The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 12 35 18
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 5.634% 3.571% 1.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.00% 19.15% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £330 £415 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.48% +7.09%
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 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
10 47 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 14.08% 18.65% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 20
Average daily rate £340 £375 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.33% +36.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £350 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £446 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £21.00 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
MySQL
Gloucestershire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester MySQL Daily Rate Trend

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucester MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Content Management
3 3 (37.50%) Information Management
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) LAMP
3 3 (37.50%) Replication
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) Mercator
3 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) Hudson
3 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) Apache
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) IIS

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 3 (37.50%) LAMP
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
1 3 (37.50%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) DBA
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Content Management
1 3 (37.50%) Information Management
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
1 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Delphi
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
1 3 (37.50%) Mercator
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft