The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 65 75 89
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 53 58 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.307% 1.831% 1.397%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.925% 8.274% 6.277%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 29
Average daily rate £266 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £350 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 701 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.25% 22.13% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 368 381
Average daily rate £325 £300 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -8.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 41
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.57 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £71.50 £35.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +12 34 £250 -13.79%
Cheshire +1 7 £358 +30.00%
Merseyside +10 6 - -
Lancashire +8 3 £225 -25.00%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 82 (78.10%) PHP
2 58 (55.24%) CSS
3 50 (47.62%) JavaScript
4 35 (33.33%) SQL
5 34 (32.38%) HTML
6 31 (29.52%) Linux
6 31 (29.52%) OO
7 29 (27.62%) jQuery
8 27 (25.71%) HTML5
8 27 (25.71%) CSS3
9 22 (20.95%) Zend
9 22 (20.95%) Apache
10 21 (20.00%) LAMP
10 21 (20.00%) MVC
10 21 (20.00%) Drupal
11 20 (19.05%) Web Services
12 19 (18.10%) PHP5
13 18 (17.14%) CodeIgniter
13 18 (17.14%) SQL Server
14 17 (16.19%) Java
15 16 (15.24%) Oracle
15 16 (15.24%) CMS
15 16 (15.24%) Subversion
15 16 (15.24%) Ajax
16 15 (14.29%) Retail
16 15 (14.29%) JSON
16 15 (14.29%) Magento
16 15 (14.29%) XML
16 15 (14.29%) E-Commerce
17 14 (13.33%) SOAP

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 58 (55.24%) CSS
2 34 (32.38%) HTML
3 29 (27.62%) jQuery
4 27 (25.71%) HTML5
4 27 (25.71%) CSS3
5 21 (20.00%) LAMP
6 20 (19.05%) Web Services
7 18 (17.14%) CodeIgniter
8 16 (15.24%) Ajax
9 15 (14.29%) JSON
9 15 (14.29%) XML
10 14 (13.33%) SOAP
11 12 (11.43%) .NET
12 10 (9.524%) ASP.NET
13 9 (8.571%) XSD
13 9 (8.571%) XSLT
13 9 (8.571%) Zend Framework
13 9 (8.571%) RESTful
14 8 (7.619%) XHTML
15 7 (6.667%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 22 (20.95%) Apache
2 21 (20.00%) Drupal
3 16 (15.24%) CMS
4 15 (14.29%) Magento
5 14 (13.33%) WordPress
6 5 (4.762%) Umbraco
6 5 (4.762%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.905%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.952%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.952%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.952%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 10 (9.524%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.810%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.952%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.952%) MS Office
3 1 (0.952%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.952%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.857%) DNS
2 2 (1.905%) SNMP
2 2 (1.905%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.952%) DHCP
3 1 (0.952%) SAN
3 1 (0.952%) TELNET
3 1 (0.952%) Firewall
3 1 (0.952%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.714%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.762%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.810%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.857%) OLTP
5 3 (2.857%) VLDB
5 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (2.857%) IDMS
5 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (2.857%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (2.857%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.905%) SQLite
7 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.952%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Subversion
2 10 (9.524%) Git (software)
3 6 (5.714%) Visual Studio
3 6 (5.714%) Dreamweaver
4 5 (4.762%) NetBeans
4 5 (4.762%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.905%) Maven
5 2 (1.905%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.952%) Hudson
6 1 (0.952%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.952%) JUnit
6 1 (0.952%) Selenium
6 1 (0.952%) TestNG
General
1 15 (14.29%) Retail
2 4 (3.810%) Marketing
3 1 (0.952%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (89.52%) Developer
2 32 (30.48%) PHP Developer
3 15 (14.29%) Drupal Developer
4 11 (10.48%) Front-End Developer
5 8 (7.619%) Web Developer
6 6 (5.714%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.714%) .NET Developer
6 6 (5.714%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (4.762%) Lead Developer
7 5 (4.762%) Technical Leader
7 5 (4.762%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 5 (4.762%) Lead PHP Developer
7 5 (4.762%) Designer
7 5 (4.762%) Technical Developer
8 4 (3.810%) LAMP Developer
8 4 (3.810%) MySQL Developer
8 4 (3.810%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.857%) DBA
9 3 (2.857%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (2.857%) UI Designer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.810%) Social Media
2 4 (3.810%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.857%) Data Integration
3 3 (2.857%) Replication
4 2 (1.905%) E-Learning
4 2 (1.905%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.905%) Kindle
4 2 (1.905%) Open Source
5 1 (0.952%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.952%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.952%) CMDB
5 1 (0.952%) W3C
5 1 (0.952%) BBC
5 1 (0.952%) Mobile Games
5 1 (0.952%) Streaming Video
5 1 (0.952%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.952%) Derivative
5 1 (0.952%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.52%) Linux
2 7 (6.667%) Windows
3 5 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.857%) UNIX
4 3 (2.857%) Android
5 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.952%) CentOS
5 1 (0.952%) Windows NT
5 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.952%) Fedora
5 1 (0.952%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.52%) OO
2 21 (20.00%) MVC
3 15 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 11 (10.48%) OOP
5 8 (7.619%) Web Development
6 7 (6.667%) SEO
6 7 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (5.714%) OOD
7 6 (5.714%) Scrum
8 5 (4.762%) Web Design
8 5 (4.762%) Business Development
9 4 (3.810%) Load Testing
9 4 (3.810%) Unit Testing
9 4 (3.810%) Migration
9 4 (3.810%) TDD
10 3 (2.857%) Data Modelling
10 3 (2.857%) ITIL
10 3 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (2.857%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 82 (78.10%) PHP
2 50 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 35 (33.33%) SQL
4 19 (18.10%) PHP5
5 17 (16.19%) Java
6 10 (9.524%) C#
7 5 (4.762%) XPath
8 4 (3.810%) Ruby
8 4 (3.810%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.857%) Python
10 2 (1.905%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.905%) Haskell
10 2 (1.905%) Scala
10 2 (1.905%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.905%) Perl
11 1 (0.952%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (3.810%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.905%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.952%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.952%) MCTS
4 1 (0.952%) MCITP
4 1 (0.952%) MCP
4 1 (0.952%) MCSE
4 1 (0.952%) CCNA
4 1 (0.952%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.952%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.857%) QA
2 2 (1.905%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.952%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (2.857%) Postfix
2 1 (0.952%) vSphere
2 1 (0.952%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.952%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.952%) Samba
2 1 (0.952%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.905%) Puppet
2 1 (0.952%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) Zend
2 16 (15.24%) Oracle
3 9 (8.571%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.714%) Google
4 6 (5.714%) Twitter
5 5 (4.762%) Facebook
6 4 (3.810%) Adobe
7 2 (1.905%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.952%) VMware
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