The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 56 68 67
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -1
Contract jobs citing MySQL 60 76 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.930% 2.293% 1.964%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.86% 11.84% 8.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 22
Average daily rate £260 £300 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £200 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £445 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £20.50
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 West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
433 642 621
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 21.14% 19.37% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 399 333
Average daily rate £335 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 34 37
Average hourly rate £40.00 £26.63 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.23% -18.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £10.41 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bristol +22 27 £288 -
Dorset +8 10 £200 -
Gloucestershire +14 9 £330 -19.51%
Somerset +4 6 £260 +4.00%
Wiltshire 0 3 - -
Devon +1 2 £263 +31.25%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 84 (61.31%) PHP
2 79 (57.66%) Linux
3 55 (40.15%) CSS
4 51 (37.23%) HTML
5 46 (33.58%) JavaScript
6 35 (25.55%) Oracle
6 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
7 33 (24.09%) jQuery
7 33 (24.09%) Java
8 31 (22.63%) DV Cleared
9 28 (20.44%) C
10 26 (18.98%) Agile Software Development
11 23 (16.79%) Windows
12 21 (15.33%) OO
12 21 (15.33%) Apache
13 20 (14.60%) ITIL
14 19 (13.87%) MVC
15 18 (13.14%) SQL Server
15 18 (13.14%) Python
15 18 (13.14%) QlikView
15 18 (13.14%) Drupal
16 17 (12.41%) Drools
16 17 (12.41%) Scala
16 17 (12.41%) Service Management
16 17 (12.41%) Benchmarking
17 15 (10.95%) LAMP
17 15 (10.95%) SQL
17 15 (10.95%) Git (software)
17 15 (10.95%) Zend
18 14 (10.22%) Open Source

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 55 (40.15%) CSS
2 51 (37.23%) HTML
3 33 (24.09%) jQuery
4 17 (12.41%) Drools
5 15 (10.95%) LAMP
6 13 (9.489%) Web Services
7 10 (7.299%) HTML5
7 10 (7.299%) Ajax
8 8 (5.839%) XHTML
9 7 (5.109%) Symfony
9 7 (5.109%) Zend Framework
9 7 (5.109%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (5.109%) CakePHP
9 7 (5.109%) Regular Expression
10 6 (4.380%) CSS3
11 5 (3.650%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.650%) Spring
11 5 (3.650%) .NET
12 4 (2.920%) XML
13 3 (2.190%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 21 (15.33%) Apache
2 18 (13.14%) Drupal
3 11 (8.029%) CMS
4 8 (5.839%) WordPress
5 5 (3.650%) Joomla!
6 4 (2.920%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.920%) Magento
7 3 (2.190%) Apache Solr
7 3 (2.190%) Amazon AWS
7 3 (2.190%) IIS
8 2 (1.460%) MS Exchange
8 2 (1.460%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (1.460%) nginx
9 1 (0.730%) Mule
9 1 (0.730%) ExpressionEngine
9 1 (0.730%) Commerce Server
9 1 (0.730%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.730%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.730%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (2.190%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.460%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.460%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.460%) InDesign
3 1 (0.730%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.460%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.730%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.839%) Internet
2 2 (1.460%) DHCP
2 2 (1.460%) HTTP
2 2 (1.460%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.460%) Intranet
3 1 (0.730%) POP3
3 1 (0.730%) SMTP
3 1 (0.730%) DNS
3 1 (0.730%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.730%) SSL
3 1 (0.730%) Firewall
3 1 (0.730%) IMAP
3 1 (0.730%) Network Security
3 1 (0.730%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.14%) SQL Server
1 18 (13.14%) QlikView
2 9 (6.569%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.380%) RDBMS
3 6 (4.380%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.190%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.190%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (2.190%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (2.190%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.190%) OLAP
4 3 (2.190%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.460%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.460%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.730%) SQLite
6 1 (0.730%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.730%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Git (software)
2 5 (3.650%) Subversion
3 3 (2.190%) Hudson
4 2 (1.460%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.460%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (0.730%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.730%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.730%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.730%) Maven
