MySQL Contracts in England

MySQL
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 282 192
Rank change year-on-year +24 -90 -3
Contract jobs citing MySQL 323 482 1,073
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.95% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.24% 5.30% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 337 798
10th Percentile £313 £345 £369
25th Percentile £363 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £516
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.08% +10.87%
75th Percentile £619 £603 £625
90th Percentile £697 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -2.44% +1.49% +6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 11
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £36.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £43.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% +102.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £74.38 £53.75 £28.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £62.50 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £44.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.96% +106.12% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in England.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +48 172 £538 -1.01% 120
North of England -1 48 £450 -7.22% 90
South East +11 40 £425 -9.50% 45
North West -8 29 £450 +2.86% 43
Midlands +24 27 £358 -28.40% 53
West Midlands +32 19 £358 -29.28% 33
South West +11 16 £450 -16.28% 45
Yorkshire +7 12 £525 -2.10% 32
North East +22 7 - - 15
East Midlands +21 7 £450 +9.09% 20
East of England +4 5 £488 +8.33% 28
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (5.57%) Apache
2 13 (4.02%) Confluence
3 12 (3.72%) Drupal
4 10 (3.10%) Apache Solr
5 9 (2.79%) nginx
6 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.55%) WordPress
7 4 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.24%) IIS
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.93%) Moodle
8 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.93%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.62%) CMS
9 2 (0.62%) Jadu
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.62%) FileZilla
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.24%) Magento
2 4 (1.24%) Shopify
3 3 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.93%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.62%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.62%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.31%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 106 (32.82%) AWS
2 84 (26.01%) Azure
3 53 (16.41%) GitHub
4 24 (7.43%) GCP
5 20 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.57%) Serverless
7 16 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.79%) SaaS
12 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.48%) WhatsApp
13 7 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.17%) IaaS
14 6 (1.86%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (1.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.95%) DNS
2 10 (3.10%) Firewall
2 10 (3.10%) SAN
2 10 (3.10%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.79%) DHCP
4 6 (1.86%) HTTP
4 6 (1.86%) NAS
5 5 (1.55%) HTTPS
5 5 (1.55%) WAN
6 4 (1.24%) 5G
6 4 (1.24%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.24%) IPsec
6 4 (1.24%) LTE
6 4 (1.24%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.24%) SSH
6 4 (1.24%) VPN
7 3 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.93%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 87 (26.93%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (14.24%) Relational Database
4 39 (12.07%) MongoDB
5 33 (10.22%) NoSQL
6 24 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (6.81%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (6.19%) Power BI
9 19 (5.88%) Oracle Database
10 18 (5.57%) RDBMS
11 17 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (4.64%) MariaDB
14 14 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (3.72%) Redis
16 10 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (2.79%) DynamoDB
18 8 (2.48%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 55 (17.03%) Git
2 21 (6.50%) GitLab
2 21 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.57%) JIRA
4 9 (2.79%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 8 (2.48%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.17%) ERwin
7 6 (1.86%) Maven
8 5 (1.55%) AppScan
8 5 (1.55%) Burp Suite
8 5 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.55%) JUnit
8 5 (1.55%) Selenium
9 4 (1.24%) JMeter
9 4 (1.24%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.24%) Subversion
10 3 (0.93%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.93%) PHPUnit
General
1 64 (19.81%) Finance
2 58 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.36%) Banking
4 18 (5.57%) Retail
5 16 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.33%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.17%) Legal
9 6 (1.86%) Marketing
9 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.55%) Advertising
11 3 (0.93%) Arabic Language
11 3 (0.93%) French Language
11 3 (0.93%) German Language
11 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.93%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.93%) Korean Language
