The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 26 31 64
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +33
Contract jobs citing MySQL 79 84 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 5.758% 4.828% 1.583%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.51% 17.43% 6.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 67 9
Average daily rate £275 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £250 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
351 482 283
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 25.58% 27.70% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 294 126
Average daily rate £298 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £18.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+108.33% -15.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £14.00 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £32.50 £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
MySQL
Yorkshire

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds +5 77 £275 -8.33% 22
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 - - 3
Castleford - - - -
Dewsbury - - - -
Halifax - - - - 2
Batley - - - - 1
Wakefield - - - - 3
Wetherby - - - - 1
MySQL
Yorkshire

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 83 (82.18%) PHP
2 78 (77.23%) Linux
3 71 (70.30%) Apache
4 65 (64.36%) Web Services
5 58 (57.43%) Oracle
6 57 (56.44%) MongoDB
7 55 (54.46%) Internet
8 54 (53.47%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (53.47%) Amazon S3
8 54 (53.47%) Amazon AWS
8 54 (53.47%) Route 53
9 49 (48.51%) Amazon RDS
9 49 (48.51%) Redis
10 46 (45.54%) nginx
11 44 (43.56%) Ruby
12 43 (42.57%) Python
13 42 (41.58%) Bash shell
14 41 (40.59%) Node.js
14 41 (40.59%) C++
15 39 (38.61%) TDD
15 39 (38.61%) Kanban
16 38 (37.62%) DNS
17 37 (36.63%) Scrum
18 34 (33.66%) Configuration Management
19 33 (32.67%) Puppet
20 32 (31.68%) Percona
20 32 (31.68%) Java
20 32 (31.68%) JavaScript
21 31 (30.69%) Client/Server
22 29 (28.71%) Security Testing

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 65 (64.36%) Web Services
2 41 (40.59%) Node.js
3 28 (27.72%) CSS
4 24 (23.76%) HTML5
5 23 (22.77%) jQuery
6 17 (16.83%) CSS3
7 16 (15.84%) POSIX
8 15 (14.85%) REST
8 15 (14.85%) LAMP
9 12 (11.88%) Spring
9 12 (11.88%) Hibernate
9 12 (11.88%) SOAP
9 12 (11.88%) J2EE
10 8 (7.921%) JSON
11 7 (6.931%) XHTML
11 7 (6.931%) XML
12 6 (5.941%) HTML
12 6 (5.941%) X-Windows
12 6 (5.941%) Ajax
13 5 (4.950%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 71 (70.30%) Apache
2 54 (53.47%) Amazon EC2
2 54 (53.47%) Amazon S3
2 54 (53.47%) Amazon AWS
2 54 (53.47%) Route 53
3 46 (45.54%) nginx
4 24 (23.76%) Tomcat
5 12 (11.88%) Adobe CQ
6 7 (6.931%) Apache Solr
6 7 (6.931%) Drupal
7 5 (4.950%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.950%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.970%) IIS
8 3 (2.970%) WordPress
9 2 (1.980%) CMS
10 1 (0.990%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.990%) Magento
10 1 (0.990%) Moodle
10 1 (0.990%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (3.960%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (54.46%) Internet
2 38 (37.62%) DNS
3 23 (22.77%) HTTP
4 17 (16.83%) SSL
4 17 (16.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (16.83%) DHCP
5 14 (13.86%) Firewall
6 12 (11.88%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.990%) SAN
7 1 (0.990%) SSH
7 1 (0.990%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (56.44%) MongoDB
2 49 (48.51%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (48.51%) Redis
3 18 (17.82%) RDBMS
3 18 (17.82%) SQL Server
3 18 (17.82%) NoSQL
4 16 (15.84%) SimpleDB
4 16 (15.84%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.980%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.980%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.990%) JasperReports
6 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.990%) SQLite
6 1 (0.990%) QlikView
6 1 (0.990%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.990%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 25 (24.75%) Git (software)
2 18 (17.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (12.87%) Maven
4 5 (4.950%) Selenium
5 2 (1.980%) Capistrano
5 2 (1.980%) JIRA
5 2 (1.980%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.990%) Ant
6 1 (0.990%) Hudson
General
1 25 (24.75%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.970%) Games
2 3 (2.970%) Online Betting
3 1 (0.990%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) Developer
2 21 (20.79%) Software Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Architect
3 13 (12.87%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Java Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (8.911%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (7.921%) Web Developer
7 8 (7.921%) PHP Developer
8 7 (6.931%) Graduate
9 6 (5.941%) Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.950%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.950%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (4.950%) Front-End Web Developer
11 3 (2.970%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.970%) Infrastructure Designer
11 3 (2.970%) Designer
12 2 (1.980%) PHP MySQL Developer
12 2 (1.980%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 2 (1.980%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.69%) Client/Server
2 6 (5.941%) Open Source
3 5 (4.950%) RIA
4 3 (2.970%) Clustering
4 3 (2.970%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.980%) Heroku
6 1 (0.990%) W3C
6 1 (0.990%) Streaming Video
6 1 (0.990%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.990%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.990%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.990%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.990%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (77.23%) Linux
2 18 (17.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (10.89%) UNIX
4 9 (8.911%) HPUX
5 8 (7.921%) Windows
6 5 (4.950%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.950%) Solaris
6 5 (4.950%) AIX
7 1 (0.990%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.61%) TDD
1 39 (38.61%) Kanban
2 37 (36.63%) Scrum
3 34 (33.66%) Configuration Management
4 29 (28.71%) Security Testing
5 25 (24.75%) Test Automation
6 21 (20.79%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (16.83%) BDD
7 17 (16.83%) Load Balancing
8 16 (15.84%) Incident Management
8 16 (15.84%) Capacity Management
9 12 (11.88%) E-Commerce
9 12 (11.88%) SOA
10 10 (9.901%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (8.911%) MVC
12 8 (7.921%) Project Management
13 7 (6.931%) Software Engineering
14 6 (5.941%) Performance Testing
14 6 (5.941%) OO
15 5 (4.950%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 83 (82.18%) PHP
2 44 (43.56%) Ruby
3 43 (42.57%) Python
4 42 (41.58%) Bash shell
5 41 (40.59%) C++
6 32 (31.68%) Java
6 32 (31.68%) JavaScript
7 24 (23.76%) Perl
8 6 (5.941%) SQL
9 2 (1.980%) C#
10 1 (0.990%) C
10 1 (0.990%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.970%) Degree
2 1 (0.990%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.970%) QA
2 2 (1.980%) WAI
System Software
1 10 (9.901%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (32.67%) Puppet
2 1 (0.990%) Nagios
2 1 (0.990%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.990%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (57.43%) Oracle
2 32 (31.68%) Percona
3 24 (23.76%) Red Hat
4 12 (11.88%) hybris
4 12 (11.88%) Adobe
5 10 (9.901%) VMware
6 7 (6.931%) Zend
7 3 (2.970%) JBoss
8 1 (0.990%) HP
8 1 (0.990%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.990%) Microsoft
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Rate: £325 - £375 per day
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Rate: GBP175 to GBP275 per day
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Rate: £175 to £275 per day
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Rate: £175 to £275 per day
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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Rate: Negotiable
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