MySQL Contracts in England

MySQL
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 274 195
Rank change year-on-year +22 -79 -9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 329 461 1,060
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.95% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 5.30% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 318 790
10th Percentile £313 £338 £375
25th Percentile £360 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.69% +11.40%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £730 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £29.08 £20.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £43.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +102.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £74.38 £55.63 £28.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,201 8,694 14,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.00% 17.84% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 6,258 10,229
10th Percentile £355 £375 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 165 177
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +27.78% +83.15%
75th Percentile £58.68 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
London +38 166 £550 +4.76% 121
North of England +10 51 £463 +8.82% 84
South East -2 39 £413 -15.38% 55
Midlands +34 36 £358 -28.40% 59
West Midlands +35 31 £358 -30.15% 37
North West +21 30 £450 +12.50% 46
South West 0 16 £450 -18.18% 45
Yorkshire +10 14 £550 +0.46% 25
North East +15 7 - - 13
East Midlands +17 5 £300 -36.84% 22
East of England 0 4 £475 +5.56% 26
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (6.69%) Apache
2 13 (3.95%) Confluence
3 12 (3.65%) Drupal
4 11 (3.34%) Apache Solr
5 8 (2.43%) nginx
6 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.22%) IIS
8 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.22%) WordPress
9 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.91%) Moodle
9 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.61%) CMS
10 2 (0.61%) Jadu
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) Magento
2 4 (1.22%) Shopify
3 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.61%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 111 (33.74%) AWS
2 85 (25.84%) Azure
3 47 (14.29%) GitHub
4 29 (8.81%) GCP
5 28 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 19 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (5.17%) Serverless
8 16 (4.86%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (3.04%) SaaS
13 8 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.43%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.43%) WhatsApp
14 6 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.56%) DNS
2 10 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.43%) DHCP
4 7 (2.13%) Firewall
4 7 (2.13%) SAN
4 7 (2.13%) SSH
5 6 (1.82%) HTTP
5 6 (1.82%) NAS
6 5 (1.52%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.22%) 5G
7 4 (1.22%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (1.22%) IPsec
7 4 (1.22%) LTE
7 4 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.91%) VPN
9 2 (0.61%) FTP
9 2 (0.61%) Internet
9 2 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (27.96%) SQL Server
2 87 (26.44%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (14.89%) Relational Database
4 38 (11.55%) MongoDB
5 33 (10.03%) NoSQL
6 28 (8.51%) Power BI
7 23 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (5.47%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (5.47%) RDBMS
11 17 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (4.26%) Oracle Database
13 12 (3.65%) MariaDB
14 10 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (2.43%) Couchbase
16 8 (2.43%) DynamoDB
17 7 (2.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 66 (20.06%) Git
2 21 (6.38%) GitLab
3 19 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.47%) JIRA
5 9 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.43%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.13%) ERwin
8 6 (1.82%) Maven
9 5 (1.52%) AppScan
9 5 (1.52%) Burp Suite
9 5 (1.52%) Selenium
9 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.22%) JMeter
10 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.22%) PHPUnit
10 4 (1.22%) Subversion
11 3 (0.91%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.91%) JUnit
General
1 65 (19.76%) Finance
2 62 (18.84%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.51%) Banking
4 19 (5.78%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.78%) Retail
5 14 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.13%) Legal
8 7 (2.13%) Marketing
9 5 (1.52%) Advertising
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.61%) French Language
12 2 (0.61%) German Language
Job Titles
1 123 (37.39%) Developer
2 28 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
3 27 (8.21%) DBA
4 22 (6.69%) Senior
5 21 (6.38%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.08%) Architect
6 20 (6.08%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.86%) PHP Developer
8 15 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) Administrator
9 13 (3.95%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.95%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (3.65%) Lead
11 11 (3.34%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.34%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.04%) MySQL DBA
12 10 (3.04%) SailPoint Engineer
12 10 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.93%) HTML
2 42 (12.77%) CSS
3 37 (11.25%) React
4 35 (10.64%) Web Services
4 35 (10.64%) XML
5 32 (9.73%) SOAP
6 30 (9.12%) LDAP
7 27 (8.21%) Node.js
7 27 (8.21%) RESTful
8 25 (7.60%) AngularJS
9 24 (7.29%) Laravel
10 23 (6.99%) REST
10 23 (6.99%) SailPoint
11 22 (6.69%) Spring
12 20 (6.08%) JDBC
13 19 (5.78%) Servlets
14 18 (5.47%) JSON
14 18 (5.47%) JSP
14 18 (5.47%) SPML
15 17 (5.17%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.21%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.43%) Clustering
6 7 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.13%) PKI
7 6 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.82%) Fat Client
7 6 (1.82%) Replication
7 6 (1.82%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.22%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 79 (24.01%) Linux
2 38 (11.55%) Windows
3 17 (5.17%) Unix
4 16 (4.86%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.74%) CentOS
7 8 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.52%) Android
8 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.52%) VMS
9 4 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.70%) Agile
2 82 (24.92%) DevOps
3 54 (16.41%) Software Engineering
4 51 (15.50%) CI/CD
5 47 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
6 41 (12.46%) Scrum
7 39 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (11.25%) ETL
8 37 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (10.33%) Configuration Management
10 32 (9.73%) Analytics
11 31 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (9.42%) Migration
12 30 (9.12%) Containerisation
13 27 (8.21%) SDLC
14 26 (7.90%) Computer Science
15 24 (7.29%) Microservices
16 23 (6.99%) Data Analytics
17 22 (6.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 112 (34.04%) SQL
2 99 (30.09%) JavaScript
3 91 (27.66%) Java
4 76 (23.10%) PHP
4 76 (23.10%) Python
5 36 (10.94%) Bash
6 28 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.99%) C#
8 22 (6.69%) Go
8 22 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.95%) Ruby
10 13 (3.95%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.74%) Perl
12 8 (2.43%) Rust
13 7 (2.13%) C++
14 5 (1.52%) C
14 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.33%) Degree
4 20 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.91%) PMP
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CISSP
9 2 (0.61%) MCITP
9 2 (0.61%) MCSE
9 2 (0.61%) MCTS
9 2 (0.61%) SANS
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.90%) QA
2 14 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.65%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.52%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.91%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.91%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) COPPA
System Software
1 55 (16.72%) Docker
2 35 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.78%) IAG
4 17 (5.17%) ACF2
4 17 (5.17%) RACF
5 8 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.52%) vSphere
7 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.61%) KVM
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.61%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.30%) Ceph
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) iptables
9 1 (0.30%) Lustre
9 1 (0.30%) NFS
9 1 (0.30%) Samba
9 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (14.59%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.68%) Ansible
3 44 (13.37%) Grafana
4 41 (12.46%) Terraform
5 16 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.95%) Puppet
7 12 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.74%) Graylog
8 9 (2.74%) Nessus
9 8 (2.43%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.82%) Packer
11 5 (1.52%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.52%) Kibana
11 5 (1.52%) Nagios
11 5 (1.52%) vRealize
11 5 (1.52%) WebInspect
12 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.22%) WSUS
12 4 (1.22%) yum
12 4 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (31.00%) Oracle
2 49 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.90%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.29%) Google
5 21 (6.38%) Splunk
6 20 (6.08%) Sybase
7 19 (5.78%) VMware
8 18 (5.47%) Denodo
8 18 (5.47%) Salesforce
8 18 (5.47%) Talend
9 16 (4.86%) Red Hat
10 12 (3.65%) SAP
11 11 (3.34%) Informatica
12 7 (2.13%) Adobe
13 5 (1.52%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.52%) Checkmarx
13 5 (1.52%) Dell
13 5 (1.52%) IBM
13 5 (1.52%) Veracode
13 5 (1.52%) Veritas