MySQL Contracts in Wales

MySQL
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 18 60 70
Rank change year-on-year +42 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 29 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.23% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.43% 3.66% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 2 6
10th Percentile £445 £358 -
25th Percentile £504 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £621 £581 £511
90th Percentile £671 £623 £633
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -2.44% +1.49% +6.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 70 82 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 17.46% 13.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 64 124
10th Percentile £358 £366 £387
25th Percentile £411 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £536 £504
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +6.39% +12.01%
75th Percentile £566 £650 £625
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.39%
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Wales 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
South Wales +38 26 £550 +10.05% 6
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) GitHub
3 12 (41.38%) AWS
4 10 (34.48%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Cypress.io
1 8 (27.59%) GitLab
1 8 (27.59%) Postman
2 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.45%) AppScan
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Migration Manager
1 10 (34.48%) Migration Project Manager
1 10 (34.48%) Project Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (24.14%) PHP Developer
4 6 (20.69%) DBA
4 6 (20.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Administrator
6 4 (13.79%) MySQL DBA
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Administrator
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) React Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) MySQL Consultant
9 1 (3.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Laravel
1 9 (31.03%) Vue
2 8 (27.59%) React
3 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS3
4 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5
4 1 (3.45%) MobX
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) Redux
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Public Cloud
2 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) Project Management
3 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
3 13 (44.83%) Migration
4 11 (37.93%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (37.93%) Scrum
5 10 (34.48%) SDLC
6 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
6 9 (31.03%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
8 7 (24.14%) Analytics
9 6 (20.69%) Change Control
10 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
10 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (6.90%) Application Security
11 2 (6.90%) Blue-Green Deployment
11 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (6.90%) Project Governance
11 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) PHP
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SANS
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Argo
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
2 7 (24.14%) Nagios
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Graylog
3 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.45%) Nessus
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) Atlassian
3 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.45%) Veracode