MySQL Contracts in Bristol

MySQL
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MySQL 4 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.58% 0.43% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 3.60% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £422 £316 -
25th Percentile £436 £322 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -5.88% -13.92%
75th Percentile £501 £461 £500
90th Percentile £514 £481 £665
South West median daily rate £515 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +47.14% -17.65% -11.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 72 111 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.51% 11.92% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 70 97
10th Percentile £313 £374 £370
25th Percentile £369 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £618
90th Percentile £600 £725 £693
South West median daily rate £464 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -8.40% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile - - £33.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £17.50 £52.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £58.53
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -65.83% -7.98%
75th Percentile £78.10 £85.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £79.22 - £75.32
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +133.33% -59.46% +34.55%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Bristol

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) ClickHouse
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Tech for Good
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (50.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks