MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 258 192
Rank change year-on-year +28 -66 -5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 416 576 1,316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.01% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.70% 5.66% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 398 957
10th Percentile £313 £363 £365
25th Percentile £362 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +0.99% +8.60%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 13
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £55.69 £30.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% +84.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £73.13 £60.63 £46.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £70.00 £49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £39.60 £21.50
% change year-on-year +73.61% +84.19% +7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +45.83%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +22 329 £475 -5.00% 406
UK excluding London +12 177 £450 -10.00% 294
London +52 166 £550 +4.76% 147
Work from Home +1 165 £475 -5.00% 251
North of England +18 51 £463 +8.82% 87
South East +13 39 £400 -21.38% 59
Midlands +32 36 £358 -28.40% 57
West Midlands +37 31 £358 -28.40% 35
North West +15 30 £450 +12.50% 50
Wales +38 22 £528 -18.85% 6
South West -4 16 £450 -18.18% 44
Yorkshire +4 14 £550 +0.46% 23
Scotland +8 10 £480 -12.73% 14
North East +15 7 - - 14
East Midlands +12 5 £300 -38.46% 22
East of England -10 4 £475 +5.56% 29

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (5.53%) Apache
2 13 (3.13%) Confluence
3 12 (2.88%) Drupal
4 11 (2.64%) Apache Solr
5 9 (2.16%) nginx
6 7 (1.68%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.68%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.44%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.96%) IIS
8 4 (0.96%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.96%) WordPress
9 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.72%) Moodle
9 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.48%) CMS
10 2 (0.48%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.48%) Jadu
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.96%) Magento
2 4 (0.96%) Shopify
3 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.48%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 133 (31.97%) AWS
2 110 (26.44%) Azure
3 69 (16.59%) GitHub
4 34 (8.17%) GCP
5 27 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.09%) Serverless
11 15 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.64%) SaaS
14 8 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.92%) WhatsApp
15 7 (1.68%) Snowflake
16 6 (1.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.61%) DNS
2 13 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.40%) Firewall
4 8 (1.92%) DHCP
4 8 (1.92%) SSH
5 7 (1.68%) SAN
6 6 (1.44%) HTTP
6 6 (1.44%) NAS
6 6 (1.44%) VPN
7 5 (1.20%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.96%) 5G
8 4 (0.96%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (0.96%) IPsec
8 4 (0.96%) LTE
8 4 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.48%) FTP
10 2 (0.48%) Internet
10 2 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (27.40%) SQL Server
2 107 (25.72%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (16.35%) Relational Database
4 46 (11.06%) MongoDB
5 36 (8.65%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (6.49%) Power BI
7 23 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (4.81%) MariaDB
9 20 (4.81%) RDBMS
10 17 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (3.13%) Oracle Database
12 13 (3.13%) Redis
13 11 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (2.64%) DynamoDB
14 9 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (16.83%) Git
2 30 (7.21%) GitLab
3 23 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.05%) JIRA
5 16 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.40%) Postman
6 10 (2.40%) Selenium
6 10 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (1.68%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.68%) ERwin
8 7 (1.68%) Maven
9 6 (1.44%) AppScan
10 5 (1.20%) JMeter
10 5 (1.20%) Subversion
10 5 (1.20%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.96%) LoadRunner
General
1 79 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.75%) Finance
3 31 (7.45%) Banking
4 28 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 19 (4.57%) Retail
8 9 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.68%) Legal
9 7 (1.68%) Marketing
10 6 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.20%) Advertising
12 4 (0.96%) French Language
12 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) German Language
13 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (40.14%) Developer
2 38 (9.13%) Full Stack Developer
3 34 (8.17%) DBA
4 28 (6.73%) Senior
5 27 (6.49%) PHP Developer
6 24 (5.77%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.05%) Architect
8 20 (4.81%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.57%) Administrator
10 18 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.85%) SailPoint Developer
12 15 (3.61%) Lead
12 15 (3.61%) MySQL DBA
12 15 (3.61%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.13%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.13%) Oracle DBA
13 13 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.88%) SailPoint Engineer
14 12 (2.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.23%) HTML
2 59 (14.18%) React
3 56 (13.46%) CSS
4 50 (12.02%) Web Services
5 45 (10.82%) XML
6 44 (10.58%) SOAP
7 40 (9.62%) LDAP
8 38 (9.13%) AngularJS
8 38 (9.13%) RESTful
9 34 (8.17%) .NET
9 34 (8.17%) Vue
10 33 (7.93%) Laravel
10 33 (7.93%) SailPoint
11 31 (7.45%) Node.js
12 28 (6.73%) JDBC
12 28 (6.73%) Servlets
12 28 (6.73%) Spring
13 27 (6.49%) JSP
13 27 (6.49%) REST
13 27 (6.49%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.65%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.40%) Clustering
6 7 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.68%) PKI
6 7 (1.68%) Replication
7 6 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.44%) Fat Client
7 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.44%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (25.72%) Linux
2 48 (11.54%) Windows
3 19 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.33%) Unix
5 11 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.16%) CentOS
7 8 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.20%) Android
8 5 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (31.97%) Agile
2 96 (23.08%) DevOps
3 66 (15.87%) CI/CD
3 66 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
4 63 (15.14%) Software Engineering
5 51 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
7 49 (11.78%) Scrum
8 41 (9.86%) Migration
9 40 (9.62%) Containerisation
10 39 (9.38%) Configuration Management
11 38 (9.13%) Analytics
11 38 (9.13%) Test Automation
12 37 (8.89%) ETL
13 35 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (8.17%) SDLC
15 32 (7.69%) Computer Science
16 30 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (7.21%) Microservices
17 28 (6.73%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 133 (31.97%) JavaScript
2 128 (30.77%) SQL
3 117 (28.13%) Java
4 97 (23.32%) PHP
5 79 (18.99%) Python
6 40 (9.62%) Bash
7 31 (7.45%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.49%) C#
8 27 (6.49%) Go
9 26 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.81%) Ruby
11 16 (3.85%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.64%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.40%) Perl
14 8 (1.92%) Rust
15 7 (1.68%) C++
16 5 (1.20%) C
16 5 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.20%) Scala
17 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 59 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.06%) Degree
4 24 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.96%) SANS
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.72%) PMP
11 2 (0.48%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) MCITP
11 2 (0.48%) MCSE
11 2 (0.48%) MCTS
12 1 (0.24%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) OCP
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.30%) QA
2 14 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.88%) GDPR
4 9 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.20%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) COPPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (15.87%) Docker
2 45 (10.82%) Active Directory
3 28 (6.73%) IAG
4 25 (6.01%) ACF2
4 25 (6.01%) RACF
5 9 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.20%) vSphere
7 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) KVM
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) Ceph
9 1 (0.24%) HDFS
9 1 (0.24%) iptables
9 1 (0.24%) Lustre
9 1 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.24%) Samba
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 56 (13.46%) Ansible
3 53 (12.74%) Terraform
4 51 (12.26%) Grafana
5 22 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.09%) Puppet
7 14 (3.37%) Progress Chef
8 13 (3.13%) Graylog
9 10 (2.40%) Nagios
9 10 (2.40%) Nessus
10 9 (2.16%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.44%) Argo
11 6 (1.44%) Packer
11 6 (1.44%) WebInspect
12 5 (1.20%) Kibana
12 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.20%) vRealize
13 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 128 (30.77%) Oracle
2 62 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.97%) Sybase
5 27 (6.49%) Google
6 25 (6.01%) Splunk
7 20 (4.81%) VMware
8 19 (4.57%) Denodo
8 19 (4.57%) Talend
9 18 (4.33%) Salesforce
10 15 (3.61%) Red Hat
11 12 (2.88%) SAP
12 11 (2.64%) Informatica
13 10 (2.40%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.68%) Adobe
14 7 (1.68%) Checkmarx
15 6 (1.44%) Veracode
16 5 (1.20%) Arqiva
16 5 (1.20%) CyberArk
16 5 (1.20%) IBM