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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 84 91
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing MySQL 3 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.23% 0.65% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 8.93% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 14
10th Percentile £455 - £379
25th Percentile £456 £213 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £342 £438
Median % change year-on-year +39.99% -21.83% -5.41%
75th Percentile £505 £388 £498
90th Percentile £509 £440 £515
England median daily rate £441 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.94% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +71.88% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -18.18% +22.22%

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 158 112 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.12% 7.29% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 63 148
10th Percentile £375 £213 £338
25th Percentile £450 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -10.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £578
90th Percentile £650 £641 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £20.89 £13.69 £39.20
25th Percentile £21.09 £14.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £24.45 £15.98 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.00% -77.96% +78.00%
75th Percentile £35.53 £20.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £47.72 £37.75 £78.30
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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
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 September 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
Bedfordshire -7 1 £483 +28.67% 3
Hertfordshire - 1 £475 - 9
Norfolk - 1 - - 8
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Salt
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Vertica