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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 263 192
Rank change year-on-year +29 -71 -9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 419 575 1,326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.01% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 5.63% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 396 965
10th Percentile £313 £363 £368
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -0.50% +8.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £725 £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 10 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £55.69 £26.52 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.05 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.01% +114.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £73.13 £62.19 £36.81
90th Percentile £76.50 £71.30 £49.60
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 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +17 329 £475 -5.00% 385
UK excluding London +3 181 £450 -10.00% 280
Work from Home +18 168 £475 -5.00% 241
London +54 165 £550 +4.76% 121
North of England +6 51 £463 +8.82% 89
South East 0 40 £413 -15.38% 51
Midlands +41 36 £358 -28.40% 55
West Midlands +32 31 £358 -30.15% 34
North West +12 30 £450 +12.50% 53
Wales +44 23 £540 -16.92% 5
South West +8 16 £450 -18.18% 43
Yorkshire +9 14 £550 +0.46% 23
Scotland +16 12 £488 -11.27% 13
North East +15 7 - - 13
East Midlands +14 5 £300 -36.84% 21
East of England -2 4 £475 +5.56% 27

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 (5.49%) Apache
2 13 (3.10%) Confluence
3 12 (2.86%) Drupal
4 11 (2.63%) Apache Solr
5 9 (2.15%) nginx
6 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.67%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.95%) IIS
8 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.95%) 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 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.43%) 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 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.95%) Magento
2 4 (0.95%) 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
1 136 (32.46%) AWS
2 112 (26.73%) Azure
3 69 (16.47%) GitHub
4 32 (7.64%) GCP
5 27 (6.44%) Power Platform
6 24 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (4.53%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (4.06%) Serverless
12 15 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.39%) SaaS
16 8 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (1.91%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (1.91%) WhatsApp
17 6 (1.43%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.58%) DNS
2 14 (3.34%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.63%) Firewall
4 8 (1.91%) DHCP
5 7 (1.67%) SAN
5 7 (1.67%) SSH
5 7 (1.67%) VPN
6 6 (1.43%) HTTP
6 6 (1.43%) NAS
7 5 (1.19%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.95%) 5G
8 4 (0.95%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (0.95%) IPsec
8 4 (0.95%) LTE
8 4 (0.95%) 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
1 116 (27.68%) SQL Server
2 107 (25.54%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (16.95%) Relational Database
4 46 (10.98%) MongoDB
5 37 (8.83%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.44%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (6.44%) Power BI
7 23 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.49%) RDBMS
8 22 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (5.01%) MariaDB
10 17 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (3.34%) Oracle Database
13 13 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (3.10%) Redis
14 12 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (2.63%) DynamoDB
16 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (16.95%) Git
2 30 (7.16%) GitLab
3 23 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.01%) JIRA
5 16 (3.82%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.39%) Postman
6 10 (2.39%) Selenium
6 10 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (1.91%) Maven
9 7 (1.67%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.67%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.67%) ERwin
10 6 (1.43%) AppScan
11 5 (1.19%) JMeter
11 5 (1.19%) Subversion
11 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.95%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.95%) PHPUnit
General
1 80 (19.09%) Finance
1 80 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.64%) Banking
3 30 (7.16%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.77%) Financial Institution
6 19 (4.53%) Retail
7 9 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.67%) Legal
8 7 (1.67%) Marketing
9 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.19%) Advertising
11 4 (0.95%) French Language
11 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.72%) German Language
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (40.10%) Developer
2 38 (9.07%) Full Stack Developer
3 37 (8.83%) DBA
4 28 (6.68%) Senior
5 27 (6.44%) PHP Developer
6 24 (5.73%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.01%) Architect
7 21 (5.01%) Support Engineer
8 19 (4.53%) Administrator
8 19 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.06%) MySQL DBA
10 16 (3.82%) Lead
10 16 (3.82%) SailPoint Developer
11 15 (3.58%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.34%) Oracle DBA
13 13 (3.10%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) SailPoint Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.09%) HTML
2 59 (14.08%) React
3 56 (13.37%) CSS
4 50 (11.93%) Web Services
5 45 (10.74%) XML
6 44 (10.50%) SOAP
7 39 (9.31%) LDAP
8 38 (9.07%) AngularJS
8 38 (9.07%) RESTful
9 34 (8.11%) .NET
9 34 (8.11%) Vue
10 33 (7.88%) Laravel
11 32 (7.64%) SailPoint
12 31 (7.40%) Node.js
13 28 (6.68%) JDBC
13 28 (6.68%) Servlets
13 28 (6.68%) Spring
14 27 (6.44%) JSP
14 27 (6.44%) REST
14 27 (6.44%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.30%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.91%) Clustering
6 8 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.67%) PKI
8 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.43%) Fat Client
8 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.43%) Replication
8 6 (1.43%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 108 (25.78%) Linux
2 48 (11.46%) Windows
3 19 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.30%) Unix
5 13 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.15%) CentOS
7 8 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.19%) Android
8 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.19%) VMS
9 4 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (31.50%) Agile
2 97 (23.15%) DevOps
3 67 (15.99%) CI/CD
4 66 (15.75%) Full Stack Development
5 63 (15.04%) Software Engineering
6 51 (12.17%) Continuous Integration
6 51 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (11.69%) Scrum
8 42 (10.02%) Migration
9 40 (9.55%) Containerisation
10 39 (9.31%) Analytics
11 38 (9.07%) Configuration Management
11 38 (9.07%) ETL
11 38 (9.07%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (8.11%) SDLC
14 32 (7.64%) Computer Science
15 31 (7.40%) Microservices
16 30 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (6.68%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 134 (31.98%) JavaScript
2 132 (31.50%) SQL
3 119 (28.40%) Java
4 98 (23.39%) PHP
5 80 (19.09%) Python
6 41 (9.79%) Bash
7 31 (7.40%) PowerShell
8 28 (6.68%) C#
8 28 (6.68%) Go
9 27 (6.44%) TypeScript
10 21 (5.01%) Ruby
11 16 (3.82%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.86%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.39%) Perl
14 8 (1.91%) Rust
15 7 (1.67%) C++
16 5 (1.19%) C
16 5 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.19%) Scala
17 4 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.98%) Degree
4 24 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) SANS
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.72%) PMP
10 2 (0.48%) CISSP
10 2 (0.48%) MCITP
10 2 (0.48%) MCSE
10 2 (0.48%) MCTS
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) OCP
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.69%) QA
2 14 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.86%) GDPR
4 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.19%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) COPPA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (15.75%) Docker
2 44 (10.50%) Active Directory
3 28 (6.68%) IAG
4 25 (5.97%) ACF2
4 25 (5.97%) RACF
5 9 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.95%) 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%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 56 (13.37%) Ansible
3 55 (13.13%) Terraform
4 52 (12.41%) Grafana
5 23 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.30%) Puppet
7 15 (3.58%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.34%) Graylog
9 11 (2.63%) Nagios
10 10 (2.39%) Nessus
11 9 (2.15%) HP Fortify
12 6 (1.43%) Argo
12 6 (1.43%) Packer
12 6 (1.43%) WebInspect
13 5 (1.19%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.19%) Kibana
13 5 (1.19%) vRealize
14 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 127 (30.31%) Oracle
2 63 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 36 (8.59%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.92%) Sybase
5 27 (6.44%) Google
5 27 (6.44%) Splunk
6 20 (4.77%) VMware
7 19 (4.53%) Denodo
7 19 (4.53%) Talend
8 18 (4.30%) Salesforce
9 16 (3.82%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.86%) SAP
11 11 (2.63%) Informatica
12 10 (2.39%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.67%) Adobe
13 7 (1.67%) Checkmarx
14 6 (1.43%) Veracode
15 5 (1.19%) Arqiva
15 5 (1.19%) Dell
15 5 (1.19%) IBM