MariaDB Contracts

MariaDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MariaDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MariaDB over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 564 633
Rank change year-on-year +64 +69 +115
Contract jobs citing MariaDB 19 36 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.083% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 0.49% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 44
10th Percentile £355 £351 £366
25th Percentile £420 £462 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £584
90th Percentile £716 £653 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile - £22.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate - £24.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.00% -
75th Percentile - £26.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -65.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MariaDB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

MariaDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MariaDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MariaDB.

Daily rate trend for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MariaDB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MariaDB.

Hourly rate trend for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MariaDB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +47 13 £500 - 13
England +46 10 £420 -16.00% 18
Scotland +12 9 £525 +5.42% 1
Work from Home +37 8 £518 +3.55% 27
London +30 6 £525 -8.70% 5
South East +37 3 £400 -20.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £420 -
Midlands - 1 £420 - 3

MariaDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) SSH
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) MySQL
2 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.53%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.53%) Power Query
4 2 (10.53%) Redis
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Gatling
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.26%) ScalaTest
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) DBA
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) SQL DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) Redux
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) YAML
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) CSS3
4 1 (5.26%) HTML5
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) JSP
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.53%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) CentOS
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) SUSE
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Microservices
3 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
3 4 (21.05%) High Availability
3 4 (21.05%) Service Management
3 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (15.79%) Release Management
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Database Security
5 2 (10.53%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (10.53%) Log Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Bash
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Progress Chef
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy