MySQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 209 229 231
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 -48
Contract jobs citing MySQL 127 176 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 0.85% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.29% 6.78% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 129 168
10th Percentile £327 £325 £334
25th Percentile £396 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £721 £639 £641
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile £22.27 £25.25 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.39 £37.06 £29.08
Median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.62% +58.05% +102.33%
75th Percentile £31.99 £74.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £33.80 £77.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £28.45 £70.00 £44.32
% change year-on-year -59.36% +57.96% +106.12%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +23 51 £447 -0.78% 144
South East +37 31 £408 -4.12% 116
North West +12 24 £445 -1.11% 89
Yorkshire +17 20 £414 -21.14% 35
Scotland +24 19 £518 -3.67% 15
Midlands +1 11 £503 +40.36% 69
South West +37 7 £650 +44.44% 48
North East 0 7 £465 - 24
West Midlands -4 7 £533 +48.74% 45
East of England +30 5 £438 -10.26% 49
East Midlands +8 4 £495 +23.75% 18
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 8
Wales -25 1 £238 -56.02% 12
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (12.60%) Confluence
2 9 (7.09%) Apache
3 5 (3.94%) CMS
3 5 (3.94%) WordPress
4 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.15%) Drupal
5 3 (2.36%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.57%) IIS
6 2 (1.57%) OpenEdge
6 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.09%) AWS
2 25 (19.69%) Azure
3 13 (10.24%) Serverless
4 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.87%) GitHub
6 9 (7.09%) Slack
7 7 (5.51%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.72%) GCP
9 5 (3.94%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (3.94%) Kong
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (3.15%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.36%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.36%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.36%) Route 53
12 2 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.30%) HTTP
2 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.15%) Internet
4 3 (2.36%) Firewall
5 2 (1.57%) MQTT
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.79%) LAN
6 1 (0.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (49.61%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (37.01%) MongoDB
3 34 (26.77%) Relational Database
4 26 (20.47%) SQL Server
5 20 (15.75%) NoSQL
6 16 (12.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (7.87%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (7.09%) MariaDB
8 9 (7.09%) RDBMS
9 7 (5.51%) Power BI
10 6 (4.72%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (4.72%) Redis
11 5 (3.94%) Apache Hive
11 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.94%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.94%) Tableau
12 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (30.71%) Git
2 25 (19.69%) JIRA
3 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 11 (8.66%) GitLab
5 10 (7.87%) Cucumber
5 10 (7.87%) Jasmine
5 10 (7.87%) JUnit
6 6 (4.72%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.94%) Artifactory
7 5 (3.94%) gulp
7 5 (3.94%) Maven
7 5 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.94%) Subversion
8 4 (3.15%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.15%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.36%) webpack
10 2 (1.57%) Ant
10 2 (1.57%) Codeception
11 1 (0.79%) Liquibase
General
1 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.41%) Public Sector
3 16 (12.60%) Finance
4 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.66%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.57%) Automotive
6 2 (1.57%) Korean Language
6 2 (1.57%) Retail
7 1 (0.79%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Local Government
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Military
7 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (48.03%) Developer
2 18 (14.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (12.60%) Java Developer
4 15 (11.81%) Senior
4 15 (11.81%) Software Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.66%) DBA
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (7.09%) Lead
9 7 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) PHP Developer
10 6 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 5 (3.94%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.94%) React Developer
12 4 (3.15%) Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) Architect
12 4 (3.15%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.15%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.41%) Spring
2 30 (23.62%) React
2 30 (23.62%) Spring Boot
3 25 (19.69%) RESTful
4 19 (14.96%) Kafka
5 18 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 16 (12.60%) .NET
6 16 (12.60%) REST
7 14 (11.02%) Node.js
8 13 (10.24%) HTML
8 13 (10.24%) JSON
9 12 (9.45%) CSS
10 11 (8.66%) Spring Security
10 11 (8.66%) Vue
10 11 (8.66%) XML
11 10 (7.87%) Laravel
11 10 (7.87%) Spring Batch
11 10 (7.87%) Swagger
11 10 (7.87%) Web Services
12 9 (7.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Public Cloud
2 8 (6.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.15%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.57%) Infotainment
5 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) NHS
6 1 (0.79%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.56%) Linux
2 16 (12.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.94%) Windows
4 4 (3.15%) Unix
5 3 (2.36%) Android
5 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.43%) Microservices
2 40 (31.50%) CI/CD
3 38 (29.92%) Agile
4 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (24.41%) Software Engineering
6 29 (22.83%) TDD
7 26 (20.47%) Mentoring
8 25 (19.69%) DevOps
9 22 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (14.17%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (12.60%) ETL
12 15 (11.81%) BDD
12 15 (11.81%) OWASP
12 15 (11.81%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.02%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.02%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (11.02%) Scrum
14 12 (9.45%) OO
15 11 (8.66%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (8.66%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.58%) SQL
2 48 (37.80%) Java
3 40 (31.50%) JavaScript
4 32 (25.20%) Python
5 28 (22.05%) PHP
6 18 (14.17%) Bash
7 16 (12.60%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.51%) C#
8 7 (5.51%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.57%) Bicep
11 2 (1.57%) Perl
11 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.79%) R
12 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.36%) OCP
6 3 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.79%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.94%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.79%) NCSC
3 1 (0.79%) NIST
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (18.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.32%) Terraform
3 4 (3.15%) Ansible
3 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.36%) Grafana
5 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.79%) logstash
6 1 (0.79%) Packer
6 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.79%) Puppet
6 1 (0.79%) QRadar
6 1 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 36 (28.35%) Oracle
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.87%) Zend
4 5 (3.94%) Databricks
5 3 (2.36%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.36%) Informatica
5 3 (2.36%) Talend
6 2 (1.57%) Brio
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco
6 2 (1.57%) IBM
6 2 (1.57%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.57%) SAP
6 2 (1.57%) VMware
7 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.79%) Google
7 1 (0.79%) Jaspersoft