The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 80 53 81
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +28
Contract jobs citing MySQL 15 52 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.919% 2.319% 1.110%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.491% 10.81% 5.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 16
Average daily rate £200 £250 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +38.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £159 £169 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £300 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -41.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
334 481 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 20.45% 21.45% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 250 202
Average daily rate £320 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
Average hourly rate £42.20 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+141.14% -2.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham -4 4 £233 -7.00%
Worcestershire -8 4 £168 -
Staffordshire +10 2 £200 -27.27%
Wolverhampton 0 1 - -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 28 (75.68%) PHP
2 17 (45.95%) CSS
3 16 (43.24%) HTML
3 16 (43.24%) Linux
4 15 (40.54%) SQL
5 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
6 11 (29.73%) SQL Server
7 10 (27.03%) jQuery
8 7 (18.92%) XML
9 6 (16.22%) ITIL
9 6 (16.22%) Oracle
9 6 (16.22%) Windows
9 6 (16.22%) OO
9 6 (16.22%) LAN
9 6 (16.22%) SAN
9 6 (16.22%) Firewall
9 6 (16.22%) NAS
10 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (13.51%) WordPress
10 5 (13.51%) CSS3
10 5 (13.51%) Drupal
10 5 (13.51%) Web Development
10 5 (13.51%) Service Management
10 5 (13.51%) LAMP
10 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
10 5 (13.51%) Cisco
10 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
10 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
10 5 (13.51%) UNIX
11 4 (10.81%) .NET

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 17 (45.95%) CSS
2 16 (43.24%) HTML
3 10 (27.03%) jQuery
4 7 (18.92%) XML
5 5 (13.51%) CSS3
5 5 (13.51%) LAMP
6 4 (10.81%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) Zend Framework
6 4 (10.81%) JSON
6 4 (10.81%) Ajax
6 4 (10.81%) HTML5
7 3 (8.108%) CodeIgniter
7 3 (8.108%) Web Services
8 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET
8 2 (5.405%) CakePHP
8 2 (5.405%) Django
9 1 (2.703%) RESTful
9 1 (2.703%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.703%) Symfony
9 1 (2.703%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) WordPress
1 5 (13.51%) Drupal
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
3 3 (8.108%) CMS
4 2 (5.405%) Joomla!
4 2 (5.405%) Magento
5 1 (2.703%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.703%) Pressflow
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Photoshop
2 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) LAN
1 6 (16.22%) SAN
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
1 6 (16.22%) NAS
2 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.81%) WAN
4 2 (5.405%) WLAN
5 1 (2.703%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (2.703%) Intranet
5 1 (2.703%) Internet
5 1 (2.703%) IPv4
5 1 (2.703%) DHCP
5 1 (2.703%) HTTP
5 1 (2.703%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) MS Access
2 2 (5.405%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (5.405%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.703%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (2.703%) Subversion
2 1 (2.703%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
1 4 (10.81%) Retail
2 1 (2.703%) Marketing
2 1 (2.703%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) PHP Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Systems Support
3 5 (13.51%) Administrator
3 5 (13.51%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Drupal Developer
5 3 (8.108%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 3 (8.108%) SQL Developer
5 3 (8.108%) MySQL Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.405%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 1 (2.703%) MySQL DBA
7 1 (2.703%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.703%) VoIP Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.703%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Access Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.405%) W3C
1 2 (5.405%) VLE
1 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.703%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (2.703%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.703%) IVR
2 1 (2.703%) Replication
2 1 (2.703%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.51%) UNIX
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.703%) CentOS
4 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) ITIL
1 6 (16.22%) OO
2 5 (13.51%) Web Development
2 5 (13.51%) Service Management
3 4 (10.81%) OOP
4 3 (8.108%) MVC
5 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.405%) SEO
5 2 (5.405%) Scrum
5 2 (5.405%) Content Management
5 2 (5.405%) Web Application Development
6 1 (2.703%) Database Tuning
6 1 (2.703%) User Experience Design
6 1 (2.703%) Capacity Management
6 1 (2.703%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.703%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (2.703%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.703%) Performance Testing
6 1 (2.703%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.703%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) PHP
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.108%) PHP5
4 3 (8.108%) C#
5 2 (5.405%) Python
6 1 (2.703%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.703%) Java
6 1 (2.703%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.703%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.405%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Zend
4 2 (5.405%) Adobe
5 1 (2.703%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.703%) Aastra
5 1 (2.703%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.703%) Appcelerator
5 1 (2.703%) VMware
5 1 (2.703%) NEC
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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