MySQL Contract Job Trends in Croydon

MySQL
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -
Contract jobs citing MySQL 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.69% 3.75% 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 9.68% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £538 £447 -
25th Percentile £543 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% -0.26% -
75th Percentile - £500 £488
90th Percentile - £500 -
South London median daily rate £550 £474 £388
% change year-on-year +16.09% +22.26% -

All Database & BI Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 48 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 26.97% 38.75% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 19
10th Percentile £456 £451 £400
25th Percentile £466 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +5.64% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £525
90th Percentile £643 £630 £529
South London median daily rate £521 £575 £483
% change year-on-year -9.48% +19.17% +1.58%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Croydon

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing MySQL

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java SE
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Google