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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 254 207
Rank change year-on-year -53 -47 +52
Contract jobs citing MySQL 247 269 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.95% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 5.21% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 160 280
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £238 £324 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -10.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £600
90th Percentile £588 £653 £679
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile £33.88 - £29.43
25th Percentile £40.44 - £52.02
Median hourly rate £73.50 - £66.13
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - £66.13
% change year-on-year - - +66.37%

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 5,425 5,168 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.14% 18.26% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 3,439 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 74 131
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.85 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.70 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +76.53% -34.69% -14.84%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -29 87 £498 +1.79% 93
North of England -50 58 £414 -8.76% 90
South East -15 52 £208 -5.68% 34
North West -28 36 £420 -5.94% 57
Midlands -33 27 £444 -6.97% 34
West Midlands -24 25 £419 -12.21% 23
Yorkshire -38 22 £388 -38.00% 29
South West -1 10 £417 -37.06% 16
East of England -18 6 £475 +111.11% 16
East Midlands -19 2 £556 +11.25% 11
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 6 (2.43%) Apache
1 6 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) SugarCRM
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.81%) Drupal
3 2 (0.81%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.81%) Windchill
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Magento
2 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (38.46%) AWS
2 58 (23.48%) Azure
3 37 (14.98%) GCP
3 37 (14.98%) GitHub
4 36 (14.57%) SaaS
5 25 (10.12%) Serverless
6 24 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (8.10%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.10%) Sauce Labs
8 18 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.26%) Apigee
10 13 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 12 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.45%) Route 53
12 11 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.88%) Wireless
2 6 (2.43%) DNS
3 4 (1.62%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) SMTP
4 2 (0.81%) SSH
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%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (44.13%) Relational Database
2 91 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (19.03%) SQL Server
4 31 (12.55%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (12.15%) MongoDB
6 26 (10.53%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.50%) RDBMS
8 17 (6.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 16 (6.48%) DynamoDB
10 14 (5.67%) Redis
11 13 (5.26%) Oracle Database
12 12 (4.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (4.05%) Hadoop
14 9 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (3.64%) DB2
14 9 (3.64%) MariaDB
14 9 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.43%) Power BI
15 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (20.65%) Git
2 37 (14.98%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.53%) Browser DevTools
4 20 (8.10%) Android Studio
4 20 (8.10%) Eclipse
4 20 (8.10%) GitLab
4 20 (8.10%) Xcode
5 18 (7.29%) JIRA
6 10 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.64%) Postman
8 7 (2.83%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.83%) Gradle
8 7 (2.83%) JUnit
8 7 (2.83%) Maven
9 6 (2.43%) Mockito
9 6 (2.43%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.43%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.43%) Selenium
9 6 (2.43%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.43%) TestRail
General
1 95 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.17%) Finance
3 22 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.48%) Banking
6 14 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.43%) Marketing
8 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Legal
9 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Electronics
10 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Front Office
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (39.27%) Developer
2 46 (18.62%) Technical Support
3 26 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 26 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
3 26 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (9.31%) Java Developer
5 21 (8.50%) UX Engineer
6 19 (7.69%) Senior
7 17 (6.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 17 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.48%) DBA
8 16 (6.48%) PHP Developer
9 12 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.45%) Architect
10 11 (4.45%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (4.05%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
12 8 (3.24%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (23.08%) CSS
2 47 (19.03%) React
3 43 (17.41%) RESTful
4 41 (16.60%) Spring Boot
5 39 (15.79%) HTML
6 37 (14.98%) Spring
7 36 (14.57%) AngularJS
8 34 (13.77%) GraphQL
9 32 (12.96%) REST
10 22 (8.91%) .NET
10 22 (8.91%) Ajax
10 22 (8.91%) Node.js
11 17 (6.88%) Kafka
12 16 (6.48%) Hibernate
13 14 (5.67%) Vue
14 11 (4.45%) Laravel
15 10 (4.05%) SOAP
16 9 (3.64%) OpenID
16 9 (3.64%) Spring MVC
16 9 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.31%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.24%) Clustering
7 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.83%) Replication
9 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.02%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.62%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.81%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.81%) IoT
13 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 64 (25.91%) Linux
2 51 (20.65%) Unix
3 46 (18.62%) Windows
4 20 (8.10%) 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 76 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 71 (28.74%) Agile
3 63 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (25.10%) Microservices
5 56 (22.67%) OO
6 54 (21.86%) DevOps
7 43 (17.41%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.38%) User Experience
9 36 (14.57%) OOP
10 31 (12.55%) Computer Science
10 31 (12.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (11.74%) TDD
12 26 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 26 (10.53%) Software Engineering
13 25 (10.12%) AI
13 25 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.72%) ETL
14 24 (9.72%) Migration
14 24 (9.72%) MVC
15 22 (8.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 114 (46.15%) Java
2 110 (44.53%) Python
3 99 (40.08%) SQL
4 95 (38.46%) JavaScript
5 42 (17.00%) Perl
6 37 (14.98%) PHP
7 17 (6.88%) Bash
8 12 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.83%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.43%) Ruby
10 6 (2.43%) VBA
11 5 (2.02%) Go
12 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.62%) Scala
13 3 (1.21%) C#
13 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (13.77%) Degree
2 30 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.62%) OCP
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 28 (11.34%) QA
2 9 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.02%) SLA
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 3 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (21.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Ceph
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) KVM
3 1 (0.40%) Lustre
3 1 (0.40%) NFS
3 1 (0.40%) Samba
3 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.12%) Terraform
3 15 (6.07%) Ansible
4 5 (2.02%) Puppet
5 4 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.21%) Kibana
6 3 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.81%) Consul
7 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.81%) Grafana
7 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (36.84%) Oracle
2 45 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.12%) Splunk
4 23 (9.31%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.07%) Google
6 9 (3.64%) Advent
6 9 (3.64%) Databricks
7 6 (2.43%) Informatica
7 6 (2.43%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.43%) SAP
8 5 (2.02%) Gigya
8 5 (2.02%) Talend
9 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.81%) Adobe
10 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.81%) Percona
10 2 (0.81%) PTC
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Zend
11 1 (0.40%) HP