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 29 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 209 230
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 -48
Contract jobs citing MySQL 397 568 1,020
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.21% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.12% 7.22% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 375 721
10th Percentile £213 £305 £375
25th Percentile £325 £388 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -15.79% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 9
10th Percentile £29.50 £30.63 £21.00
25th Percentile £34.38 £40.85 £42.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £62.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48.13 £76.53 £57.50
90th Percentile £48.50 - £58.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £67.27 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.25% +205.75% -61.57%

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 6,484 7,863 16,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 16.74% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,341 5,485 11,224
10th Percentile £341 £355 £388
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 160 154
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.96 £15.77
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.13 £21.64
Median hourly rate £30.59 £48.45 £49.95
Median % change year-on-year -36.86% -3.00% +42.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £66.75 £78.08 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £46.84 £40.73
% change year-on-year -35.95% +15.00% +35.77%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -20 325 £450 -10.00% 289
UK excluding London -7 206 £400 -15.79% 233
Work from Home +15 193 £444 -6.63% 238
London -25 132 £488 -4.88% 72
North of England +15 60 £495 +12.88% 64
South East -7 53 £205 -60.00% 50
Midlands +2 47 £413 -17.50% 39
West Midlands +22 40 £365 -18.89% 27
North West +20 36 £450 +5.88% 33
Yorkshire +17 22 £525 +10.53% 19
Scotland +6 15 £450 -14.29% 7
Wales +5 13 £531 +77.08% 9
East of England +27 10 £342 -30.20% 33
South West +5 9 £350 -31.71% 38
East Midlands -10 6 £490 -2.00% 12
North East -7 2 - - 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 34 (8.56%) Apache
2 24 (6.05%) Confluence
3 13 (3.27%) nginx
4 12 (3.02%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.52%) WordPress
6 9 (2.27%) Apache Solr
7 8 (2.02%) Tomcat
8 7 (1.76%) Drupal
9 6 (1.51%) SAS
10 5 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.26%) CMS
10 5 (1.26%) IIS
10 5 (1.26%) JBoss
11 4 (1.01%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.50%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.50%) Smallworld
13 2 (0.50%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Magento
1 4 (1.01%) Shopify
2 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 139 (35.01%) AWS
2 91 (22.92%) Azure
3 59 (14.86%) GCP
4 39 (9.82%) Power Platform
5 25 (6.30%) GitHub
6 19 (4.79%) Amazon S3
6 19 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.79%) Serverless
7 11 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.27%) dbt
9 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.02%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) Firewall
1 12 (3.02%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.52%) DNS
3 7 (1.76%) HTTP
4 6 (1.51%) IMAP
4 6 (1.51%) POP3
4 6 (1.51%) SMTP
5 5 (1.26%) Internet
5 5 (1.26%) SSH
6 4 (1.01%) DHCP
6 4 (1.01%) SSL
7 2 (0.50%) FTP
7 2 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.50%) VoIP
7 2 (0.50%) VPN
8 1 (0.25%) BGP
8 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.25%) IPsec
8 1 (0.25%) RTP
8 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (30.73%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (27.71%) Relational Database
3 81 (20.40%) SQL Server
4 47 (11.84%) MongoDB
5 39 (9.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (9.82%) Power BI
6 35 (8.82%) MariaDB
7 33 (8.31%) NoSQL
8 25 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (5.04%) DynamoDB
10 19 (4.79%) Redis
11 18 (4.53%) Qlik Sense
11 18 (4.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (3.78%) Oracle Database
13 14 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (3.27%) Big Data
14 13 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (2.77%) Apache Hive
15 11 (2.77%) BusinessObjects
15 11 (2.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (28.97%) Git
2 46 (11.59%) JIRA
3 36 (9.07%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.55%) GitLab
5 14 (3.53%) JUnit
6 13 (3.27%) Selenium
6 13 (3.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (3.02%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.77%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (2.77%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.77%) Firebug
8 11 (2.77%) Maven
9 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.27%) Postman
10 7 (1.76%) Gradle
10 7 (1.76%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.51%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.51%) Subversion
12 5 (1.26%) Jasmine
12 5 (1.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 106 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.08%) Finance
3 29 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.79%) Banking
5 11 (2.77%) Retail
6 8 (2.02%) German Language
6 8 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.76%) French Language
