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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 78 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 +30 +18
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.33% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 4.14% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £243 £292
25th Percentile - £288 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -9.79% -5.37%
75th Percentile - £581 £542
90th Percentile - £593 £556
England median daily rate £428 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.13 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -
75th Percentile £39.88 - £26.25
90th Percentile £42.80 - -
England median hourly rate £56.47 £35.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +61.34% -47.08% +127.42%

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 166 145 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.12% 13.78% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 80 99
10th Percentile £216 £312 £253
25th Percentile £368 £346 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £578 £552
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile £21.95 £31.65 £16.52
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £64.50 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -49.61% +156.16% -60.03%
75th Percentile £55.85 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £79.70 -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.71% -3.53% -25.26%

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 19 February 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 +3 3 - -
Suffolk - 2 - - 3
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 2
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
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 2 (33.33%) Audio Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) ETL Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
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%) Data Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Motion Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Consul
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Talend