MySQL Contracts in Wales

MySQL
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 18 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +43 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing MySQL 24 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.54% 0.32% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.50% 2.44% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 1 6
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £491 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £478
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +36.13% +12.35%
75th Percentile £612 - £574
90th Percentile £682 - £659
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.99% +7.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 64 82 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 17.44% 13.27% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 123
10th Percentile £354 £364 £402
25th Percentile £406 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £629
90th Percentile £659 £675 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £546
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.10% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.46%
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Wales 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
South Wales +38 22 £550 -15.35% 5
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) GitHub
3 12 (50.00%) AWS
4 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
1 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
1 5 (20.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 8 (33.33%) GitLab
1 8 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) AppScan
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Full Stack Developer
2 7 (29.17%) PHP Developer
3 6 (25.00%) DBA
3 6 (25.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Administrator
4 5 (20.83%) Migration Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Migration Project Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Project Manager
5 4 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Administrator
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) React Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) MySQL Consultant
8 1 (4.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior
8 1 (4.17%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Laravel
1 9 (37.50%) Vue
2 8 (33.33%) React
3 5 (20.83%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) CSS3
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) HTML5
4 1 (4.17%) MobX
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) Redux
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Project Management
3 11 (45.83%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) DevOps
5 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (33.33%) Migration
5 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Change Control
6 6 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
8 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
9 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (8.33%) Security Testing
9 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) PHP
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SANS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Grafana
1 7 (29.17%) Nagios
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Argo
2 5 (20.83%) Graylog
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
4 1 (4.17%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
2 5 (20.83%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.17%) Veracode