East of England MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool 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 Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	105
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	60	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	9.036 %	4.890 %
Daily rates quoted	9	10
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£247
Average daily rate	£332	£286
% change on same period last year	+16.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£338
% change on same period last year	-19.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.24	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£34.74	£31.67
% change on same period last year	+9.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.24	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.95	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-10.43 %
Database & Business Intelligence East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	664	1002
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.885 %	1.014 %
Daily rates quoted	195	301
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£338
Average daily rate	£360	£360
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	115
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.15	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£31.20	£30.24
% change on same period last year	+3.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.24	£31.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 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
Cambridgeshire	+17	25	£344	-
Hertfordshire	+5	20	£325	+13.63 %
Essex	+7	9	£350	-
Bedfordshire	+4	2	-	-
East Anglia	-	2	-	-
Norfolk	-2	1	-	-
Suffolk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 86 (70.49 %) PHP 2 48 (39.34 %) Linux 3 41 (33.61 %) Apache 4 34 (27.87 %) UNIX 5 33 (27.05 %) Oracle 6 31 (25.41 %) JavaScript 7 25 (20.49 %) SQL 7 25 (20.49 %) .NET 7 25 (20.49 %) Windows 8 24 (19.67 %) XML 8 24 (19.67 %) Java 9 22 (18.03 %) HTML 10 21 (17.21 %) CSS 11 19 (15.57 %) SQL Server 11 19 (15.57 %) C#

12 18 (14.75 %) WebServices 13 17 (13.93 %) Perl 13 17 (13.93 %) J2EE 13 17 (13.93 %) AJAX 14 14 (11.48 %) C++ 15 13 (10.66 %) XHTML 15 13 (10.66 %) Telecoms 16 12 (9.836 %) Red Hat 17 11 (9.016 %) Tomcat 17 11 (9.016 %) C 17 11 (9.016 %) PL/SQL 17 11 (9.016 %) LAMP 17 11 (9.016 %) Web Development 18 10 (8.197 %) IIS 18 10 (8.197 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 25 (20.49 %) .NET 2 24 (19.67 %) XML 3 22 (18.03 %) HTML 4 21 (17.21 %) CSS 5 18 (14.75 %) WebServices 6 17 (13.93 %) J2EE 6 17 (13.93 %) AJAX 7 13 (10.66 %) XHTML 8 11 (9.016 %) LAMP 9 9 (7.377 %) JSP 10 8 (6.557 %) ASP 11 7 (5.738 %) ASP.NET 11 7 (5.738 %) .NET Remoting 12 6 (4.918 %) Symfony 13 5 (4.098 %) Apache Axis 13 5 (4.098 %) WebSphere 14 4 (3.279 %) Servlets 15 3 (2.459 %) EJB 15 3 (2.459 %) Struts 15 3 (2.459 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 41 (33.61 %) Apache 2 11 (9.016 %) Tomcat 3 10 (8.197 %) IIS 4 9 (7.377 %) WebLogic 5 7 (5.738 %) Joomla! 6 6 (4.918 %) Resin 6 6 (4.918 %) JBoss 7 4 (3.279 %) Mambo 8 2 (1.639 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (1.639 %) CMS 9 1 (0.820 %) Lotus Notes 9 1 (0.820 %) JRun 9 1 (0.820 %) SharePoint 9 1 (0.820 %) Jetty
Applications 1 8 (6.557 %) Photoshop 2 6 (4.918 %) MS Office 3 5 (4.098 %) Acrobat 4 1 (0.820 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.820 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.820 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.820 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 3 (2.459 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.820 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 10 (8.197 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (6.557 %) Firewall 3 7 (5.738 %) Wi-Fi 3 7 (5.738 %) SMPP 4 6 (4.918 %) Internet 5 5 (4.098 %) DNS 6 4 (3.279 %) SMTP 7 3 (2.459 %) Cisco IOS 7 3 (2.459 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (1.639 %) SSH 8 2 (1.639 %) Intrusion Detection 8 2 (1.639 %) DHCP 8 2 (1.639 %) FTP 8 2 (1.639 %) Intranet 8 2 (1.639 %) SMS 9 1 (0.820 %) VPN 9 1 (0.820 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (15.57 %) SQL Server 2 7 (5.738 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (4.918 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (3.279 %) MS Access 5 3 (2.459 %) DB2 5 3 (2.459 %) PostgreSQL 5 3 (2.459 %) RDBMS 6 1 (0.820 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.820 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.820 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.820 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 7 (5.738 %) Subversion 2 6 (4.918 %) Flash 3 5 (4.098 %) Bugzilla 4 3 (2.459 %) Oracle Forms 4 3 (2.459 %) JDeveloper 5 2 (1.639 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.820 %) Ant 6 1 (0.820 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 13 (10.66 %) Telecoms 2 2 (1.639 %) Advertising 2 2 (1.639 %) Games 2 2 (1.639 %) Multimedia 2 2 (1.639 %) Marketing 3 1 (0.820 %) Back Office 3 1 (0.820 %) Billing 3 1 (0.820 %) Finance 3 1 (0.820 %) Education 3 1 (0.820 %) Health
Job Titles 1 88 (72.13 %) Developer 2 38 (31.15 %) PHP Developer 3 21 (17.21 %) Web Developer 4 15 (12.30 %) C# Developer 5 11 (9.016 %) MySQL Developer 6 10 (8.197 %) Oracle Developer 7 9 (7.377 %) Java Developer 8 8 (6.557 %) PHP Web Developer 9 7 (5.738 %) .NET Developer 9 7 (5.738 %) Administrator 9 7 (5.738 %) Software Engineer 10 6 (4.918 %) Systems Administrator 11 5 (4.098 %) Linux Engineer 12 4 (3.279 %) Analyst 12 4 (3.279 %) Java/J2EE Developer 13 3 (2.459 %) IT Manager 13 3 (2.459 %) Senior Developer 13 3 (2.459 %) Support Engineer 13 3 (2.459 %) C++ Software Engineer 13 3 (2.459 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (7.377 %) Client/Server 2 4 (3.279 %) E-Learning 3 3 (2.459 %) Replication 4 2 (1.639 %) CCTV 4 2 (1.639 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.820 %) Credit Risk 5 1 (0.820 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.820 %) Blackberry 5 1 (0.820 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.820 %) Device Driver 5 1 (0.820 %) Streaming Video
Operating Systems 1 48 (39.34 %) Linux 2 34 (27.87 %) UNIX 3 25 (20.49 %) Windows 4 10 (8.197 %) Solaris 5 8 (6.557 %) Windows CE 6 5 (4.098 %) Windows NT 7 4 (3.279 %) HPUX 8 3 (2.459 %) SUSE 8 3 (2.459 %) Ubuntu 9 2 (1.639 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (9.016 %) Web Development 2 7 (5.738 %) OO 3 6 (4.918 %) OOP 4 5 (4.098 %) SOA 4 5 (4.098 %) Project Planning 4 5 (4.098 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (4.098 %) Workflow 4 5 (4.098 %) Web Design 5 4 (3.279 %) Agile Software Development 5 4 (3.279 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (3.279 %) Statistical Analysis 6 3 (2.459 %) Data Management 6 3 (2.459 %) Content Management 6 3 (2.459 %) CRM 7 2 (1.639 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (1.639 %) ERP 7 2 (1.639 %) ITIL 7 2 (1.639 %) UML 7 2 (1.639 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (1.639 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 86 (70.49 %) PHP 2 31 (25.41 %) JavaScript 3 25 (20.49 %) SQL 4 24 (19.67 %) Java 5 19 (15.57 %) C# 6 17 (13.93 %) Perl 7 14 (11.48 %) C++ 8 11 (9.016 %) C 8 11 (9.016 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (7.377 %) PHP5 10 7 (5.738 %) Shell Script 11 6 (4.918 %) Python 12 5 (4.098 %) ActionScript 12 5 (4.098 %) PHP4 13 4 (3.279 %) DHTML 14 3 (2.459 %) Assembly Language 14 3 (2.459 %) Tcl 14 3 (2.459 %) VB 14 3 (2.459 %) VB6 14 3 (2.459 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 9 (7.377 %) Degree 2 3 (2.459 %) CCNA 2 3 (2.459 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (2.459 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.820 %) MCP 3 1 (0.820 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.639 %) ISO9001 1 2 (1.639 %) WAI 2 1 (0.820 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (4.098 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.639 %) NFS 3 1 (0.820 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.820 %) Samba 3 1 (0.820 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 33 (27.05 %) Oracle 2 12 (9.836 %) Red Hat 3 10 (8.197 %) Microsoft 4 9 (7.377 %) Adobe 5 7 (5.738 %) Sun 5 7 (5.738 %) HP 5 7 (5.738 %) Cisco 6 4 (3.279 %) Zend 6 4 (3.279 %) Sybase 7 3 (2.459 %) Nokia 7 3 (2.459 %) Siemens 7 3 (2.459 %) CheckPoint 7 3 (2.459 %) EMC 7 3 (2.459 %) Intel 7 3 (2.459 %) Alcatel 7 3 (2.459 %) webMethods 8 2 (1.639 %) NetApp 9 1 (0.820 %) Dell 9 1 (0.820 %) TIBCO 9 1 (0.820 %) Apple