Percona Contract Job Trends

Percona
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Percona products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Percona over the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Percona, Inc.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 548 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Percona 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Percona falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,086 16,497 21,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.90% 45.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 9,710 13,557
10th Percentile £288 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 888 529 681
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.65
25th Percentile £18.26 £18.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.87 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.88 £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.41% -38.54% +97.78%

Percona
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Percona relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Percona job vacancy trend in the UK

Percona
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Percona.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Percona

Percona
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Percona within the UK over the 6 months to 22 November 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
London - 2 - - 2
England - 2 - - 2
Work from Home +2 1 - -

Percona
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Geofencing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) QA