MySQL Contracts in the North of England

MySQL
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 115 138 141
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 -32
Contract jobs citing MySQL 51 47 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.55% 0.99% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.78% 6.73% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 53
10th Percentile £343 £313 £309
25th Percentile £383 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -7.69% +11.43%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £570
90th Percentile £738 £579 £585
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%
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 -
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the North of England

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the North of England

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the North of England

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the North of England

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +12 24 £445 -1.11% 89
Yorkshire +17 20 £414 -21.14% 35
North East 0 7 £465 - 24
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (19.61%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) OpenEdge
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) CMS
3 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 10 (19.61%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) Slack
4 8 (15.69%) Serverless
5 7 (13.73%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 5 (9.80%) GitHub
7 5 (9.80%) Kong
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon Lightsail
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) VLAN
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (64.71%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (56.86%) MongoDB
3 16 (31.37%) NoSQL
4 13 (25.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
6 10 (19.61%) Relational Database
7 6 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (7.84%) Power BI
8 4 (7.84%) Tableau
9 3 (5.88%) Apache Hive
9 3 (5.88%) Hadoop
10 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 13 (25.49%) JIRA
3 10 (19.61%) Cucumber
3 10 (19.61%) Jasmine
3 10 (19.61%) JUnit
4 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (11.76%) GitLab
6 5 (9.80%) Artifactory
6 5 (9.80%) gulp
6 5 (9.80%) Maven
6 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.96%) Flyway
8 1 (1.96%) Liquibase
General
1 16 (31.37%) Public Sector
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Finance
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (58.82%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Java Developer
3 12 (23.53%) Senior
4 11 (21.57%) Senior Developer
5 10 (19.61%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Data Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) DBA
7 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 4 (7.84%) React Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Database Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Power Platform Developer
9 2 (3.92%) QA Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) Spring
2 18 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 16 (31.37%) React
4 12 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 12 (23.53%) RESTful
5 11 (21.57%) Kafka
5 11 (21.57%) Spring Security
6 10 (19.61%) Spring Batch
7 9 (17.65%) Swagger
8 8 (15.69%) Node.js
8 8 (15.69%) OpenAPI
9 6 (11.76%) .NET
9 6 (11.76%) JSON
9 6 (11.76%) XML
10 5 (9.80%) Apache CXF
10 5 (9.80%) Express.js
10 5 (9.80%) Hibernate
10 5 (9.80%) JAX-RS
10 5 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (9.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.96%) IoT
3 1 (1.96%) NHS
3 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 13 (25.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Android
3 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.92%) Windows
5 1 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Microservices
2 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (31.37%) TDD
3 15 (29.41%) BDD
3 15 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 14 (27.45%) Mentoring
5 13 (25.49%) Continuous Delivery
5 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
6 12 (23.53%) Agile
6 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 11 (21.57%) DevOps
7 11 (21.57%) Operational Stability
8 10 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (19.61%) OWASP
8 10 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (17.65%) API Design
9 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (17.65%) Kernel Tuning
10 8 (15.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 22 (43.14%) Java
3 13 (25.49%) Bash
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.61%) Python
6 8 (15.69%) PHP
7 2 (3.92%) Ruby
8 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) R
8 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Databricks
3 3 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 3 (5.88%) Informatica
3 3 (5.88%) Talend
4 2 (3.92%) Brio
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat