HTML 6 1 (11.11 %) Java 6 1 (11.11 %) Web Development 6 1 (11.11 %) LAMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 5 (55.56 %) CSS 1 5 (55.56 %) AJAX 2 3 (33.33 %) XML 2 3 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (11.11 %) J2ME 3 1 (11.11 %) LAMP 3 1 (11.11 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (55.56 %) Apache 2 1 (11.11 %) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Oracle APEX 2 1 (11.11 %) Ant 2 1 (11.11 %) Eclipse
Job Titles 1 9 (100.00 %) Developer 2 6 (66.67 %) Web Developer 2 6 (66.67 %) PHP Developer 3 5 (55.56 %) PHP Web Developer 4 3 (33.33 %) JavaScript Developer 4 3 (33.33 %) MySQL Developer 5 1 (11.11 %) Report Developer 5 1 (11.11 %) Cognos Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (33.33 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 3 (33.33 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (44.44 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (33.33 %) SEO 2 3 (33.33 %) OOP 3 2 (22.22 %) OO 4 1 (11.11 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 7 (77.78 %) JavaScript 1 7 (77.78 %) PHP 2 3 (33.33 %) PHP5 2 3 (33.33 %) PHP4 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL 3 1 (11.11 %) Java	Vendors 1 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 2 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects 2 1 (11.11 %) Cognos