7 7 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.76%) Spanish Language
8 6 (1.51%) Marketing
8 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.01%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.01%) Publishing
11 3 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 139 (35.01%) Developer
2 45 (11.34%) Senior
3 30 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (6.80%) DBA
5 26 (6.55%) Technical Support
6 21 (5.29%) Data Engineer
7 19 (4.79%) Analyst
8 18 (4.53%) Java Developer
8 18 (4.53%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.53%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.28%) Consultant
9 17 (4.28%) PHP Developer
10 16 (4.03%) Data Scientist
11 15 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.27%) Administrator
13 12 (3.02%) Architect
14 11 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (2.77%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 11 (2.77%) Technical Engineer
14 11 (2.77%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.17%) HTML
2 85 (21.41%) CSS
3 53 (13.35%) AngularJS
3 53 (13.35%) RESTful
4 50 (12.59%) React
5 48 (12.09%) Web Services
6 38 (9.57%) XML
7 36 (9.07%) .NET
8 35 (8.82%) Laravel
9 34 (8.56%) REST
10 28 (7.05%) jQuery
10 28 (7.05%) Vue
11 26 (6.55%) Spring
11 26 (6.55%) Spring Boot
12 22 (5.54%) Node.js
13 20 (5.04%) LAMP
13 20 (5.04%) SOAP
14 19 (4.79%) Kafka
15 18 (4.53%) JSON
16 14 (3.53%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.77%) Clustering
3 8 (2.02%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.76%) CMDB
4 7 (1.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.51%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.51%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.26%) Replication
7 4 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.76%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.76%) SCADA
9 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 123 (30.98%) Linux
2 63 (15.87%) Windows
3 53 (13.35%) Unix
4 13 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.52%) Solaris
6 8 (2.02%) CentOS
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.26%) Android
8 5 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.01%) VMS
10 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.25%) AIX
12 1 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.24%) Agile
2 88 (22.17%) CI/CD
3 78 (19.65%) Scrum
4 75 (18.89%) DevOps
5 72 (18.14%) Software Engineering
6 55 (13.85%) ETL
7 53 (13.35%) OO
8 51 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (12.09%) Computer Science
9 48 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
10 46 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 44 (11.08%) Analytics
11 44 (11.08%) Data Modelling
12 41 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (9.32%) Migration
14 34 (8.56%) Test Automation
15 30 (7.56%) ITSM
15 30 (7.56%) Requirements Gathering
16 29 (7.30%) Customer Service
16 29 (7.30%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 142 (35.77%) SQL
2 139 (35.01%) JavaScript
3 109 (27.46%) Java
4 108 (27.20%) Python
5 69 (17.38%) PHP
6 29 (7.30%) C#
7 26 (6.55%) Bash
7 26 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 22 (5.54%) Perl
9 19 (4.79%) Go
9 19 (4.79%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.03%) Shell Script
11 12 (3.02%) Ruby
12 9 (2.27%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.02%) C++
13 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.02%) Scala
14 6 (1.51%) Rust
14 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.26%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 61 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 53 (13.35%) Degree
4 33 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 18 (4.53%) PMP
6 16 (4.03%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.01%) MCSE
8 4 (1.01%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.50%) CCNA
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MCTS
9 2 (0.50%) RHCE
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.25%) CITP
10 1 (0.25%) OCP
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.30%) QA
2 19 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.02%) GDPR
4 7 (1.76%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.76%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) HL7
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (18.89%) Docker
2 22 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.26%) HDFS
5 4 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 53 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.82%) Grafana
3 36 (9.07%) Ansible
4 31 (7.81%) Terraform
5 14 (3.53%) Puppet
6 10 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.76%) Kibana
8 3 (0.76%) logstash
8 3 (0.76%) Salt
8 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.50%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.50%) Nagios
9 2 (0.50%) SCCM
9 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.25%) Munin
Vendors
1 126 (31.74%) Oracle
2 55 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 40 (10.08%) Google
4 31 (7.81%) ServiceNow
5 28 (7.05%) Talend
6 24 (6.05%) Denodo
7 13 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.02%) Informatica
9 10 (2.52%) VMware
10 9 (2.27%) Sun
11 7 (1.76%) SAP
12 6 (1.51%) Okta
13 5 (1.26%) Cisco
13 5 (1.26%) IBM
14 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 4 (1.01%) Databricks
14 4 (1.01%) Sybase
14 4 (1.01%) Zend
15 3 (0.76%) CyberArk
15 3 (0.76%) Splunk