The first table below looks at the demand for the MySQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL Database Administrator
Rank 495 544 568
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +24
Contract jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 15 14 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.026% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.028% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 2
Average daily rate £306 £370 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.22% -4.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £263 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
MySQL DBA
UK

MySQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL DBA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England MySQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England MySQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL DBA across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England MySQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

MySQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MySQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
South West - 6 £306 -
London +14 5 £338 -9.39%
East of England +14 2 £225 -35.71%
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
MySQL DBA
UK

MySQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited MySQL DBA in their job title 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 with MySQL DBA in their job title.

1 45 (100.00%) MySQL
2 28 (62.22%) Linux
3 16 (35.56%) Replication
4 13 (28.89%) SQL
5 8 (17.78%) UNIX
6 7 (15.56%) Oracle
6 7 (15.56%) Python
6 7 (15.56%) Migration
7 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 6 (13.33%) Perl
7 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 5 (11.11%) Database Tuning
8 5 (11.11%) PHP
8 5 (11.11%) Apache
9 4 (8.889%) Data Security
9 4 (8.889%) Data Migration
10 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
10 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
10 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
10 3 (6.667%) Bourne shell
10 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
10 3 (6.667%) Red Hat
10 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
10 3 (6.667%) LAMP
10 3 (6.667%) Clustering
10 3 (6.667%) Business Continuity
10 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
10 3 (6.667%) VoIP

MySQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited MySQL DBA in their job title 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 with MySQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.667%) VoIP
2 1 (2.222%) SNMP
2 1 (2.222%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (100.00%) MySQL
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.444%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.444%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.222%) Riak
5 1 (2.222%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.222%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.222%) Pentaho
General
1 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.444%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Replication
2 3 (6.667%) Clustering
3 2 (4.444%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.444%) SaaS
3 2 (4.444%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.222%) Open Source
4 1 (2.222%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (62.22%) Linux
2 8 (17.78%) UNIX
3 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.222%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.56%) Migration
2 5 (11.11%) Database Tuning
3 4 (8.889%) Data Security
3 4 (8.889%) Data Migration
4 3 (6.667%) Business Continuity
4 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 2 (4.444%) Information Management
5 2 (4.444%) Data Analysis
5 2 (4.444%) Capacity Management
6 1 (2.222%) Business Transformation
6 1 (2.222%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.222%) CRM
6 1 (2.222%) ERP
6 1 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.222%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) Perl
4 5 (11.11%) PHP
5 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.667%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.222%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.222%) OpenView
1 1 (2.222%) Nagios
1 1 (2.222%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.222%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 3 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.222%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.222%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.222%) HP