MySQL Contract Job Trends in England

MySQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 260 226
Rank change year-on-year -51 -34 +30
Contract jobs citing MySQL 240 239 375
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.89% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 4.88% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 140 260
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £221 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -10.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £565 £613
90th Percentile £600 £703 £679
UK median daily rate £425 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £27.59 - £26.97
25th Percentile £35.00 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £73.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +63.52%

All Database & BI Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,236 4,897 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.88% 18.33% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,248 4,274
10th Percentile £326 £351 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £707 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 139
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

MySQL job vacancy trend in England

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
London -19 82 £475 -3.55% 42
North of England -50 56 £415 -13.32% 78
South East -11 49 £208 -42.16% 122
North West -41 34 £425 -4.82% 33
Midlands -40 28 £444 -8.22% 62
West Midlands -26 25 £419 -12.21% 29
Yorkshire -30 22 £388 -38.00% 33
South West -12 13 £450 -48.57% 57
East of England -19 6 £475 +111.11% 76
East Midlands -23 3 £556 +11.25% 33
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (2.50%) Apache
2 5 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.08%) SugarCRM
3 4 (1.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.83%) Camunda
4 2 (0.83%) Drupal
4 2 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.42%) Luigi
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.08%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.83%) Windchill
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.83%) Magento
2 2 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.83%) AWS
2 54 (22.50%) Azure
3 38 (15.83%) GitHub
4 37 (15.42%) GCP
5 35 (14.58%) SaaS
6 24 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (10.00%) Serverless
7 20 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.92%) Sauce Labs
9 18 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (5.42%) Apigee
12 12 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.00%) Route 53
12 12 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.67%) Wireless
2 7 (2.92%) DNS
3 4 (1.67%) Internet
4 2 (0.83%) SMTP
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) Firewall
5 1 (0.42%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.42%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) VLAN
5 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (43.33%) Relational Database
2 86 (35.83%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (17.92%) SQL Server
4 35 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (13.33%) MongoDB
6 27 (11.25%) NoSQL
7 19 (7.92%) DynamoDB
7 19 (7.92%) RDBMS
8 17 (7.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 16 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (6.25%) Redis
11 13 (5.42%) Oracle Database
12 10 (4.17%) Hadoop
13 9 (3.75%) DB2
13 9 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (3.33%) MariaDB
15 6 (2.50%) Power BI
16 5 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (2.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 48 (20.00%) Git
2 38 (15.83%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
4 21 (8.75%) GitLab
5 19 (7.92%) Android Studio
5 19 (7.92%) Eclipse
5 19 (7.92%) Xcode
6 17 (7.08%) JIRA
7 10 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.75%) Postman
9 8 (3.33%) Gradle
9 8 (3.33%) JUnit
9 8 (3.33%) Maven
10 7 (2.92%) Mockito
11 6 (2.50%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.50%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.50%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.50%) Selenium
11 6 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 91 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.17%) Finance
3 22 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.67%) Banking
6 13 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.50%) Marketing
8 6 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Legal
9 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.25%) Electronics
10 3 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Retail
10 3 (1.25%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.83%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (37.50%) Developer
2 45 (18.75%) Technical Support
3 24 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 24 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 24 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (9.58%) Java Developer
5 20 (8.33%) UX Engineer
6 19 (7.92%) DBA
7 18 (7.50%) Senior
8 17 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 15 (6.25%) PHP Developer
11 14 (5.83%) Oracle DBA
11 14 (5.83%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) Architect
13 10 (4.17%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.75%) Java Architect
15 8 (3.33%) Cloud Developer
15 8 (3.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.50%) CSS
2 47 (19.58%) React
3 43 (17.92%) Spring Boot
4 39 (16.25%) RESTful
4 39 (16.25%) Spring
5 37 (15.42%) HTML
6 36 (15.00%) AngularJS
7 33 (13.75%) REST
8 31 (12.92%) GraphQL
9 21 (8.75%) Ajax
10 20 (8.33%) .NET
11 19 (7.92%) Node.js
12 17 (7.08%) Hibernate
12 17 (7.08%) Kafka
13 15 (6.25%) Vue
14 10 (4.17%) Laravel
14 10 (4.17%) OpenID
14 10 (4.17%) SOAP
15 9 (3.75%) OAuth
15 9 (3.75%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 17 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.42%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.33%) Clustering
7 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.92%) Replication
9 5 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.08%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.67%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.83%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.83%) IoT
13 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 63 (26.25%) Linux
2 51 (21.25%) Unix
3 46 (19.17%) Windows
4 20 (8.33%) Android
5 7 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.42%) CI/CD
2 68 (28.33%) Agile
3 62 (25.83%) Microservices
3 62 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (22.50%) OO
5 52 (21.67%) DevOps
6 44 (18.33%) Containerisation
7 37 (15.42%) OOP
7 37 (15.42%) User Experience
8 32 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 31 (12.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (12.08%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.67%) TDD
12 25 (10.42%) AI
12 25 (10.42%) Data Modelling
13 24 (10.00%) MVC
14 23 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.58%) Migration
14 23 (9.58%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (9.17%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.50%) Java
2 109 (45.42%) Python
3 100 (41.67%) SQL
4 89 (37.08%) JavaScript
5 42 (17.50%) Perl
6 36 (15.00%) PHP
7 16 (6.67%) Bash
8 11 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.92%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.50%) Go
10 6 (2.50%) VBA
11 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.67%) Ruby
12 4 (1.67%) Scala
13 2 (0.83%) C#
14 1 (0.42%) C
14 1 (0.42%) CFML
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (14.58%) Degree
2 31 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 27 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.67%) OCP
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) CCNA
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB
9 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.67%) QA
2 7 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.08%) SLA
5 4 (1.67%) GDPR
5 4 (1.67%) NIST
5 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (22.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Ceph
4 1 (0.42%) iptables
4 1 (0.42%) KVM
4 1 (0.42%) Lustre
4 1 (0.42%) NFS
4 1 (0.42%) Samba
4 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (19.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.42%) Terraform
3 15 (6.25%) Ansible
4 5 (2.08%) Puppet
5 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.25%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.25%) Kibana
6 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Consul
7 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.83%) Grafana
7 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 89 (37.08%) Oracle
2 43 (17.92%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.00%) Splunk
4 22 (9.17%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.67%) Google
6 9 (3.75%) Advent
7 8 (3.33%) Databricks
8 7 (2.92%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.50%) SAP
10 5 (2.08%) Gigya
10 5 (2.08%) Informatica
11 4 (1.67%) Talend
12 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.83%) Adobe
13 2 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.83%) Percona
13 2 (0.83%) PTC
13 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.83%) Zend
14 1 (0.42%) Atlassian