5 1 (0.730%) FrontPage
General
1 5 (3.650%) Finance
2 4 (2.920%) Marketing
3 3 (2.190%) Advertising
4 2 (1.460%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.460%) Back Office
4 2 (1.460%) Electronics
4 2 (1.460%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.730%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (70.07%) Developer
2 50 (36.50%) PHP Developer
3 18 (13.14%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 13 (9.489%) Software Engineer
5 12 (8.759%) Web Developer
6 11 (8.029%) MySQL Developer
7 10 (7.299%) Drupal Developer
8 8 (5.839%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.839%) Administrator
9 7 (5.109%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.109%) C++ Developer
9 7 (5.109%) DBA
9 7 (5.109%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.109%) PHP Web Developer
9 7 (5.109%) Software Manager
9 7 (5.109%) Applications Manager
10 6 (4.380%) Implementation Engineer
10 6 (4.380%) MySQL DBA
11 5 (3.650%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 4 (2.920%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.22%) Open Source
2 9 (6.569%) Digital Media
3 6 (4.380%) SaaS
4 4 (2.920%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.920%) Replication
5 3 (2.190%) iPhone
6 2 (1.460%) Social Media
6 2 (1.460%) iPad
6 2 (1.460%) Clustering
6 2 (1.460%) DTV
6 2 (1.460%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.730%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.730%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.730%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.730%) W3C
7 1 (0.730%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.730%) Streaming Media
7 1 (0.730%) Social Network
7 1 (0.730%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.730%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 79 (57.66%) Linux
2 23 (16.79%) Windows
3 9 (6.569%) UNIX
4 6 (4.380%) Solaris
5 2 (1.460%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.460%) FreeBSD
5 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.460%) Mac OS X Server
5 2 (1.460%) Android
5 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.730%) CentOS
6 1 (0.730%) Debian
6 1 (0.730%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.98%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (15.33%) OO
3 20 (14.60%) ITIL
4 19 (13.87%) MVC
5 17 (12.41%) Benchmarking
5 17 (12.41%) Service Management
6 9 (6.569%) E-Commerce
7 8 (5.839%) OOP
7 8 (5.839%) Scrum
8 7 (5.109%) ETL
9 6 (4.380%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (4.380%) Software Engineering
9 6 (4.380%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (4.380%) User Stories
10 5 (3.650%) Change Control
10 5 (3.650%) Refactoring
10 5 (3.650%) Migration
11 4 (2.920%) Content Management
11 4 (2.920%) Analytics
12 3 (2.190%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (61.31%) PHP
2 46 (33.58%) JavaScript
3 33 (24.09%) Java
4 28 (20.44%) C
5 18 (13.14%) Python
6 17 (12.41%) Scala
7 15 (10.95%) SQL
8 14 (10.22%) PHP5
9 10 (7.299%) Perl
10 8 (5.839%) C++
11 7 (5.109%) C#
11 7 (5.109%) Shell Script
11 7 (5.109%) Bash shell
12 2 (1.460%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.460%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.460%) Delphi
12 2 (1.460%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.730%) VBScript
13 1 (0.730%) Ruby
13 1 (0.730%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.63%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.920%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.460%) Degree
5 1 (0.730%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.650%) QA
2 1 (0.730%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.460%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.730%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.730%) vSphere
2 1 (0.730%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.730%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.730%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (3.650%) Puppet
2 3 (2.190%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (2.190%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.730%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.730%) WSUS
3 1 (0.730%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 35 (25.55%) Oracle
2 15 (10.95%) Zend
3 7 (5.109%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.650%) VMware
4 5 (3.650%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.190%) Mercator
5 3 (2.190%) Adobe
5 3 (2.190%) Twitter
6 2 (1.460%) Talend
6 2 (1.460%) SAP
6 2 (1.460%) Google
7 1 (0.730%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.730%) Facebook
7 1 (0.730%) Symantec
7 1 (0.730%) Perforce
7 1 (0.730%) JBoss
7 1 (0.730%) Cisco
7 1 (0.730%) Dell
7 1 (0.730%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.730%) NetApp
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