MySQL DBA Contracts

MySQL Database Administrator
UK

The median MySQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 709 826
Rank change year-on-year +144 +117 -162
Contract jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 21 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.023% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 5
10th Percentile £425 £411 £343
25th Percentile £544 £428 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -13.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £672 - £600
90th Percentile £850 - £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £469
% change year-on-year - - +3.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

MySQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured MySQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL DBA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +129 13 £588 +42.42%
London +114 12 £588 +42.42%
Work from Home +125 9 £713 +50.00%
UK excluding London - 5 £600 -
Wales - 4 £622 -
North West - 1 £375 -
North of England - 1 £375 -

MySQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, MySQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring MySQL DBA in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) MySQL
2 14 (66.67%) Linux
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 13 (61.90%) Oracle
4 12 (57.14%) Oracle Database
5 9 (42.86%) SQL
6 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
6 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (38.10%) Ansible
6 8 (38.10%) AWS
7 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (33.33%) Data Guard
7 7 (33.33%) Banking
7 7 (33.33%) Finance
7 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
8 5 (23.81%) Windows
9 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
9 4 (19.05%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
9 4 (19.05%) Java
9 4 (19.05%) QA
9 4 (19.05%) DevOps
9 4 (19.05%) JPA
9 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
9 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
9 4 (19.05%) Terraform
10 3 (14.29%) Grafana
10 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
10 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring

MySQL DBA Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (100.00%) MySQL
2 12 (57.14%) Oracle Database
3 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
6 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
7 1 (4.76%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (33.33%) Banking
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
1 4 (19.05%) JPA
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
2 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Credit Derivative
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Derivative
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (14.29%) Change Control
2 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (9.52%) High Availability
3 2 (9.52%) Release Management
4 1 (4.76%) Agile
4 1 (4.76%) Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.76%) Open Source
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 4 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Nagios
5 2 (9.52%) Graylog
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle
2 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk