MySQL Contracts in Leeds

MySQL
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 46 55 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 14 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.01% 1.00% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.86% 6.20% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile £380 - £485
25th Percentile £418 £313 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +17.14%
75th Percentile £778 £579 £563
90th Percentile £788 £587 £629
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £559
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.04% +27.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.72% 16.15% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Slack
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (71.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (71.43%) MongoDB
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Cucumber
1 8 (57.14%) Jasmine
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
1 8 (57.14%) JUnit
2 7 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) Java Developer
2 9 (64.29%) Senior
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Developer
3 8 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (21.43%) React Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Spring
1 10 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 9 (64.29%) Spring Security
3 8 (57.14%) RESTful
3 8 (57.14%) Spring Batch
4 7 (50.00%) Swagger
5 6 (42.86%) OpenAPI
6 3 (21.43%) .NET
6 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (21.43%) Laravel
6 3 (21.43%) React
6 3 (21.43%) React Native
6 3 (21.43%) Vue
6 3 (21.43%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Android
2 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) BDD
1 13 (92.86%) TDD
2 12 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 11 (78.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
4 9 (64.29%) Microservices
4 9 (64.29%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (50.00%) API Design
5 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (50.00%) OWASP
5 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (42.86%) Coaching
6 6 (42.86%) High Availability
6 6 (42.86%) Operational Stability
7 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
9 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Bash
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat