The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 26 18 31
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +13
Contract jobs citing MySQL 8 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 3.791% 3.271% 1.293%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.38% 14.00% 4.615%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
Average daily rate £280 £205 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.58% -35.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £177 £136
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £504
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £8.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
52 50 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 24.64% 23.36% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 15
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.08% +0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £191 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £431 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 13
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.70 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £32.50 £34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
MySQL
East Midlands

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Loughborough - 2 £265 -
Leicester -5 1 - -
MySQL
East Midlands

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 17 (89.47%) CSS
3 15 (78.95%) JavaScript
4 14 (73.68%) HTML
5 12 (63.16%) PHPUnit
6 10 (52.63%) CodeIgniter
6 10 (52.63%) TDD
7 9 (47.37%) Linux
7 9 (47.37%) Zend
8 8 (42.11%) jQuery
9 7 (36.84%) OO
10 6 (31.58%) Apache
10 6 (31.58%) LAMP
10 6 (31.58%) Subversion
10 6 (31.58%) HTML5
10 6 (31.58%) CSS3
11 5 (26.32%) Twitter
11 5 (26.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 5 (26.32%) OOP
12 4 (21.05%) XHTML
12 4 (21.05%) SOAP
12 4 (21.05%) Web Services
12 4 (21.05%) XML
12 4 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (21.05%) REST
12 4 (21.05%) Git (software)
12 4 (21.05%) JSON
12 4 (21.05%) Ajax
13 3 (15.79%) Scrum
13 3 (15.79%) SEO

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 17 (89.47%) CSS
2 14 (73.68%) HTML
3 10 (52.63%) CodeIgniter
4 8 (42.11%) jQuery
5 6 (31.58%) LAMP
5 6 (31.58%) HTML5
5 6 (31.58%) CSS3
6 5 (26.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (21.05%) XHTML
7 4 (21.05%) SOAP
7 4 (21.05%) Web Services
7 4 (21.05%) XML
7 4 (21.05%) REST
7 4 (21.05%) JSON
7 4 (21.05%) Ajax
8 1 (5.263%) Sass
8 1 (5.263%) Backbone.js
8 1 (5.263%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (5.263%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) PHPUnit
2 6 (31.58%) Subversion
3 4 (21.05%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.263%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.263%) JIRA
4 1 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) PHP Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
4 2 (10.53%) HTML Developer
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (10.53%) CSS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Social Media
1 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) TDD
2 7 (36.84%) OO
3 5 (26.32%) OOP
4 4 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) SEO
6 2 (10.53%) MVC
7 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.263%) Refactoring
7 1 (5.263%) Market Research
7 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.263%) Mobile Commerce
7 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (78.95%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.263%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (5.263%) PHP5
3 1 (5.263%) C++
3 1 (5.263%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Zend
2 5 (26.32%) Twitter
3 1 (5.263%) Adobe
3 1 (5.263%) Apple