MySQL Contracts in Cheshire

MySQL
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% 0.40% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.33% 2.20% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £437 - £225
25th Percentile £590 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £350
75th Percentile £738 - £375
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -1.11% - -5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Cheshire

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chester - 3 £725 - 2
Knutsford - 1 £350 -
MySQL
North West

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle