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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 260 195
Rank change year-on-year +27 -65 -5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 446 574 1,310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.03% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.05% 5.86% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 389 946
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £360 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.32%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 16
10th Percentile £25.55 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £39.60 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.05 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.01% +70.56% +22.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.19 £46.38
90th Percentile £76.00 £71.30 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £47.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year +42.71% +120.00% +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 7,375 9,798 17,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.03% 17.59% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 6,946 12,360
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 178 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.94
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.05 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.72%
75th Percentile £55.63 £73.75 £63.45
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +26 353 £475 -5.00% 357
UK excluding London +1 196 £450 -10.00% 261
Work from Home +20 177 £475 -5.00% 186
London +41 175 £513 +2.50% 103
North of England +15 62 £508 +19.47% 87
Midlands +37 44 £358 -28.40% 39
West Midlands +33 40 £358 -28.40% 25
South East -12 39 £388 -22.89% 58
North West +6 29 £450 +7.14% 55
Yorkshire +13 24 £538 +2.38% 25
Wales +37 22 £528 -18.85% 4
Scotland +5 12 £389 -26.60% 11
South West +1 12 £494 -1.25% 38
North East +15 9 - - 7
East of England -8 6 £359 -20.33% 32
East Midlands +8 4 £300 -38.46% 14

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 (5.61%) Apache
2 12 (2.69%) Confluence
3 11 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.47%) Drupal
4 10 (2.24%) Apache Solr
4 10 (2.24%) nginx
5 7 (1.57%) IIS
5 7 (1.57%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.90%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.90%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.90%) WordPress
8 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.67%) Moodle
9 2 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.45%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.45%) Jadu
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.45%) FileZilla
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.12%) Shopify
3 4 (0.90%) Magento
3 4 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.45%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.45%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 135 (30.27%) AWS
2 112 (25.11%) Azure
3 69 (15.47%) GitHub
4 40 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.40%) GCP
6 23 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (4.26%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (3.59%) Serverless
11 13 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.24%) SaaS
14 9 (2.02%) WhatsApp
15 8 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (1.57%) Snowflake
17 6 (1.35%) Amazon ELB
17 6 (1.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.14%) DNS
1 14 (3.14%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.47%) Firewall
3 7 (1.57%) DHCP
3 7 (1.57%) SAN
3 7 (1.57%) SSH
3 7 (1.57%) VPN
4 6 (1.35%) NAS
5 5 (1.12%) HTTP
5 5 (1.12%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.90%) 5G
6 4 (0.90%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (0.90%) IPsec
6 4 (0.90%) LTE
6 4 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.67%) FTP
7 3 (0.67%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.45%) SSL
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 111 (24.89%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (18.83%) Relational Database
4 47 (10.54%) MongoDB
5 40 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 40 (8.97%) Power BI
6 32 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (6.05%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (5.16%) MariaDB
9 22 (4.93%) RDBMS
10 18 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (3.81%) DynamoDB
12 15 (3.36%) Qlik Sense
13 11 (2.47%) Oracle Database
13 11 (2.47%) Redis
14 10 (2.24%) Big Data
14 10 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (18.61%) Git
2 32 (7.17%) GitLab
3 27 (6.05%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.71%) JIRA
5 19 (4.26%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.91%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.47%) Postman
8 10 (2.24%) Maven
8 10 (2.24%) Selenium
9 9 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (1.57%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.57%) Burp Suite
10 7 (1.57%) ERwin
11 6 (1.35%) AppScan
11 6 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.35%) Gradle
11 6 (1.35%) JMeter
11 6 (1.35%) JUnit
11 6 (1.35%) Subversion
11 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.49%) Finance
3 33 (7.40%) Banking
4 32 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 20 (4.48%) Retail
