Hertfordshire MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the Hertfordshire 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 8 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 Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames 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 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 Street Suffolk Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	71
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	21	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	8.333 %	6.215 %
Daily rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£219
Average daily rate	£344	£247
% change on same period last year	+39.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£314
% change on same period last year	-10.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.75	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£25.63	£31.67
% change on same period last year	-19.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£36.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	252	354
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.332 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	92	156
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£342
Average daily rate	£336	£372
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.38	£26.80
Average hourly rate	£28.59	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.79	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
MySQL East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 job ads citing MySQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Bishop's Stortford	-	1	-	-

MySQL East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 26 (66.67 %) PHP 2 24 (61.54 %) Unix 3 19 (48.72 %) Linux 4 14 (35.90 %) Apache 5 11 (28.21 %) J2EE 6 9 (23.08 %) AJAX 6 9 (23.08 %) Java 6 9 (23.08 %) SQL 6 9 (23.08 %) Windows 7 8 (20.51 %) Tomcat 7 8 (20.51 %) WebLogic 7 8 (20.51 %) Telecoms 8 7 (17.95 %) LAMP 8 7 (17.95 %) Web Development 8 7 (17.95 %) JavaScript

8 7 (17.95 %) Perl 8 7 (17.95 %) Oracle 8 7 (17.95 %) Solaris 8 7 (17.95 %) Red Hat 8 7 (17.95 %) Microsoft 9 6 (15.38 %) WebServices 9 6 (15.38 %) PHP5 10 5 (12.82 %) WebSphere 10 5 (12.82 %) Project Planning 10 5 (12.82 %) Security Management 10 5 (12.82 %) XML 10 5 (12.82 %) JBoss 10 5 (12.82 %) XHTML 10 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 10 5 (12.82 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (28.21 %) J2EE 2 9 (23.08 %) AJAX 3 7 (17.95 %) LAMP 4 6 (15.38 %) WebServices 5 5 (12.82 %) WebSphere 5 5 (12.82 %) XML 5 5 (12.82 %) XHTML 5 5 (12.82 %) CSS 6 3 (7.692 %) Apache Axis 6 3 (7.692 %) WCF 6 3 (7.692 %) WPF 6 3 (7.692 %) .NET Remoting 6 3 (7.692 %) .NET 6 3 (7.692 %) HTML 7 2 (5.128 %) J2SE 8 1 (2.564 %) ASP 8 1 (2.564 %) Swing 8 1 (2.564 %) AWT 8 1 (2.564 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 14 (35.90 %) Apache 2 8 (20.51 %) Tomcat 2 8 (20.51 %) WebLogic 3 5 (12.82 %) JBoss 4 4 (10.26 %) IIS 4 4 (10.26 %) Joomla! 4 4 (10.26 %) Mambo 5 3 (7.692 %) Resin 6 2 (5.128 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 1 5 (12.82 %) Acrobat 2 2 (5.128 %) Photoshop 3 1 (2.564 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.564 %) Quicktime	Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.82 %) TCP/IP 1 5 (12.82 %) DNS 1 5 (12.82 %) SMPP 2 3 (7.692 %) Firewall 3 2 (5.128 %) Internet 3 2 (5.128 %) SMTP 3 2 (5.128 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (2.564 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.128 %) RDBMS 3 1 (2.564 %) MS Access 3 1 (2.564 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 1 (2.564 %) Flash
General 1 8 (20.51 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.128 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.564 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.564 %) Billing 3 1 (2.564 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.564 %) Finance 3 1 (2.564 %) Education 3 1 (2.564 %) Health 3 1 (2.564 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 26 (66.67 %) Developer 2 11 (28.21 %) Web Developer 3 8 (20.51 %) PHP Developer 4 5 (12.82 %) Administrator 4 5 (12.82 %) Systems Administrator 5 3 (7.692 %) Linux Support 5 3 (7.692 %) UNIX Support 5 3 (7.692 %) Linux Administrator 5 3 (7.692 %) .NET Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) C# Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) Linux Systems Administrator 6 2 (5.128 %) Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Java Developer 6 2 (5.128 %) UNIX Administrator 6 2 (5.128 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 2 (5.128 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.564 %) PHP Programmer 7 1 (2.564 %) Web Programmer 7 1 (2.564 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.564 %) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.564 %) IPTV 1 1 (2.564 %) Streaming Video	Operating Systems 1 24 (61.54 %) Unix 2 19 (48.72 %) Linux 3 9 (23.08 %) Windows 4 7 (17.95 %) Solaris 5 3 (7.692 %) Ubuntu 6 2 (5.128 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.95 %) Web Development 2 5 (12.82 %) Project Planning 2 5 (12.82 %) Security Management 3 3 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (7.692 %) Data Management 3 3 (7.692 %) Workflow 3 3 (7.692 %) SOA 4 2 (5.128 %) OOP 5 1 (2.564 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.564 %) Fault Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Software Testing 5 1 (2.564 %) SEO 5 1 (2.564 %) CRM 5 1 (2.564 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.564 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 26 (66.67 %) PHP 2 9 (23.08 %) Java 2 9 (23.08 %) SQL 3 7 (17.95 %) JavaScript 3 7 (17.95 %) Perl 4 6 (15.38 %) PHP5 5 3 (7.692 %) PHP4 5 3 (7.692 %) C# 5 3 (7.692 %) C++ 5 3 (7.692 %) Shell Script 6 2 (5.128 %) XAML 7 1 (2.564 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) Degree 1 3 (7.692 %) MCP 1 3 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (7.692 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.128 %) WAI 2 1 (2.564 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (10.26 %) ISA Server 2 2 (5.128 %) Samba 2 2 (5.128 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.564 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 7 (17.95 %) Oracle 1 7 (17.95 %) Red Hat 1 7 (17.95 %) Microsoft 2 5 (12.82 %) Adobe 2 5 (12.82 %) HP 3 4 (10.26 %) Sun 4 3 (7.692 %) EMC 4 3 (7.692 %) Nokia 4 3 (7.692 %) Cisco 4 3 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (5.128 %) Dell 5 2 (5.128 %) VMware 6 1 (2.564 %) Google 6 1 (2.564 %) Sony 6 1 (2.564 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.564 %) Apple