11 3 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 119 (36.84%) Developer
2 31 (9.60%) DBA
3 26 (8.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 23 (7.12%) Senior
5 22 (6.81%) Software Engineer
5 22 (6.81%) Support Engineer
6 20 (6.19%) Architect
6 20 (6.19%) PHP Developer
7 17 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
8 15 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Lead
10 13 (4.02%) MySQL DBA
11 12 (3.72%) Administrator
11 12 (3.72%) SailPoint Engineer
11 12 (3.72%) Site Engineer
11 12 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) SailPoint Developer
13 10 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.10%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.58%) HTML
2 39 (12.07%) CSS
3 36 (11.15%) React
3 36 (11.15%) SOAP
4 34 (10.53%) LDAP
4 34 (10.53%) Web Services
5 33 (10.22%) XML
6 27 (8.36%) Node.js
7 26 (8.05%) REST
7 26 (8.05%) RESTful
8 25 (7.74%) SailPoint
8 25 (7.74%) Spring
9 24 (7.43%) Laravel
10 23 (7.12%) JDBC
10 23 (7.12%) Servlets
11 22 (6.81%) JSP
11 22 (6.81%) SPML
12 20 (6.19%) AngularJS
13 18 (5.57%) JSON
13 18 (5.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.91%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.17%) Clustering
5 7 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.17%) PKI
6 6 (1.86%) Fat Client
6 6 (1.86%) Replication
6 6 (1.86%) Thin Client
7 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.24%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.24%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.93%) CCTV
9 3 (0.93%) Derivative
9 3 (0.93%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.77%) Linux
2 39 (12.07%) Windows
3 17 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (5.26%) Unix
3 17 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.79%) CentOS
6 7 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.86%) Android
8 5 (1.55%) VMS
9 4 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.48%) Agile
2 78 (24.15%) DevOps
3 46 (14.24%) CI/CD
3 46 (14.24%) Software Engineering
4 45 (13.93%) Full Stack Development
5 39 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (10.53%) Scrum
7 32 (9.91%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (9.29%) Containerisation
8 30 (9.29%) ETL
8 30 (9.29%) Migration
9 29 (8.98%) Configuration Management
10 28 (8.67%) Microservices
11 25 (7.74%) Analytics
12 23 (7.12%) SDLC
13 22 (6.81%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (6.81%) TDD
13 22 (6.81%) Test Automation
14 20 (6.19%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 109 (33.75%) SQL
2 93 (28.79%) JavaScript
3 92 (28.48%) Java
4 81 (25.08%) PHP
5 68 (21.05%) Python
6 33 (10.22%) Bash
7 28 (8.67%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 20 (6.19%) Go
10 17 (5.26%) C#
11 14 (4.33%) Ruby
12 13 (4.02%) Shell Script
12 13 (4.02%) T-SQL
13 10 (3.10%) Perl
14 7 (2.17%) C++
15 6 (1.86%) Rust
16 5 (1.55%) C
16 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (1.55%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.29%) Degree
4 16 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.62%) CISSP
7 2 (0.62%) MCITP
7 2 (0.62%) MCSE
7 2 (0.62%) MCTS
7 2 (0.62%) SANS
8 1 (0.31%) CCNP
8 1 (0.31%) CEH
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.31%) GCIA
8 1 (0.31%) GSEC
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.29%) QA
2 14 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.72%) GDPR
4 7 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.55%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.55%) NIST
6 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.93%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.93%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.31%) COPPA
System Software
1 54 (16.72%) Docker
2 38 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 23 (7.12%) IAG
4 20 (6.19%) ACF2
4 20 (6.19%) RACF
5 8 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.86%) vSphere
7 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.62%) KVM
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.62%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.31%) Ceph
9 1 (0.31%) HDFS
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
9 1 (0.31%) Lustre
9 1 (0.31%) NFS
9 1 (0.31%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 48 (14.86%) Ansible
3 43 (13.31%) Terraform
4 39 (12.07%) Grafana
5 17 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.64%) Puppet
7 13 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.79%) Graylog
8 9 (2.79%) Nessus
9 8 (2.48%) Data Guard
9 8 (2.48%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.86%) Packer
11 5 (1.55%) Kibana
11 5 (1.55%) Nagios
11 5 (1.55%) vRealize
11 5 (1.55%) WebInspect
12 4 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.24%) WSUS
12 4 (1.24%) yum
12 4 (1.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (31.58%) Oracle
2 46 (14.24%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.05%) ServiceNow
4 25 (7.74%) Sybase
5 22 (6.81%) VMware
6 21 (6.50%) Red Hat
6 21 (6.50%) Splunk
7 20 (6.19%) Google
8 19 (5.88%) Salesforce
9 11 (3.41%) Denodo
9 11 (3.41%) SAP
9 11 (3.41%) Talend
10 8 (2.48%) Adobe
10 8 (2.48%) Informatica
11 7 (2.17%) IBM
11 7 (2.17%) Veeam
12 6 (1.86%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.55%) Dell
13 5 (1.55%) HP
13 5 (1.55%) Sage