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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 260 238
Rank change year-on-year -53 -22 +15
Contract jobs citing MySQL 247 234 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.88% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.66% 4.79% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 136 267
10th Percentile £204 £213 £305
25th Percentile £261 £373 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £619
90th Percentile £600 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -14.31% -0.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £26.97
25th Percentile £26.67 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £56.75 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.14% -46.15% +123.52%
75th Percentile £80.94 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £35.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +62.14% -47.08% +83.70%

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 5,299 4,888 6,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.42% 18.48% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,695 3,237 4,399
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £608 £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 94 77 168
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.86 £15.57
25th Percentile £27.69 £24.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £44.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -10.33% -25.26%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £69.10 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +26.43% -17.65% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -5 89 £463 -7.04% 30
North of England -53 55 £420 -8.20% 40
South East -32 46 £208 -44.67% 55
North West -30 34 £438 -2.02% 24
Midlands -35 31 £447 -8.78% 32
West Midlands -25 28 £447 -6.29% 17
Yorkshire -39 21 £389 -22.25% 10
South West -13 13 £528 -30.75% 27
East of England -14 6 £475 +72.73% 24
East Midlands -28 3 - - 15
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 (2.83%) Apache
2 6 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.02%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.62%) Confluence
5 3 (1.21%) nginx
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) Camunda
6 2 (0.81%) Drupal
7 1 (0.40%) Appian
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.81%) Windchill
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Magento
2 2 (0.81%) Shopify
2 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (44.53%) AWS
2 56 (22.67%) Azure
3 44 (17.81%) GCP
4 40 (16.19%) GitHub
5 31 (12.55%) SaaS
6 27 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (9.31%) Serverless
8 21 (8.50%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 16 (6.48%) Sauce Labs
11 15 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (5.26%) Apigee
12 13 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (5.26%) Route 53
12 13 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.26%) Wireless
2 7 (2.83%) DNS
3 4 (1.62%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) 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
1 103 (41.70%) Relational Database
2 91 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (19.03%) SQL Server
4 37 (14.98%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (14.17%) MongoDB
6 29 (11.74%) NoSQL
7 20 (8.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 20 (8.10%) DynamoDB
8 19 (7.69%) RDBMS
9 17 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (5.26%) Redis
11 12 (4.86%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.86%) Oracle Database
12 10 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.64%) DB2
13 9 (3.64%) Power BI
13 9 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.83%) MariaDB
14 7 (2.83%) Tableau
15 6 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 53 (21.46%) Git
2 40 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.31%) GitLab
4 19 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
5 17 (6.88%) JIRA
6 16 (6.48%) Android Studio
6 16 (6.48%) Eclipse
6 16 (6.48%) Xcode
7 11 (4.45%) Postman
8 10 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.05%) Gradle
8 10 (4.05%) JUnit
8 10 (4.05%) Maven
9 9 (3.64%) Mockito
10 8 (3.24%) Selenium
11 6 (2.43%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.43%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.43%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.43%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.43%) TestRail
General
1 88 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.36%) Finance
3 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.07%) Banking
6 12 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.24%) Retail
7 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.43%) Marketing
9 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Legal
10 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.21%) Electronics
11 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (36.44%) Developer
2 39 (15.79%) Technical Support
3 22 (8.91%) Java Developer
4 21 (8.50%) Support Engineer
5 19 (7.69%) DBA
5 19 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
5 19 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
6 18 (7.29%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Senior
7 17 (6.88%) UX Engineer
8 15 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (6.07%) Oracle DBA
9 13 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 13 (5.26%) Java Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) PHP Developer
10 11 (4.45%) Architect
11 10 (4.05%) Lead
12 9 (3.64%) Java Architect
12 9 (3.64%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.24%) React
2 49 (19.84%) CSS
3 45 (18.22%) Spring Boot
4 44 (17.81%) RESTful
5 40 (16.19%) Spring
6 33 (13.36%) REST
7 32 (12.96%) AngularJS
7 32 (12.96%) HTML
8 30 (12.15%) GraphQL
9 20 (8.10%) Kafka
10 19 (7.69%) .NET
11 18 (7.29%) Ajax
11 18 (7.29%) Hibernate
12 16 (6.48%) Node.js
13 14 (5.67%) Vue
14 12 (4.86%) Spring MVC
15 11 (4.45%) Django
16 10 (4.05%) Laravel
16 10 (4.05%) SOAP
17 9 (3.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.29%) Mobile App
4 15 (6.07%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.67%) Virtual Team
6 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.24%) Clustering
9 7 (2.83%) Replication
10 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.02%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.62%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.21%) Mobile Payment
13 2 (0.81%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.13%) Linux
2 48 (19.43%) Unix
3 45 (18.22%) Windows
4 19 (7.69%) Android
5 7 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 67 (27.13%) Agile
3 65 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (25.91%) Microservices
5 50 (20.24%) Containerisation
6 48 (19.43%) DevOps
6 48 (19.43%) OO
7 36 (14.57%) OOP
8 35 (14.17%) Computer Science
8 35 (14.17%) User Experience
9 32 (12.96%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.15%) TDD
11 29 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (10.93%) Data Modelling
12 27 (10.93%) MVC
13 25 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (9.72%) AI
14 24 (9.72%) ETL
14 24 (9.72%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 114 (46.15%) Java
2 113 (45.75%) Python
3 106 (42.91%) SQL
4 84 (34.01%) JavaScript
5 39 (15.79%) Perl
6 33 (13.36%) PHP
7 18 (7.29%) Bash
8 10 (4.05%) Go
8 10 (4.05%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.43%) VBA
11 5 (2.02%) Scala
12 4 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.62%) Ruby
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) CFML
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (15.38%) Degree
2 36 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 30 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.24%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.62%) OCP
8 4 (1.62%) 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 (9.72%) QA
2 10 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 5 (2.02%) SLA
5 4 (1.62%) NIST
5 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (24.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.21%) 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 48 (19.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.12%) Terraform
3 15 (6.07%) Ansible
4 7 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.02%) Grafana
6 4 (1.62%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.62%) Puppet
7 3 (1.21%) Kibana
7 3 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 88 (35.63%) Oracle
2 43 (17.41%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.50%) Splunk
4 19 (7.69%) Google
4 19 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.64%) Advent
6 7 (2.83%) Databricks
6 7 (2.83%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.43%) Talend
8 5 (2.02%) Gigya
8 5 (2.02%) Informatica
8 5 (2.02%) SAP
9 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.81%) Adobe
10 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.81%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.81%) Percona
10 2 (0.81%) PTC
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Zend