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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 278 195
Rank change year-on-year +21 -83 -2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 328 461 1,051
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.94% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.27% 5.27% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 318 783
10th Percentile £313 £338 £375
25th Percentile £361 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.80% -1.96% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £29.08 £20.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £43.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +102.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £74.38 £55.63 £28.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% +102.33% -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 6,220 8,741 14,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.92% 17.88% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,478 6,287 10,157
10th Percentile £355 £374 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £660
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.75% +9.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 169 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.40 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +80.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.71 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +50 165 £550 +4.76% 118
North of England +20 51 £463 +8.82% 80
South East -3 41 £425 -12.82% 52
Midlands +37 34 £358 -28.40% 58
North West +10 30 £450 +12.50% 47
West Midlands +27 28 £358 -30.15% 37
South West +2 16 £450 -18.18% 41
Yorkshire +6 14 £550 +0.46% 22
North East +19 7 - - 11
East Midlands +19 5 £300 -36.84% 21
East of England -1 4 £475 +5.56% 26
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 22 (6.71%) Apache
2 13 (3.96%) Confluence
3 12 (3.66%) Drupal
4 10 (3.05%) Apache Solr
4 10 (3.05%) nginx
5 6 (1.83%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.22%) IIS
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.22%) WordPress
8 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.91%) Moodle
8 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.61%) CMS
9 2 (0.61%) Jadu
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) Magento
2 4 (1.22%) Shopify
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.91%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.61%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 109 (33.23%) AWS
2 87 (26.52%) Azure
3 47 (14.33%) GitHub
4 28 (8.54%) GCP
5 27 (8.23%) Power Platform
6 19 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (5.18%) Serverless
8 15 (4.57%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (3.05%) SaaS
12 8 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.44%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.44%) WhatsApp
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.57%) DNS
2 10 (3.05%) Firewall
2 10 (3.05%) SAN
2 10 (3.05%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.44%) DHCP
4 7 (2.13%) SSH
5 6 (1.83%) HTTP
5 6 (1.83%) NAS
6 5 (1.52%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.52%) WAN
7 4 (1.22%) 5G
7 4 (1.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (1.22%) IPsec
7 4 (1.22%) LTE
7 4 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.22%) VPN
8 3 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (28.35%) SQL Server
2 85 (25.91%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (14.94%) Relational Database
4 38 (11.59%) MongoDB
5 33 (10.06%) NoSQL
6 27 (8.23%) Power BI
7 23 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (5.49%) RDBMS
11 17 (5.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (4.27%) Oracle Database
13 12 (3.66%) MariaDB
14 10 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (2.44%) Couchbase
16 8 (2.44%) DynamoDB
17 7 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (19.82%) Git
2 21 (6.40%) GitLab
3 19 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.49%) JIRA
5 9 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.13%) ERwin
8 6 (1.83%) Maven
9 5 (1.52%) AppScan
9 5 (1.52%) Burp Suite
9 5 (1.52%) Selenium
10 4 (1.22%) JMeter
10 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.22%) PHPUnit
10 4 (1.22%) Subversion
10 4 (1.22%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.91%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.91%) JUnit
General
1 64 (19.51%) Finance
2 62 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.54%) Banking
4 19 (5.79%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.79%) Retail
5 16 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.66%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.13%) Legal
8 7 (2.13%) Marketing
9 5 (1.52%) Advertising
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Arabic Language
11 2 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 121 (36.89%) Developer
2 28 (8.54%) Full Stack Developer
3 26 (7.93%) DBA
4 22 (6.71%) Senior
5 21 (6.40%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.10%) Architect
6 20 (6.10%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.88%) PHP Developer
8 15 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.96%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.96%) Lead
9 13 (3.96%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (3.66%) Administrator
11 11 (3.35%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.05%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.05%) MySQL DBA
12 10 (3.05%) SailPoint Engineer
12 10 (3.05%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.99%) HTML
2 42 (12.80%) CSS
3 37 (11.28%) React
4 34 (10.37%) Web Services
4 34 (10.37%) XML
5 32 (9.76%) SOAP
6 30 (9.15%) LDAP
7 27 (8.23%) Node.js
8 26 (7.93%) RESTful
9 25 (7.62%) AngularJS
10 24 (7.32%) Laravel
11 23 (7.01%) REST
11 23 (7.01%) SailPoint
12 22 (6.71%) Spring
13 20 (6.10%) JDBC
14 19 (5.79%) Servlets
15 18 (5.49%) JSON
15 18 (5.49%) JSP
15 18 (5.49%) SPML
16 17 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.23%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.57%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.05%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.44%) Clustering
6 7 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.13%) PKI
7 6 (1.83%) Fat Client
7 6 (1.83%) Replication
7 6 (1.83%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.22%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.91%) CCTV
10 3 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 81 (24.70%) Linux
2 41 (12.50%) Windows
3 17 (5.18%) Unix
3 17 (5.18%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.74%) CentOS
7 8 (2.44%) Android
8 7 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.52%) VMS
10 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.18%) Agile
2 81 (24.70%) DevOps
3 53 (16.16%) Software Engineering
4 51 (15.55%) CI/CD
5 47 (14.33%) Full Stack Development
6 41 (12.50%) Scrum
7 39 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (10.98%) ETL
10 34 (10.37%) Configuration Management
11 31 (9.45%) Analytics
11 31 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (9.45%) Migration
12 30 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (9.15%) Containerisation
13 26 (7.93%) SDLC
14 25 (7.62%) Computer Science
15 24 (7.32%) Microservices
16 23 (7.01%) Data Analytics
17 22 (6.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.45%) SQL
2 97 (29.57%) JavaScript
3 89 (27.13%) Java
4 76 (23.17%) PHP
5 75 (22.87%) Python
6 36 (10.98%) Bash
7 28 (8.54%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.71%) C#
8 22 (6.71%) TypeScript
9 21 (6.40%) Go
10 14 (4.27%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.96%) Ruby
11 13 (3.96%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.74%) Perl
13 7 (2.13%) C++
13 7 (2.13%) Rust
14 5 (1.52%) C
14 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.98%) Degree
4 20 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.91%) PMP
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.61%) CISSP
8 2 (0.61%) MCITP
8 2 (0.61%) MCSE
8 2 (0.61%) MCTS
8 2 (0.61%) SANS
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.30%) CCNP
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.93%) QA
2 13 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.66%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.52%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.91%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.91%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) COPPA
System Software
1 54 (16.46%) Docker
2 38 (11.59%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.79%) IAG
4 17 (5.18%) ACF2
4 17 (5.18%) RACF
5 8 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.83%) vSphere
7 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.61%) KVM
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.61%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.30%) Ceph
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) iptables
9 1 (0.30%) Lustre
9 1 (0.30%) NFS
9 1 (0.30%) Samba
9 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.72%) Ansible
3 44 (13.41%) Grafana
4 41 (12.50%) Terraform
5 16 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.96%) Puppet
7 12 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.74%) Graylog
8 9 (2.74%) Nessus
9 8 (2.44%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.83%) Packer
11 5 (1.52%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.52%) Kibana
11 5 (1.52%) Nagios
11 5 (1.52%) vRealize
11 5 (1.52%) WebInspect
12 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.22%) WSUS
12 4 (1.22%) yum
12 4 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (30.49%) Oracle
2 47 (14.33%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.93%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.01%) Google
5 22 (6.71%) VMware
6 21 (6.40%) Splunk
7 20 (6.10%) Sybase
8 19 (5.79%) Red Hat
9 18 (5.49%) Denodo
9 18 (5.49%) Salesforce
9 18 (5.49%) Talend
10 12 (3.66%) SAP
11 11 (3.35%) Informatica
12 7 (2.13%) Adobe
12 7 (2.13%) Veeam
13 5 (1.52%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.52%) HP
13 5 (1.52%) IBM
13 5 (1.52%) Sage
13 5 (1.52%) Veritas