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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 76 97
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.38% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 4.32% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - - £308
25th Percentile £463 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £490
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -54.08% -1.26%
75th Percentile £488 £238 £534
90th Percentile - £455 £555
England median daily rate £415 £444 £500
% change year-on-year -6.70% -11.15% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.13 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £39.88 - -
90th Percentile £42.80 - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 - £66.13
% change year-on-year - - +52.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 174 139 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.89% 12.24% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 66 109
10th Percentile £171 £213 £254
25th Percentile £383 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £550
90th Percentile £650 £593 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £22.35 £18.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.45 £25.11 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £63.00 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +109.37% -26.12%
75th Percentile £47.53 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £64.30 - -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -12.04%

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
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 21 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
Cambridgeshire -4 3 - -
Suffolk - 2 - - 5
Hertfordshire -21 1 £475 - 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Redis
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Multimedia
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Audio Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Data Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Acoustics
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Motion Capture
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Consul
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft