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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 118 117
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 17 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.83% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 3.73% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 16
10th Percentile - £389 £469
25th Percentile £523 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £423 £635
Median % change year-on-year +26.63% -33.46% +22.12%
75th Percentile £548 £447 £688
90th Percentile - £494 £746
London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 437 456 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.81% 22.20% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 302 359
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -1.97% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £711
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%

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
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 30 July 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 -27 4 £535 +27.38% 3
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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Magento
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (25.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Magento Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) NgRx
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Phoenix
2 1 (25.00%) Phoenix Framework
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Elixir
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft