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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 284 222
Rank change year-on-year -115 -62 +19
Contract jobs citing MySQL 214 228 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.83% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.11% 4.53% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 149 277
10th Percentile £310 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £590
90th Percentile £575 £596 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 7
10th Percentile - £32.68 £36.00
25th Percentile £13.51 £50.43 £44.38
Median hourly rate £19.30 £80.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.88% +18.52% +28.57%
75th Percentile £75.11 £83.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% +76.77%

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 6,873 5,033 6,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 18.35% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,600 3,482 4,616
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 88 111
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.63 £20.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% -13.56% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £51.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £36.25 £39.25
% change year-on-year +16.15% -7.64% -28.64%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -95 72 £481 +6.94% 27
Midlands -14 43 £447 -11.49% 8
North of England -71 42 £476 +5.78% 27
West Midlands -33 34 £447 -13.20% 7
North West -31 32 £478 +7.42% 15
South East -74 32 £400 +39.86% 26
East of England -9 10 £850 +64.65% 8
South West -37 10 £409 -25.64% 5
East Midlands -12 9 £540 +8.54% 1
Yorkshire -56 8 £333 -24.04% 4
North East -45 2 £400 -18.37% 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 11 (5.14%) Apache
2 7 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.27%) Confluence
3 5 (2.34%) IIS
3 5 (2.34%) SAS
4 4 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.87%) nginx
4 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.87%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.40%) CMS
5 3 (1.40%) Moodle
5 3 (1.40%) WordPress
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.47%) Drupal
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) Luigi
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 91 (42.52%) AWS
2 55 (25.70%) Azure
3 31 (14.49%) GCP
4 21 (9.81%) Power Platform
5 17 (7.94%) GitHub
6 14 (6.54%) Serverless
7 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.27%) SaaS
8 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.87%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.87%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.40%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Firewall
2 6 (2.80%) SSL
3 5 (2.34%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.93%) FTP
4 2 (0.93%) NaaS
4 2 (0.93%) SAN
4 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.93%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.47%) MQTT
5 1 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (43.93%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (29.44%) SQL Server
3 43 (20.09%) Relational Database
4 28 (13.08%) NoSQL
5 27 (12.62%) MongoDB
6 21 (9.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (9.81%) Power BI
7 16 (7.48%) Pentaho
8 12 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.61%) Oracle Database
9 11 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (4.67%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.21%) Redis
12 8 (3.74%) Hadoop
13 7 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.80%) Big Data
14 6 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (20.09%) Git
2 19 (8.88%) GitLab
3 15 (7.01%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.14%) Maven
5 10 (4.67%) JIRA
6 9 (4.21%) JUnit
7 7 (3.27%) Gradle
8 5 (2.34%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.40%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.40%) Mockito
9 3 (1.40%) Xcode
10 2 (0.93%) Firebug
10 2 (0.93%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
10 2 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.93%) Selenium
10 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.88%) Finance
5 17 (7.94%) Retail
6 6 (2.80%) Advertising
6 6 (2.80%) Marketing
7 5 (2.34%) Banking
8 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Billing
10 2 (0.93%) Front Office
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 2 (0.93%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.47%) French Language
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (27.57%) Developer
2 44 (20.56%) DBA
3 33 (15.42%) Data Engineer
3 33 (15.42%) Senior
4 26 (12.15%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.88%) Administrator
6 18 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (7.94%) Support Engineer
8 15 (7.01%) SQL DBA
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared DBA
11 12 (5.61%) Lead
12 10 (4.67%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Technical Support
14 7 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support
14 7 (3.27%) Architect
14 7 (3.27%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.83%) Spring
2 46 (21.50%) Spring Boot
3 40 (18.69%) CSS
4 36 (16.82%) HTML
5 35 (16.36%) RESTful
6 32 (14.95%) React
7 29 (13.55%) Kafka
8 25 (11.68%) REST
9 24 (11.21%) Spring MVC
10 16 (7.48%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.48%) HTML5
11 15 (7.01%) CSS3
12 14 (6.54%) Vue
13 13 (6.07%) Node.js
14 11 (5.14%) GraphQL
14 11 (5.14%) Hibernate
15 10 (4.67%) Jest
15 10 (4.67%) Redux
15 10 (4.67%) XML
16 9 (4.21%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.14%) Replication
4 10 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.27%) Mobile Payment
7 6 (2.80%) Clustering
8 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.87%) Life Science
9 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.40%) PKI
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.83%) Linux
2 26 (12.15%) Unix
3 23 (10.75%) Windows
4 11 (5.14%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.67%) Android
5 10 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.27%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.87%) Solaris
8 3 (1.40%) CentOS
9 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.57%) CI/CD
2 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.56%) Agile
4 41 (19.16%) DevOps
4 41 (19.16%) Microservices
5 36 (16.82%) Performance Tuning
6 31 (14.49%) ETL
7 30 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (13.08%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.15%) Analytics
9 26 (12.15%) MVC
10 25 (11.68%) AI
10 25 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (10.75%) Code Quality
11 23 (10.75%) Data Integration
12 22 (10.28%) Observability
13 20 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (9.35%) Containerisation
13 20 (9.35%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (46.26%) SQL
2 78 (36.45%) Java
3 59 (27.57%) Python
4 45 (21.03%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.35%) PHP
6 16 (7.48%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.01%) Bash
8 12 (5.61%) T-SQL
9 11 (5.14%) Perl
9 11 (5.14%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.21%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.74%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.87%) C#
12 4 (1.87%) Go
12 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.87%) Ruby
13 3 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.40%) HiveQL
14 2 (0.93%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 67 (31.31%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.28%) Degree
4 20 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.21%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (3.74%) OCP
8 7 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.28%) QA
2 14 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.34%) GDPR
3 5 (2.34%) SLA
4 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.87%) WCAG
5 3 (1.40%) FATCA
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (15.42%) Docker
2 8 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.40%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.40%) HDFS
4 3 (1.40%) Postfix
5 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.68%) Grafana
3 24 (11.21%) Terraform
4 15 (7.01%) Ansible
5 10 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.34%) SCOM
7 4 (1.87%) Kibana
8 3 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.40%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.40%) Puppet
8 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 83 (38.79%) Oracle
2 52 (24.30%) Microsoft
3 23 (10.75%) Talend
4 19 (8.88%) Google
5 16 (7.48%) Denodo
6 11 (5.14%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.27%) Informatica
8 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.34%) Splunk
9 3 (1.40%) Cisco
9 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.40%) F5
9 3 (1.40%) Juniper
9 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.40%) Sybase
10 2 (0.93%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.93%) Ciena
10 2 (0.93%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.93%) SAP