MySQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 194 158
Rank change year-on-year +22 -36 -1
Contract jobs citing MySQL 184 298 775
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.25% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.31% 6.67% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 205 577
10th Percentile £300 £350 £356
25th Percentile £359 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £573 £580 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 13
10th Percentile £52.00 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £26.52 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £45.00
90th Percentile - £46.68 £55.50
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL.

MySQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MySQL over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

MySQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL.

MySQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MySQL over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

MySQL hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (4.89%) Apache Solr
2 8 (4.35%) nginx
3 6 (3.26%) Apache
4 5 (2.72%) Confluence
4 5 (2.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 4 (2.17%) WordPress
6 3 (1.63%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.63%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.09%) ColdFusion
7 2 (1.09%) Joomla!
7 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.54%) IIS
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.54%) SAS
8 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Shopify
2 3 (1.63%) Magento
3 2 (1.09%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.89%) AWS
2 31 (16.85%) Azure
3 26 (14.13%) GitHub
4 16 (8.70%) GCP
5 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.35%) SaaS
7 6 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.63%) Serverless
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.09%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.09%) Route 53
9 2 (1.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.26%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) SSH
4 4 (2.17%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.17%) IPsec
5 2 (1.09%) Firewall
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.54%) SSL
6 1 (0.54%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.54%) VLAN
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 40 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (17.93%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 16 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.89%) MariaDB
6 9 (4.89%) Power BI
7 8 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.80%) Oracle Database
9 6 (3.26%) Couchbase
9 6 (3.26%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.72%) Redis
11 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.17%) DB2
11 4 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.17%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (13.59%) Git
2 8 (4.35%) GitLab
2 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.35%) JIRA
2 8 (4.35%) Selenium
3 6 (3.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.17%) PHPUnit
4 4 (2.17%) Postman
5 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) HP UFT
5 3 (1.63%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.09%) ERwin
6 2 (1.09%) Maven
6 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.09%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.65%) Finance
3 16 (8.70%) Banking
4 12 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.43%) Financial Institution
6 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.89%) Retail
7 7 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.72%) Legal
8 5 (2.72%) Marketing
9 4 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (2.17%) French Language
9 4 (2.17%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.63%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.09%) Arabic Language
11 2 (1.09%) German Language
11 2 (1.09%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 75 (40.76%) Developer
2 17 (9.24%) DBA
2 17 (9.24%) Senior
3 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
4 13 (7.07%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (5.43%) .NET Developer
5 10 (5.43%) SailPoint Developer
5 10 (5.43%) Senior Developer
6 9 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.89%) Lead
7 8 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 8 (4.35%) PHP Developer
8 7 (3.80%) Administrator
8 7 (3.80%) MySQL DBA
8 7 (3.80%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (3.80%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (3.80%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Consultant
9 6 (3.26%) React Developer
9 6 (3.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.74%) HTML
2 35 (19.02%) React
3 31 (16.85%) AngularJS
4 29 (15.76%) Web Services
5 28 (15.22%) CSS
6 25 (13.59%) SOAP
7 23 (12.50%) .NET
8 22 (11.96%) SailPoint
9 21 (11.41%) XML
10 20 (10.87%) LDAP
11 17 (9.24%) RESTful
11 17 (9.24%) Servlets
11 17 (9.24%) Spring
12 16 (8.70%) jQuery
12 16 (8.70%) JSP
12 16 (8.70%) Laravel
12 16 (8.70%) Node.js
12 16 (8.70%) SPML
13 15 (8.15%) JDBC
13 15 (8.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.87%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.72%) Clustering
6 4 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.63%) Derivative
7 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.09%) Podcast
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.54%) IoT
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.48%) Linux
2 19 (10.33%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Unix
4 5 (2.72%) CentOS
5 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) Android
6 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.80%) Agile
2 38 (20.65%) Software Engineering
3 33 (17.93%) DevOps
4 31 (16.85%) Full Stack Development
5 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.22%) CI/CD
7 25 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (13.59%) Scrum
7 25 (13.59%) Test Automation
8 18 (9.78%) Computer Science
8 18 (9.78%) Configuration Management
9 17 (9.24%) ETL
10 15 (8.15%) Analytics
10 15 (8.15%) Data Analytics
10 15 (8.15%) Migration
10 15 (8.15%) RBAC
10 15 (8.15%) User Experience
11 14 (7.61%) Code Quality
12 13 (7.07%) SDLC
13 12 (6.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.70%) JavaScript
2 60 (32.61%) Java
3 51 (27.72%) SQL
4 34 (18.48%) PHP
5 24 (13.04%) Python
6 13 (7.07%) Ruby
7 12 (6.52%) Go
7 12 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.89%) C#
9 7 (3.80%) Perl
9 7 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.26%) Bash
11 4 (2.17%) Rust
12 3 (1.63%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) C
13 2 (1.09%) Scala
13 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.09%) XPath
14 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.87%) Degree
2 16 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.26%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.26%) PMP
6 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.09%) SANS
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.41%) QA
2 7 (3.80%) GDPR
3 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.72%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.72%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.09%) SLA
7 1 (0.54%) COPPA
7 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (15.76%) Docker
2 21 (11.41%) Active Directory
3 17 (9.24%) IAG
4 15 (8.15%) ACF2
4 15 (8.15%) RACF
5 1 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.54%) Postfix
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.78%) Ansible
2 18 (9.78%) Grafana
2 18 (9.78%) Terraform
3 7 (3.80%) Puppet
4 5 (2.72%) Progress Chef
4 5 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.09%) Galera Cluster
6 2 (1.09%) Graylog
6 2 (1.09%) Kibana
6 2 (1.09%) Nagios
6 2 (1.09%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.54%) Argo
7 1 (0.54%) logstash
7 1 (0.54%) Nessus
7 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.54%) Salt
7 1 (0.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (30.43%) Oracle
2 28 (15.22%) ServiceNow
3 17 (9.24%) Sybase
4 15 (8.15%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.61%) Google
6 12 (6.52%) Denodo
6 12 (6.52%) Talend
7 6 (3.26%) Splunk
8 5 (2.72%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.72%) IBM
9 4 (2.17%) Adobe
9 4 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.63%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.63%) Informatica
10 3 (1.63%) Micro Focus
10 3 (1.63%) SAP
11 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.09%) Sitecore