MySQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

MySQL
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 88 131 130
Rank change year-on-year +43 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing MySQL 14 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.52% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.03% 4.11% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 15
10th Percentile £286 £363 £303
25th Percentile £376 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -9.50% +6.13%
75th Percentile £535 £538 £519
90th Percentile £596 - £558
South East median daily rate £408 £425 £470
% change year-on-year -4.12% -9.50% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - -
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £75.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -70.80% +108.33% +67.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 8 £517 +21.65% 15
Buckinghamshire - 5 £286 - 12
Oxfordshire +3 1 - - 20
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
5 2 (14.29%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
2 2 (14.29%) MQTT
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (42.86%) Relational Database
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) Apache Hive
5 2 (14.29%) Big Data
5 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 2 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (14.29%) OLAP
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (14.29%) Spark SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) DBeaver
2 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) Django
2 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
2 3 (21.43%) Flask
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) PostGIS
3 2 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) Blazor
4 1 (7.14%) JSP
4 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Infotainment
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ETL
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Asynchronous Programming
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) Microservices
2 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
3 2 (14.29%) API Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (14.29%) Telematics
3 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft