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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 42 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing MySQL 5 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.50% 1.18% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 7.06% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - £458 £340
25th Percentile - £470 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile - £525 £525
90th Percentile - £540 £575
England median daily rate £433 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -5.46% -8.50% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £30.50
75th Percentile £13.20 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +98.49% -59.36% +60.92%

All Database & BI 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 128 85 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.72% 16.70% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 69
10th Percentile £333 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -0.59% +1.19%
75th Percentile £475 £508 £538
90th Percentile £568 £561 £696
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £13.10 £19.40 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +47.14% -67.62%
75th Percentile £58.91 £21.80 £22.73
90th Percentile £83.45 £22.52 £33.25
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +53.92% -18.48% -30.00%

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 20 March 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
Nottinghamshire -17 3 - - 2
Leicestershire - 2 £540 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) VLDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle