MySQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 229 180
Rank change year-on-year +12 -49 -36
Contract jobs citing MySQL 181 244 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.05% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.07% 6.84% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 161 304
10th Percentile £323 £338 £325
25th Percentile £358 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £639 £638 £592
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £25.25 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.61% +84.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £74.38 £57.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £24.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,561 3,566 5,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.60% 15.31% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 2,552 3,860
10th Percentile £314 £335 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.31%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 113 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.39 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £31.69 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +43.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
North of England +10 51 £463 +8.82% 82
South East -2 39 £413 -15.38% 55
Midlands +34 36 £358 -28.40% 58
West Midlands +35 31 £358 -30.15% 36
North West +21 30 £450 +12.50% 47
Wales +42 24 £545 -16.15% 5
South West 0 16 £450 -18.18% 45
Yorkshire +10 14 £550 +0.46% 22
Scotland +7 12 £488 -11.27% 12
North East +15 7 - - 13
East Midlands +17 5 £300 -36.84% 22
East of England 0 4 £475 +5.56% 26
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 12 (6.63%) Apache
2 9 (4.97%) Drupal
3 6 (3.31%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.76%) Confluence
5 4 (2.21%) nginx
5 4 (2.21%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.66%) Moodle
7 2 (1.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Jadu
8 1 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.10%) Magento
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.55%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.49%) AWS
2 52 (28.73%) Azure
3 24 (13.26%) GitHub
4 16 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (8.29%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.73%) GCP
7 13 (7.18%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.97%) Serverless
10 8 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.87%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.76%) IaaS
12 5 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (1.66%) Boomi
13 3 (1.66%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.97%) DNS
3 7 (3.87%) Firewall
3 7 (3.87%) VPN
4 5 (2.76%) SAN
5 4 (2.21%) 5G
5 4 (2.21%) DHCP
5 4 (2.21%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.21%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.21%) IPsec
5 4 (2.21%) LTE
5 4 (2.21%) NAS
5 4 (2.21%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.66%) HTTP
7 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (19.34%) Relational Database
3 31 (17.13%) SQL Server
4 22 (12.15%) MongoDB
5 19 (10.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (8.29%) Power BI
6 15 (8.29%) RDBMS
7 14 (7.73%) MariaDB
8 13 (7.18%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.31%) Couchbase
13 5 (2.76%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
14 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
14 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (24.31%) Git
2 19 (10.50%) GitLab
3 11 (6.08%) Cypress.io
3 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.97%) JIRA
4 9 (4.97%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.42%) Postman
6 6 (3.31%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.76%) AppScan
7 5 (2.76%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.76%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.76%) Selenium
8 4 (2.21%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.66%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.10%) Gradle
10 2 (1.10%) Maven
10 2 (1.10%) Subversion
11 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 32 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.60%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.97%) Finance
4 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.31%) Retail
5 5 (2.76%) Banking
6 4 (2.21%) Advertising
6 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.21%) Legal
7 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) German Language
8 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (37.02%) Developer
2 18 (9.94%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (8.29%) PHP Developer
4 12 (6.63%) DBA
4 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
5 11 (6.08%) Senior
6 9 (4.97%) Data Engineer
6 9 (4.97%) Drupal Developer
6 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (4.42%) Site Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Administrator
8 7 (3.87%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 6 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Full Stack Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Migration Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.92%) HTML
2 26 (14.36%) CSS
3 25 (13.81%) React
4 17 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (9.39%) Laravel
5 16 (8.84%) RESTful
6 15 (8.29%) Node.js
6 15 (8.29%) Vue
7 13 (7.18%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.08%) .NET
8 11 (6.08%) JSON
9 10 (5.52%) XML
10 7 (3.87%) REST
10 7 (3.87%) Sass
11 6 (3.31%) Web Services
11 6 (3.31%) XSLT
12 5 (2.76%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.76%) LAMP
12 5 (2.76%) LDAP
12 5 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.76%) Fat Client
4 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.76%) Thin Client
5 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.21%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.21%) PKI
6 3 (1.66%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.66%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.55%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 59 (32.60%) Linux
2 18 (9.94%) Windows
3 9 (4.97%) Unix
4 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.76%) VMS
7 4 (2.21%) CentOS
7 4 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.66%) Android
8 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (42.54%) Agile
2 44 (24.31%) CI/CD
3 41 (22.65%) DevOps
4 35 (19.34%) Scrum
5 33 (18.23%) Continuous Integration
5 33 (18.23%) Software Engineering
6 32 (17.68%) Full Stack Development
7 30 (16.57%) Analytics
8 28 (15.47%) Configuration Management
9 26 (14.36%) ETL
9 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (12.71%) Containerisation
11 22 (12.15%) Data Analytics
12 21 (11.60%) SDLC
13 20 (11.05%) Migration
14 19 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.50%) Project Management
15 18 (9.94%) Data Extraction
15 18 (9.94%) Test Strategy
16 17 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.60%) PHP
2 55 (30.39%) JavaScript
3 52 (28.73%) SQL
4 33 (18.23%) Java
4 33 (18.23%) Python
5 23 (12.71%) Bash
6 18 (9.94%) C#
7 14 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 12 (6.63%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.31%) Go
11 5 (2.76%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (2.21%) Scala
12 4 (2.21%) VB
13 3 (1.66%) Perl
14 2 (1.10%) Groovy
14 2 (1.10%) Ruby
15 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.05%) Degree
4 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.66%) PMP
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) SANS
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) OCP
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) QA
2 7 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.21%) GDPR
3 4 (2.21%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.21%) NIST
4 3 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.66%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (14.92%) Docker
2 10 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.76%) vSphere
5 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.10%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.55%) HDFS
7 1 (0.55%) IAG
Systems Management
1 38 (20.99%) Ansible
1 38 (20.99%) Terraform
2 37 (20.44%) Grafana
3 32 (17.68%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.84%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.08%) Graylog
6 9 (4.97%) Nagios
6 9 (4.97%) Nessus
7 8 (4.42%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.42%) Puppet
8 7 (3.87%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.76%) Argo
9 5 (2.76%) Packer
9 5 (2.76%) vRealize
9 5 (2.76%) WebInspect
10 4 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.21%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.21%) WSUS
10 4 (2.21%) yum
10 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (20.99%) Oracle
2 36 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.39%) Denodo
3 17 (9.39%) Talend
4 16 (8.84%) VMware
5 15 (8.29%) Splunk
6 14 (7.73%) Google
7 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.31%) Checkmarx
8 6 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.31%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.76%) Arqiva
9 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.76%) Veracode
9 5 (2.76%) Veritas
10 4 (2.21%) Informatica
10 4 (2.21%) SAP
10 4 (2.21%) Veeam
11 2 (1.10%) Adobe
11 2 (1.10%) Dell