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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing MySQL 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.24% 4.29% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £341 £333
25th Percentile - £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £483 £375
Median % change year-on-year +76.17% +28.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £543 £400
90th Percentile - £562 £588
England median daily rate £438 £465 £463
% change year-on-year -5.91% +0.54% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.10
25th Percentile £25.05 - £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.09 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% +34.62% +62.50%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £28.13
90th Percentile - - £28.50
England median hourly rate £19.30 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -44.86% -39.13% +9.52%

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 165 140 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.36% 12.93% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 90 74
10th Percentile £331 £371 £300
25th Percentile £400 £428 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +21.95% -18.00%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 8
10th Percentile £20.35 £18.96 £13.11
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £14.11
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.64 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +104.26% -75.41%
75th Percentile £35.91 £35.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £55.10 £64.80 £30.18
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%

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 June 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
Bedfordshire -5 2 - -
Norfolk -19 2 - - 1
Hertfordshire -25 2 £850 +54.55% 3
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 3
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%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Redis
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) Data Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) ETL Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Celery
1 3 (42.86%) Django
1 3 (42.86%) JWT
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Application Security
3 2 (28.57%) Batch Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Talend