MySQL Contract Job Trends in the East of England

MySQL
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 90 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing MySQL 15 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.63% 0.23% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.33% 1.90% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £406 £455 -
25th Percentile £416 £456 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £342
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +39.99% -21.83%
75th Percentile £767 £505 £388
90th Percentile £850 £509 £440
England median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.05 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.09 - £27.50
75th Percentile £25.14 - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £80.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -83.11% +77.78% -25.00%

All Database & BI Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 180 158 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.53% 12.33% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 92 63
10th Percentile £347 £375 £213
25th Percentile £410 £450 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +11.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £544
90th Percentile £634 £650 £641
England median daily rate £504 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.76% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.89 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.56 £21.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £24.45 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year +140.29% +53.00% -78.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.53 £20.00
90th Percentile - £47.72 £37.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the East of England

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the East of England

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £513 - 11
Suffolk - 4 £425 - 3
Norfolk -7 2 - - 5
Hertfordshire -21 2 £850 +78.95% 2
Bedfordshire -1 1 - - 1
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (13.33%) Serverless
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) 5G
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
1 4 (26.67%) SSH
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) 4G
3 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (46.67%) Redis
2 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
3 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
7 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
7 1 (6.67%) Metadata
7 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) Gerrit
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
4 1 (6.67%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) RESTful
2 6 (40.00%) REST
3 5 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 5 (33.33%) Flask
3 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 5 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (26.67%) CSS
4 4 (26.67%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) Jinja
4 4 (26.67%) Pandas
4 4 (26.67%) Terraform
5 3 (20.00%) Celery
5 3 (20.00%) Django
5 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (20.00%) JWT
5 3 (20.00%) Kafka
5 3 (20.00%) OAuth
5 3 (20.00%) Playwright
5 3 (20.00%) pytest
5 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Life Science
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) LIMS
4 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Validation
4 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Informatics
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Biotechnology
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Application Packaging
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) Bash
4 5 (33.33%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (13.33%) Ruby
7 1 (6.67%) Groovy
7 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Coverity
2 1 (6.67%) Perforce