The first table below looks at the demand for the MySQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL Database Administrator
Rank 525 549 582
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +33
Contract jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 16 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.035% 0.027% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.030% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 2
Average daily rate £313 £360 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.19% -7.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £266 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £424 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

MySQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

MySQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK.

MySQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

MySQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

MySQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK.

MySQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +44 16 £313 -13.19%
South West - 6 £306 -
London +24 5 £338 -8.78%
East of England +19 3 £325 -7.14%
Hertfordshire +8 3 £325 -7.14%
Bristol - 3 £300 -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £425 -
Gloucester - 2 £353 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £353 -
City of London +19 1 £275 -31.25%
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 - -

MySQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited MySQL DBA in their job title 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 with MySQL DBA in their job title.

1 45 (100.00%) MySQL
2 27 (60.00%) Linux
3 17 (37.78%) Replication
4 12 (26.67%) SQL
5 7 (15.56%) UNIX
5 7 (15.56%) Python
5 7 (15.56%) Migration
6 6 (13.33%) Oracle
6 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
7 5 (11.11%) Database Tuning
7 5 (11.11%) Perl
7 5 (11.11%) Apache
8 4 (8.889%) PHP
8 4 (8.889%) Data Security
8 4 (8.889%) Data Migration
9 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
9 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (6.667%) Bourne shell
9 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
9 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
9 3 (6.667%) Red Hat
9 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
9 3 (6.667%) Clustering
9 3 (6.667%) Business Continuity
9 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
9 3 (6.667%) VoIP
10 2 (4.444%) LAMP

MySQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited MySQL DBA in their job title 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 with MySQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.444%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.667%) VoIP
2 1 (2.222%) DSL
2 1 (2.222%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (100.00%) MySQL
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.444%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.444%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.444%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.222%) Riak
5 1 (2.222%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.222%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.222%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.444%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Replication
2 3 (6.667%) Clustering
3 2 (4.444%) SaaS
3 2 (4.444%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.444%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.222%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.222%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) UNIX
3 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.222%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.56%) Migration
2 5 (11.11%) Database Tuning
3 4 (8.889%) Data Security
3 4 (8.889%) Data Migration
4 3 (6.667%) Business Continuity
4 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 2 (4.444%) Capacity Management
5 2 (4.444%) Information Management
5 2 (4.444%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.222%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.222%) Business Transformation
6 1 (2.222%) Project Management
6 1 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.222%) ERP
6 1 (2.222%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) Python
3 5 (11.11%) Perl
4 4 (8.889%) PHP
5 3 (6.667%) Bourne shell
5 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.222%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.222%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.222%) Zenoss
1 1 (2.222%) Nagios
1 1 (2.222%) OpenView
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.222%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.222%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.222%) HP