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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 78 105
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 +27
Contract jobs citing MySQL 7 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.49% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 7.75% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £455 - £401
25th Percentile £456 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £342 £490
Median % change year-on-year +39.99% -30.20% +15.29%
75th Percentile £505 £388 £529
90th Percentile £509 £440 £596
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £32.35 - -
25th Percentile £34.00 £26.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £27.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +71.88% -
75th Percentile £42.00 £28.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £43.65 - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%

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 188 129 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.28% 9.70% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 61 136
10th Percentile £289 £213 £285
25th Percentile £433 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £585 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £22.95 £13.80 £16.02
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -67.35% +50.38%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -1.00%

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 30 October 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 -7 2 - - 4
Suffolk - 2 - - 3
Bedfordshire -7 1 £483 +28.67% 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £475 - 6
Norfolk - 1 - - 4
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) MS Access
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Audio Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Data Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Acoustics
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Consul
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Salt
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Vertica