MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 275 188
Rank change year-on-year +31 -87 0
Contract jobs citing MySQL 419 597 1,360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 1.01% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 5.65% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 411 987
10th Percentile £313 £363 £368
25th Percentile £361 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.99% +6.88%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
90th Percentile £689 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.50% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £55.69 £36.90 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £43.57 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.68% +102.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £73.13 £56.56 £36.81
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.13 £49.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £41.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year +65.46% +93.26% +7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
England +11 327 £475 -5.00% 400
UK excluding London +5 179 £468 -6.50% 292
Work from Home +21 170 £475 -5.00% 241
London +62 167 £525 - 126
North of England +2 50 £450 - 91
South East +3 40 £425 -10.53% 55
Midlands +37 33 £358 -28.40% 53
Wales +42 29 £540 +8.00% 5
North West +10 29 £450 +7.14% 48
West Midlands +29 26 £358 -30.15% 31
South West +13 16 £450 -18.18% 50
Yorkshire +10 14 £475 -11.42% 30
Scotland +4 8 £538 -2.27% 12
North East +19 7 - - 13
East Midlands +19 6 £400 -15.79% 22
East of England -5 4 £475 +5.56% 29

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 21 (5.01%) Apache
2 13 (3.10%) Confluence
3 12 (2.86%) Drupal
4 10 (2.39%) nginx
5 9 (2.15%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.67%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.43%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.95%) IIS
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.95%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.95%) WordPress
9 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.72%) Moodle
9 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.48%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.48%) Jadu
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.95%) Magento
2 4 (0.95%) Shopify
3 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.48%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 132 (31.50%) AWS
2 118 (28.16%) Azure
3 75 (17.90%) GitHub
4 26 (6.21%) GCP
5 25 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (5.49%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.30%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.06%) Serverless
11 16 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.91%) SaaS
14 8 (1.91%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.91%) WhatsApp
15 6 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.58%) DNS
1 15 (3.58%) Firewall
1 15 (3.58%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.39%) SAN
3 9 (2.15%) VPN
4 8 (1.91%) DHCP
5 6 (1.43%) HTTP
5 6 (1.43%) NAS
6 5 (1.19%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.95%) 5G
7 4 (0.95%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (0.95%) IPsec
7 4 (0.95%) LTE
7 4 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.95%) SSH
8 3 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (27.68%) SQL Server
2 102 (24.34%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (15.99%) Relational Database
4 44 (10.50%) MongoDB
5 37 (8.83%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.44%) Oracle Reports
7 23 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.49%) Power BI
8 22 (5.25%) RDBMS
9 21 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (4.53%) MariaDB
11 18 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (3.82%) Oracle Database
13 16 (3.82%) Redis
14 13 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (2.63%) DynamoDB
17 10 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (15.99%) Git
2 30 (7.16%) GitLab
3 23 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.01%) JIRA
5 16 (3.82%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.39%) Postman
6 10 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.91%) Maven
8 8 (1.91%) Selenium
9 7 (1.67%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.67%) ERwin
10 6 (1.43%) AppScan
10 6 (1.43%) JUnit
11 5 (1.19%) JMeter
11 5 (1.19%) Subversion
12 4 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.95%) LoadRunner
General
1 78 (18.62%) Finance
2 77 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 32 (7.64%) Banking
4 26 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.77%) Financial Institution
7 19 (4.53%) Retail
8 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.67%) Legal
10 6 (1.43%) Marketing
11 5 (1.19%) Advertising
11 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) French Language
12 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (39.38%) Developer
2 39 (9.31%) DBA
3 36 (8.59%) Full Stack Developer
4 29 (6.92%) PHP Developer
5 28 (6.68%) Senior
6 24 (5.73%) Software Engineer
7 22 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 21 (5.01%) Architect
9 19 (4.53%) Administrator
10 18 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) MySQL DBA
11 17 (4.06%) Lead
12 16 (3.82%) Java Developer
12 16 (3.82%) Oracle DBA
12 16 (3.82%) SailPoint Developer
13 15 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) SailPoint Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) Site Engineer
16 11 (2.63%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.90%) HTML
2 58 (13.84%) React
3 52 (12.41%) CSS
4 48 (11.46%) Web Services
5 44 (10.50%) SOAP
6 39 (9.31%) XML
7 38 (9.07%) LDAP
8 37 (8.83%) RESTful
9 34 (8.11%) Laravel
9 34 (8.11%) Vue
10 33 (7.88%) AngularJS
11 32 (7.64%) .NET
11 32 (7.64%) Node.js
12 31 (7.40%) Spring
13 30 (7.16%) SailPoint
14 29 (6.92%) REST
15 28 (6.68%) JDBC
15 28 (6.68%) Servlets
16 27 (6.44%) JSP
16 27 (6.44%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.83%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.53%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.67%) PKI
8 6 (1.43%) Clustering
8 6 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.43%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.43%) Replication
8 6 (1.43%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.95%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.72%) CCTV
11 3 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.82%) Linux
2 49 (11.69%) Windows
3 20 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (4.06%) Unix
5 11 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.15%) CentOS
7 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.43%) Android
9 5 (1.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (31.26%) Agile
2 93 (22.20%) DevOps
3 67 (15.99%) CI/CD
4 64 (15.27%) Full Stack Development
5 60 (14.32%) Software Engineering
6 53 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
8 49 (11.69%) Scrum
9 48 (11.46%) Migration
10 46 (10.98%) Containerisation
11 39 (9.31%) Analytics
12 37 (8.83%) Configuration Management
12 37 (8.83%) Test Automation
13 36 (8.59%) ETL
13 36 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (8.35%) SDLC
15 34 (8.11%) Microservices
16 30 (7.16%) Project Management
17 28 (6.68%) Data Analytics
18 26 (6.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (30.79%) SQL
2 124 (29.59%) JavaScript
3 113 (26.97%) Java
4 108 (25.78%) PHP
5 76 (18.14%) Python
6 41 (9.79%) Bash
7 30 (7.16%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 26 (6.21%) Go
10 23 (5.49%) C#
11 21 (5.01%) Ruby
12 15 (3.58%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.10%) T-SQL
14 10 (2.39%) Perl
15 7 (1.67%) C++
16 6 (1.43%) Rust
17 5 (1.19%) C
17 5 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 5 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.93%) Degree
3 45 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.95%) SANS
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) CISSP
8 2 (0.48%) MCITP
8 2 (0.48%) MCSE
8 2 (0.48%) MCTS
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) CEH
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) GCIA
9 1 (0.24%) GCIH
9 1 (0.24%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.65%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.86%) GDPR
4 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.19%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) COPPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (15.51%) Docker
2 44 (10.50%) Active Directory
3 28 (6.68%) IAG
4 25 (5.97%) ACF2
4 25 (5.97%) RACF
5 9 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) KVM
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) Ceph
9 1 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.24%) iptables
9 1 (0.24%) Lustre
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.60%) Ansible
3 56 (13.37%) Terraform
4 52 (12.41%) Grafana
5 23 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.30%) Puppet
7 15 (3.58%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.34%) Graylog
9 12 (2.86%) Argo
9 12 (2.86%) Nagios
10 10 (2.39%) Nessus
11 9 (2.15%) HP Fortify
12 7 (1.67%) Data Guard
13 6 (1.43%) Packer
13 6 (1.43%) WebInspect
14 5 (1.19%) Kibana
14 5 (1.19%) vRealize
15 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (28.64%) Oracle
2 66 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.64%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.92%) Sybase
5 27 (6.44%) Splunk
6 23 (5.49%) VMware
7 22 (5.25%) Google
8 20 (4.77%) Red Hat
9 18 (4.30%) Denodo
9 18 (4.30%) Salesforce
9 18 (4.30%) Talend
10 16 (3.82%) Atlassian
11 11 (2.63%) Informatica
12 10 (2.39%) SAP
13 7 (1.67%) Adobe
13 7 (1.67%) Checkmarx
13 7 (1.67%) Veeam
14 6 (1.43%) Veracode
15 5 (1.19%) Arqiva
15 5 (1.19%) IBM