MySQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 208 175
Rank change year-on-year -7 -33 -25
Contract jobs citing MySQL 198 243 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.07% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.44% 7.28% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 165 322
10th Percentile £325 £353 £313
25th Percentile £358 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £625 £645 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile £24.85 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £26.52 £20.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.71% +120.00% +7.50%
75th Percentile £73.75 £62.19 £22.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.88 £34.88
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £46.05 £27.00
% change year-on-year +49.29% +70.56% +35.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,661 3,340 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.72% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,374 3,802
10th Percentile £314 £325 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 125
10th Percentile £13.72 £21.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%
75th Percentile £49.54 £73.74 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +7 63 £515 +17.05% 81
Midlands +37 45 £358 -28.40% 45
West Midlands +43 41 £358 -28.40% 28
South East -3 39 £375 -25.00% 61
North West +4 28 £450 +7.14% 49
Yorkshire +12 26 £550 +7.26% 24
Wales +41 22 £528 -18.85% 6
Scotland +18 12 £389 -29.27% 12
South West -13 11 £525 +5.00% 39
North East +12 9 - - 8
East of England -5 7 £375 -16.67% 29
East Midlands +4 4 £300 -38.46% 17
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (6.57%) Apache
2 9 (4.55%) Drupal
3 8 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.03%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.02%) Confluence
5 4 (2.02%) nginx
5 4 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.52%) Moodle
7 2 (1.01%) IIS
8 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.51%) Jadu
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.51%) SAS
8 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.51%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.78%) AWS
2 52 (26.26%) Azure
3 28 (14.14%) Power Platform
4 25 (12.63%) GitHub
5 14 (7.07%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (6.06%) GCP
8 11 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.05%) Serverless
10 9 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.54%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.53%) BrowserStack
13 4 (2.02%) IaaS
13 4 (2.02%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.02%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.05%) DNS
1 10 (5.05%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.03%) Firewall
2 6 (3.03%) VPN
3 5 (2.53%) DHCP
3 5 (2.53%) SAN
4 4 (2.02%) 5G
4 4 (2.02%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (2.02%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.02%) IPsec
4 4 (2.02%) LTE
4 4 (2.02%) NAS
4 4 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.52%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) FTP
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.23%) Relational Database
2 40 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (16.16%) SQL Server
4 28 (14.14%) Power BI
5 27 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (10.10%) MongoDB
7 16 (8.08%) Qlik Sense
8 15 (7.58%) NoSQL
9 13 (6.57%) RDBMS
10 12 (6.06%) MariaDB
11 9 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (3.03%) Apache Hive
13 6 (3.03%) Big Data
13 6 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.03%) Couchbase
13 6 (3.03%) Impala
14 5 (2.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 47 (23.74%) Git
2 18 (9.09%) GitLab
3 13 (6.57%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.04%) Postman
6 7 (3.54%) JIRA
7 6 (3.03%) Burp Suite
8 5 (2.53%) AppScan
8 5 (2.53%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.53%) Selenium
8 5 (2.53%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.02%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.01%) Subversion
12 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.51%) JMeter
12 1 (0.51%) JUnit
12 1 (0.51%) Maven
12 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.05%) Finance
4 7 (3.54%) Banking
5 6 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.53%) Retail
7 4 (2.02%) Legal
8 3 (1.52%) Advertising
8 3 (1.52%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) German Language
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (33.33%) Developer
2 17 (8.59%) Full Stack Developer
3 16 (8.08%) Software Engineer
4 14 (7.07%) Data Scientist
5 12 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.05%) Data Engineer
6 10 (5.05%) DBA
6 10 (5.05%) PHP Developer
6 10 (5.05%) Senior
7 9 (4.55%) Drupal Developer
7 9 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.04%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.54%) Administrator
9 7 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.54%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 5 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Migration Manager
11 5 (2.53%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.68%) HTML
2 34 (17.17%) CSS
3 25 (12.63%) AngularJS
4 24 (12.12%) React
5 19 (9.60%) RESTful
6 16 (8.08%) Node.js
7 15 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (7.07%) Vue
9 12 (6.06%) Laravel
9 12 (6.06%) XML
10 11 (5.56%) JSON
11 10 (5.05%) .NET
12 7 (3.54%) REST
12 7 (3.54%) Sass
12 7 (3.54%) Web Services
12 7 (3.54%) XSLT
13 6 (3.03%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.03%) Next.js
14 5 (2.53%) LDAP
14 5 (2.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.54%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.02%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.02%) PKI
5 4 (2.02%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.52%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.01%) Wiki
8 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.51%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.28%) Linux
2 16 (8.08%) Windows
3 12 (6.06%) Unix
4 8 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.02%) CentOS
6 4 (2.02%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.02%) VMS
6 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.52%) Android
7 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (43.94%) Agile
2 54 (27.27%) Scrum
3 41 (20.71%) Software Engineering
4 40 (20.20%) CI/CD
5 38 (19.19%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (18.69%) Analytics
7 36 (18.18%) DevOps
8 35 (17.68%) ETL
9 33 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 32 (16.16%) Full Stack Development
11 30 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (14.65%) Data Analytics
13 27 (13.64%) Data Extraction
14 25 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
15 24 (12.12%) Test Strategy
16 23 (11.62%) Computer Science
16 23 (11.62%) Dashboard Development
16 23 (11.62%) SDLC
17 22 (11.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.84%) SQL
2 65 (32.83%) JavaScript
3 51 (25.76%) PHP
4 36 (18.18%) Java
5 35 (17.68%) Python
6 20 (10.10%) Bash
7 17 (8.59%) C#
8 15 (7.58%) Shell Script
9 12 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 12 (6.06%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.53%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (2.02%) Perl
12 4 (2.02%) VB
13 3 (1.52%) Go
13 3 (1.52%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) Groovy
14 1 (0.51%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.65%) Degree
4 19 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (9.60%) Master's Degree
5 16 (8.08%) PMI Certification
5 16 (8.08%) PMP
6 2 (1.01%) SANS
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.14%) QA
2 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.02%) GDPR
5 4 (2.02%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.02%) NIST
6 3 (1.52%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (10.61%) Docker
2 10 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.02%) vSphere
5 3 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.51%) HDFS
7 1 (0.51%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (21.72%) Grafana
2 34 (17.17%) Ansible
3 31 (15.66%) Terraform
4 27 (13.64%) Kubernetes
5 14 (7.07%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.05%) Graylog
7 9 (4.55%) Nessus
8 8 (4.04%) HP Fortify
9 7 (3.54%) Nagios
9 7 (3.54%) Progress Chef
9 7 (3.54%) Puppet
10 5 (2.53%) Argo
10 5 (2.53%) WebInspect
11 4 (2.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.02%) Packer
11 4 (2.02%) vCenter Server
11 4 (2.02%) vRealize
11 4 (2.02%) WSUS
11 4 (2.02%) yum
11 4 (2.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (21.21%) Oracle
2 39 (19.70%) Microsoft
3 24 (12.12%) Denodo
3 24 (12.12%) Talend
4 18 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 17 (8.59%) Google
6 14 (7.07%) Splunk
7 12 (6.06%) VMware
8 6 (3.03%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.03%) Checkmarx
8 6 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.53%) Veracode
10 4 (2.02%) Arqiva
10 4 (2.02%) Informatica
10 4 (2.02%) SAP
10 4 (2.02%) Veeam
10 4 (2.02%) Veritas
11 2 (1.01%) Adobe
12 1 (0.51%) Compaq