Home Counties MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the Home Counties 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 29 August 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 Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset 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 Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£343
% change on same period last year	-17.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.92	£33.80
% change on same period last year	-20.35 %
Database & Business Intelligence Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	16	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	0	22
Average minimum daily rate	-	£354
Average daily rate	-	£356
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.14
Average hourly rate	-	£39.57
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
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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 Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP 2 2 (66.67 %) LAMP 2 2 (66.67 %) Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (66.67 %) LAMP 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle