The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Somerset 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 28 29 31
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 3.261% 4.118% 1.266%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% 12.50% 3.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
Average daily rate £260 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
48 56 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 26.09% 32.94% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 34
Average daily rate £310 £358 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.28% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £298 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £10.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+300.00% -52.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
South West

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bath +5 6 £260 +13.04%
MySQL
South West

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 3 (33.33%) Zend
3 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (33.33%) Drupal
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Puppet
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) nginx
4 2 (22.22%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (22.22%) Symfony
4 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
4 2 (22.22%) C
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 2 (22.22%) Subversion
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) FreeBSD
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Perl

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) Symfony
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
4 1 (11.11%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Drupal
2 2 (22.22%) nginx
3 1 (11.11%) WordPress
3 1 (11.11%) CMS
3 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 1 (11.11%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 3 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Web Applications Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Support
4 1 (11.11%) Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (11.11%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) FreeBSD
3 2 (22.22%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
1 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Zend
2 1 (11.11%) Talend
2 1 (11.11%) Hyperion
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
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