MySQL Contracts

MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MySQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MySQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 256 192
Rank change year-on-year +18 -64 -1
Contract jobs citing MySQL 424 575 1,305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.03% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.81% 5.81% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 388 945
10th Percentile £313 £355 £363
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.88%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £625
90th Percentile £689 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £48.10 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £65.63 £30.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £70.00 £54.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
% change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% +7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MySQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 335 £475 -5.00% 369
UK excluding London -12 178 £450 -10.00% 259
London +57 175 £525 +2.44% 113
Work from Home +12 167 £475 -5.00% 204
North of England +6 54 £475 +11.76% 83
South East -6 40 £388 -23.83% 47
Midlands +32 36 £358 -28.40% 52
West Midlands +28 32 £358 -28.40% 35
North West +11 29 £450 +7.14% 58
Wales +38 22 £528 -18.85% 4
Yorkshire +9 17 £554 +3.31% 18
South West -8 13 £494 -3.66% 37
Scotland +4 11 £375 -31.82% 11
North East +14 8 - - 7
East Midlands +9 4 £300 -38.46% 17
East of England -11 3 £442 -1.89% 33

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.90%) Apache
2 13 (3.07%) Confluence
3 11 (2.59%) Apache Solr
3 11 (2.59%) Drupal
4 10 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.36%) nginx
5 7 (1.65%) IIS
5 7 (1.65%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.94%) WordPress
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.71%) Moodle
8 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.47%) CMS
9 2 (0.47%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.47%) Jadu
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.18%) Shopify
3 4 (0.94%) Magento
4 3 (0.71%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.47%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.47%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 135 (31.84%) AWS
2 112 (26.42%) Azure
3 68 (16.04%) GitHub
4 34 (8.02%) GCP
5 32 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (3.77%) Serverless
11 13 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.36%) SaaS
15 9 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.12%) WhatsApp
16 7 (1.65%) Snowflake
17 6 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.30%) DNS
2 13 (3.07%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.36%) Firewall
4 7 (1.65%) DHCP
4 7 (1.65%) SAN
4 7 (1.65%) SSH
5 6 (1.42%) NAS
5 6 (1.42%) VPN
6 5 (1.18%) HTTP
6 5 (1.18%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.94%) 5G
7 4 (0.94%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (0.94%) IPsec
7 4 (0.94%) LTE
7 4 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.47%) FTP
9 2 (0.47%) VLAN
9 2 (0.47%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (27.12%) SQL Server
2 109 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (17.45%) Relational Database
4 48 (11.32%) MongoDB
5 38 (8.96%) NoSQL
6 32 (7.55%) Power BI
7 27 (6.37%) Oracle Reports
8 25 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (5.19%) MariaDB
10 21 (4.95%) RDBMS
11 18 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (3.77%) DynamoDB
14 12 (2.83%) Oracle Database
14 12 (2.83%) Redis
15 10 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (17.22%) Git
2 32 (7.55%) GitLab
3 26 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.19%) JIRA
5 18 (4.25%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.83%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.59%) Postman
7 11 (2.59%) Selenium
8 9 (2.12%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.12%) Maven
8 9 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (1.65%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.65%) ERwin
10 6 (1.42%) AppScan
10 6 (1.42%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.18%) Gradle
11 5 (1.18%) JMeter
11 5 (1.18%) JUnit
11 5 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 84 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.63%) Finance
3 32 (7.55%) Banking
4 30 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.95%) Financial Institution
6 19 (4.48%) Retail
7 10 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.65%) Legal
9 7 (1.65%) Marketing
10 5 (1.18%) Advertising
11 4 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.94%) French Language
11 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.71%) German Language
12 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (39.86%) Developer
2 38 (8.96%) Full Stack Developer
3 31 (7.31%) DBA
4 29 (6.84%) Senior
5 27 (6.37%) PHP Developer
5 27 (6.37%) Software Engineer
6 19 (4.48%) Administrator
6 19 (4.48%) Architect
