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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 120 109
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing MySQL 3 6 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.31% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.69% 1.51% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile £514 - £466
25th Percentile £515 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -20.07% +14.90%
75th Percentile £545 £475 £669
90th Percentile £547 £663 £744
London median daily rate £525 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -1.00%

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 432 398 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.79% 20.72% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 277 352
10th Percentile £363 £379 £413
25th Percentile £460 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £713
90th Percentile £761 £793 £825
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £24.25 £37.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £32.13 £37.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £48.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.59% +20.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile - £81.88 £41.60
London median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -10.45%

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 28 September 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 3 £530 +21.14% 14
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Angular Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Magento Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) NgRx
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow