MySQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 182 194
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 109 169 330
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 1.10% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 5.81% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 124 232
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £430 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £588 £597
90th Percentile £636 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £66.63 -
25th Percentile - £67.19 £22.16
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £37.80
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +85.19% +75.81%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £43.53
90th Percentile - - £46.67
UK median hourly rate £28.45 £70.00 £44.32
% change year-on-year -59.36% +57.96% +106.12%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

MySQL 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL.

MySQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MySQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

MySQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL.

MySQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (13.76%) Confluence
2 10 (9.17%) Apache
3 8 (7.34%) CMS
4 7 (6.42%) WordPress
5 4 (3.67%) Drupal
6 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.83%) Camunda
8 1 (0.92%) Appian
8 1 (0.92%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) iTrent
1 1 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 59 (54.13%) AWS
2 20 (18.35%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) GCP
4 16 (14.68%) Serverless
5 14 (12.84%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.26%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.50%) Slack
9 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.59%) GitHub
10 4 (3.67%) Route 53
10 4 (3.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.75%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) HTTP
2 4 (3.67%) Internet
3 2 (1.83%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.92%) Firewall
4 1 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (44.04%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (33.94%) MongoDB
3 19 (17.43%) Relational Database
4 16 (14.68%) SQL Server
5 13 (11.93%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
7 7 (6.42%) Power BI
7 7 (6.42%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.42%) Redis
8 6 (5.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (4.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.59%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.67%) Apache Hive
10 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.67%) MariaDB
11 3 (2.75%) Big Data
11 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (21.10%) Git
1 23 (21.10%) JIRA
2 15 (13.76%) GitLab
3 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.26%) JUnit
5 6 (5.50%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.50%) Jasmine
6 5 (4.59%) Maven
7 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.75%) Gradle
8 3 (2.75%) IntelliJ
8 3 (2.75%) Mockito
8 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.75%) TestNG
9 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.83%) gulp
9 2 (1.83%) PHPUnit
9 2 (1.83%) webpack
General
1 32 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.26%) Banking
4 8 (7.34%) Finance
5 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Military
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) German Language
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Local Government
7 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (48.62%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) DBA
3 12 (11.01%) Lead
3 12 (11.01%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (10.09%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.26%) Python Developer
5 9 (8.26%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.34%) PHP Developer
7 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (4.59%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.59%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) React Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.67%) PHP Software Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.18%) React
1 22 (20.18%) RESTful
2 21 (19.27%) Spring
3 20 (18.35%) Node.js
4 19 (17.43%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.43%) Spring Boot
5 18 (16.51%) Kafka
6 17 (15.60%) HTML
7 14 (12.84%) CSS
7 14 (12.84%) REST
8 11 (10.09%) .NET
8 11 (10.09%) XML
9 10 (9.17%) OAuth
9 10 (9.17%) OpenAPI
9 10 (9.17%) Swagger
10 8 (7.34%) jQuery
10 8 (7.34%) JSON
10 8 (7.34%) Spring Security
10 8 (7.34%) Symfony
11 7 (6.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.59%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.67%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.83%) PKI
5 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.83%) Replication
5 2 (1.83%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) IoT
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) MPEG
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Linux
2 9 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.34%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.92%) CentOS
5 1 (0.92%) Solaris
5 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.78%) Agile
2 31 (28.44%) CI/CD
2 31 (28.44%) Microservices
3 28 (25.69%) DevOps
4 24 (22.02%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.18%) Containerisation
5 22 (20.18%) Mentoring
6 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.60%) High Availability
8 16 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (13.76%) TDD
9 15 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (11.01%) API Design
10 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (11.01%) Migration
11 11 (10.09%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (10.09%) Design Patterns
12 9 (8.26%) ETL
12 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.26%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 43 (39.45%) Java
2 35 (32.11%) SQL
3 33 (30.28%) Python
4 26 (23.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (20.18%) PHP
6 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.09%) Bash
8 5 (4.59%) C#
8 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.83%) Go
10 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.83%) R
10 2 (1.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.92%) Bicep
11 1 (0.92%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.92%) Perl
11 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.50%) Degree
3 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (28.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
3 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.68%) Terraform
3 10 (9.17%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.26%) Grafana
5 6 (5.50%) Ansible
6 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.75%) Istio
8 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.83%) logstash
8 2 (1.83%) QRadar
8 2 (1.83%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.92%) Argo
9 1 (0.92%) Consul
9 1 (0.92%) linkerd
9 1 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.92%) Packer
9 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (27.52%) Oracle
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.34%) Google
4 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.67%) Zend
5 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.75%) New Relic
6 2 (1.83%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.92%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.92%) Talend
7 1 (0.92%) VMware