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 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 185 198 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 -48 +9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 169 313 773
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.25% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.89% 6.59% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 217 584
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £371 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £701 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 10
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 £43.50 £22.25
90th Percentile - £45.65 £36.63
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
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 2,870 4,748 9,589
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.27% 19.00% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,113 3,466 6,968
10th Percentile £357 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 92
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £23.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +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 14 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 8 (4.73%) Apache Solr
1 8 (4.73%) nginx
2 5 (2.96%) Confluence
3 4 (2.37%) Apache
3 4 (2.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 4 (2.37%) WordPress
4 3 (1.78%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.78%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.18%) ColdFusion
5 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Shopify
2 2 (1.18%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.28%) AWS
2 36 (21.30%) Azure
3 28 (16.57%) GitHub
4 16 (9.47%) GCP
5 11 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.14%) SaaS
9 7 (4.14%) Serverless
10 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.37%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (2.37%) Route 53
13 3 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.78%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.37%) Firewall
3 4 (2.37%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.37%) IPsec
3 4 (2.37%) SSH
4 3 (1.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.59%) DHCP
5 1 (0.59%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.59%) SSL
5 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (28.40%) SQL Server
2 37 (21.89%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (15.98%) Relational Database
4 19 (11.24%) MongoDB
5 16 (9.47%) NoSQL
5 16 (9.47%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (5.33%) MariaDB
8 7 (4.14%) Oracle Database
8 7 (4.14%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.55%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.37%) DB2
11 4 (2.37%) Redis
12 3 (1.78%) Big Data
12 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Git
2 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.73%) GitLab
3 8 (4.73%) JIRA
3 8 (4.73%) Selenium
4 6 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.37%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.37%) Postman
7 3 (1.78%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.78%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (1.78%) Maven
8 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.18%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.18%) ERwin
8 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (24.26%) Finance
2 39 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.28%) Banking
4 10 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.33%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Retail
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.96%) Legal
7 5 (2.96%) Marketing
8 4 (2.37%) French Language
8 4 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.78%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.18%) German Language
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.18%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (46.15%) Developer
2 17 (10.06%) DBA
3 15 (8.88%) Senior
4 14 (8.28%) Software Engineer
5 13 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
6 10 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.92%) Lead
6 10 (5.92%) SailPoint Developer
7 9 (5.33%) .NET Developer
7 9 (5.33%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.73%) MySQL DBA
9 7 (4.14%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (4.14%) PHP Developer
9 7 (4.14%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Administrator
10 6 (3.55%) AWS Developer
10 6 (3.55%) React Developer
10 6 (3.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.12%) HTML
2 32 (18.93%) React
3 30 (17.75%) Web Services
4 25 (14.79%) SOAP
5 24 (14.20%) AngularJS
6 22 (13.02%) .NET
6 22 (13.02%) CSS
7 21 (12.43%) SailPoint
7 21 (12.43%) XML
8 19 (11.24%) LDAP
9 17 (10.06%) Laravel
9 17 (10.06%) Servlets
9 17 (10.06%) Spring
10 16 (9.47%) jQuery
10 16 (9.47%) JSP
10 16 (9.47%) RESTful
10 16 (9.47%) SPML
11 15 (8.88%) JDBC
11 15 (8.88%) Vue
12 14 (8.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.83%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.78%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Clustering
8 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) CBDC
9 1 (0.59%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.59%) Genomics
9 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.89%) Linux
2 21 (12.43%) Windows
3 6 (3.55%) Unix
4 5 (2.96%) CentOS
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Android
6 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.81%) Agile
2 37 (21.89%) DevOps
3 32 (18.93%) CI/CD
4 30 (17.75%) Full Stack Development
5 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.57%) Software Engineering
7 24 (14.20%) Test Automation
8 18 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (8.88%) RBAC
10 14 (8.28%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.28%) Design Patterns
10 14 (8.28%) Microservices
10 14 (8.28%) SDLC
11 13 (7.69%) Code Quality
11 13 (7.69%) Migration
11 13 (7.69%) User Experience
12 12 (7.10%) Configuration Management
12 12 (7.10%) Scrum
12 12 (7.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (36.69%) Java
2 56 (33.14%) JavaScript
3 44 (26.04%) SQL
4 34 (20.12%) PHP
5 22 (13.02%) Python
6 14 (8.28%) Go
6 14 (8.28%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.69%) Ruby
8 9 (5.33%) C#
9 8 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.14%) Bash
11 6 (3.55%) Perl
12 4 (2.37%) Rust
13 3 (1.78%) C++
14 2 (1.18%) C
14 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.18%) XPath
15 1 (0.59%) Groovy
15 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.88%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SANS
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CISSP
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.61%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.96%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.96%) NIST
5 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.18%) SLA
8 1 (0.59%) COPPA
8 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
2 20 (11.83%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.06%) IAG
4 15 (8.88%) ACF2
4 15 (8.88%) RACF
5 1 (0.59%) HDFS
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.59%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (15.38%) Terraform
2 24 (14.20%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.83%) Ansible
4 14 (8.28%) Grafana
5 8 (4.73%) Puppet
6 6 (3.55%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.37%) Nagios
8 3 (1.78%) Graylog
8 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.18%) Kibana
9 2 (1.18%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.59%) Icinga
10 1 (0.59%) logstash
10 1 (0.59%) Nessus
10 1 (0.59%) Salt
10 1 (0.59%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 53 (31.36%) Oracle
2 21 (12.43%) ServiceNow
3 17 (10.06%) Sybase
4 16 (9.47%) Microsoft
5 14 (8.28%) Google
6 9 (5.33%) Splunk
7 5 (2.96%) Denodo
7 5 (2.96%) IBM
7 5 (2.96%) Talend
8 4 (2.37%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.78%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.78%) Informatica
9 3 (1.78%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.78%) SAP
10 2 (1.18%) Adobe
10 2 (1.18%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.18%) Dell