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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 110 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.86% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 4.10% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 21
10th Percentile - £475 £325
25th Percentile £413 £531 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £520
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +20.19% -9.57%
75th Percentile £456 £681 £613
90th Percentile £468 £768 £645
London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -14.53%

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 418 488 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.42% 21.03% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 352 439
10th Percentile £385 £413 £377
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £700
90th Percentile £800 £815 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £25.80 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% -9.09% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -2.27%

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
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
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 18 September 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 -3 5 £425 -33.33% 6
City of Westminster -1 1 £475 - 2
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 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 1 (16.67%) Mocha
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) Jest
3 1 (16.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk