MySQL Contracts in Reading

MySQL
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 59 87 82
Rank change year-on-year +28 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.35% 2.15% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £404 £343
25th Percentile - £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.65% -22.73% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £463 £569
90th Percentile - £508 £582
Berkshire median daily rate £517 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +21.65% - -11.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.40% 15.60% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 116
10th Percentile £407 £353 £379
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £595
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.10
25th Percentile - £61.60 £61.75
Median hourly rate - £64.55 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.50% +235.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Reading

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Reading

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Reading

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft