West Midlands MySQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for MySQL skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool 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 Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	95
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	48	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	6.828 %	4.768 %
Daily rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£207
Average daily rate	£261	£232
% change on same period last year	+12.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£338
% change on same period last year	-19.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.40	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£25.30	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.20	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.95	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-10.43 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	703	734
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.937 %	0.743 %
Daily rates quoted	158	152
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£322
Average daily rate	£324	£339
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.07	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£29.05
% change on same period last year	+9.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.26	£31.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
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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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing MySQL within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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
Birmingham	+15	11	£350	+18.64 %
Coventry	-	10	£213	-
Warwickshire	+14	8	£250	+36.36 %
Staffordshire	-	4	£250	-
Herefordshire	+20	3	£175	-30.00 %
Wolverhampton	-	3	£283	-
Worcestershire	-	2	-	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 53 (58.24 %) PHP 2 37 (40.66 %) HTML 3 33 (36.26 %) JavaScript 4 32 (35.16 %) CSS 5 25 (27.47 %) SQL Server 6 24 (26.37 %) .NET 7 21 (23.08 %) SQL 7 21 (23.08 %) Apache 8 20 (21.98 %) XML 9 19 (20.88 %) XHTML 10 18 (19.78 %) Linux 11 17 (18.68 %) CMS 12 12 (13.19 %) ASP.NET 12 12 (13.19 %) PHP5 13 11 (12.09 %) VB.NET

14 10 (10.99 %) Java 14 10 (10.99 %) C# 14 10 (10.99 %) Oracle 14 10 (10.99 %) LAMP 15 9 (9.890 %) IIS 15 9 (9.890 %) Windows 15 9 (9.890 %) E-Commerce 16 8 (8.791 %) ColdFusion 16 8 (8.791 %) Internet 16 8 (8.791 %) VB 16 8 (8.791 %) J2EE 17 7 (7.692 %) Dreamweaver 17 7 (7.692 %) Web Development 18 6 (6.593 %) WebSphere 18 6 (6.593 %) Sun

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 37 (40.66 %) HTML 2 32 (35.16 %) CSS 3 24 (26.37 %) .NET 4 20 (21.98 %) XML 5 19 (20.88 %) XHTML 6 12 (13.19 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (10.99 %) LAMP 8 8 (8.791 %) J2EE 9 6 (6.593 %) ASP 9 6 (6.593 %) JSP 9 6 (6.593 %) Servlets 9 6 (6.593 %) Spring 9 6 (6.593 %) WebSphere 9 6 (6.593 %) WebServices 10 5 (5.495 %) AJAX 11 3 (3.297 %) Struts 12 2 (2.198 %) JSF 12 2 (2.198 %) Hibernate 12 2 (2.198 %) EJB 12 2 (2.198 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 21 (23.08 %) Apache 2 17 (18.68 %) CMS 3 9 (9.890 %) IIS 4 8 (8.791 %) ColdFusion 5 3 (3.297 %) Joomla! 5 3 (3.297 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.099 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.099 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.099 %) Zope
Applications 1 2 (2.198 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.099 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.791 %) Internet 2 4 (4.396 %) FTP 3 2 (2.198 %) Wireless 4 1 (1.099 %) TETRA 4 1 (1.099 %) 3G 4 1 (1.099 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.099 %) Bluetooth 4 1 (1.099 %) GPRS 4 1 (1.099 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (27.47 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.198 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (2.198 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.099 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.099 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.099 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (1.099 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (1.099 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.099 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 7 (7.692 %) Dreamweaver 2 5 (5.495 %) Flash 2 5 (5.495 %) Zend Studio 3 4 (4.396 %) Subversion
General 1 2 (2.198 %) Education 1 2 (2.198 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.099 %) Finance 2 1 (1.099 %) Automotive 2 1 (1.099 %) Government 2 1 (1.099 %) Banking 2 1 (1.099 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 78 (85.71 %) Developer 2 23 (25.27 %) Web Developer 3 22 (24.18 %) PHP Developer 4 14 (15.38 %) .NET Developer 5 7 (7.692 %) Java Developer 6 6 (6.593 %) VB.NET Developer 6 6 (6.593 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (5.495 %) C# Developer 7 5 (5.495 %) MySQL Developer 8 3 (3.297 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 3 (3.297 %) Applications Developer 8 3 (3.297 %) Analyst 9 2 (2.198 %) Support Analyst 9 2 (2.198 %) 3rd Line Support 9 2 (2.198 %) Website Developer 9 2 (2.198 %) PHP Web Developer 9 2 (2.198 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (2.198 %) E-Learning Developer 9 2 (2.198 %) Linux Support 10 1 (1.099 %) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.396 %) W3C 2 3 (3.297 %) E-Learning 3 2 (2.198 %) NHS 3 2 (2.198 %) PDA 4 1 (1.099 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.099 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.099 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 18 (19.78 %) Linux 2 9 (9.890 %) Windows 3 5 (5.495 %) UNIX 4 4 (4.396 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (2.198 %) Ubuntu 6 1 (1.099 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.099 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (9.890 %) E-Commerce 2 7 (7.692 %) Web Development 3 5 (5.495 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (4.396 %) Content Management 5 3 (3.297 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (3.297 %) Workflow 5 3 (3.297 %) OO 6 2 (2.198 %) SEO 6 2 (2.198 %) Data Management 6 2 (2.198 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (1.099 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.099 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.099 %) OOP 7 1 (1.099 %) Migration 7 1 (1.099 %) Web Design 7 1 (1.099 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 53 (58.24 %) PHP 2 33 (36.26 %) JavaScript 3 21 (23.08 %) SQL 4 12 (13.19 %) PHP5 5 11 (12.09 %) VB.NET 6 10 (10.99 %) C# 6 10 (10.99 %) Java 7 8 (8.791 %) VB 8 3 (3.297 %) Lingo 8 3 (3.297 %) PHP4 8 3 (3.297 %) C++ 8 3 (3.297 %) ActionScript 9 2 (2.198 %) Delphi 10 1 (1.099 %) Perl 10 1 (1.099 %) VBA 10 1 (1.099 %) Python 10 1 (1.099 %) Shell Script 10 1 (1.099 %) XAML 10 1 (1.099 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 5 (5.495 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (2.198 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.198 %) WAI
Vendors 1 10 (10.99 %) Oracle 2 6 (6.593 %) Sun 3 5 (5.495 %) Zend 4 4 (4.396 %) Microsoft 5 2 (2.198 %) Adobe 5 2 (2.198 %) SAP 6 1 (1.099 %) Business Objects