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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 229 205
Rank change year-on-year -81 -24 +29
Contract jobs citing MySQL 227 327 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.04% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.37% 5.76% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 211 318
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £315 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.19%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £579
90th Percentile £594 £650 £681
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £38.95 £29.50 £30.34
25th Percentile £61.75 £34.38 £51.25
Median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -25.00% +33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,200 5,677 6,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.23% 17.98% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 3,844 4,835
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 81 147
10th Percentile £19.46 £17.50 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £25.32
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £69.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.59 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.28% -38.82% +0.11%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 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
London -31 89 £450 -8.63% 153
North of England -48 47 £463 -6.61% 126
South East -6 40 £208 +1.22% 125
North West -34 23 £450 - 74
Midlands -50 23 £425 +6.25% 57
Yorkshire -25 20 £433 -17.62% 43
West Midlands -32 18 £419 +16.32% 36
South West +14 12 £465 +32.86% 32
East of England -6 7 £479 +39.99% 33
East Midlands -9 5 £510 +4.08% 20
North East -5 4 £525 - 9
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 11 (4.85%) Confluence
2 9 (3.96%) Apache
3 6 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.20%) SugarCRM
5 2 (0.88%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.88%) Camunda
5 2 (0.88%) Drupal
5 2 (0.88%) nginx
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Luigi
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.88%) Windchill
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.88%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.61%) AWS
2 57 (25.11%) Azure
3 27 (11.89%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (11.01%) SaaS
4 25 (11.01%) Serverless
5 24 (10.57%) GCP
6 22 (9.69%) GitHub
7 16 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.05%) Sauce Labs
8 15 (6.61%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.61%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (5.73%) Apigee
10 12 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.52%) Datadog
12 8 (3.52%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.05%) Wireless
2 5 (2.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) DHCP
3 2 (0.88%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) Internet
3 2 (0.88%) SMTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SSH
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (37.44%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (36.12%) Relational Database
3 37 (16.30%) SQL Server
4 35 (15.42%) MongoDB
5 30 (13.22%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (11.01%) NoSQL
7 19 (8.37%) RDBMS
8 18 (7.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (6.17%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.73%) Hadoop
10 13 (5.73%) MariaDB
11 12 (5.29%) Oracle Database
11 12 (5.29%) Redis
12 9 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (3.52%) Power BI
14 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.64%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (2.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 52 (22.91%) Git
2 25 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 23 (10.13%) Browser DevTools
4 17 (7.49%) Eclipse
4 17 (7.49%) JIRA
5 16 (7.05%) Android Studio
5 16 (7.05%) Xcode
6 10 (4.41%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.52%) GitLab
8 7 (3.08%) Maven
9 6 (2.64%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.64%) Firebug
9 6 (2.64%) Gradle
10 5 (2.20%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.76%) PyCharm
11 4 (1.76%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.32%) JUnit
12 3 (1.32%) Mockito
12 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (36.12%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.98%) Finance
3 23 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.61%) Banking
6 11 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.32%) Marketing
8 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Military
9 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 92 (40.53%) Developer
2 36 (15.86%) Technical Support
3 23 (10.13%) Support Engineer
3 23 (10.13%) Technical Engineer
3 23 (10.13%) Technical Support Engineer
4 21 (9.25%) Senior
5 19 (8.37%) Java Developer
6 17 (7.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (7.49%) UX Engineer
7 16 (7.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 16 (7.05%) Java Engineer
7 16 (7.05%) PHP Developer
8 15 (6.61%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Architect
11 10 (4.41%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) DBA
12 9 (3.96%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (3.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.47%) CSS
2 38 (16.74%) HTML
2 38 (16.74%) React
3 36 (15.86%) RESTful
4 34 (14.98%) Node.js
5 33 (14.54%) AngularJS
6 31 (13.66%) Spring Boot
7 28 (12.33%) Spring
8 26 (11.45%) GraphQL
9 22 (9.69%) REST
10 19 (8.37%) Ajax
11 14 (6.17%) .NET
11 14 (6.17%) Laravel
12 13 (5.73%) Vue
13 12 (5.29%) Kafka
13 12 (5.29%) Web Services
13 12 (5.29%) XML
14 8 (3.52%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (3.08%) JSON
15 7 (3.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.37%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.41%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.20%) Clustering
8 5 (2.20%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.20%) Replication
9 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.88%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.88%) IoT
10 2 (0.88%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.99%) Linux
2 41 (18.06%) Windows
3 38 (16.74%) Unix
4 16 (7.05%) Android
5 13 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.76%) CentOS
7 3 (1.32%) Debian
7 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.44%) AIX
8 1 (0.44%) HPUX
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (26.43%) Agile
3 55 (24.23%) CI/CD
4 52 (22.91%) Microservices
5 45 (19.82%) OO
6 43 (18.94%) DevOps
7 37 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (15.42%) Containerisation
9 32 (14.10%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.78%) User Experience
11 26 (11.45%) OOP
12 24 (10.57%) Analytics
12 24 (10.57%) Clean Code
12 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.69%) ETL
14 21 (9.25%) Mentoring
14 21 (9.25%) Migration
15 19 (8.37%) Computer Science
15 19 (8.37%) TDD
16 18 (7.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 96 (42.29%) Java
2 91 (40.09%) Python
3 82 (36.12%) JavaScript
3 82 (36.12%) SQL
4 33 (14.54%) PHP
5 32 (14.10%) Perl
6 17 (7.49%) Bash
7 15 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.41%) Ruby
9 7 (3.08%) C#
9 7 (3.08%) VBA
10 6 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.20%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.76%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.32%) Scala
13 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.88%) Rust
15 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.13%) Degree
2 23 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.32%) OCP
5 3 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) CCNP
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) ISEB
7 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.45%) QA
2 10 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.76%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 40 (17.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.88%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (13.66%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.25%) Terraform
3 15 (6.61%) Ansible
4 9 (3.96%) Puppet
5 7 (3.08%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.32%) Grafana
6 3 (1.32%) Kibana
6 3 (1.32%) Salt
7 2 (0.88%) Consul
7 2 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.88%) Icinga
7 2 (0.88%) Nagios
7 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 83 (36.56%) Oracle
2 40 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.93%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.93%) Splunk
4 15 (6.61%) Google
5 9 (3.96%) Talend
6 7 (3.08%) Informatica
7 6 (2.64%) Databricks
7 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.20%) Gigya
9 4 (1.76%) Zend
10 3 (1.32%) Advent
10 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.32%) New Relic
10 3 (1.32%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.88%) Brio
11 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.88%) PTC
11 2 (0.88%) VMware