8 11 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.57%) Legal
10 7 (1.57%) Marketing
11 4 (0.90%) Advertising
11 4 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.90%) French Language
11 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (38.12%) Developer
2 38 (8.52%) Full Stack Developer
3 31 (6.95%) DBA
4 30 (6.73%) Senior
5 29 (6.50%) Software Engineer
6 25 (5.61%) PHP Developer
7 21 (4.71%) Administrator
8 19 (4.26%) Architect
9 18 (4.04%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.59%) SailPoint Developer
11 16 (3.59%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.36%) Java Developer
12 15 (3.36%) Lead
13 14 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.14%) Data Scientist
14 12 (2.69%) SailPoint Engineer
14 12 (2.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (2.47%) Full Stack Engineer
15 11 (2.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (20.63%) HTML
2 68 (15.25%) CSS
3 65 (14.57%) React
4 54 (12.11%) AngularJS
5 53 (11.88%) Web Services
6 49 (10.99%) XML
7 46 (10.31%) SOAP
8 41 (9.19%) RESTful
9 39 (8.74%) LDAP
10 34 (7.62%) Node.js
10 34 (7.62%) Vue
11 33 (7.40%) .NET
11 33 (7.40%) SailPoint
12 31 (6.95%) Spring
13 30 (6.73%) Laravel
14 28 (6.28%) JDBC
14 28 (6.28%) REST
14 28 (6.28%) Servlets
15 27 (6.05%) JSP
15 27 (6.05%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.69%) Clustering
6 8 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.57%) PKI
7 7 (1.57%) Replication
7 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.35%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.35%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 106 (23.77%) Linux
2 48 (10.76%) Windows
3 22 (4.93%) Unix
4 20 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.24%) CentOS
6 9 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.57%) VMS
9 5 (1.12%) Android
9 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (33.63%) Agile
2 93 (20.85%) DevOps
3 81 (18.16%) Software Engineering
4 72 (16.14%) CI/CD
5 70 (15.70%) Scrum
6 69 (15.47%) Full Stack Development
7 63 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
8 51 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (11.21%) ETL
10 49 (10.99%) Analytics
11 47 (10.54%) Configuration Management
12 43 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (9.64%) Containerisation
13 42 (9.42%) Computer Science
14 41 (9.19%) Migration
15 40 (8.97%) Test Automation
16 38 (8.52%) Data Analytics
17 36 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (7.85%) SDLC
19 33 (7.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.29%) JavaScript
1 144 (32.29%) SQL
2 118 (26.46%) Java
3 95 (21.30%) PHP
4 79 (17.71%) Python
5 39 (8.74%) Bash
6 31 (6.95%) PowerShell
7 28 (6.28%) C#
7 28 (6.28%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.38%) Go
9 22 (4.93%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.81%) Ruby
11 14 (3.14%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.02%) Perl
13 8 (1.79%) Rust
14 7 (1.57%) C++
15 6 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.35%) Scala
16 5 (1.12%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.56%) Degree
2 56 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.36%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.36%) PMP
6 7 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.90%) SANS
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) MCITP
9 2 (0.45%) MCSE
9 2 (0.45%) MCTS
10 1 (0.22%) CCNP
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.22%) OCP
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.54%) QA
2 18 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.69%) GDPR
4 11 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.12%) NIST
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) COPPA
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (16.82%) Docker
2 47 (10.54%) Active Directory
3 28 (6.28%) IAG
4 25 (5.61%) ACF2
4 25 (5.61%) RACF
5 7 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.12%) vSphere
7 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.45%) KVM
9 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.22%) Ceph
10 1 (0.22%) HDFS
10 1 (0.22%) iptables
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.22%) Postfix
10 1 (0.22%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 68 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 62 (13.90%) Grafana
3 56 (12.56%) Ansible
4 52 (11.66%) Terraform
5 23 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.81%) Puppet
7 15 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.91%) Graylog
9 10 (2.24%) Nagios
9 10 (2.24%) Nessus
10 9 (2.02%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.35%) Argo
11 6 (1.35%) Packer
11 6 (1.35%) WebInspect
12 5 (1.12%) Kibana
12 5 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.12%) vRealize
13 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 130 (29.15%) Oracle
2 68 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 49 (10.99%) ServiceNow
4 31 (6.95%) Google
5 30 (6.73%) Sybase
6 29 (6.50%) Denodo
6 29 (6.50%) Talend
7 25 (5.61%) Splunk
8 18 (4.04%) VMware
9 16 (3.59%) Salesforce
10 13 (2.91%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.47%) Informatica
11 11 (2.47%) SAP
12 10 (2.24%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.57%) Checkmarx
14 6 (1.35%) Adobe
14 6 (1.35%) IBM
14 6 (1.35%) Veracode
15 5 (1.12%) Arqiva
15 5 (1.12%) Veritas