MySQL Contracts in the North East

MySQL
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 31 31 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.19% 2.07% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.07% 17.07% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £456 - £383
25th Percentile £457 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.98%
75th Percentile £474 - £473
90th Percentile £478 - £489
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 41 41 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.81% 12.13% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 63
10th Percentile £358 £404 £414
25th Percentile £400 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £476 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -17.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £700
90th Percentile £665 £678 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the North East

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the North East

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the North East

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -5 7 £465 - 20
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (28.57%) OpenEdge
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Kong
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Lightsail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) gulp
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) SonarQube
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
2 4 (57.14%) Apache CXF
2 4 (57.14%) Dropwizard
2 4 (57.14%) Express.js
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (57.14%) JAX-RS
2 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (57.14%) MERN Stack
2 4 (57.14%) Mongoose
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Sequelize
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
1 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft