MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 260 191
Rank change year-on-year +4 -69 -7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 416 610 1,353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.02% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 5.66% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 427 985
10th Percentile £313 £361 £365
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.49% +6.88%
75th Percentile £611 £622 £625
90th Percentile £689 £730 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 11
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £55.69 £36.90 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £44.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.96% +106.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £73.13 £56.56 £28.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.13 £46.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% +102.33% +7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +24 323 £493 -3.33% 375
London +48 172 £538 -1.01% 119
UK excluding London +5 172 £478 -4.50% 275
Work from Home +8 168 £475 -5.00% 224
North of England -1 48 £450 -7.22% 90
South East +11 40 £425 -9.50% 46
Wales +42 29 £540 +8.00% 6
North West -8 29 £450 +2.86% 43
Midlands +24 27 £358 -28.40% 52
West Midlands +32 19 £358 -29.28% 33
South West +11 16 £450 -16.28% 45
Yorkshire +7 12 £525 -2.10% 32
Scotland -2 8 £538 -5.37% 11
North East +22 7 - - 15
East Midlands +21 7 £450 +9.09% 19
East of England +4 5 £488 +8.33% 28

MySQL
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 19 (4.57%) Apache
2 13 (3.13%) Confluence
3 12 (2.88%) Drupal
4 10 (2.40%) Apache Solr
4 10 (2.40%) nginx
5 7 (1.68%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.20%) WordPress
7 4 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.96%) IIS
7 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.96%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.72%) Moodle
8 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.48%) CMS
9 2 (0.48%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.48%) Jadu
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.96%) Magento
2 4 (0.96%) Shopify
3 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.48%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 129 (31.01%) AWS
2 116 (27.88%) Azure
3 81 (19.47%) GitHub
4 26 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (6.25%) GCP
5 22 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 19 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (4.33%) Serverless
9 16 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.16%) SaaS
12 8 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.92%) WhatsApp
13 7 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.68%) IaaS
14 6 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.85%) DNS
2 15 (3.61%) Firewall
2 15 (3.61%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.40%) SAN
4 9 (2.16%) DHCP
4 9 (2.16%) VPN
5 6 (1.44%) HTTP
5 6 (1.44%) NAS
6 5 (1.20%) Diameter Protocol
6 5 (1.20%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.20%) WAN
7 4 (0.96%) 5G
7 4 (0.96%) IPsec
7 4 (0.96%) LTE
7 4 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.96%) SSH
8 3 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (28.61%) SQL Server
2 107 (25.72%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (15.87%) Relational Database
4 48 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 37 (8.89%) NoSQL
6 32 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
7 24 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (5.53%) RDBMS
9 22 (5.29%) MariaDB
10 20 (4.81%) Power BI
11 19 (4.57%) Oracle Database
12 18 (4.33%) Redis
13 17 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (2.88%) DynamoDB
17 10 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (14.18%) Git
2 30 (7.21%) GitLab
3 25 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.05%) JIRA
5 16 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.40%) Postman
6 10 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.92%) Maven
8 8 (1.92%) Selenium
9 7 (1.68%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.68%) ERwin
10 6 (1.44%) AppScan
11 5 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.20%) JMeter
11 5 (1.20%) JUnit
11 5 (1.20%) Subversion
12 4 (0.96%) LoadRunner
General
1 79 (18.99%) Finance
2 74 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 30 (7.21%) Banking
4 23 (5.53%) Financial Institution
4 23 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.33%) Retail
7 11 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.68%) Legal
9 6 (1.44%) Marketing
9 6 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.20%) Advertising
10 5 (1.20%) French Language
11 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.72%) German Language
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.72%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.72%) Korean Language
12 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 160 (38.46%) Developer
2 43 (10.34%) DBA
3 36 (8.65%) Full Stack Developer
4 30 (7.21%) PHP Developer
5 29 (6.97%) Senior
6 25 (6.01%) Software Engineer
7 23 (5.53%) Support Engineer
8 21 (5.05%) Architect
8 21 (5.05%) MySQL DBA
9 19 (4.57%) Administrator
10 18 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (4.33%) Oracle DBA
10 18 (4.33%) SailPoint Developer
11 17 (4.09%) Lead
12 15 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 15 (3.61%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.37%) SailPoint Engineer
13 14 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Site Engineer
15 12 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.99%) HTML
2 56 (13.46%) React
3 51 (12.26%) CSS
4 49 (11.78%) SOAP
4 49 (11.78%) Web Services
5 44 (10.58%) LDAP
6 43 (10.34%) XML
7 37 (8.89%) RESTful
8 35 (8.41%) SailPoint
9 33 (7.93%) Laravel
9 33 (7.93%) Servlets
10 32 (7.69%) JSP
10 32 (7.69%) SPML
10 32 (7.69%) Vue
11 31 (7.45%) AngularJS
11 31 (7.45%) JDBC
11 31 (7.45%) Node.js
11 31 (7.45%) Spring
12 29 (6.97%) .NET
12 29 (6.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.10%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.57%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.68%) Clustering
7 7 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.68%) PKI
8 6 (1.44%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.44%) Replication
8 6 (1.44%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.96%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.96%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.72%) CCTV
11 3 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 109 (26.20%) Linux
2 50 (12.02%) Windows
3 20 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.09%) Unix
6 11 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (2.16%) CentOS
8 7 (1.68%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.44%) Android
10 5 (1.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.96%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (29.81%) Agile
2 93 (22.36%) DevOps
3 64 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
4 62 (14.90%) CI/CD
5 55 (13.22%) Software Engineering
6 53 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (11.06%) Migration
7 46 (11.06%) Scrum
8 45 (10.82%) Containerisation
9 44 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 35 (8.41%) Microservices
11 35 (8.41%) SDLC
12 34 (8.17%) Analytics
13 33 (7.93%) Configuration Management
14 31 (7.45%) ETL
14 31 (7.45%) Project Management
15 28 (6.73%) RBAC
16 22 (5.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 131 (31.49%) SQL
2 126 (30.29%) JavaScript
3 118 (28.37%) Java
4 107 (25.72%) PHP
5 73 (17.55%) Python
6 38 (9.13%) Bash
7 31 (7.45%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.25%) Go
8 26 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.29%) Ruby
10 21 (5.05%) C#
11 15 (3.61%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.13%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.64%) Perl
14 7 (1.68%) C++
15 6 (1.44%) Rust
16 5 (1.20%) C
16 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.82%) Degree
3 40 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.96%) SANS
7 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) CISSP
8 2 (0.48%) MCITP
8 2 (0.48%) MCSE
8 2 (0.48%) MCTS
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) CEH
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) GCIA
9 1 (0.24%) GSEC
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.50%) QA
2 14 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.88%) GDPR
4 9 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.20%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) COPPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (15.63%) Docker
2 47 (11.30%) Active Directory
3 33 (7.93%) IAG
4 28 (6.73%) ACF2
4 28 (6.73%) RACF
5 9 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.44%) vSphere
7 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) KVM
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) Ceph
9 1 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.24%) iptables
9 1 (0.24%) Lustre
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (14.66%) Ansible
1 61 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.18%) Terraform
3 48 (11.54%) Grafana
4 24 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.05%) Puppet
6 16 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.37%) Graylog
8 12 (2.88%) Argo
8 12 (2.88%) Nagios
9 10 (2.40%) Nessus
10 9 (2.16%) HP Fortify
11 8 (1.92%) Data Guard
12 6 (1.44%) Packer
12 6 (1.44%) WebInspect
13 5 (1.20%) Kibana
13 5 (1.20%) vRealize
14 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 127 (30.53%) Oracle
2 66 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 35 (8.41%) Sybase
5 27 (6.49%) Splunk
6 23 (5.53%) VMware
7 22 (5.29%) Red Hat
8 21 (5.05%) Google
9 19 (4.57%) Salesforce
10 16 (3.85%) Atlassian
11 12 (2.88%) Denodo
11 12 (2.88%) Talend
12 11 (2.64%) SAP
13 8 (1.92%) Adobe
13 8 (1.92%) Informatica
14 7 (1.68%) Checkmarx
14 7 (1.68%) IBM
14 7 (1.68%) Veeam
15 6 (1.44%) Veracode
16 5 (1.20%) Arqiva