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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 109
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +27
Contract jobs citing MySQL 11 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.85% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.58% 3.99% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £200 £389 £421
25th Percentile £320 £400 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £423 £629
Median % change year-on-year +36.09% -32.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £600 £566 £690
90th Percentile £683 £650 £738
London median daily rate £450 £474 £538
% change year-on-year -5.01% -11.86% -1.01%

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 427 426 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.36% 21.33% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 274 360
10th Percentile £349 £404 £411
25th Percentile £448 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £696
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £553 £563
% change year-on-year -5.06% -1.69% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -23 9 £440 +4.14% 8
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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Magento
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
3 3 (27.27%) Tableau
4 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) OLAP
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (9.09%) Redis
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) ERwin
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modeller
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Magento Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) Django
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) Vue
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) jQuery
4 1 (9.09%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Elixir
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) Ruby
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
1 3 (27.27%) Google
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe