The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 81 95 93
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 158 173 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.994% 1.703% 1.861%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.49% 9.954% 8.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 104 94
Average daily rate £325 £315 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% +9.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £213 £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -47.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1506 1738 2159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.01% 17.11% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 867 1021
Average daily rate £358 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 49 119
Average hourly rate £26.88 £26.00 £38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.36% -32.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £16.50 £19.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.25 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hampshire -13 33 £313 -16.66%
Oxfordshire +6 26 £295 -9.23%
Berkshire -2 26 £365 +12.30%
Surrey +5 24 £388 +25.00%
Buckinghamshire +6 20 £200 -23.80%
East Sussex +10 14 £200 -12.08%
West Sussex +19 11 £585 +95.00%
Home Counties - 2 £210 -
Kent -6 1 - -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 172 (56.03%) PHP
2 118 (38.44%) JavaScript
3 107 (34.85%) CSS
4 94 (30.62%) jQuery
5 93 (30.29%) HTML
6 89 (28.99%) Linux
7 86 (28.01%) SQL
8 72 (23.45%) MVC
9 59 (19.22%) SQL Server
10 57 (18.57%) OO
11 53 (17.26%) Windows
12 51 (16.61%) Perl
12 51 (16.61%) Subversion
13 48 (15.64%) Apache
14 47 (15.31%) XML
14 47 (15.31%) Oracle
15 46 (14.98%) Java
16 44 (14.33%) Agile Software Development
17 41 (13.36%) HTML5
17 41 (13.36%) OOP
18 39 (12.70%) LAMP
19 37 (12.05%) Scrum
20 35 (11.40%) .NET
21 34 (11.07%) VMware
21 34 (11.07%) PHP5
22 33 (10.75%) Drupal
22 33 (10.75%) Git (software)
22 33 (10.75%) Microsoft
23 29 (9.446%) Web Services
23 29 (9.446%) Red Hat

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 107 (34.85%) CSS
2 94 (30.62%) jQuery
3 93 (30.29%) HTML
4 47 (15.31%) XML
5 41 (13.36%) HTML5
6 39 (12.70%) LAMP
7 35 (11.40%) .NET
8 29 (9.446%) Web Services
9 25 (8.143%) JSON
10 24 (7.818%) XHTML
11 23 (7.492%) CSS3
12 20 (6.515%) ASP.NET
13 19 (6.189%) Ajax
14 16 (5.212%) Zend Framework
15 15 (4.886%) ASP.NET MVC
16 14 (4.560%) CodeIgniter
17 11 (3.583%) Spring
18 10 (3.257%) J2EE
18 10 (3.257%) Hibernate
19 9 (2.932%) REST
Application Platforms
1 48 (15.64%) Apache
2 33 (10.75%) Drupal
3 25 (8.143%) CMS
4 10 (3.257%) Magento
4 10 (3.257%) Tomcat
5 9 (2.932%) WordPress
6 8 (2.606%) SharePoint 2010
6 8 (2.606%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.606%) OpenEdge
6 8 (2.606%) WebLogic
7 6 (1.954%) Moodle
7 6 (1.954%) Joomla!
7 6 (1.954%) IIS
8 5 (1.629%) Liferay
9 4 (1.303%) Exchange Server 2003
9 4 (1.303%) MS Exchange
9 4 (1.303%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (1.303%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.977%) Lotus Notes
10 3 (0.977%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (1.954%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.303%) MS Office
3 2 (0.651%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.606%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.326%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.326%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.886%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.583%) DNS
2 11 (3.583%) HTTP
3 9 (2.932%) SSL
4 8 (2.606%) DHCP
5 7 (2.280%) Intranet
5 7 (2.280%) Internet
5 7 (2.280%) SAN
6 6 (1.954%) SMTP
7 5 (1.629%) Broadband
7 5 (1.629%) Nokia NetAct
7 5 (1.629%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.629%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.303%) NAS
8 4 (1.303%) tcpdump
8 4 (1.303%) SNMP
8 4 (1.303%) VPN
8 4 (1.303%) LDAP
8 4 (1.303%) Firewall
8 4 (1.303%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.22%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.469%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (7.492%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.212%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (4.235%) SQL Server 2000
6 12 (3.909%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.280%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (2.280%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.280%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (1.954%) SQLite
9 4 (1.303%) Oracle 9i
10 2 (0.651%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.651%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.326%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.326%) DB2
11 1 (0.326%) Adabas
11 1 (0.326%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.326%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.326%) JasperReports
11 1 (0.326%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (16.61%) Subversion
2 33 (10.75%) Git (software)
3 18 (5.863%) Selenium
4 13 (4.235%) SpecFlow
5 12 (3.909%) ReSharper
6 9 (2.932%) Ant
7 7 (2.280%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.954%) MSTest
8 6 (1.954%) WatiN
8 6 (1.954%) Hudson
8 6 (1.954%) WATIR
8 6 (1.954%) NUnit
9 5 (1.629%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.629%) DbUnit
10 4 (1.303%) Maven
11 3 (0.977%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.977%) TestNG
12 2 (0.651%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.651%) Phing
12 2 (0.651%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 22 (7.166%) Telecoms
2 14 (4.560%) Retail
3 12 (3.909%) Marketing
4 7 (2.280%) Finance
5 5 (1.629%) Publishing
5 5 (1.629%) Back Office
5 5 (1.629%) Games
5 5 (1.629%) Banking
6 3 (0.977%) French Language
7 2 (0.651%) Electronics
8 1 (0.326%) Automotive
8 1 (0.326%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.326%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.326%) Music
Job Titles
1 188 (61.24%) Developer
2 108 (35.18%) PHP Developer
3 26 (8.469%) DBA
4 19 (6.189%) MySQL DBA
5 18 (5.863%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 16 (5.212%) Analyst
7 15 (4.886%) Web Developer
7 15 (4.886%) Administrator
8 14 (4.560%) Senior Developer
8 14 (4.560%) Architect
9 13 (4.235%) C# Developer
10 12 (3.909%) Agile C# Developer
10 12 (3.909%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.909%) Programmer
10 12 (3.909%) Support Engineer
11 9 (2.932%) .NET Developer
11 9 (2.932%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (2.932%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (2.932%) Drupal Developer
12 8 (2.606%) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.537%) Digital Media
2 16 (5.212%) Clustering
3 13 (4.235%) Replication
4 12 (3.909%) Open Source
5 10 (3.257%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.280%) iPhone
7 6 (1.954%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.954%) iPad
8 5 (1.629%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.629%) Wiki
8 5 (1.629%) SaaS
9 4 (1.303%) Cryptography
10 3 (0.977%) AS400
10 3 (0.977%) W3C
11 2 (0.651%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.651%) Data Extraction
11 2 (0.651%) Social Media
11 2 (0.651%) Online Games
11 2 (0.651%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.651%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 89 (28.99%) Linux
2 53 (17.26%) Windows
3 27 (8.795%) UNIX
4 19 (6.189%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (4.560%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.932%) Android
7 8 (2.606%) Windows 7
7 8 (2.606%) Apple iOS
8 7 (2.280%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (1.954%) Solaris
10 4 (1.303%) CentOS
11 2 (0.651%) AIX
11 2 (0.651%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.651%) Debian
11 2 (0.651%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.326%) Fedora
12 1 (0.326%) SUSE
12 1 (0.326%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.326%) HPUX
12 1 (0.326%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (23.45%) MVC
2 57 (18.57%) OO
3 44 (14.33%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (13.36%) OOP
5 37 (12.05%) Scrum
6 28 (9.121%) TDD
7 24 (7.818%) E-Commerce
8 21 (6.840%) Kanban
9 20 (6.515%) BDD
10 19 (6.189%) Web Development
11 13 (4.235%) Unit Testing
12 10 (3.257%) Content Management
13 9 (2.932%) ITIL
13 9 (2.932%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (2.606%) Load Balancing
14 8 (2.606%) ETL
15 7 (2.280%) Performance Management
16 6 (1.954%) Automation Testing
16 6 (1.954%) Change Control
16 6 (1.954%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 172 (56.03%) PHP
2 118 (38.44%) JavaScript
3 86 (28.01%) SQL
4 51 (16.61%) Perl
5 46 (14.98%) Java
6 34 (11.07%) PHP5
7 28 (9.121%) C#
8 15 (4.886%) Python
8 15 (4.886%) T-SQL
9 13 (4.235%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.583%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.932%) C++
12 7 (2.280%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.280%) Bash shell
13 6 (1.954%) C
14 5 (1.629%) Ruby
14 5 (1.629%) Korn
15 4 (1.303%) sed
15 4 (1.303%) Bourne shell
15 4 (1.303%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 10 (3.257%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.280%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (2.280%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.954%) Degree
3 6 (1.954%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.326%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.326%) ISEB
4 1 (0.326%) HPUX Certification
4 1 (0.326%) RHCE
4 1 (0.326%) SCSA
4 1 (0.326%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.326%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.326%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.257%) QA
2 4 (1.303%) SLA
3 2 (0.651%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.326%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 22 (7.166%) VMware ESX
2 14 (4.560%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.257%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.257%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.932%) vSphere
4 9 (2.932%) Postfix
4 9 (2.932%) XenApp
5 5 (1.629%) Squid
6 4 (1.303%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (1.303%) Nmap
6 4 (1.303%) NFS
6 4 (1.303%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.326%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.326%) Xen
7 1 (0.326%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.326%) Varnish
7 1 (0.326%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.326%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.303%) Data Guard
1 4 (1.303%) Puppet
1 4 (1.303%) Nagios
2 2 (0.651%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.651%) CA SiteMinder
3 1 (0.326%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.326%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.326%) OpenView
3 1 (0.326%) Splunk
3 1 (0.326%) Plesk
Vendors
1 47 (15.31%) Oracle
2 34 (11.07%) VMware
3 33 (10.75%) Microsoft
4 29 (9.446%) Red Hat
5 26 (8.469%) Zend
6 13 (4.235%) NetApp
6 13 (4.235%) Greenplum
7 9 (2.932%) JBoss
8 8 (2.606%) Ericsson
9 7 (2.280%) Cisco
10 6 (1.954%) Twitter
10 6 (1.954%) SAP
11 5 (1.629%) Nokia
11 5 (1.629%) Facebook
12 4 (1.303%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 4 (1.303%) Huawei
12 4 (1.303%) Juniper
12 4 (1.303%) Citrix
12 4 (1.303%) HP
12 4 (1.303%) EMC
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