MySQL Contracts in Berkshire

MySQL
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 103 100
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 11 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.91% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 3.89% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £346 £313 £244
25th Percentile £405 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -3.03% -17.50%
75th Percentile £486 £438 £509
90th Percentile £542 £530 £613
South East median daily rate £215 £313 £500
% change year-on-year -31.20% -37.50% +6.95%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 185 257 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.28% 14.64% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 153 158
10th Percentile £400 £321 £340
25th Percentile £437 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £609
90th Percentile £650 £662 £700
South East median daily rate £463 £494 £543
% change year-on-year -6.28% -8.94% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile - £20.75 £39.00
25th Percentile - £48.18 £54.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% -5.23% +54.76%
75th Percentile - - £76.89
90th Percentile - - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.36% - +144.44%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Berkshire

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Berkshire

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Berkshire

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Berkshire

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. 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
Windsor - 5 £413 - 1
Reading +25 4 £449 +12.25% 3
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
3 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Hive
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 2 (18.18%) Spark SQL
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) Redis
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) Mocha
2 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Ajax
4 1 (9.09%) JDBC
4 1 (9.09%) JSP
4 1 (9.09%) Laravel
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) API Integration
3 2 (18.18%) API Management
3 2 (18.18%) Application Security
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
3 2 (18.18%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
3 2 (18.18%) Web Development
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk