MySQL Contracts in England

MySQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 274 261 272
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -77
Contract jobs citing MySQL 221 326 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.88% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.78% 5.23% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 240 334
10th Percentile £350 £313 £341
25th Percentile £404 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%
75th Percentile £562 £619 £602
90th Percentile £699 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £22.27 £25.25 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.39 £37.06 £36.00
Median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -58.62% +57.58% +102.93%
75th Percentile £31.99 £74.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.80 £77.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £28.45 £70.00 £44.32
% change year-on-year -59.36% +57.96% +106.12%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the England 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
London -34 94 £474 -11.86% 216
North of England +23 51 £447 -0.78% 144
South East +37 31 £408 -4.12% 116
North West +12 24 £445 -1.11% 89
Yorkshire +17 20 £414 -21.14% 35
Midlands +1 11 £503 +40.36% 69
South West +37 7 £650 +44.44% 48
North East 0 7 £465 - 24
West Midlands -4 7 £533 +48.74% 45
East of England +30 5 £438 -10.26% 49
East Midlands +8 4 £495 +23.75% 18
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (12.67%) Confluence
2 17 (7.69%) Apache
3 7 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.17%) CMS
4 6 (2.71%) WordPress
5 5 (2.26%) Drupal
5 5 (2.26%) IIS
6 4 (1.81%) Camunda
6 4 (1.81%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.36%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.90%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.90%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.45%) JBoss
9 1 (0.45%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) FileZilla
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) iTrent
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.45%) Shopify
1 1 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
1 1 (0.45%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.18%) AWS
2 41 (18.55%) Azure
3 21 (9.50%) GCP
4 19 (8.60%) Serverless
5 18 (8.14%) Amazon S3
5 18 (8.14%) Slack
6 14 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (5.88%) GitHub
8 11 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.98%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.26%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (2.26%) Kong
11 5 (2.26%) PaaS
12 4 (1.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 3 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.24%) HTTP
2 5 (2.26%) Firewall
2 5 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.26%) VoIP
3 4 (1.81%) Internet
3 4 (1.81%) VPN
4 3 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.36%) Skype
5 2 (0.90%) BGP
5 2 (0.90%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.90%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.90%) MPLS
5 2 (0.90%) MQTT
5 2 (0.90%) OSPF
5 2 (0.90%) SDH
6 1 (0.45%) FTP
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) VLAN
6 1 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (41.18%) MongoDB
3 46 (20.81%) Relational Database
4 43 (19.46%) SQL Server
5 29 (13.12%) NoSQL
6 26 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (4.98%) Redis
9 10 (4.52%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.52%) RDBMS
10 9 (4.07%) Apache Hive
10 9 (4.07%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.62%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (3.62%) Power BI
12 7 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.71%) Oracle Database
14 5 (2.26%) Big Data
15 4 (1.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (28.05%) Git
2 45 (20.36%) JIRA
3 29 (13.12%) JUnit
4 26 (11.76%) GitLab
5 20 (9.05%) Cucumber
5 20 (9.05%) Jenkins
6 19 (8.60%) Jasmine
7 13 (5.88%) Maven
8 6 (2.71%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.71%) Gradle
8 6 (2.71%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.71%) Subversion
9 5 (2.26%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.26%) gulp
9 5 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.81%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.81%) Mockito
10 4 (1.81%) TestNG
11 3 (1.36%) IntelliJ
General
1 63 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.05%) Finance
4 18 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.33%) Banking
6 5 (2.26%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.36%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.90%) Automotive
9 2 (0.90%) Korean Language
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Local Government
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (50.68%) Developer
2 36 (16.29%) Java Developer
3 31 (14.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (13.57%) Senior
5 21 (9.50%) Lead
5 21 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.69%) DBA
6 17 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (4.98%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) Lead Developer
8 11 (4.98%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.52%) PHP Developer
10 9 (4.07%) Lead Java Developer
10 9 (4.07%) React Developer
11 8 (3.62%) Architect
12 7 (3.17%) Analyst
12 7 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 7 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.53%) Spring
2 50 (22.62%) Spring Boot
3 49 (22.17%) React
4 43 (19.46%) RESTful
5 39 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 35 (15.84%) HTML
7 32 (14.48%) Kafka
8 27 (12.22%) .NET
9 26 (11.76%) REST
10 25 (11.31%) CSS
11 22 (9.95%) Node.js
11 22 (9.95%) Spring Security
12 21 (9.50%) Swagger
13 20 (9.05%) OpenAPI
13 20 (9.05%) Spring Batch
14 18 (8.14%) Vue
15 17 (7.69%) XML
16 16 (7.24%) Web Services
17 15 (6.79%) Hibernate
18 14 (6.33%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (4.07%) PKI
3 5 (2.26%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.26%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.26%) Replication
4 4 (1.81%) Clustering
4 4 (1.81%) Legacy Code
4 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.90%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.90%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 57 (25.79%) Linux
2 32 (14.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (8.60%) Windows
4 10 (4.52%) Unix
5 4 (1.81%) VMS
6 3 (1.36%) Android
6 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.36%) CentOS
7 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Solaris
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.13%) Agile
2 68 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 65 (29.41%) Microservices
4 58 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (19.91%) DevOps
6 42 (19.00%) Software Engineering
7 41 (18.55%) Containerisation
8 40 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (17.19%) TDD
10 29 (13.12%) High Availability
11 28 (12.67%) Test Automation
12 27 (12.22%) Mentoring
13 26 (11.76%) BDD
14 24 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (10.41%) OWASP
16 22 (9.95%) Continuous Delivery
17 21 (9.50%) ETL
17 21 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
18 20 (9.05%) API Design
18 20 (9.05%) OO
Programming Languages
1 85 (38.46%) SQL
2 82 (37.10%) Java
3 62 (28.05%) Python
4 53 (23.98%) JavaScript
5 38 (17.19%) PHP
6 26 (11.76%) Bash
7 13 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.52%) C#
9 8 (3.62%) Ruby
10 6 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.81%) Perl
11 4 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.36%) R
12 3 (1.36%) Rust
13 1 (0.45%) Dart
13 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.45%) Go
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.50%) Degree
4 17 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.81%) OCP
7 4 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.36%) PhD
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.43%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (26.24%) Docker
2 5 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.36%) KVM
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (22.62%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.31%) Terraform
3 12 (5.43%) Ansible
4 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.17%) Grafana
6 4 (1.81%) Puppet
7 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.36%) logstash
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (1.36%) QRadar
7 3 (1.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 2 (0.90%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.90%) Istio
8 2 (0.90%) Kibana
8 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.45%) Rancher
9 1 (0.45%) Salt
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (27.15%) Oracle
2 18 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.52%) Zend
4 9 (4.07%) Google
5 8 (3.62%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.17%) Cisco
6 7 (3.17%) Databricks
6 7 (3.17%) Talend
7 5 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.26%) Informatica
8 4 (1.81%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.36%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.36%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.36%) Sybase
9 3 (1.36%) VMware
10 2 (0.90%) Brio
10 2 (0.90%) EMC
10 2 (0.90%) IBM
10 2 (0.90%) Sun