The first table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL
Rank 33 52 64
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +12
Contract jobs citing MySQL 95 70 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 4.982% 3.065% 1.850%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.38% 13.21% 7.746%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 20
Average daily rate £275 £300 £228
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +31.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £202 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £355 £332
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £13.00 £17.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% -43.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -40.67%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
517 530 426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 27.11% 23.20% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 313 195
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 17
Average hourly rate £22.00 £17.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -43.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.40 £12.10 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +26 79 £275 -8.33%
South Yorkshire -11 8 £200 -24.52%
North Yorkshire +3 7 £228 -
East Yorkshire -4 1 - -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 105 (78.36%) PHP
2 85 (63.43%) Linux
3 75 (55.97%) Apache
4 64 (47.76%) Oracle
5 58 (43.28%) Web Services
6 54 (40.30%) Internet
7 51 (38.06%) MongoDB
8 49 (36.57%) Redis
8 49 (36.57%) Route 53
8 49 (36.57%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (36.57%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (36.57%) Amazon S3
8 49 (36.57%) Amazon AWS
8 49 (36.57%) CSS
9 48 (35.82%) JavaScript
10 43 (32.09%) C++
10 43 (32.09%) Java
10 43 (32.09%) Python
11 42 (31.34%) Ruby
12 40 (29.85%) Bash shell
12 40 (29.85%) nginx
12 40 (29.85%) Node.js
13 39 (29.10%) Kanban
14 38 (28.36%) DNS
15 37 (27.61%) TDD
16 35 (26.12%) jQuery
17 34 (25.37%) Configuration Management
18 33 (24.63%) Scrum
19 32 (23.88%) Puppet
20 31 (23.13%) Client/Server

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 58 (43.28%) Web Services
2 49 (36.57%) CSS
3 40 (29.85%) Node.js
4 35 (26.12%) jQuery
5 30 (22.39%) HTML5
6 26 (19.40%) HTML
7 23 (17.16%) LAMP
7 23 (17.16%) CSS3
8 20 (14.93%) Hibernate
8 20 (14.93%) Spring
9 18 (13.43%) XML
10 16 (11.94%) POSIX
10 16 (11.94%) J2EE
11 14 (10.45%) REST
12 13 (9.701%) Ajax
12 13 (9.701%) JSON
13 12 (8.955%) SOAP
14 11 (8.209%) XSLT
15 9 (6.716%) XHTML
16 7 (5.224%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 75 (55.97%) Apache
2 49 (36.57%) Route 53
2 49 (36.57%) Amazon EC2
2 49 (36.57%) Amazon S3
2 49 (36.57%) Amazon AWS
3 40 (29.85%) nginx
4 30 (22.39%) Tomcat
5 12 (8.955%) Adobe CQ
6 9 (6.716%) WordPress
7 7 (5.224%) Apache Solr
8 4 (2.985%) Alfresco
8 4 (2.985%) Liferay
9 3 (2.239%) WebLogic
9 3 (2.239%) SharePoint
9 3 (2.239%) CMS
10 2 (1.493%) SAS
10 2 (1.493%) IIS
10 2 (1.493%) Magento
10 2 (1.493%) Drupal
10 2 (1.493%) Jetty
Applications
1 4 (2.985%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.746%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (17.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.746%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 54 (40.30%) Internet
2 38 (28.36%) DNS
3 23 (17.16%) HTTP
4 17 (12.69%) SSL
4 17 (12.69%) TCP/IP
4 17 (12.69%) DHCP
5 15 (11.19%) Firewall
6 12 (8.955%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.746%) NAS
7 1 (0.746%) SAN
7 1 (0.746%) SSH
7 1 (0.746%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (38.06%) MongoDB
2 49 (36.57%) Redis
2 49 (36.57%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (14.18%) RDBMS
4 18 (13.43%) SQL Server
5 17 (12.69%) NoSQL
6 16 (11.94%) Couchbase
6 16 (11.94%) SimpleDB
7 2 (1.493%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.493%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.746%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.93%) Git (software)
3 19 (14.18%) Maven
4 10 (7.463%) Selenium
5 9 (6.716%) Subversion
6 7 (5.224%) PHPUnit
7 5 (3.731%) JUnit
8 4 (2.985%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.985%) FitNesse
9 2 (1.493%) Capistrano
9 2 (1.493%) Hudson
10 1 (0.746%) JIRA
10 1 (0.746%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (18.66%) Telecoms
2 8 (5.970%) Games
3 4 (2.985%) Online Betting
4 1 (0.746%) Marketing
4 1 (0.746%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (49.25%) Developer
2 24 (17.91%) PHP Developer
3 22 (16.42%) Architect
4 21 (15.67%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.18%) Java Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Web Developer
7 12 (8.955%) Infrastructure Architect
8 9 (6.716%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (5.970%) PHP MySQL Developer
10 7 (5.224%) Front-End Developer
11 6 (4.478%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.478%) PHP Web Developer
12 5 (3.731%) Front-End Web Developer
12 5 (3.731%) Mobile Developer
13 3 (2.239%) Infrastructure Designer
13 3 (2.239%) Designer
13 3 (2.239%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.239%) Applications Support Specialist
13 3 (2.239%) Applications Specialist
13 3 (2.239%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.13%) Client/Server
2 7 (5.224%) Open Source
3 5 (3.731%) RIA
4 4 (2.985%) Clustering
5 2 (1.493%) W3C
5 2 (1.493%) Heroku
5 2 (1.493%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.493%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.746%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.746%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.746%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.746%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.746%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.746%) Social Media
6 1 (0.746%) NHS
6 1 (0.746%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 85 (63.43%) Linux
2 18 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (8.955%) UNIX
4 9 (6.716%) HPUX
5 8 (5.970%) Windows
6 5 (3.731%) AIX
6 5 (3.731%) Solaris
7 1 (0.746%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.10%) Kanban
2 37 (27.61%) TDD
3 34 (25.37%) Configuration Management
4 33 (24.63%) Scrum
5 29 (21.64%) Security Testing
6 26 (19.40%) Test Automation
7 24 (17.91%) Agile Software Development
8 22 (16.42%) MVC
9 17 (12.69%) Load Balancing
9 17 (12.69%) BDD
10 16 (11.94%) Capacity Management
10 16 (11.94%) Incident Management
10 16 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (11.19%) E-Commerce
12 12 (8.955%) SOA
12 12 (8.955%) OO
13 8 (5.970%) Web Development
14 7 (5.224%) Software Engineering
15 6 (4.478%) Performance Testing
16 5 (3.731%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 105 (78.36%) PHP
2 48 (35.82%) JavaScript
3 43 (32.09%) C++
3 43 (32.09%) Java
3 43 (32.09%) Python
4 42 (31.34%) Ruby
5 40 (29.85%) Bash shell
6 25 (18.66%) Perl
7 11 (8.209%) SQL
8 10 (7.463%) PHP5
9 4 (2.985%) C#
10 3 (2.239%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.746%) PHP4
11 1 (0.746%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (2.239%) Degree
1 3 (2.239%) ISEB
2 1 (0.746%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.478%) QA
2 2 (1.493%) WAI
System Software
1 10 (7.463%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (23.88%) Puppet
2 1 (0.746%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 64 (47.76%) Oracle
2 27 (20.15%) Percona
3 19 (14.18%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.701%) Adobe
5 12 (8.955%) hybris
6 10 (7.463%) VMware
7 9 (6.716%) Zend
8 3 (2.239%) JBoss
9 1 (0.746%) Google
9 1 (0.746%) Vignette
9 1 (0.746%) HP
9 1 (0.746%) Microsoft
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