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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 267 241
Rank change year-on-year -55 -26 +6
Contract jobs citing MySQL 244 231 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.89% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.46% 4.83% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 130 272
10th Percentile £204 £236 £305
25th Percentile £271 £375 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £630
90th Percentile £600 £726 £700
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £26.97
25th Percentile £31.25 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £69.44 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.40% -46.15% +123.52%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £67.27
% change year-on-year +82.86% -47.97% +86.85%

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 5,467 4,779 6,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.28% 18.49% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 3,174 4,451
10th Percentile £333 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 163
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.65
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £51.36 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £85.70 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +38.31% -9.41% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -38 88 £475 -5.00% 32
North of England -70 51 £415 -9.29% 51
South East -17 45 £208 -44.67% 32
Midlands -41 34 £450 -9.09% 28
West Midlands -30 31 £450 -8.16% 17
North West -41 29 £425 -4.49% 30
Yorkshire -49 21 £389 -22.25% 14
South West -10 13 £450 -40.98% 24
East of England -17 6 - - 12
East Midlands -33 3 - - 11
North East -11 1 - - 7
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 8 (3.28%) Apache
2 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.05%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.64%) Confluence
5 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.82%) Appian
6 2 (0.82%) Camunda
6 2 (0.82%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.82%) Windchill
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Magento
2 2 (0.82%) Shopify
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 108 (44.26%) AWS
2 53 (21.72%) Azure
3 40 (16.39%) GCP
4 36 (14.75%) GitHub
5 25 (10.25%) SaaS
6 22 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (8.61%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.79%) Serverless
9 16 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (6.15%) Sauce Labs
11 14 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.28%) Apigee
15 8 (3.28%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.92%) Wireless
2 7 (2.87%) DNS
3 4 (1.64%) Internet
4 2 (0.82%) SMTP
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (39.75%) Relational Database
2 90 (36.89%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (19.26%) SQL Server
4 33 (13.52%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (13.52%) MongoDB
5 24 (9.84%) NoSQL
6 18 (7.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 15 (6.15%) DynamoDB
7 15 (6.15%) Oracle Database
8 14 (5.74%) RDBMS
9 12 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.92%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.69%) DB2
10 9 (3.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (3.28%) Power BI
12 7 (2.87%) Redis
13 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.46%) MariaDB
13 6 (2.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (19.67%) Git
2 36 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.43%) GitLab
4 17 (6.97%) Browser DevTools
4 17 (6.97%) JIRA
5 15 (6.15%) Android Studio
5 15 (6.15%) Eclipse
5 15 (6.15%) Xcode
6 11 (4.51%) Postman
7 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.10%) JUnit
7 10 (4.10%) Mockito
8 8 (3.28%) Selenium
9 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.46%) Gradle
9 6 (2.46%) Maven
9 6 (2.46%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.46%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.46%) TestRail
10 4 (1.64%) CircleCI
General
1 79 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.11%) Finance
3 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.74%) Banking
6 13 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.28%) Retail
9 6 (2.46%) Marketing
10 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.64%) Legal
11 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.23%) Electronics
12 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.41%) Law
14 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 93 (38.11%) Developer
2 36 (14.75%) Technical Support
3 27 (11.07%) Java Developer
4 19 (7.79%) DBA
4 19 (7.79%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.38%) Senior
5 18 (7.38%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.97%) Technical Engineer
6 17 (6.97%) Technical Support Engineer
7 16 (6.56%) UX Engineer
8 15 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (6.15%) Oracle DBA
9 13 (5.33%) PHP Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 12 (4.92%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Lead
12 9 (3.69%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.28%) Architect
14 7 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.90%) React
2 47 (19.26%) CSS
3 43 (17.62%) Spring
3 43 (17.62%) Spring Boot
4 41 (16.80%) RESTful
5 33 (13.52%) REST
6 31 (12.70%) HTML
7 29 (11.89%) AngularJS
8 27 (11.07%) GraphQL
9 22 (9.02%) Kafka
10 19 (7.79%) .NET
11 18 (7.38%) Hibernate
12 17 (6.97%) Ajax
12 17 (6.97%) Node.js
13 15 (6.15%) Spring MVC
13 15 (6.15%) Vue
14 10 (4.10%) Django
14 10 (4.10%) Laravel
14 10 (4.10%) SOAP
15 9 (3.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Cloud Native
1 19 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (6.97%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.74%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.28%) Clustering
8 7 (2.87%) Replication
9 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.64%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.23%) Mobile Payment
12 2 (0.82%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.87%) Linux
2 48 (19.67%) Unix
3 43 (17.62%) Windows
4 18 (7.38%) Android
5 7 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.33%) CI/CD
2 65 (26.64%) Agile
2 65 (26.64%) Microservices
3 60 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (20.49%) DevOps
5 45 (18.44%) OO
6 44 (18.03%) Containerisation
7 35 (14.34%) User Experience
8 34 (13.93%) Computer Science
9 33 (13.52%) Software Engineering
10 31 (12.70%) OOP
11 29 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 28 (11.48%) ETL
13 27 (11.07%) Data Modelling
14 26 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (10.66%) MVC
14 26 (10.66%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (10.25%) TDD
16 24 (9.84%) Migration
17 23 (9.43%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 113 (46.31%) Java
2 109 (44.67%) SQL
3 104 (42.62%) Python
4 82 (33.61%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.57%) Perl
6 33 (13.52%) PHP
7 17 (6.97%) Bash
8 10 (4.10%) Go
8 10 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.10%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.46%) VBA
10 4 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.64%) Scala
11 3 (1.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) CFML
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.57%) Degree
3 28 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (10.25%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.69%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.64%) OCP
8 4 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) ISEB
11 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.84%) QA
2 12 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.05%) GDPR
4 5 (2.05%) SLA
5 4 (1.64%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.23%) FATCA
7 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.82%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (22.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Ceph
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
4 1 (0.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.41%) Lustre
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) Samba
4 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (17.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.20%) Terraform
3 15 (6.15%) Ansible
4 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.05%) Grafana
6 4 (1.64%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.23%) Kibana
7 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.23%) Puppet
7 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.82%) Consul
8 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 89 (36.48%) Oracle
2 45 (18.44%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.20%) Splunk
4 18 (7.38%) Google
4 18 (7.38%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.10%) Talend
6 9 (3.69%) Advent
7 7 (2.87%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.46%) Informatica
9 5 (2.05%) Databricks
9 5 (2.05%) SAP
10 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.82%) Denodo
11 2 (0.82%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.82%) Percona
11 2 (0.82%) PTC
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.82%) Zend