MySQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

MySQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring MySQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 109 122
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing MySQL 4 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.95% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 4.42% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 18
10th Percentile - £475 £325
25th Percentile £413 £531 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £483
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +29.53% -16.81%
75th Percentile £444 £681 £616
90th Percentile £448 £768 £650
Central London median daily rate £438 £588 £520
% change year-on-year -25.60% +13.08% -9.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 388 452 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.41% 21.44% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 320 406
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £706
90th Percentile £800 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.13% -0.04% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £24.25 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.13 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £81.88 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% -9.09% -22.12%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the City of London

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle