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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 276 254
Rank change year-on-year -118 -22 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 210 216 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.89% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.68% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 239
10th Percentile £204 £336 £323
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £619
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £437 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -7.76% -0.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £39.65
25th Percentile - £24.39 £65.00
Median hourly rate £13.51 £28.45 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.51% -59.36% +52.01%
75th Percentile £72.22 £31.99 £75.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +23.02% -59.36% +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 6,383 4,617 6,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 19.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,349 3,206 4,511
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 92 136
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.96 £20.70
Median hourly rate £39.75 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -20.39% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.63 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.63 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.55% -17.60% -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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -86 77 £450 - 31
Midlands -28 40 £447 -8.78% 11
South East -51 39 £208 -48.45% 22
West Midlands -36 30 £442 +2.20% 9
North of England -91 28 £468 +2.86% 31
North West -45 17 £475 +6.74% 17
South West -25 16 £409 -25.64% 5
East Midlands -20 10 £540 +10.20% 2
Yorkshire -63 9 £420 +4.87% 10
East of England -31 6 - - 6
North East -30 2 £400 -15.34% 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 11 (5.24%) Apache
2 9 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.38%) nginx
4 4 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.90%) IIS
4 4 (1.90%) SAS
4 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.43%) Confluence
5 3 (1.43%) Moodle
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.95%) Appian
6 2 (0.95%) Camunda
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.48%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.52%) AWS
2 46 (21.90%) Azure
3 31 (14.76%) GCP
4 18 (8.57%) GitHub
5 14 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.67%) SaaS
5 14 (6.67%) Serverless
6 10 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (2.86%) Route 53
10 6 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.81%) DNS
2 7 (3.33%) Firewall
3 2 (0.95%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.95%) FTP
3 2 (0.95%) NaaS
3 2 (0.95%) SAN
3 2 (0.95%) WAN
4 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.48%) MQTT
4 1 (0.48%) NAS
4 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 43 (20.48%) Relational Database
4 30 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 29 (13.81%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.67%) Power BI
8 13 (6.19%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.71%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.24%) Hadoop
11 10 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (4.76%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.81%) Metadata
12 8 (3.81%) Redis
13 7 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.33%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (16.67%) Git
2 27 (12.86%) GitLab
3 21 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.14%) JIRA
5 10 (4.76%) Maven
6 9 (4.29%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (4.29%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.81%) Postman
7 8 (3.81%) Selenium
8 6 (2.86%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.86%) Eclipse
8 6 (2.86%) Gradle
8 6 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.86%) TestRail
8 6 (2.86%) Xcode
9 5 (2.38%) JUnit
9 5 (2.38%) Mockito
10 4 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.43%) ERwin
11 3 (1.43%) Firebug
General
1 45 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.62%) Retail
4 15 (7.14%) Finance
4 15 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.38%) Advertising
5 5 (2.38%) Marketing
5 5 (2.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.95%) Banking
6 2 (0.95%) Billing
6 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.95%) Publishing
7 1 (0.48%) Electronics
7 1 (0.48%) French Language
7 1 (0.48%) Front Office
7 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (23.81%) Developer
2 33 (15.71%) DBA
3 28 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 24 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.48%) Senior
6 20 (9.52%) Support Engineer
7 18 (8.57%) Technical Support
8 15 (7.14%) Lead
9 14 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.24%) Architect
11 11 (5.24%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (5.24%) Technical Support Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Administrator
13 9 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.29%) Oracle DBA
14 8 (3.81%) 2nd Line Support
14 8 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.81%) SC Cleared DBA
14 8 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.38%) Spring
2 42 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 38 (18.10%) React
4 36 (17.14%) CSS
5 30 (14.29%) Kafka
6 29 (13.81%) HTML
6 29 (13.81%) RESTful
7 24 (11.43%) REST
8 20 (9.52%) Spring MVC
9 19 (9.05%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.10%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.71%) CSS3
11 12 (5.71%) HTML5
11 12 (5.71%) Vue
12 11 (5.24%) Redux
12 11 (5.24%) XML
13 10 (4.76%) Hibernate
13 10 (4.76%) Jest
14 9 (4.29%) .NET
14 9 (4.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.81%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.38%) Replication
8 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.43%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.43%) PKI
9 2 (0.95%) Clustering
9 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 58 (27.62%) Linux
2 29 (13.81%) Unix
2 29 (13.81%) Windows
3 14 (6.67%) Android
4 7 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.43%) CentOS
6 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.33%) CI/CD
2 39 (18.57%) Microservices
3 38 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (17.62%) Agile
5 34 (16.19%) DevOps
6 28 (13.33%) ETL
7 27 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (11.43%) Code Quality
8 24 (11.43%) Containerisation
8 24 (11.43%) Observability
8 24 (11.43%) Software Engineering
9 22 (10.48%) Analytics
10 21 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (10.00%) MVC
10 21 (10.00%) OO
11 18 (8.57%) Test Automation
12 17 (8.10%) Computer Science
12 17 (8.10%) Data Modelling
12 17 (8.10%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.05%) SQL
2 85 (40.48%) Java
3 66 (31.43%) Python
4 57 (27.14%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.00%) PHP
6 19 (9.05%) Perl
7 16 (7.62%) Bash
8 14 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.33%) Go
9 7 (3.33%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.86%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.38%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.43%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.43%) Ruby
12 3 (1.43%) Scala
13 2 (0.95%) C++
13 2 (0.95%) Korn
14 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (30.48%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.48%) Degree
4 15 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.38%) OCP
7 5 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.48%) CCNA
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.90%) QA
2 16 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.90%) NIST
4 4 (1.90%) SLA
5 3 (1.43%) FATCA
5 3 (1.43%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (14.76%) Docker
2 9 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.43%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.43%) HDFS
4 3 (1.43%) Postfix
5 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.48%) NFS
5 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (12.38%) Grafana
2 24 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.00%) Terraform
4 12 (5.71%) Ansible
5 11 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.90%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.43%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.43%) Kibana
7 3 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 74 (35.24%) Oracle
2 38 (18.10%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.48%) Talend
4 18 (8.57%) Denodo
5 14 (6.67%) Google
6 8 (3.81%) Splunk
7 7 (3.33%) Informatica
7 7 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.90%) Cisco
10 3 (1.43%) Databricks
10 3 (1.43%) F5
10 3 (1.43%) Juniper
11 2 (0.95%) Adobe
11 2 (0.95%) Ciena
11 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.95%) Netlify
11 2 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.95%) Salesforce