MySQL Contracts in the East Midlands

MySQL
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 52 60 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 -5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.78% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 5.45% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £235 £333
25th Percentile £470 £288 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £503
90th Percentile £523 £505 £509
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -58.62% +57.58% +102.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 70 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 14.23% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 74 117
10th Percentile £312 £294 £223
25th Percentile £368 £356 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.49%
75th Percentile £510 £519 £500
90th Percentile £547 £714 £653
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £18.26 £13.26 £20.54
25th Percentile £18.35 - £22.77
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -47.13% -24.34%
75th Percentile £21.25 £21.30 £43.24
90th Percentile £22.30 £35.12 £53.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the East Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the East Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the East Midlands

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +11 4 £495 +147.50% 6
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle