The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford 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 Watford 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 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MySQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 1.316% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.263% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
19 22 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 25.00% 20.56% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 7
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £280 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
MySQL
Hertfordshire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford MySQL Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) Grails
4 2 (28.57%) Groovy
5 1 (14.29%) WordPress
5 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (14.29%) concrete5
5 1 (14.29%) Subversion
5 1 (14.29%) PHP5
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Apache

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 (71.43%) Web Services
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Grails
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
1 1 (14.29%) concrete5
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) CSS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (71.43%) Kanban
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) PHP5
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript