South East MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bletchley Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	126
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching contract IT job ads	220	203
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.290 %	0.215 %
As % of the category below	9.002 %	5.611 %
Daily rates quoted	57	45
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£342
Average daily rate	£281	£358
% change on same period last year	-21.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£309
% change on same period last year	-7.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.95	£30.64
Average hourly rate	£27.16	£34.45
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.37	£38.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.47	£30.13
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Database & Business Intelligence South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2444	3618
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.223 %	3.838 %
Daily rates quoted	581	828
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£334
Average daily rate	£356	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	241	330
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.50	£31.71
Average hourly rate	£33.63	£33.69
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.76	£35.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MySQL across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MySQL across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MySQL within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+48	53	£275	-30.57 %
Hampshire	0	43	£300	-19.46 %
Oxfordshire	+13	32	£225	-3.75 %
Surrey	+16	28	£246	-18.02 %
Buckinghamshire	+23	22	£330	-15.50 %
West Sussex	-8	11	-	-
Thames Valley	+27	8	-	-
Kent	+9	8	£110	-
East Sussex	+17	7	-	-
Middlesex	-	3	-	-
M4 Corridor	-	2	-	-
Sussex	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 319 (63.55 %) PHP 2 198 (39.44 %) Linux 3 186 (37.05 %) JavaScript 4 182 (36.25 %) CSS 5 166 (33.07 %) HTML 6 149 (29.68 %) Apache 7 118 (23.51 %) PHP5 8 113 (22.51 %) XML 9 89 (17.73 %) Oracle 10 85 (16.93 %) XHTML 11 83 (16.53 %) LAMP 12 72 (14.34 %) AJAX 13 69 (13.75 %) Java 14 68 (13.55 %) Unix 15 65 (12.95 %) OO

16 59 (11.75 %) SQL 16 59 (11.75 %) Red Hat 17 58 (11.55 %) SQL Server 18 54 (10.76 %) Perl 19 52 (10.36 %) .NET 20 41 (8.167 %) Web Development 21 40 (7.968 %) OOP 22 37 (7.371 %) Windows 23 36 (7.171 %) CMS 24 35 (6.972 %) Tomcat 25 34 (6.773 %) PHP4 26 31 (6.175 %) Subversion 27 30 (5.976 %) J2EE 28 29 (5.777 %) ASP.NET 28 29 (5.777 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 1 182 (36.25 %) CSS 2 166 (33.07 %) HTML 3 113 (22.51 %) XML 4 85 (16.93 %) XHTML 5 83 (16.53 %) LAMP 6 72 (14.34 %) AJAX 7 52 (10.36 %) .NET 8 30 (5.976 %) J2EE 9 29 (5.777 %) ASP.NET 10 26 (5.179 %) XSLT 11 21 (4.183 %) ASP 11 21 (4.183 %) Drupal 12 17 (3.386 %) Ruby on Rails 12 17 (3.386 %) WebServices 13 16 (3.187 %) Zend Framework 14 14 (2.789 %) Spring 14 14 (2.789 %) Swing 15 13 (2.590 %) SOAP 16 12 (2.390 %) Servlets 16 12 (2.390 %) Mason	Application Platforms 1 149 (29.68 %) Apache 2 36 (7.171 %) CMS 3 35 (6.972 %) Tomcat 4 14 (2.789 %) IIS 5 10 (1.992 %) JBoss 5 10 (1.992 %) SugarCRM 6 8 (1.594 %) ColdFusion 7 3 (0.598 %) WebLogic 8 2 (0.398 %) WebLogic Portal 8 2 (0.398 %) Joomla! 9 1 (0.199 %) Mambo
Applications 1 10 (1.992 %) Quicktime 2 6 (1.195 %) Photoshop 3 2 (0.398 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.199 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.199 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.199 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 24 (4.781 %) Internet 2 20 (3.984 %) TCP/IP 3 17 (3.386 %) Firewall 4 14 (2.789 %) SMTP 5 10 (1.992 %) Network Security 6 7 (1.394 %) DNS 7 6 (1.195 %) HTTP 7 6 (1.195 %) LDAP 8 5 (0.996 %) Intranet 9 4 (0.797 %) FTP 10 3 (0.598 %) SSL 11 2 (0.398 %) HTTPS 11 2 (0.398 %) 3G 11 2 (0.398 %) SSH 11 2 (0.398 %) IMAP 12 1 (0.199 %) Cisco PIX 12 1 (0.199 %) Wireless 12 1 (0.199 %) NNTP 12 1 (0.199 %) SAN 12 1 (0.199 %) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (11.55 %) SQL Server 2 22 (4.382 %) PostgreSQL 3 19 (3.785 %) RDBMS 4 17 (3.386 %) Oracle 10g 5 10 (1.992 %) GIS 5 10 (1.992 %) SQL Server 2005 6 8 (1.594 %) Oracle 9i 7 4 (0.797 %) JasperReports 7 4 (0.797 %) Informix 8 2 (0.398 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.398 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.199 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (0.199 %) DB2 9 1 (0.199 %) Oracle 11g 9 1 (0.199 %) DTS 9 1 (0.199 %) TOAD 9 1 (0.199 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 31 (6.175 %) Subversion 2 25 (4.980 %) Flash 3 15 (2.988 %) Eclipse 4 9 (1.793 %) Ant 5 8 (1.594 %) JUnit 5 8 (1.594 %) Visual Studio 6 6 (1.195 %) Dreamweaver 7 5 (0.996 %) Bugzilla 8 2 (0.398 %) Rational Rose 9 1 (0.199 %) ERwin 9 1 (0.199 %) CheckStyle
