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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 269 252
Rank change year-on-year -35 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing MySQL 251 238 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.89% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.68% 4.82% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 143 262
10th Percentile £204 £205 £305
25th Percentile £260 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £613
90th Percentile £595 £698 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -14.23% -0.90% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 12
10th Percentile £12.95 - £26.88
25th Percentile £33.13 - £40.39
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -44.00% +114.92%
75th Percentile £83.13 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% -44.00% +73.61%

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 5,365 4,935 6,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.53% 18.41% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,752 3,274 4,313
10th Percentile £330 £355 £353
25th Percentile £413 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £609 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 77 158
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.80
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £22.34
Median hourly rate £45.75 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.71% -17.65% -25.26%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.73 £62.31
90th Percentile £84.00 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +48.03% -28.47% -25.26%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -23 92 £469 -5.78% 32
North of England -58 54 £415 -9.40% 54
South East -17 50 £208 -42.76% 77
North West -40 32 £425 -4.82% 26
Midlands -40 30 £447 -8.78% 44
West Midlands -33 28 £447 -6.29% 21
Yorkshire -42 22 £388 -22.50% 19
South West -4 13 £528 -30.75% 47
East of England -23 6 £475 +111.11% 42
East Midlands -31 2 - - 23
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 7 (2.79%) Apache
2 6 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.99%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.59%) Confluence
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) Camunda
6 2 (0.80%) Drupal
6 2 (0.80%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Appian
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.80%) Windchill
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Magento
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
2 2 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.43%) AWS
2 56 (22.31%) Azure
3 42 (16.73%) GCP
4 40 (15.94%) GitHub
5 32 (12.75%) SaaS
6 27 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (9.56%) Serverless
8 21 (8.37%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (6.77%) Sauce Labs
11 16 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.37%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (5.98%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (5.18%) Apigee
13 13 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (5.18%) Route 53
13 13 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.58%) Wireless
2 7 (2.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) SMTP
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (41.83%) Relational Database
2 92 (36.65%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (18.73%) SQL Server
4 37 (14.74%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (13.94%) MongoDB
6 28 (11.16%) NoSQL
7 20 (7.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 20 (7.97%) DynamoDB
8 19 (7.57%) RDBMS
9 17 (6.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (5.58%) Redis
11 12 (4.78%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.78%) Oracle Database
12 11 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.59%) DB2
13 9 (3.59%) Power BI
13 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.19%) MariaDB
15 7 (2.79%) Tableau
16 6 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 51 (20.32%) Git
2 40 (15.94%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.76%) GitLab
4 21 (8.37%) Browser DevTools
5 17 (6.77%) Android Studio
5 17 (6.77%) Eclipse
5 17 (6.77%) JIRA
5 17 (6.77%) Xcode
6 10 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.98%) Gradle
6 10 (3.98%) JUnit
6 10 (3.98%) Maven
7 9 (3.59%) Mockito
7 9 (3.59%) Postman
8 6 (2.39%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.39%) PyCharm
8 6 (2.39%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.39%) Selenium
8 6 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.39%) TestRail
General
1 90 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.15%) Finance
3 23 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.98%) Banking
6 12 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.79%) Retail
9 6 (2.39%) Marketing
10 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.59%) Legal
11 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Electronics
12 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) Front Office
13 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.80%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (37.05%) Developer
2 41 (16.33%) Technical Support
3 23 (9.16%) Support Engineer
4 22 (8.76%) Java Developer
5 21 (8.37%) Technical Engineer
5 21 (8.37%) Technical Support Engineer
6 20 (7.97%) DBA
7 18 (7.17%) UX Engineer
8 16 (6.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.37%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.98%) Oracle DBA
9 15 (5.98%) PHP Developer
9 15 (5.98%) Senior
10 14 (5.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 13 (5.18%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) Architect
13 10 (3.98%) Lead
13 10 (3.98%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.59%) Java Architect
15 8 (3.19%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (20.72%) CSS
2 50 (19.92%) React
3 43 (17.13%) RESTful
3 43 (17.13%) Spring Boot
4 38 (15.14%) Spring
5 35 (13.94%) HTML
6 34 (13.55%) AngularJS
6 34 (13.55%) REST
7 32 (12.75%) GraphQL
8 19 (7.57%) .NET
8 19 (7.57%) Ajax
9 18 (7.17%) Hibernate
9 18 (7.17%) Kafka
9 18 (7.17%) Node.js
10 14 (5.58%) Vue
11 12 (4.78%) Spring MVC
12 11 (4.38%) Django
13 10 (3.98%) Laravel
13 10 (3.98%) OpenID
13 10 (3.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (7.57%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.58%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.19%) Clustering
8 7 (2.79%) Replication
9 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.99%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.59%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.80%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.80%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.09%) Linux
2 49 (19.52%) Unix
3 46 (18.33%) Windows
4 19 (7.57%) Android
5 7 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.08%) CI/CD
2 67 (26.69%) Agile
3 64 (25.50%) Microservices
3 64 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.32%) Containerisation
5 50 (19.92%) OO
6 49 (19.52%) DevOps
7 37 (14.74%) OOP
8 36 (14.34%) User Experience
9 35 (13.94%) Computer Science
10 30 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.16%) TDD
12 27 (10.76%) Data Modelling
12 27 (10.76%) MVC
13 25 (9.96%) ETL
13 25 (9.96%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (9.56%) AI
14 24 (9.56%) Migration
15 23 (9.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 116 (46.22%) Python
2 113 (45.02%) Java
3 108 (43.03%) SQL
4 87 (34.66%) JavaScript
5 40 (15.94%) Perl
6 35 (13.94%) PHP
7 18 (7.17%) Bash
8 9 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.19%) Go
10 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.39%) VBA
12 5 (1.99%) Scala
13 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.59%) Ruby
14 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) CFML
14 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (15.14%) Degree
2 35 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.57%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.59%) OCP
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) CCNA
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISEB
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) QA
2 10 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.99%) GDPR
4 5 (1.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.59%) NIST
5 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (24.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Ceph
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Lustre
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Samba
4 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 47 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.36%) Terraform
3 16 (6.37%) Ansible
4 5 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.99%) Puppet
5 4 (1.59%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.59%) Grafana
6 3 (1.20%) Kibana
6 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.80%) Consul
7 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (36.25%) Oracle
2 44 (17.53%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.16%) Splunk
4 20 (7.97%) ServiceNow
5 19 (7.57%) Google
6 9 (3.59%) Advent
7 7 (2.79%) Databricks
7 7 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.39%) Talend
9 5 (1.99%) Gigya
9 5 (1.99%) Informatica
9 5 (1.99%) SAP
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.80%) Adobe
11 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.80%) Denodo
11 2 (0.80%) Percona
11 2 (0.80%) PTC
11 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.80%) Zend