The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Kent 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank - 33 32
Contract jobs citing MySQL 0 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 1.594% 1.942%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 6.780% 8.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £213 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
84 59 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 33.33% 23.51% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 44
Average daily rate £375 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £377 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £22.69 - £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Maidstone - - - - 8
Sevenoaks - - - -
Tonbridge - - - -
West Malling - - - -
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Replication
3 6 (50.00%) PHP
4 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) Bourne shell
5 3 (25.00%) Perl
5 3 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (16.67%) IBM Notes
6 2 (16.67%) Apache
6 2 (16.67%) Lotus
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (16.67%) AS400
6 2 (16.67%) HTTP
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) jQuery
6 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (8.333%) JasperReports
7 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
7 1 (8.333%) Squid
7 1 (8.333%) VLAN
7 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
7 1 (8.333%) Zend

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (8.333%) Zend Framework
2 1 (8.333%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (8.333%) LAMP
2 1 (8.333%) Memcached
2 1 (8.333%) CSS
2 1 (8.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IBM Notes
1 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (8.333%) VLAN
2 1 (8.333%) iSCSI
2 1 (8.333%) DNS
2 1 (8.333%) SSL
2 1 (8.333%) SAN
2 1 (8.333%) VoIP
2 1 (8.333%) SMTP
2 1 (8.333%) IPsec
2 1 (8.333%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) JasperReports
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
1 1 (8.333%) PHPUnit
1 1 (8.333%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) MySQL DBA
1 6 (50.00%) DBA
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Senior UNIX Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) AS400
2 2 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.333%) Debian
3 1 (8.333%) OpenBSD
3 1 (8.333%) Fedora
3 1 (8.333%) CentOS
3 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX
3 1 (8.333%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
2 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
2 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (8.333%) ETL
2 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (25.00%) Bourne shell
2 3 (25.00%) Perl
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Squid
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Lotus
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.333%) Zend
2 1 (8.333%) VMware
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle