The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Hertfordshire 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
Rank 48 43 53
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +10
Contract jobs citing MySQL 15 25 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.333% 2.583% 1.498%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.40% 12.56% 7.345%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 8
Average daily rate £275 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £190 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £470 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
121 199 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.82% 20.56% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 78
Average daily rate £338 £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 8
Average hourly rate £22.75 £31.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.34% -9.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
East of England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire MySQL Daily Rate Trend

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Hertfordshire MySQL Daily Rate Histogram

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead - 7 £350 -
Stevenage - 2 £231 -
Watford - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £320 -
MySQL
East of England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 23 (65.71%) Linux
2 18 (51.43%) PHP
3 15 (42.86%) HTML
4 14 (40.00%) CSS
5 13 (37.14%) Apache
6 12 (34.29%) Web Services
7 10 (28.57%) MVC
8 9 (25.71%) Java
8 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
8 9 (25.71%) Subversion
9 8 (22.86%) Spring
9 8 (22.86%) RESTful
10 7 (20.00%) SOAP
10 7 (20.00%) LAMP
11 6 (17.14%) Oracle
11 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
11 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (17.14%) Scrum
11 6 (17.14%) Git (software)
12 5 (14.29%) JSON
12 5 (14.29%) Kanban
13 4 (11.43%) jQuery
13 4 (11.43%) Eclipse
13 4 (11.43%) XML
13 4 (11.43%) UNIX
13 4 (11.43%) Tomcat
13 4 (11.43%) Ant
13 4 (11.43%) Finance
14 3 (8.571%) Nagios
14 3 (8.571%) JSP

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 15 (42.86%) HTML
2 14 (40.00%) CSS
3 12 (34.29%) Web Services
4 8 (22.86%) Spring
4 8 (22.86%) RESTful
5 7 (20.00%) SOAP
5 7 (20.00%) LAMP
6 5 (14.29%) JSON
7 4 (11.43%) XML
7 4 (11.43%) jQuery
8 3 (8.571%) REST
8 3 (8.571%) CSS3
8 3 (8.571%) HTML5
8 3 (8.571%) JSP
8 3 (8.571%) Spring MVC
8 3 (8.571%) Ajax
8 3 (8.571%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (5.714%) Silverlight
9 2 (5.714%) .NET
9 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (37.14%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.571%) Drupal
4 1 (2.857%) WordPress
4 1 (2.857%) Magento
4 1 (2.857%) nginx
4 1 (2.857%) concrete5
4 1 (2.857%) CMS
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) SMTP
1 1 (2.857%) FTP
1 1 (2.857%) SNMP
1 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.857%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.857%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.857%) GIS
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.857%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.857%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Subversion
2 6 (17.14%) Git (software)
3 4 (11.43%) Ant
3 4 (11.43%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.857%) Maven
4 1 (2.857%) Selenium
4 1 (2.857%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
2 3 (8.571%) Billing
2 3 (8.571%) Marketing
3 2 (5.714%) Publishing
4 1 (2.857%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) PHP Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Programmer
5 3 (8.571%) Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) LAMP Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Drupal Developer
5 3 (8.571%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 3 (8.571%) PHP Web Developer
5 3 (8.571%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 2 (5.714%) DBA
6 2 (5.714%) PHP Programmer
6 2 (5.714%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (5.714%) MySQL DBA
6 2 (5.714%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Systems Designer
7 1 (2.857%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.857%) Replication
1 1 (2.857%) Data Integration
1 1 (2.857%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (65.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) UNIX
3 2 (5.714%) AIX
3 2 (5.714%) HPUX
3 2 (5.714%) Debian
4 1 (2.857%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) MVC
2 6 (17.14%) Scrum
2 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
2 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (14.29%) Kanban
4 2 (5.714%) Data Mapping
4 2 (5.714%) TOGAF
4 2 (5.714%) UML
4 2 (5.714%) CRM
4 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.714%) PLM
4 2 (5.714%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.857%) SEO
5 1 (2.857%) Migration
5 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.857%) B2B
5 1 (2.857%) B2C
5 1 (2.857%) ERP
5 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) PHP
2 9 (25.71%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.714%) Perl
3 2 (5.714%) Groovy
4 1 (2.857%) C++
4 1 (2.857%) SQL
4 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.857%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) NFS
1 1 (2.857%) Samba
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.857%) Postfix
1 1 (2.857%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Nagios
2 2 (5.714%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle
2 2 (5.714%) Zend
3 1 (2.857%) Percona
3 1 (2.857%) SAP
3 1 (2.857%) HP
3 1 (2.857%) Actuate
3 1 (2.857%) Epicor
3 1 (2.857%) NetApp
3 1 (2.857%) JD Edwards
3 1 (2.857%) Sage
3 1 (2.857%) VMware