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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 256 258
Rank change year-on-year -93 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing MySQL 250 233 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.13% 5.06% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 138 246
10th Percentile £204 £337 £305
25th Percentile £351 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £625
90th Percentile £600 £693 £700
UK median daily rate £433 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -9.14% -4.80% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £22.10 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.74% -59.36% +57.96%

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 6,056 4,601 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,222 3,249 4,421
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 90 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.88 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.05 £70.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -76 87 £500 +5.26% 33
North of England -70 51 £415 -6.74% 32
Midlands -33 45 £437 -10.82% 17
West Midlands -26 40 £437 -10.82% 10
South East -52 39 £208 -45.89% 24
North West -30 30 £450 +1.12% 24
Yorkshire -56 19 £365 -11.84% 4
South West -15 17 £409 -46.36% 19
East of England -33 7 - - 20
East Midlands -34 5 £540 +9.09% 7
North East -14 2 £400 -13.98% 4
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.60%) Apache
3 4 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.60%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Moodle
5 2 (0.80%) Appian
5 2 (0.80%) Camunda
5 2 (0.80%) Drupal
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 114 (45.60%) AWS
2 50 (20.00%) Azure
3 36 (14.40%) GCP
4 33 (13.20%) GitHub
5 17 (6.80%) Amazon S3
5 17 (6.80%) SaaS
5 17 (6.80%) Serverless
6 15 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (3.20%) Route 53
11 8 (3.20%) Sauce Labs
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.00%) DNS
1 5 (2.00%) Firewall
1 5 (2.00%) Wireless
2 4 (1.60%) Internet
3 3 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) FTP
4 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.80%) NaaS
4 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (39.20%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (29.60%) Relational Database
3 53 (21.20%) SQL Server
4 32 (12.80%) MongoDB
5 31 (12.40%) NoSQL
6 27 (10.80%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.40%) Oracle Database
9 15 (6.00%) Power BI
10 14 (5.60%) Hadoop
11 13 (5.20%) DynamoDB
12 12 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (4.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (4.80%) Pentaho
12 12 (4.80%) RDBMS
13 8 (3.20%) DB2
13 8 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.80%) Redis
14 7 (2.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (16.00%) Git
2 36 (14.40%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.40%) GitLab
4 18 (7.20%) JIRA
5 10 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.00%) JUnit
5 10 (4.00%) Maven
6 9 (3.60%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (3.20%) Android Studio
7 8 (3.20%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.20%) Postman
7 8 (3.20%) Selenium
7 8 (3.20%) Xcode
8 7 (2.80%) Mockito
9 6 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.40%) Gradle
9 6 (2.40%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.40%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.40%) TestRail
10 4 (1.60%) CircleCI
General
1 70 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.40%) Finance
3 25 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.80%) Retail
5 12 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.40%) Banking
7 8 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Marketing
8 5 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (29.60%) Developer
2 37 (14.80%) DBA
3 30 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 27 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.80%) Technical Support
6 21 (8.40%) Senior
7 19 (7.60%) Oracle DBA
7 19 (7.60%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.80%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.40%) Architect
11 10 (4.00%) Administrator
11 10 (4.00%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Lead
12 9 (3.60%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.60%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Support Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) UX Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.60%) Spring
2 51 (20.40%) Spring Boot
3 48 (19.20%) React
4 43 (17.20%) RESTful
5 36 (14.40%) CSS
6 31 (12.40%) REST
7 27 (10.80%) AngularJS
8 26 (10.40%) Kafka
9 25 (10.00%) Spring MVC
10 24 (9.60%) HTML
11 20 (8.00%) GraphQL
12 17 (6.80%) .NET
12 17 (6.80%) Hibernate
13 14 (5.60%) Node.js
14 10 (4.00%) Vue
15 9 (3.60%) CSS3
15 9 (3.60%) HTML5
15 9 (3.60%) Jest
15 9 (3.60%) OpenID
15 9 (3.60%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Cloud Native
1 16 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.80%) Clustering
7 7 (2.80%) Replication
8 5 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.60%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.20%) Mobile Payment
11 2 (0.80%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.20%) Linux
2 44 (17.60%) Unix
3 34 (13.60%) Windows
4 11 (4.40%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.00%) Agile
2 64 (25.60%) Microservices
3 63 (25.20%) CI/CD
4 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (17.20%) DevOps
6 33 (13.20%) Data Modelling
6 33 (13.20%) ETL
7 31 (12.40%) Containerisation
8 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (11.60%) Analytics
9 29 (11.60%) Code Quality
9 29 (11.60%) OO
9 29 (11.60%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.20%) Computer Science
10 28 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (10.80%) MVC
12 25 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (9.60%) AI
13 24 (9.60%) Observability
14 23 (9.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 118 (47.20%) SQL
2 111 (44.40%) Java
3 95 (38.00%) Python
4 64 (25.60%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.40%) Perl
6 20 (8.00%) PHP
7 14 (5.60%) Bash
8 10 (4.00%) Go
8 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.80%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.00%) Ruby
12 4 (1.60%) Scala
13 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.20%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.80%) C++
14 2 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 66 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.80%) Degree
4 21 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.40%) OCP
7 6 (2.40%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.80%) QA
2 18 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.60%) SLA
4 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.00%) GDPR
6 4 (1.60%) NIST
7 3 (1.20%) FATCA
8 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
8 2 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (17.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.80%) NFS
6 1 (0.40%) Ceph
6 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.40%) iptables
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Lustre
6 1 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.00%) Grafana
3 15 (6.00%) Terraform
4 13 (5.20%) Ansible
5 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.60%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.80%) Consul
8 2 (0.80%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 96 (38.40%) Oracle
2 42 (16.80%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.60%) Talend
4 16 (6.40%) Denodo
5 13 (5.20%) Google
6 12 (4.80%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.80%) Splunk
7 10 (4.00%) Informatica
8 8 (3.20%) Advent
9 5 (2.00%) SAP
10 4 (1.60%) Databricks
10 4 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.60%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.20%) Percona
11 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.80%) Adobe
12 2 (0.80%) Ciena
12 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.80%) EMC
12 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty