MySQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

MySQL
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for MySQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MySQL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 128 135
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -29
Contract jobs citing MySQL 14 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.18% 5.10% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 15
10th Percentile £363 £313 £350
25th Percentile £381 £409 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +2.09% +8.24%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £534
90th Percentile - £569 £583
South East median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +16.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

MySQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 335 431 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.64% 15.14% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 289 411
10th Percentile £313 £330 £325
25th Percentile £400 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +10.99%
75th Percentile £625 £599 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £19.59 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £55.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +266.67% -65.52%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £65.50 £79.19 £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +144.44% -44.44%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -11 11 £425 - 11
Oxfordshire +11 3 £525 +14.75% 2
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
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) nginx
2 1 (7.14%) Drupal
2 1 (7.14%) Jadu
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
4 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
5 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (14.29%) DB2
7 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DBA
2 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) EDI
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) jQuery
2 1 (7.14%) LAMP
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Symfony
2 1 (7.14%) Twig
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Fat Client
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
1 4 (28.57%) Thin Client
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (14.29%) Android
5 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) People Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (28.57%) Nessus
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 4 (28.57%) WSUS
2 4 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Graylog
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) Nagios
3 2 (14.29%) PaperCut
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) SCCM
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (42.86%) Veeam
3 6 (42.86%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Aruba
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (14.29%) Sage
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) WatchGuard