The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 59 72 71
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -1
Contract jobs citing MySQL 12 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.394% 0.791% 0.582%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.692% 7.377% 2.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
Average daily rate £378 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.85% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £299 £230 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
156 122 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.12% 10.72% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 33 115
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £212 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £513 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £11.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+182.60% -66.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
MySQL
Berkshire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (58.62%) Oracle
2 16 (55.17%) Perl
3 13 (44.83%) PHP
3 13 (44.83%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (41.38%) SQL
5 11 (37.93%) UNIX
5 11 (37.93%) Telecoms
5 11 (37.93%) Greenplum
6 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
7 8 (27.59%) HTML
7 8 (27.59%) Linux
7 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
8 7 (24.14%) Ericsson
8 7 (24.14%) CMS
9 6 (20.69%) Subversion
9 6 (20.69%) OO
9 6 (20.69%) Windows
9 6 (20.69%) Apache
9 6 (20.69%) XML
10 5 (17.24%) CSS
10 5 (17.24%) XHTML
10 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
10 5 (17.24%) Nokia
10 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (17.24%) Internet
10 5 (17.24%) Korn
10 5 (17.24%) Back Office
10 5 (17.24%) Nokia NetAct
11 4 (13.79%) Performance Management
11 4 (13.79%) jQuery

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (27.59%) HTML
2 6 (20.69%) XML
3 5 (17.24%) CSS
3 5 (17.24%) XHTML
4 4 (13.79%) jQuery
5 3 (10.34%) HTML5
6 2 (6.897%) CSS3
6 2 (6.897%) Ajax
7 1 (3.448%) .NET
7 1 (3.448%) Web Services
7 1 (3.448%) XSLT
7 1 (3.448%) Zend Framework
7 1 (3.448%) Django
7 1 (3.448%) JSON
7 1 (3.448%) LAMP
7 1 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (3.448%) MapReduce
7 1 (3.448%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) CMS
2 6 (20.69%) Apache
3 4 (13.79%) WebLogic Portal
3 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
4 3 (10.34%) Drupal
5 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
5 1 (3.448%) WordPress
5 1 (3.448%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
1 5 (17.24%) Internet
1 5 (17.24%) Nokia NetAct
2 4 (13.79%) 3G
2 4 (13.79%) HTTP
3 1 (3.448%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.448%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.448%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.448%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.448%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.448%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Subversion
General
1 11 (37.93%) Telecoms
2 5 (17.24%) Back Office
3 2 (6.897%) Marketing
4 1 (3.448%) Automotive
4 1 (3.448%) Games
4 1 (3.448%) Music
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) PHP Developer
3 5 (17.24%) OSS Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Back Office Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Programmer
5 3 (10.34%) Web Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 2 (6.897%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (6.897%) PHP Programmer
6 2 (6.897%) Web Programmer
6 2 (6.897%) Database Developer
6 2 (6.897%) CMS Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.448%) Tester
7 1 (3.448%) Drupal Developer
7 1 (3.448%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Wiki
2 2 (6.897%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.897%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.448%) EPoS
3 1 (3.448%) EMV
3 1 (3.448%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.448%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) Online Games
3 1 (3.448%) Ontologies
3 1 (3.448%) IPTV
3 1 (3.448%) APACS
3 1 (3.448%) E-Learning
3 1 (3.448%) Statistics
3 1 (3.448%) Streaming Music
3 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) UNIX
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Windows
4 2 (6.897%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.897%) Solaris
5 1 (3.448%) AIX
5 1 (3.448%) HPUX
5 1 (3.448%) FreeBSD
5 1 (3.448%) SUSE
5 1 (3.448%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) OO
2 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.79%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.897%) Migration
4 2 (6.897%) OOP
5 1 (3.448%) UML
5 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.448%) ITIL
5 1 (3.448%) Data Security
5 1 (3.448%) Kanban
5 1 (3.448%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.448%) Web Development
5 1 (3.448%) Operations Management
5 1 (3.448%) Cluster Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.448%) TDD
5 1 (3.448%) Data Management
5 1 (3.448%) Scrum
5 1 (3.448%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Perl
2 13 (44.83%) PHP
3 12 (41.38%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.24%) Korn
6 4 (13.79%) Java
7 1 (3.448%) Python
7 1 (3.448%) C#
7 1 (3.448%) C++
7 1 (3.448%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.448%) Scala
7 1 (3.448%) Ruby
7 1 (3.448%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 1 (3.448%) RHCE
2 1 (3.448%) HPUX Certification
2 1 (3.448%) SCSA
2 1 (3.448%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.448%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (3.448%) Postfix
1 1 (3.448%) Sendmail
1 1 (3.448%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.448%) Xen
1 1 (3.448%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) OpenView
1 1 (3.448%) Tivoli
1 1 (3.448%) NetBackup
1 1 (3.448%) Splunk
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle
2 11 (37.93%) Greenplum
3 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
4 7 (24.14%) Ericsson
5 5 (17.24%) Nokia
6 3 (10.34%) Huawei
6 3 (10.34%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 2 (6.897%) IBM
8 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.448%) Sun
8 1 (3.448%) HP
8 1 (3.448%) Intel
8 1 (3.448%) Veritas
8 1 (3.448%) JBoss
8 1 (3.448%) Remedy
8 1 (3.448%) Egenera
8 1 (3.448%) Zend
8 1 (3.448%) VMware
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