MySQL Contracts in Cardiff

MySQL
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 20 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.06% 7.63% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.39% 39.22% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 1
10th Percentile £434 £427 -
25th Percentile £448 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% -20.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile £478 £599 -
90th Percentile £484 £689 -
South Wales median daily rate £469 £515 £650
% change year-on-year -8.98% -20.77% +23.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23 51 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.86% 19.47% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 38
10th Percentile £234 £260 £374
25th Percentile £281 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £531
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -3.06% +2.16%
75th Percentile £479 £563 £650
90th Percentile £490 £645 £708
South Wales median daily rate £425 £515 £543
% change year-on-year -17.48% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.88
90th Percentile - - £25.55
South Wales median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Cardiff

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Cardiff

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google