The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Lancashire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 28 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Contract jobs citing MySQL 3 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.478% 2.347% 0.881%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.455% 11.76% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £225 £300 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +62.16%
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
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
55 85 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 27.09% 19.95% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 42
Average daily rate £300 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £155 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
Average hourly rate £30.00 £18.20 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+64.83% -48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £14.90 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £21.50 £39.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
MySQL
North West

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Lancaster 0 2 £225 -25.00%
Blackburn - 1 - -
MySQL
North West

MySQL
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Backbone.js
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Mercurial
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Backbone.js
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
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