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

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 72 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 10 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.01% 1.58% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.10% 9.82% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 24
10th Percentile £360 £385 £322
25th Percentile £413 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +6.51% -13.33%
75th Percentile £473 £530 £478
90th Percentile £475 £568 £584
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -1.11% +7.14% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - +70.45% +21.85%
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year - +70.45% +21.85%

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 164 224 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.62% 16.10% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 161 237
10th Percentile £323 £375 £325
25th Percentile £400 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £575
90th Percentile £612 £613 £675
North West median daily rate £449 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.53% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £22.15 £33.50
25th Percentile £76.25 £28.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £82.50 £47.50 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +73.68% +19.35% -22.34%
75th Percentile £88.75 £69.25 £57.75
90th Percentile - £70.85 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £44.74 £40.30
% change year-on-year -35.74% +11.03% -5.19%

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
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 1 (10.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Kong
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) Flyway
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) gulp
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DBA
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (20.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) Dropwizard
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (10.00%) MEAN Stack
4 1 (10.00%) MERN Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Mongoose
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Sequelize
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Database Security
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle