MySQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 194 155
Rank change year-on-year +5 -39 +6
Contract jobs citing MySQL 166 316 771
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 1.26% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 6.61% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 219 582
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £360 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £702 £705 £718
UK median daily rate £490 £505 £508
% change year-on-year -2.97% -0.49% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 £22.16 £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 £43.50 £22.25
90th Percentile - £45.65 £36.63
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £43.57 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.68% +102.63% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,891 4,781 9,580
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.03% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,492 6,964
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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 8 May 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
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 7 (4.22%) Apache Solr
1 7 (4.22%) nginx
2 5 (3.01%) Confluence
3 4 (2.41%) Apache
3 4 (2.41%) WordPress
4 3 (1.81%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.81%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.20%) ColdFusion
5 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Shopify
2 2 (1.20%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.75%) AWS
2 34 (20.48%) Azure
3 28 (16.87%) GitHub
4 13 (7.83%) GCP
5 11 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.22%) Serverless
10 6 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.01%) SaaS
12 4 (2.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (2.41%) Route 53
13 3 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.61%) DNS
3 4 (2.41%) Firewall
3 4 (2.41%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.41%) IPsec
4 3 (1.81%) VPN
5 2 (1.20%) SSH
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) SQL Server
2 35 (21.08%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (16.27%) Relational Database
4 19 (11.45%) MongoDB
5 16 (9.64%) NoSQL
5 16 (9.64%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.82%) MariaDB
8 7 (4.22%) Oracle Database
8 7 (4.22%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.61%) Couchbase
10 5 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.41%) DB2
11 4 (2.41%) Redis
12 3 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.81%) Power BI
13 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 16 (9.64%) Git
2 10 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.82%) GitLab
3 8 (4.82%) JIRA
4 7 (4.22%) Selenium
5 6 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.41%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.41%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.41%) Postman
7 3 (1.81%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.81%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (1.81%) Maven
8 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.20%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.20%) ERwin
8 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.20%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (23.49%) Finance
2 38 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.43%) Banking
4 10 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.42%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.82%) Retail
7 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.01%) Legal
8 4 (2.41%) French Language
8 4 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.41%) Marketing
9 3 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 2 (1.20%) German Language
10 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (46.99%) Developer
2 17 (10.24%) DBA
3 15 (9.04%) Senior
4 14 (8.43%) Software Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Full Stack Developer
6 10 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.02%) Lead
6 10 (6.02%) SailPoint Developer
7 9 (5.42%) .NET Developer
7 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.42%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.82%) MySQL DBA
8 8 (4.82%) PHP Developer
9 7 (4.22%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (4.22%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Administrator
10 6 (3.61%) AWS Developer
10 6 (3.61%) React Developer
10 6 (3.61%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.48%) HTML
2 32 (19.28%) React
3 30 (18.07%) Web Services
4 25 (15.06%) SOAP
5 24 (14.46%) AngularJS
6 22 (13.25%) .NET
6 22 (13.25%) CSS
7 21 (12.65%) XML
8 19 (11.45%) SailPoint
9 18 (10.84%) LDAP
10 17 (10.24%) Laravel
10 17 (10.24%) Servlets
10 17 (10.24%) Spring
11 16 (9.64%) JSP
11 16 (9.64%) RESTful
11 16 (9.64%) SPML
12 15 (9.04%) JDBC
12 15 (9.04%) jQuery
12 15 (9.04%) Node.js
12 15 (9.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.45%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.23%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.41%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.81%) Derivative
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.60%) CBDC
9 1 (0.60%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Genomics
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.60%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.88%) Linux
2 19 (11.45%) Windows
3 6 (3.61%) Unix
4 5 (3.01%) CentOS
5 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.20%) Android
6 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.71%) Agile
2 37 (22.29%) DevOps
3 32 (19.28%) CI/CD
4 30 (18.07%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (16.27%) Software Engineering
7 24 (14.46%) Test Automation
8 18 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.04%) RBAC
10 14 (8.43%) Design Patterns
10 14 (8.43%) Microservices
11 13 (7.83%) Code Quality
11 13 (7.83%) Migration
11 13 (7.83%) SDLC
12 12 (7.23%) Computer Science
12 12 (7.23%) Configuration Management
12 12 (7.23%) MVC
12 12 (7.23%) Scrum
12 12 (7.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.14%) Java
2 55 (33.13%) JavaScript
3 43 (25.90%) SQL
4 35 (21.08%) PHP
5 22 (13.25%) Python
6 14 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.83%) Go
7 13 (7.83%) Ruby
8 9 (5.42%) C#
9 7 (4.22%) Bash
9 7 (4.22%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.61%) Perl
11 3 (1.81%) C++
11 3 (1.81%) Rust
12 2 (1.20%) C
12 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.20%) XPath
13 1 (0.60%) Groovy
13 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.43%) Degree
2 11 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) SANS
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.86%) QA
2 7 (4.22%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.01%) HIPAA
4 5 (3.01%) NIST
5 4 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) COPPA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Docker
2 18 (10.84%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.24%) IAG
4 15 (9.04%) ACF2
4 15 (9.04%) RACF
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (15.66%) Terraform
2 24 (14.46%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.05%) Ansible
4 14 (8.43%) Grafana
5 8 (4.82%) Puppet
6 6 (3.61%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.41%) Nagios
8 3 (1.81%) Graylog
9 2 (1.20%) Kibana
9 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.20%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.60%) Argo
10 1 (0.60%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.60%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.60%) Icinga
10 1 (0.60%) Nessus
10 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.60%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 51 (30.72%) Oracle
2 20 (12.05%) ServiceNow
3 17 (10.24%) Sybase
4 16 (9.64%) Microsoft
5 13 (7.83%) Google
6 9 (5.42%) Splunk
7 5 (3.01%) Denodo
7 5 (3.01%) IBM
7 5 (3.01%) Talend
8 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.81%) Informatica
9 3 (1.81%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.20%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.20%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.20%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.20%) TIBCO