The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 16 30 41
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +11
Contract jobs citing MySQL 72 40 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 9.743% 4.603% 2.044%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.64% 18.96% 8.553%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 30 7
Average daily rate £275 £314 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.35% +14.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £326 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
202 211 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.33% 24.28% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 143 65
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £423 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £17.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% -47.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
MySQL
West Yorkshire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 74 (83.15%) PHP
2 68 (76.40%) Linux
3 63 (70.79%) Apache
4 59 (66.29%) Web Services
5 55 (61.80%) Oracle
6 51 (57.30%) Internet
6 51 (57.30%) MongoDB
7 50 (56.18%) Route 53
7 50 (56.18%) Amazon EC2
7 50 (56.18%) Amazon S3
7 50 (56.18%) Amazon AWS
8 49 (55.06%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (55.06%) Redis
9 41 (46.07%) nginx
9 41 (46.07%) Ruby
10 40 (44.94%) C++
10 40 (44.94%) Python
10 40 (44.94%) Node.js
10 40 (44.94%) Bash shell
11 39 (43.82%) Kanban
12 38 (42.70%) DNS
13 34 (38.20%) TDD
14 33 (37.08%) Configuration Management
15 32 (35.96%) Java
15 32 (35.96%) Scrum
15 32 (35.96%) Puppet
16 31 (34.83%) Client/Server
17 29 (32.58%) Security Testing
18 28 (31.46%) Percona
19 26 (29.21%) JavaScript

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 59 (66.29%) Web Services
2 40 (44.94%) Node.js
3 23 (25.84%) CSS
4 21 (23.60%) jQuery
5 19 (21.35%) HTML5
6 16 (17.98%) POSIX
7 14 (15.73%) REST
8 13 (14.61%) CSS3
9 12 (13.48%) Hibernate
9 12 (13.48%) Spring
9 12 (13.48%) SOAP
9 12 (13.48%) J2EE
10 9 (10.11%) LAMP
11 7 (7.865%) JSON
11 7 (7.865%) XHTML
12 6 (6.742%) X-Windows
12 6 (6.742%) XML
12 6 (6.742%) Ajax
13 5 (5.618%) Java EE
13 5 (5.618%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 63 (70.79%) Apache
2 50 (56.18%) Route 53
2 50 (56.18%) Amazon EC2
2 50 (56.18%) Amazon S3
2 50 (56.18%) Amazon AWS
3 41 (46.07%) nginx
4 23 (25.84%) Tomcat
5 12 (13.48%) Adobe CQ
6 7 (7.865%) Apache Solr
7 3 (3.371%) Drupal
7 3 (3.371%) WordPress
8 2 (2.247%) CMS
9 1 (1.124%) IIS
9 1 (1.124%) Joomla!
9 1 (1.124%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.124%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.124%) Windows Azure
9 1 (1.124%) Magento
9 1 (1.124%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (4.494%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (57.30%) Internet
2 38 (42.70%) DNS
3 23 (25.84%) HTTP
4 17 (19.10%) TCP/IP
4 17 (19.10%) SSL
4 17 (19.10%) DHCP
5 13 (14.61%) Firewall
6 12 (13.48%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.124%) SAN
7 1 (1.124%) SSH
7 1 (1.124%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (57.30%) MongoDB
2 49 (55.06%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (55.06%) Redis
3 17 (19.10%) RDBMS
3 17 (19.10%) NoSQL
4 16 (17.98%) SimpleDB
4 16 (17.98%) Couchbase
4 16 (17.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.124%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.124%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.124%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git (software)
2 17 (19.10%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.48%) Maven
4 5 (5.618%) Selenium
5 1 (1.124%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.124%) JIRA
5 1 (1.124%) Capistrano
General
1 25 (28.09%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.371%) Games
2 3 (3.371%) Online Betting
3 1 (1.124%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Developer
2 18 (20.22%) Architect
3 17 (19.10%) Software Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (10.11%) Operations Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) PHP Developer
7 7 (7.865%) Web Developer
8 5 (5.618%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.618%) Mobile Developer
8 5 (5.618%) Front-End Developer
8 5 (5.618%) Front-End Web Developer
9 3 (3.371%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.371%) Infrastructure Designer
9 3 (3.371%) Designer
10 2 (2.247%) PHP MySQL Developer
10 2 (2.247%) PHP Web Developer
10 2 (2.247%) Linux Administrator
10 2 (2.247%) Graduate
10 2 (2.247%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 31 (34.83%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.742%) Open Source
3 5 (5.618%) RIA
4 3 (3.371%) Clustering
5 2 (2.247%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.124%) W3C
6 1 (1.124%) Streaming Video
6 1 (1.124%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.124%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.124%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.124%) Heroku
6 1 (1.124%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.124%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 68 (76.40%) Linux
2 16 (17.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (12.36%) UNIX
4 9 (10.11%) HPUX
5 7 (7.865%) Windows
6 5 (5.618%) AIX
6 5 (5.618%) Solaris
7 1 (1.124%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.124%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) Kanban
2 34 (38.20%) TDD
3 33 (37.08%) Configuration Management
4 32 (35.96%) Scrum
5 29 (32.58%) Security Testing
6 25 (28.09%) Test Automation
7 17 (19.10%) Load Balancing
7 17 (19.10%) BDD
7 17 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (17.98%) Capacity Management
8 16 (17.98%) Incident Management
9 12 (13.48%) SOA
10 11 (12.36%) E-Commerce
11 10 (11.24%) Agile Software Development
12 8 (8.989%) MVC
13 7 (7.865%) Software Engineering
14 6 (6.742%) Performance Testing
14 6 (6.742%) OO
15 5 (5.618%) Automated Testing
15 5 (5.618%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 74 (83.15%) PHP
2 41 (46.07%) Ruby
3 40 (44.94%) C++
3 40 (44.94%) Python
3 40 (44.94%) Bash shell
4 32 (35.96%) Java
5 26 (29.21%) JavaScript
6 23 (25.84%) Perl
7 4 (4.494%) SQL
8 1 (1.124%) C
8 1 (1.124%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (3.371%) Degree
2 1 (1.124%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.371%) QA
2 2 (2.247%) WAI
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (35.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.124%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 55 (61.80%) Oracle
2 28 (31.46%) Percona
3 18 (20.22%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.48%) Adobe
4 12 (13.48%) hybris
5 10 (11.24%) VMware
6 8 (8.989%) Zend
7 3 (3.371%) JBoss
8 1 (1.124%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.124%) HP
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