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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.83% 0.58% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 3.82% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £313 £235 £325
25th Percentile £352 £288 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -17.95% +4.28%
75th Percentile £514 £422 £511
90th Percentile £516 £424 £518
England median daily rate £465 £463 £496
% change year-on-year +0.54% -6.80% -5.48%

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 96 131 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.31% 15.16% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 91 114
10th Percentile £313 £288 £223
25th Percentile £358 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £473 £509
90th Percentile £515 £525 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £18.29 £12.51 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.43 - £20.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.17% -33.14%
75th Percentile £26.99 £20.00 £25.26
90th Percentile £34.17 £27.77 £25.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 July 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 +4 4 £498 +62.45% 12
Northamptonshire -5 2 £313 -21.75% 4
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 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) React
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle