MySQL Contracts in the South West

MySQL
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 148 136
Rank change year-on-year +41 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 11 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.89% 3.29% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 18
10th Percentile £483 £321 -
25th Percentile £518 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% -6.58% -
75th Percentile £625 £572 £575
90th Percentile £650 £683 £738
England median daily rate £465 £463 £496
% change year-on-year +0.54% -6.80% -5.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 225 365 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.25% 11.18% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 260 306
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £383 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £606 £600 £636
90th Percentile £675 £675 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 26
10th Percentile £25.23 - £19.38
25th Percentile £65.31 £17.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -39.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the South West

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the South West

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South West over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the South West

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the South West

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Wiltshire +41 9 £550 +57.14% 4
Bristol +11 1 £515 +16.06% 13
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 8
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (18.18%) Alfresco
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Camunda
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (9.09%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) JPA
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
1 2 (18.18%) LAMP
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
1 2 (18.18%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Fabric
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) SOLID
3 2 (18.18%) Sprint Review
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (9.09%) VB
3 1 (9.09%) VB.NET
3 1 (9.09%) VB6
3 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
2 2 (18.18%) Talend
3 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat