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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 110 112
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +56
Contract jobs citing MySQL 14 20 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.70% 0.83% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 4.09% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 21
10th Percentile £368 £463 £353
25th Percentile £441 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.18% -5.81%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £713
90th Percentile £770 £671 £938
London median daily rate £463 £489 £520
% change year-on-year -5.37% -6.01% -13.33%

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 377 489 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.93% 20.20% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 333 380
10th Percentile £341 £413 £375
25th Percentile £422 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £32.15 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.38 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £45.53
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.16% -17.22%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 -5 11 £575 - 5
City of Westminster +1 1 £475 -
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 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) Datadog
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 2 (14.29%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) Dagster
7 1 (7.14%) Prefect
7 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (14.29%) Power BI
5 2 (14.29%) Redis
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (14.29%) Tableau
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.14%) CouchDB
6 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Mocha
4 1 (7.14%) Mockito
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Fastify
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) Laravel
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Informatica
3 2 (14.29%) Talend
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk