MySQL Contracts in the South East

MySQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 158 152
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 32 39 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 0.71% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.96% 6.45% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 35
10th Percentile £300 - £400
25th Percentile £344 £325 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -21.95% +2.50%
75th Percentile £468 £438 £569
90th Percentile £559 £542 £589
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £66.50 -
25th Percentile £20.85 £68.75 -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £75.00 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -70.80% +238.45% +3.07%
75th Percentile £22.95 £78.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £79.50 £61.25
England median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £46.05
% change year-on-year -58.62% +49.29% +114.19%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 402 605 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.79% 11.06% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 371 581
10th Percentile £321 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £583 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 42
10th Percentile £14.01 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £22.84 £22.61 £26.12
Median hourly rate £29.91 £58.91 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% +4.72% +150.00%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.37 £74.69
90th Percentile £64.43 £80.00 £75.68
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -19.88% -31.09% +28.99%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +39 15 £463 +15.75% 256
Hampshire +20 14 £389 +11.07% 104
Berkshire +29 9 £491 +19.03% 119
Buckinghamshire - 5 £286 - 68
Surrey +12 3 £350 -17.65% 63
Oxfordshire +1 1 - - 72
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 7 (21.88%) Apache
2 5 (15.63%) Confluence
3 4 (12.50%) CMS
3 4 (12.50%) Drupal
3 4 (12.50%) WordPress
4 3 (9.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) dbt
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.13%) Miro
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Internet
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.38%) HTTP
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Relational Database
2 14 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (40.63%) MongoDB
4 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.50%) Redis
6 3 (9.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
7 2 (6.25%) Big Data
7 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
7 2 (6.25%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (6.25%) OLAP
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle OLAP
7 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Subversion
3 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.25%) Codeception
4 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.13%) DBeaver
5 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Automotive
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Korean Language
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Military
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.63%) PHP Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Python Developer
4 4 (12.50%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Big Data Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 2 (6.25%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Hadoop Developer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Support
6 2 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Web Services
2 9 (28.13%) REST
3 8 (25.00%) React
4 7 (21.88%) Laravel
4 7 (21.88%) RESTful
5 6 (18.75%) CSS
5 6 (18.75%) HTML
5 6 (18.75%) Kafka
5 6 (18.75%) LAMP
5 6 (18.75%) SOAP
6 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (15.63%) Phalcon
7 4 (12.50%) .NET
7 4 (12.50%) Ajax
7 4 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 4 (12.50%) jQuery
7 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.50%) Symfony
7 4 (12.50%) Vue
7 4 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.25%) Infotainment
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) MVC
2 11 (34.38%) OO
3 9 (28.13%) Microservices
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (28.13%) Scrum
4 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (18.75%) OO PHP
6 6 (18.75%) SDLC
7 5 (15.63%) API Development
7 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
7 5 (15.63%) ETL
7 5 (15.63%) Kanban
7 5 (15.63%) Secure Coding
7 5 (15.63%) Systems Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) TDD
8 4 (12.50%) OWASP
8 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) PHP
2 11 (34.38%) Java
2 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 10 (31.25%) Python
4 8 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) Rust
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) OCP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Zend
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) IBM
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Google