General 1 23 (4.582 %) Marketing 2 17 (3.386 %) Telecoms 2 17 (3.386 %) Finance 3 15 (2.988 %) Publishing 4 9 (1.793 %) Games 5 8 (1.594 %) Government 6 7 (1.394 %) Retail 7 6 (1.195 %) Manufacturing 8 3 (0.598 %) Health 8 3 (0.598 %) Education 8 3 (0.598 %) Insurance 8 3 (0.598 %) Flash Games 9 2 (0.398 %) Auditing 9 2 (0.398 %) Banking 9 2 (0.398 %) Multimedia 9 2 (0.398 %) Billing 9 2 (0.398 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.199 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.199 %) Front Office 10 1 (0.199 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 363 (72.31 %) Developer 2 215 (42.83 %) PHP Developer 3 89 (17.73 %) Web Developer 4 49 (9.761 %) MySQL Developer 5 32 (6.375 %) Administrator 6 29 (5.777 %) PHP Web Developer 7 25 (4.980 %) Java Developer 8 24 (4.781 %) Analyst 9 22 (4.382 %) Programmer 10 21 (4.183 %) Senior Developer 11 19 (3.785 %) Linux Administrator 12 17 (3.386 %) Systems Administrator 13 13 (2.590 %) Consultant 13 13 (2.590 %) .NET Developer 13 13 (2.590 %) Linux Systems Administrator 13 13 (2.590 %) Senior PHP Developer 14 11 (2.191 %) Perl Developer 14 11 (2.191 %) DBA 14 11 (2.191 %) Junior 15 10 (1.992 %) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 21 (4.183 %) Replication 2 18 (3.586 %) Clustering 3 12 (2.390 %) Streaming Video 4 10 (1.992 %) Web 2.0 4 10 (1.992 %) W3C 5 9 (1.793 %) Computer Science 6 7 (1.394 %) Device Driver 7 2 (0.398 %) Handset 7 2 (0.398 %) Psychology 7 2 (0.398 %) Derivative 7 2 (0.398 %) Social Network 8 1 (0.199 %) Mathematics 8 1 (0.199 %) Physics 8 1 (0.199 %) Finnish Language 8 1 (0.199 %) Wiki 8 1 (0.199 %) Client/Server 8 1 (0.199 %) EPoS 8 1 (0.199 %) Streaming Media 8 1 (0.199 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 198 (39.44 %) Linux 2 68 (13.55 %) Unix 3 37 (7.371 %) Windows 4 29 (5.777 %) Solaris 5 24 (4.781 %) Debian 6 13 (2.590 %) AIX 7 10 (1.992 %) SUSE 8 6 (1.195 %) HPUX 9 4 (0.797 %) FreeBSD 9 4 (0.797 %) Windows Server 2003 9 4 (0.797 %) Windows XP 10 3 (0.598 %) Windows 2000 11 2 (0.398 %) Windows NT 11 2 (0.398 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 65 (12.95 %) OO 2 41 (8.167 %) Web Development 3 40 (7.968 %) OOP 4 21 (4.183 %) ITIL 4 21 (4.183 %) CRM 4 21 (4.183 %) E-Commerce 5 19 (3.785 %) Content Management 6 15 (2.988 %) Migration 7 11 (2.191 %) Agile Software Development 7 11 (2.191 %) Software Testing 7 11 (2.191 %) Security Cleared 8 10 (1.992 %) UML 9 8 (1.594 %) OOD 9 8 (1.594 %) SC Cleared 10 7 (1.394 %) Programme Management 10 7 (1.394 %) B2B 10 7 (1.394 %) Project Management 10 7 (1.394 %) Software Engineering 11 6 (1.195 %) Scrum 11 6 (1.195 %) MVC	Programming Languages 1 319 (63.55 %) PHP 2 186 (37.05 %) JavaScript 3 118 (23.51 %) PHP5 4 69 (13.75 %) Java 5 59 (11.75 %) SQL 6 54 (10.76 %) Perl 7 34 (6.773 %) PHP4 8 29 (5.777 %) C# 9 23 (4.582 %) Python 10 21 (4.183 %) Shell Script 10 21 (4.183 %) DHTML 11 18 (3.586 %) ActionScript 12 17 (3.386 %) Ruby 13 15 (2.988 %) C++ 14 13 (2.590 %) C 15 11 (2.191 %) VB 16 7 (1.394 %) VB.NET 17 6 (1.195 %) PL/SQL 18 4 (0.797 %) Delphi 18 4 (0.797 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 17 (3.386 %) Degree 2 7 (1.394 %) RHCT 3 1 (0.199 %) RHCE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.195 %) SLA 2 4 (0.797 %) ISO9001 3 2 (0.398 %) WAI 3 2 (0.398 %) QA
System Software 1 4 (0.797 %) Samba 1 4 (0.797 %) Oracle RMAN 1 4 (0.797 %) Oracle RAC 1 4 (0.797 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.199 %) Squid 2 1 (0.199 %) NetBackup 2 1 (0.199 %) NFS 2 1 (0.199 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (0.598 %) Nagios 2 2 (0.398 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 89 (17.73 %) Oracle 2 59 (11.75 %) Red Hat 3 25 (4.980 %) Zend 4 13 (2.590 %) VMware 5 11 (2.191 %) Sun 6 8 (1.594 %) Apple 6 8 (1.594 %) Sony 7 7 (1.394 %) Intel 8 6 (1.195 %) Yahoo! 9 5 (0.996 %) Google 10 4 (0.797 %) CorVu 10 4 (0.797 %) Microsoft 11 3 (0.598 %) IBM 11 3 (0.598 %) ESRI 12 2 (0.398 %) Macromedia 12 2 (0.398 %) Sybase 12 2 (0.398 %) Cisco 12 2 (0.398 %) GUPTA 13 1 (0.199 %) Finjan 13 1 (0.199 %) Adobe