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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 315 237
Rank change year-on-year -97 -78 -16
Contract jobs citing MySQL 237 212 338
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 4.19% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 152 223
10th Percentile £300 £204 £213
25th Percentile £414 £325 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.51% -5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £523 £560
90th Percentile £674 £587 £648
UK median daily rate £500 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +11.48% -0.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile - £38.95 £29.50
25th Percentile - £61.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £13.51 £76.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -82.40% +70.56% -28.00%
75th Percentile £61.38 £87.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £77.00 - £48.50
UK median hourly rate £25.09 £76.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.31% +70.56% -21.40%

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 6,728 5,064 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.13% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,464 3,465 4,019
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £669
90th Percentile £719 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 76 84
10th Percentile £16.21 £20.89 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -33.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -33.33%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -71 95 £525 +16.67% 243
North of England -51 56 £520 +8.05% 66
North West -21 45 £520 +15.56% 35
Midlands -27 35 £448 -3.24% 36
South East -73 26 £413 +98.80% 66
West Midlands -39 22 £450 -2.70% 24
East Midlands -4 13 £300 -40.59% 12
East of England -16 12 £469 -2.09% 52
Yorkshire -36 9 £331 -32.05% 23
South West -46 5 £456 -6.89% 23
North East -40 2 £523 -0.48% 8
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 10 (4.22%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) Apache
3 5 (2.11%) IIS
3 5 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.11%) WordPress
4 4 (1.69%) nginx
4 4 (1.69%) Traefik
5 3 (1.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Luigi
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (45.99%) AWS
2 87 (36.71%) Azure
3 39 (16.46%) GCP
4 29 (12.24%) GitHub
5 24 (10.13%) Serverless
6 19 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 15 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.22%) AWS KMS
13 9 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.95%) Azure Databricks
15 5 (2.11%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.75%) SSL
2 12 (5.06%) DNS
3 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.95%) HTTP
4 7 (2.95%) SSH
5 6 (2.53%) 5G
6 5 (2.11%) 4G
7 4 (1.69%) Firewall
8 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.42%) MQTT
9 1 (0.42%) NAS
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (60.34%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (41.77%) SQL Server
3 50 (21.10%) Relational Database
4 49 (20.68%) MongoDB
5 33 (13.92%) Redis
6 32 (13.50%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (8.02%) Power BI
9 14 (5.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (5.49%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (4.22%) Oracle Database
11 10 (4.22%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.53%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.11%) Couchbase
14 5 (2.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 58 (24.47%) Git
2 30 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.81%) GitLab
4 12 (5.06%) JUnit
5 11 (4.64%) JIRA
6 8 (3.38%) Maven
7 7 (2.95%) Gradle
8 5 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (2.11%) Mockito
8 5 (2.11%) Selenium
8 5 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.69%) Mocha
10 3 (1.27%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.27%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.27%) Subversion
10 3 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.27%) Xcode
11 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.84%) Jasmine
General
1 67 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.55%) Finance
5 13 (5.49%) Retail
6 12 (5.06%) Banking
7 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.11%) Advertising
8 5 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.69%) Marketing
9 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (29.54%) Developer
2 65 (27.43%) DBA
3 39 (16.46%) Administrator
4 32 (13.50%) Senior
5 27 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (10.13%) SQL DBA
7 21 (8.86%) Python Developer
8 20 (8.44%) Software Engineer
9 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared DBA
10 16 (6.75%) Lead
11 15 (6.33%) Java Developer
12 13 (5.49%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Data Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.22%) Support Engineer
16 9 (3.80%) Architect
16 9 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
17 8 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (21.94%) Terraform
2 50 (21.10%) RESTful
3 46 (19.41%) CSS
3 46 (19.41%) HTML
4 44 (18.57%) REST
5 41 (17.30%) Kafka
6 40 (16.88%) React
7 30 (12.66%) Spring
7 30 (12.66%) Spring Boot
8 24 (10.13%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.13%) Django
8 24 (10.13%) Vue
9 21 (8.86%) FastAPI
10 20 (8.44%) GraphQL
10 20 (8.44%) HTML5
10 20 (8.44%) Node.js
11 19 (8.02%) CSS3
11 19 (8.02%) OAuth
12 18 (7.59%) Flask
13 15 (6.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.39%) Replication
3 17 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.64%) Clustering
5 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) PKI
5 8 (3.38%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.53%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.69%) Life Science
9 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.84%) Equities
11 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.94%) Linux
2 23 (9.70%) Windows
3 18 (7.59%) Unix
4 16 (6.75%) Solaris
5 13 (5.49%) Ubuntu
5 13 (5.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.64%) Android
6 11 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.27%) CentOS
8 2 (0.84%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.42%) Rocky
9 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.40%) CI/CD
2 73 (30.80%) DevOps
3 63 (26.58%) Agile
4 53 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (21.94%) Microservices
6 49 (20.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (20.68%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (16.88%) Software Engineering
8 34 (14.35%) Containerisation
9 33 (13.92%) Event-Driven
9 33 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 33 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (13.50%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.81%) AI
12 27 (11.39%) Data Modelling
13 26 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (10.97%) Migration
13 26 (10.97%) Observability
14 24 (10.13%) Scrum
14 24 (10.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 112 (47.26%) SQL
2 83 (35.02%) Python
3 66 (27.85%) Java
4 52 (21.94%) JavaScript
5 25 (10.55%) Bash
5 25 (10.55%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.44%) T-SQL
7 19 (8.02%) PowerShell
8 18 (7.59%) PHP
9 17 (7.17%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.38%) C#
10 8 (3.38%) Perl
11 7 (2.95%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.95%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.11%) Go
12 5 (2.11%) Ruby
13 4 (1.69%) C++
13 4 (1.69%) Rust
14 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.18%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 35 (14.77%) Degree
5 23 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (8.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (5.06%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (4.64%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.64%) OCP
9 10 (4.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (3.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.92%) QA
2 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 73 (30.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.27%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.27%) Postfix
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.02%) Ansible
3 16 (6.75%) Grafana
3 16 (6.75%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.06%) SCOM
5 7 (2.95%) Puppet
6 5 (2.11%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.69%) Istio
8 3 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.27%) Kibana
8 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.84%) Argo
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 82 (34.60%) Oracle
2 68 (28.69%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.13%) Google
4 16 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.64%) Databricks
6 8 (3.38%) Splunk
7 5 (2.11%) webMethods
8 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.69%) SAP
9 3 (1.27%) Cisco
9 3 (1.27%) F5
9 3 (1.27%) Juniper
9 3 (1.27%) Talend
10 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.84%) Informatica
10 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.84%) NetApp
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.84%) Solace
10 2 (0.84%) TIBCO