The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Sheffield 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 22 10 19
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 16 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 2.564% 9.639% 6.803%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.81% 30.19% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 8
Average daily rate £100 £240 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-58.33% -26.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
37 53 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 23.72% 31.93% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 35
Average daily rate £294 £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £135 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -48.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
MySQL
South Yorkshire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 8 (72.73%) PHP
2 7 (63.64%) HTML
2 7 (63.64%) CSS
2 7 (63.64%) Apache
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) MVC
2 7 (63.64%) LAMP
2 7 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) jQuery
3 6 (54.55%) PHPUnit
3 6 (54.55%) HTML5
3 6 (54.55%) CSS3
3 6 (54.55%) Symfony
3 6 (54.55%) Web Development
3 6 (54.55%) XML
3 6 (54.55%) XSLT
4 4 (36.36%) ISEB
5 3 (27.27%) QA
5 3 (27.27%) Internet
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
6 1 (9.091%) WordPress
6 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
6 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
6 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (9.091%) Confluence
6 1 (9.091%) Zend
6 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (9.091%) Drupal

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (63.64%) HTML
1 7 (63.64%) CSS
1 7 (63.64%) LAMP
1 7 (63.64%) jQuery
2 6 (54.55%) HTML5
2 6 (54.55%) CSS3
2 6 (54.55%) Symfony
2 6 (54.55%) XML
2 6 (54.55%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) WordPress
2 1 (9.091%) Confluence
2 1 (9.091%) Drupal
2 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
2 1 (9.091%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) PHPUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
2 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
2 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 1 (9.091%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
2 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) MVC
1 7 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (54.55%) Web Development
3 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
4 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PHP
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISEB
2 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Zend
1 1 (9.091%) JBoss
1 1 (9.091%) HP
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