6 19 (4.48%) Support Engineer
7 17 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.77%) SailPoint Developer
9 15 (3.54%) Java Developer
9 15 (3.54%) Lead
9 15 (3.54%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.07%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (2.83%) SailPoint Engineer
11 12 (2.83%) Site Engineer
12 11 (2.59%) MySQL DBA
12 11 (2.59%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (19.81%) HTML
2 63 (14.86%) React
3 60 (14.15%) CSS
4 53 (12.50%) Web Services
5 48 (11.32%) XML
6 46 (10.85%) SOAP
7 45 (10.61%) AngularJS
8 40 (9.43%) LDAP
8 40 (9.43%) RESTful
9 35 (8.25%) Vue
10 34 (8.02%) Node.js
11 33 (7.78%) .NET
11 33 (7.78%) SailPoint
12 32 (7.55%) Laravel
13 30 (7.08%) Spring
14 28 (6.60%) JDBC
14 28 (6.60%) REST
14 28 (6.60%) Servlets
15 27 (6.37%) JSP
15 27 (6.37%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.49%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.59%) Clustering
6 9 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.65%) PKI
7 7 (1.65%) Replication
8 6 (1.42%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.42%) Thin Client
8 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 106 (25.00%) Linux
2 48 (11.32%) Windows
3 20 (4.72%) Unix
3 20 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.36%) CentOS
5 9 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.65%) VMS
7 5 (1.18%) Android
7 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (32.55%) Agile
2 96 (22.64%) DevOps
3 72 (16.98%) CI/CD
4 70 (16.51%) Software Engineering
5 67 (15.80%) Full Stack Development
6 53 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 52 (12.26%) Scrum
8 51 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (10.14%) Containerisation
10 41 (9.67%) Test Automation
11 40 (9.43%) Analytics
11 40 (9.43%) Migration
12 39 (9.20%) Configuration Management
12 39 (9.20%) ETL
13 36 (8.49%) Computer Science
14 35 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (8.25%) SDLC
15 31 (7.31%) Microservices
16 29 (6.84%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 136 (32.08%) JavaScript
2 133 (31.37%) SQL
3 118 (27.83%) Java
4 98 (23.11%) PHP
5 79 (18.63%) Python
6 39 (9.20%) Bash
7 32 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.37%) C#
9 26 (6.13%) Go
9 26 (6.13%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.72%) Shell Script
11 18 (4.25%) Ruby
12 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.12%) Perl
14 8 (1.89%) Rust
15 7 (1.65%) C++
16 6 (1.42%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.42%) Scala
17 5 (1.18%) C
17 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 62 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.56%) Degree
4 28 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.65%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.65%) PMP
7 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.94%) SANS
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) MCITP
9 2 (0.47%) MCSE
9 2 (0.47%) MCTS
10 1 (0.24%) CCNP
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) OCP
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.08%) QA
2 16 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.83%) GDPR
4 10 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.18%) NIST
7 3 (0.71%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.71%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) COPPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (17.22%) Docker
2 47 (11.08%) Active Directory
3 28 (6.60%) IAG
4 25 (5.90%) ACF2
4 25 (5.90%) RACF
5 8 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.18%) vSphere
7 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.47%) KVM
9 2 (0.47%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.24%) Ceph
10 1 (0.24%) HDFS
10 1 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.24%) NFS
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.24%) Postfix
10 1 (0.24%) Samba
Systems Management
1 66 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.44%) Ansible
3 52 (12.26%) Grafana
3 52 (12.26%) Terraform
4 23 (5.42%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.25%) Puppet
6 15 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.07%) Graylog
8 10 (2.36%) Nagios
8 10 (2.36%) Nessus
9 9 (2.12%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.42%) Argo
10 6 (1.42%) Packer
10 6 (1.42%) WebInspect
11 5 (1.18%) Kibana
11 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.18%) vRealize
12 4 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.94%) yum
Vendors
1 129 (30.42%) Oracle
2 65 (15.33%) Microsoft
3 41 (9.67%) ServiceNow
4 30 (7.08%) Google
4 30 (7.08%) Sybase
5 25 (5.90%) Splunk
6 19 (4.48%) Denodo
6 19 (4.48%) Talend
6 19 (4.48%) VMware
7 17 (4.01%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.30%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.83%) SAP
10 11 (2.59%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.59%) Informatica
11 7 (1.65%) Adobe
11 7 (1.65%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.42%) IBM
12 6 (1.42%) Veracode
13 5 (1.18%) Dell
13 5 (1.18%) Veritas