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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 80 119
Rank change year-on-year -46 +39 +4
Contract jobs citing MySQL 12 52 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 1.96% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.09% 11.90% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 23
10th Percentile £313 £328 £330
25th Percentile £380 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £358 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.97% -28.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £521 £450 £530
90th Percentile £563 £603 £536
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%

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 388 437 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.77% 16.44% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 308 347
10th Percentile £275 £310 £302
25th Percentile £380 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -11.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £576
90th Percentile £613 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £17.62 £20.69 £24.19
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.73 £24.47
Median hourly rate £23.00 £33.93 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year -32.21% +20.55% -19.59%
75th Percentile £33.88 £40.50 £32.05
90th Percentile £35.78 £47.34 £33.87
England median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +35.04%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
East Midlands -3 8 £498 +20.61% 19
West Midlands -45 4 £433 +20.81% 22
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 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 4 (33.33%) React
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (41.67%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 1 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (8.33%) Database Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (8.33%) Fintech
6 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) PHP
5 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) OCP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft