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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 76 107
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.34% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 3.65% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £334 £305
25th Percentile - £366 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile - £516 £563
90th Percentile - £551 £653
England median daily rate £425 £462 £500
% change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -
75th Percentile - - £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
% change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%

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 185 137 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.09% 14.47% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 80 89
10th Percentile £265 £315 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.52% -3.00% -8.65%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £554
90th Percentile £645 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 6
10th Percentile £20.75 £25.45 £13.64
25th Percentile £23.90 £31.64 £17.33
Median hourly rate £33.50 £63.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year -46.83% +153.62% -60.57%
75th Percentile £54.69 £66.00 £31.69
90th Percentile £82.78 £74.13 £34.25
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%

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 4 April 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
Norfolk -26 2 - - 3
Suffolk - 2 - - 2
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 7
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
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 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
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%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Redis
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 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Audio Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Celery
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Acoustics
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) LIMS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (28.57%) Batch Processing
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
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
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Consul
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Talend