MySQL Contracts in the East of England

MySQL
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 106 106
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 6 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.54% 0.36% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.20% 6.14% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £341 £333 -
25th Percentile £383 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.67% -14.29% +2.22%
75th Percentile £543 £400 £479
90th Percentile £562 £588 £499
England median daily rate £463 £463 £490
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.10 -
25th Percentile - £23.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +62.50% -
75th Percentile - £28.13 £16.50
90th Percentile - £28.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% +16.67%

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 143 114 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.80% 5.93% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 160
10th Percentile £375 £300 £298
25th Percentile £430 £346 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £578
90th Percentile £675 £650 £678
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile £19.11 £13.30 £17.58
25th Percentile £20.86 £14.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.98 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.00% -74.63% +80.00%
75th Percentile £34.16 £26.25 £67.94
90th Percentile £64.65 £29.70 £73.75
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the East of England

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the East of England

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the East of England

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the East of England

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 3 July 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
Norfolk -2 2 - - 9
Essex - 2 £325 - 4
Hertfordshire +28 1 £550 -18.52% 11
Bedfordshire -2 1 £483 +28.67% 3
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Database Security
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Vertica