MySQL Contracts

MySQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 250 253
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -67
Contract jobs citing MySQL 297 429 672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 0.97% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 5.89% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 321 467
10th Percentile £348 £313 £375
25th Percentile £406 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -8.59% +8.32%
75th Percentile £555 £619 £638
90th Percentile £690 £690 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £22.27 £26.25 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.39 £55.69 £32.54
Median hourly rate £28.45 £70.00 £44.32
Median % change year-on-year -59.36% +57.96% +106.12%
75th Percentile £31.99 £73.13 £59.06
90th Percentile £33.80 £76.50 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £44.25
% change year-on-year -58.62% +55.37% +105.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,503 7,278 11,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.93% 16.46% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 5,152 8,312
10th Percentile £351 £350 £375
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 157 181
10th Percentile £20.85 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.82 £32.40
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.13 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.80 £39.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -24.08% -28.64% +57.14%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 17 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 2 April 2025. 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 +6 235 £458 -8.50% 537
UK excluding London +41 143 £465 -7.00% 272
Work from Home -13 120 £458 -3.68% 337
London -24 102 £475 -13.64% 310
North of England +36 54 £445 -6.32% 81
South East +51 38 £384 -9.76% 73
North West +2 27 £445 -11.00% 49
Scotland +28 22 £500 -23.66% 14
Yorkshire +26 21 £414 +10.40% 22
Midlands +7 13 £490 +15.29% 35
West Midlands +10 11 £490 +36.87% 22
South West +21 6 £763 +67.12% 35
North East -1 6 £465 - 10
East of England +28 5 £438 -12.50% 25
Wales -21 3 £550 +1.85% 7
East Midlands +6 2 £495 -1.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 4

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 43 (14.48%) Confluence
2 22 (7.41%) Apache
3 10 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.37%) Drupal
4 7 (2.36%) CMS
5 6 (2.02%) Camunda
5 6 (2.02%) SAS
5 6 (2.02%) WordPress
6 5 (1.68%) IIS
7 4 (1.35%) Alfresco
7 4 (1.35%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.01%) JBoss
8 3 (1.01%) nginx
8 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.67%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.34%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) FileZilla
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) iTrent
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.34%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.46%) AWS
2 67 (22.56%) Azure
3 40 (13.47%) GCP
4 32 (10.77%) Serverless
5 25 (8.42%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.74%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.41%) Slack
8 18 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.39%) GitHub
11 14 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.69%) PaaS
15 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.36%) SaaS
16 6 (2.02%) Amazon Bedrock
16 6 (2.02%) Kong
16 6 (2.02%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.72%) HTTP
2 6 (2.02%) Internet
2 6 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.68%) Firewall
4 4 (1.35%) VPN
5 3 (1.01%) VoIP
6 2 (0.67%) BGP
6 2 (0.67%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.67%) MPLS
6 2 (0.67%) MQTT
6 2 (0.67%) OSPF
6 2 (0.67%) SDH
7 1 (0.34%) DNS
7 1 (0.34%) FTP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) Skype
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) WinSCP
7 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (47.81%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (40.74%) MongoDB
3 63 (21.21%) Relational Database
4 52 (17.51%) SQL Server
5 41 (13.80%) NoSQL
6 32 (10.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 31 (10.44%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (6.06%) Power BI
9 17 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.72%) Redis
10 15 (5.05%) Hadoop
11 14 (4.71%) MariaDB
12 13 (4.38%) Apache Hive
12 13 (4.38%) RDBMS
13 12 (4.04%) DynamoDB
14 11 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 73 (24.58%) Git
2 56 (18.86%) JIRA
3 38 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 37 (12.46%) JUnit
5 34 (11.45%) GitLab
6 27 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 23 (7.74%) Jasmine
8 16 (5.39%) Maven
9 13 (4.38%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.69%) Gradle
10 8 (2.69%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.02%) Artifactory
11 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.02%) gulp
11 6 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.02%) Subversion
12 5 (1.68%) JMeter
12 5 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (1.35%) Mockito
13 4 (1.35%) TestNG
General
1 75 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.13%) Finance
4 20 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.39%) Banking
6 6 (2.02%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.02%) Retail
7 5 (1.68%) Military
8 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.35%) Marketing
9 2 (0.67%) Automotive
9 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.67%) Korean Language
9 2 (0.67%) Legal
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) German Language
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 141 (47.47%) Developer
2 39 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
2 39 (13.13%) Java Developer
2 39 (13.13%) Senior
3 37 (12.46%) Lead
4 28 (9.43%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.74%) DBA
5 23 (7.74%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.72%) Senior Java Developer
8 16 (5.39%) Lead Developer
9 14 (4.71%) PHP Developer
9 14 (4.71%) Python Developer
10 12 (4.04%) React Developer
11 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 10 (3.37%) Analyst
12 10 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.03%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
13 9 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (24.58%) Spring
2 72 (24.24%) Spring Boot
3 64 (21.55%) React
4 63 (21.21%) RESTful
5 55 (18.52%) AngularJS
6 52 (17.51%) HTML
7 40 (13.47%) Kafka
8 37 (12.46%) CSS
9 34 (11.45%) .NET
10 33 (11.11%) REST
11 30 (10.10%) Swagger
11 30 (10.10%) XML
12 29 (9.76%) OpenAPI
12 29 (9.76%) Spring Security
13 28 (9.43%) Node.js
14 25 (8.42%) Vue
15 24 (8.08%) JSON
15 24 (8.08%) Spring Batch
16 19 (6.40%) Web Services
17 18 (6.06%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 13 (4.38%) PKI
2 13 (4.38%) Public Cloud
3 8 (2.69%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.69%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.02%) Legacy Code
5 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.68%) Replication
6 4 (1.35%) Clustering
6 4 (1.35%) Genomics
6 4 (1.35%) LIMS
6 4 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.01%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 81 (27.27%) Linux
2 35 (11.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (7.41%) Unix
4 20 (6.73%) Windows
5 5 (1.68%) CentOS
6 3 (1.01%) Android
6 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.67%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.32%) CI/CD
2 93 (31.31%) Agile
3 89 (29.97%) Microservices
4 75 (25.25%) DevOps
5 66 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 64 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (19.19%) TDD
8 55 (18.52%) Containerisation
9 48 (16.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (16.16%) Mentoring
10 44 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 37 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (12.12%) ETL
12 36 (12.12%) Scrum
13 34 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (11.11%) BDD
15 32 (10.77%) High Availability
16 31 (10.44%) OWASP
17 29 (9.76%) API Design
18 28 (9.43%) OO
Programming Languages
1 133 (44.78%) Java
2 108 (36.36%) SQL
3 92 (30.98%) Python
4 78 (26.26%) JavaScript
5 46 (15.49%) PHP
6 40 (13.47%) Bash
7 24 (8.08%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.05%) Ruby
9 12 (4.04%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.03%) C#
10 9 (3.03%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.36%) Perl
12 6 (2.02%) HiveQL
13 4 (1.35%) Bicep
14 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.01%) R
15 2 (0.67%) Go
15 2 (0.67%) Rust
15 2 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.77%) Degree
4 22 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.69%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.35%) OCP
7 4 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.67%) PhD
9 2 (0.67%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.39%) QA
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.67%) SLA
4 2 (0.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (28.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.02%) HDFS
3 5 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.67%) KVM
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (21.89%) Kubernetes
2 47 (15.82%) Terraform
3 25 (8.42%) Ansible
4 17 (5.72%) Grafana
5 12 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.02%) Puppet
7 5 (1.68%) Istio
8 4 (1.35%) Kibana
8 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.01%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.67%) Packer
10 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.34%) Argo
11 1 (0.34%) Consul
11 1 (0.34%) linkerd
11 1 (0.34%) QRadar
11 1 (0.34%) Rancher
11 1 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 88 (29.63%) Oracle
2 27 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.05%) Google
3 15 (5.05%) Talend
4 14 (4.71%) Informatica
5 12 (4.04%) Zend
6 10 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.03%) Databricks
8 8 (2.69%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.36%) Denodo
10 6 (2.02%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.68%) SAP
12 4 (1.35%) LabVantage
12 4 (1.35%) VMware
13 3 (1.01%) Cisco
13 3 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 3 (1.01%) Sybase
14 2 (0.67%) Splunk