MySQL Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

MySQL
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 54 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +45
Contract jobs citing MySQL 2 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 1.03% 2.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.08% 6.48% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 17
10th Percentile £539 £423 £400
25th Percentile £542 £443 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £567 £521 £530
90th Percentile £568 £538 £548
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +46.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 96 108 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.12% 15.91% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 69 80
10th Percentile £313 £320 £313
25th Percentile £380 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -17.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £474 £500 £563
90th Percentile £538 £590 £703
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £11.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.25 £11.67
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.50 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% +31.95% -56.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £23.75 £26.11
90th Percentile - - £30.39
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +44.74% -17.71% -7.64%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire -9 1 £563 +12.50% 5
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle