MySQL Contract Job Trends in Central London

MySQL
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 113 116
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 16 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.78% 0.61% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.44% 3.09% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 21
10th Percentile £251 £443 £405
25th Percentile £388 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -18.37% -2.16%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £713
90th Percentile £718 £650 £938
London median daily rate £463 £500 £573
% change year-on-year -7.50% -12.74% -4.50%

All Database & BI 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 360 421 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.48% 19.70% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 278 378
10th Percentile £324 £411 £413
25th Percentile £410 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +3.23%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £700
90th Percentile £738 £765 £825
London median daily rate £525 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.63% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £37.20 £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 £47.19
90th Percentile - £41.60 £49.03
London median hourly rate £46.50 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +12.05% -2.35% -22.73%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Central London

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MySQL

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Central London over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in Central London

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MySQL

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 29 January 2026. 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 -7 13 £445 -11.00% 4
MySQL
London

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (12.50%) Datadog
6 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (6.25%) Dagster
7 1 (6.25%) dbt
7 1 (6.25%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (25.00%) Power BI
4 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (25.00%) Tableau
5 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
7 1 (6.25%) Informix
7 1 (6.25%) OLAP
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
7 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) ERwin
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) Django
3 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Ajax
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) DOM
4 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
4 1 (6.25%) Symfony
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 6 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Data Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 5 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (31.25%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 4 (25.00%) ETL
7 3 (18.75%) Data Management
7 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Databricks
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 2 (12.50%) Talend
5 1 (6.25%) Atlassian