MySQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 189 152
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 166 308 787
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.26% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.81% 6.69% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 211 590
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £360 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £705 £688 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £37.19
90th Percentile - £45.26 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
% change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,859 4,606 9,527
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.48% 18.78% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,110 3,369 6,954
10th Percentile £357 £387 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 78 88
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.31 £19.70
25th Percentile £22.43 £45.31 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +31.66% +65.83%
75th Percentile £62.25 £74.69 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing MySQL over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 9 (5.42%) Apache Solr
2 8 (4.82%) nginx
3 6 (3.61%) Apache
4 5 (3.01%) Confluence
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 4 (2.41%) WordPress
6 3 (1.81%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.81%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.20%) ColdFusion
7 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.60%) IIS
8 1 (0.60%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.60%) SAS
8 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Shopify
2 2 (1.20%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.94%) AWS
2 33 (19.88%) Azure
3 26 (15.66%) GitHub
4 17 (10.24%) GCP
5 9 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.82%) SaaS
7 7 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.01%) Serverless
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.81%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.20%) BigCommerce
12 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.61%) DNS
3 5 (3.01%) SSH
4 4 (2.41%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.41%) IPsec
5 2 (1.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) SQL Server
2 39 (23.49%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (14.46%) Relational Database
4 18 (10.84%) MongoDB
5 16 (9.64%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (9.04%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.22%) MariaDB
8 7 (4.22%) Oracle Database
9 6 (3.61%) Couchbase
10 5 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.41%) DB2
11 4 (2.41%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.41%) Redis
12 3 (1.81%) Big Data
12 3 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (10.24%) Git
2 9 (5.42%) Selenium
3 8 (4.82%) GitLab
3 8 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.82%) JIRA
4 6 (3.61%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.01%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.41%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.41%) Postman
7 3 (1.81%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.81%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.20%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.20%) ERwin
8 2 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 40 (24.10%) Finance
2 39 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Banking
4 10 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.02%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.42%) Retail
6 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.01%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.01%) Legal
7 5 (3.01%) Marketing
8 4 (2.41%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (2.41%) French Language
8 4 (2.41%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.81%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.20%) German Language
10 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (46.39%) Developer
2 16 (9.64%) Senior
3 14 (8.43%) DBA
3 14 (8.43%) Software Engineer
4 13 (7.83%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (6.02%) SailPoint Developer
6 9 (5.42%) .NET Developer
6 9 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
6 9 (5.42%) Lead
6 9 (5.42%) Senior Developer
7 8 (4.82%) PHP Developer
8 7 (4.22%) MySQL DBA
8 7 (4.22%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (4.22%) SailPoint Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) AWS Developer
9 6 (3.61%) React Developer
10 5 (3.01%) Administrator
10 5 (3.01%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.48%) HTML
2 32 (19.28%) React
3 30 (18.07%) Web Services
4 25 (15.06%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.06%) SOAP
5 22 (13.25%) .NET
5 22 (13.25%) CSS
5 22 (13.25%) SailPoint
6 21 (12.65%) XML
7 20 (12.05%) LDAP
8 17 (10.24%) Laravel
8 17 (10.24%) Servlets
8 17 (10.24%) Spring
9 16 (9.64%) jQuery
9 16 (9.64%) JSP
9 16 (9.64%) RESTful
9 16 (9.64%) SPML
10 15 (9.04%) JDBC
10 15 (9.04%) Node.js
10 15 (9.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.05%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.41%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (1.81%) Clustering
6 3 (1.81%) Derivative
6 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.60%) CBDC
8 1 (0.60%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.60%) Genomics
8 1 (0.60%) IoT
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.88%) Linux
2 18 (10.84%) Windows
3 6 (3.61%) Unix
4 5 (3.01%) CentOS
5 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.20%) Android
6 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.71%) Agile
2 34 (20.48%) DevOps
3 31 (18.67%) Full Stack Development
4 29 (17.47%) CI/CD
4 29 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 28 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
7 18 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (9.04%) RBAC
8 15 (9.04%) User Experience
9 14 (8.43%) Computer Science
9 14 (8.43%) SDLC
10 13 (7.83%) Code Quality
10 13 (7.83%) Design Patterns
10 13 (7.83%) Microservices
10 13 (7.83%) Migration
10 13 (7.83%) Unit Testing
11 12 (7.23%) MVC
11 12 (7.23%) Scrum
12 11 (6.63%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.14%) Java
2 54 (32.53%) JavaScript
3 42 (25.30%) SQL
4 34 (20.48%) PHP
5 23 (13.86%) Python
6 13 (7.83%) Go
6 13 (7.83%) Ruby
7 11 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.82%) C#
9 7 (4.22%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.61%) Bash
10 6 (3.61%) Perl
11 4 (2.41%) Rust
12 3 (1.81%) C++
13 2 (1.20%) C
13 2 (1.20%) Scala
13 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.20%) XPath
14 1 (0.60%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (9.04%) Degree
2 13 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) SANS
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.65%) QA
2 7 (4.22%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.01%) HIPAA
4 5 (3.01%) NIST
5 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) COPPA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (17.47%) Docker
2 21 (12.65%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.24%) IAG
4 15 (9.04%) ACF2
4 15 (9.04%) RACF
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.60%) Postfix
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.05%) Terraform
3 18 (10.84%) Ansible
4 12 (7.23%) Grafana
5 7 (4.22%) Puppet
6 5 (3.01%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) Graylog
8 2 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (1.20%) Nagios
8 2 (1.20%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.60%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) Nessus
9 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.60%) Salt
9 1 (0.60%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 55 (33.13%) Oracle
2 22 (13.25%) ServiceNow
3 17 (10.24%) Sybase
4 14 (8.43%) Google
4 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.22%) Splunk
6 5 (3.01%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.01%) Denodo
6 5 (3.01%) IBM
6 5 (3.01%) Talend
7 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.81%) Adobe
8 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.81%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.81%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.81%) Informatica
8 3 (1.81%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.81%) SAP
9 2 (1.20%) Dell
9 2 (1.20%) Sitecore