MySQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 225 182
Rank change year-on-year +12 -43 -34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 180 244 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.04% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.06% 6.77% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 161 304
10th Percentile £325 £338 £325
25th Percentile £358 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £638 £592
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.99% +7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £25.25 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.61% +84.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £74.38 £57.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £24.55
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,548 3,604 5,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 15.33% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,582 3,857
10th Percentile £314 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £546
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.10% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 114 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.27 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.68 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +66.79%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +7 51 £463 +8.82% 88
South East -4 41 £425 -12.82% 56
Midlands +40 34 £358 -28.40% 61
North West +17 30 £450 +12.50% 50
West Midlands +33 28 £358 -30.15% 38
Wales +43 24 £545 -16.15% 5
South West +7 16 £450 -18.18% 46
Yorkshire +9 14 £550 +0.46% 25
Scotland +15 11 £496 -9.82% 14
North East +16 7 - - 13
East Midlands +23 5 £300 -36.84% 23
East of England -6 4 £475 +5.56% 26
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (6.67%) Apache
2 9 (5.00%) Drupal
3 7 (3.89%) nginx
4 6 (3.33%) Apache Solr
4 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.78%) Confluence
6 4 (2.22%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.67%) Moodle
8 2 (1.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.56%) Jadu
9 1 (0.56%) SAS
9 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.67%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.11%) Magento
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.56%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.56%) AWS
2 54 (30.00%) Azure
3 24 (13.33%) GitHub
4 16 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (7.78%) GCP
5 14 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.00%) Serverless
9 8 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.89%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.78%) IaaS
12 5 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
14 3 (1.67%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.11%) TCP/IP
2 10 (5.56%) Firewall
3 9 (5.00%) DNS
4 8 (4.44%) SAN
4 8 (4.44%) VPN
5 4 (2.22%) 5G
5 4 (2.22%) DHCP
5 4 (2.22%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.22%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.22%) IPsec
5 4 (2.22%) LTE
5 4 (2.22%) NAS
5 4 (2.22%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.67%) HTTP
6 3 (1.67%) WAN
6 3 (1.67%) Wireless
7 1 (0.56%) LAN
7 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.56%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (19.44%) Relational Database
3 31 (17.22%) SQL Server
4 22 (12.22%) MongoDB
5 18 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 14 (7.78%) MariaDB
7 14 (7.78%) Power BI
8 13 (7.22%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.33%) Couchbase
13 4 (2.22%) Big Data
13 4 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (23.89%) Git
2 19 (10.56%) GitLab
3 11 (6.11%) Cypress.io
3 11 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.00%) JIRA
4 9 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.44%) Postman
6 6 (3.33%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.78%) AppScan
7 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.78%) Selenium
8 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.67%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.11%) Gradle
9 2 (1.11%) Maven
9 2 (1.11%) Subversion
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 33 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.00%) Finance
4 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.33%) Retail
6 5 (2.78%) Banking
7 4 (2.22%) Advertising
7 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.11%) Marketing
8 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (36.11%) Developer
2 18 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (7.78%) PHP Developer
5 12 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.11%) DBA
6 11 (6.11%) Senior
7 9 (5.00%) Drupal Developer
7 9 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.44%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Full Stack PHP Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Administrator
10 6 (3.33%) Full Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.44%) CSS
1 26 (14.44%) HTML
2 25 (13.89%) React
3 17 (9.44%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (9.44%) Laravel
4 15 (8.33%) Node.js
4 15 (8.33%) RESTful
4 15 (8.33%) Vue
5 13 (7.22%) AngularJS
6 11 (6.11%) JSON
7 10 (5.56%) .NET
8 9 (5.00%) XML
9 7 (3.89%) REST
9 7 (3.89%) Sass
10 5 (2.78%) LAMP
10 5 (2.78%) LDAP
10 5 (2.78%) SOAP
10 5 (2.78%) Web Services
10 5 (2.78%) XSLT
10 5 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.78%) Public Cloud
2 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.78%) Fat Client
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.78%) Thin Client
5 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.22%) PKI
6 3 (1.67%) CCTV
6 3 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.67%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 62 (34.44%) Linux
2 21 (11.67%) Windows
3 10 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.00%) Unix
4 9 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.89%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.33%) Android
7 5 (2.78%) VMS
8 4 (2.22%) CentOS
8 4 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.67%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.67%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (41.67%) Agile
2 44 (24.44%) CI/CD
3 40 (22.22%) DevOps
4 35 (19.44%) Scrum
5 33 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
5 33 (18.33%) Software Engineering
6 32 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
7 29 (16.11%) Analytics
8 28 (15.56%) Configuration Management
9 26 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (13.89%) ETL
11 23 (12.78%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.22%) Data Analytics
13 21 (11.67%) Project Management
13 21 (11.67%) SDLC
14 20 (11.11%) Migration
14 20 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (10.00%) Test Strategy
16 17 (9.44%) Data Extraction
17 16 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (32.22%) PHP
2 54 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 54 (30.00%) SQL
3 32 (17.78%) Java
3 32 (17.78%) Python
4 23 (12.78%) Bash
5 16 (8.89%) C#
6 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.11%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.33%) Go
10 5 (2.78%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (2.22%) Scala
11 4 (2.22%) VB
12 3 (1.67%) Perl
13 2 (1.11%) Groovy
13 2 (1.11%) Ruby
14 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.22%) Degree
4 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.67%) PMP
7 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.11%) SANS
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.78%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.22%) GDPR
4 4 (2.22%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.22%) NIST
5 3 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.67%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (15.00%) Docker
2 13 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.33%) vSphere
5 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.11%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.56%) HDFS
7 1 (0.56%) IAG
Systems Management
1 38 (21.11%) Ansible
1 38 (21.11%) Terraform
2 37 (20.56%) Grafana
3 32 (17.78%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.11%) Graylog
6 9 (5.00%) Nagios
6 9 (5.00%) Nessus
7 8 (4.44%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.44%) Puppet
8 7 (3.89%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.78%) Argo
9 5 (2.78%) Packer
9 5 (2.78%) vRealize
9 5 (2.78%) WebInspect
10 4 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.22%) WSUS
10 4 (2.22%) yum
10 4 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (20.00%) Oracle
2 34 (18.89%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.56%) VMware
4 17 (9.44%) Denodo
4 17 (9.44%) Talend
5 15 (8.33%) Splunk
6 14 (7.78%) Google
7 9 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.89%) Veeam
9 6 (3.33%) Checkmarx
9 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.78%) Arqiva
10 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.78%) Veracode
10 5 (2.78%) Veritas
11 4 (2.22%) HP
11 4 (2.22%) Informatica
11 4 (2.22%) SAP
12 3 (1.67%) Cisco