MySQL Contracts in the North West

MySQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 96 108 107
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing MySQL 24 29 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 1.05% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.10% 6.94% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 35
10th Percentile £347 £325 £322
25th Percentile £399 £388 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £536 £545 £533
90th Percentile £728 £573 £588
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +10 19 £445 -1.11% 58
Cheshire +2 4 £713 - 16
Lancashire - 1 - - 24
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Serverless
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) Slack
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (45.83%) NoSQL
4 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
5 6 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (25.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (16.67%) Power BI
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.67%) Tableau
7 3 (12.50%) Apache Hive
7 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
8 2 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
9 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.33%) Jasmine
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Flyway
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) gulp
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) DBA
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Database Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Kafka
2 6 (25.00%) JSON
2 6 (25.00%) XML
3 4 (16.67%) React
4 3 (12.50%) PySpark
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
4 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Batch
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Security
5 2 (8.33%) Swagger
6 1 (4.17%) CSS3
6 1 (4.17%) Express.js
6 1 (4.17%) HTML5
6 1 (4.17%) JAX-RS
6 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 7 (29.17%) ETL
5 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (25.00%) Database Security
6 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (20.83%) Data Transformation
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 4 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 3 (12.50%) Informatica
3 3 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (8.33%) Brio