MySQL Contracts in the Midlands

MySQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 100 101 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 -27
Contract jobs citing MySQL 11 32 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 1.16% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 7.69% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 17
10th Percentile £397 £264 £340
25th Percentile £470 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £358 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.36% -28.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £531 £488 £538
90th Percentile £550 £550 £603
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -58.62% +57.58% +102.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the Midlands

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the Midlands

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -4 7 £533 +48.74% 45
East Midlands +8 4 £495 +23.75% 18
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DBA
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) CakePHP
4 1 (9.09%) jQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Laravel
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Management
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Data Extraction
6 1 (9.09%) Data Security
6 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) OCP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) QRadar
1 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco