MySQL Contracts in Central London

MySQL
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 108 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing MySQL 16 27 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 1.14% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.62% 5.04% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 21
10th Percentile £389 £469 £331
25th Percentile £400 £541 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £619 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.72% +17.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £438 £688 £625
90th Percentile £468 £746 £663
London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 442 536 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.98% 22.62% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 376 476
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £689 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £24.04 - £42.50
25th Percentile £30.54 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
London median hourly rate £42.00 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -11.58% -24.60% +14.55%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Central London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for MySQL in Central London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Central London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Central London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in Central London

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
City of London -6 16 £423 -32.40% 54
MySQL
London

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) Alfresco
3 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
5 2 (12.50%) CockroachDB
5 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Database Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) React Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) React
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 2 (12.50%) WebSockets
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Camel
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Symfony
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (31.25%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (25.00%) Microservices
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Data Science
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 2 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 2 (12.50%) LLM
4 2 (12.50%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) HP