MySQL Contracts in Manchester

MySQL
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 60 70 75
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 19 26 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.05% 1.71% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.50% 10.04% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 29
10th Percentile £360 £325 £324
25th Percentile £399 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £453 £530 £550
90th Percentile £549 £573 £595
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -1.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £66.38 £40.68
25th Percentile - £66.56 £42.30
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £71.56 -
90th Percentile - £72.13 -
North West median hourly rate - £68.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +52.78% +38.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Manchester

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Manchester

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Manchester

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Manchester

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Serverless
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.53%) Slack
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (57.89%) MongoDB
3 10 (52.63%) NoSQL
4 6 (31.58%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (31.58%) RDBMS
4 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
5 3 (15.79%) Power BI
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.79%) Tableau
6 2 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) Jasmine
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.26%) Flyway
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) gulp
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Liquibase
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DBA
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Database Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) XML
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Batch
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Security
4 2 (10.53%) Swagger
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) Apache CXF
5 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.26%) MERN Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Mongoose
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) Shiny
5 1 (5.26%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Database Security
3 6 (31.58%) ETL
3 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (26.32%) Data Transformation
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) R
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) Databricks
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
3 3 (15.79%) Talend
4 2 (10.53%) Brio