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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 257 208
Rank change year-on-year -52 -49 +55
Contract jobs citing MySQL 248 281 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.60% 5.30% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 172 295
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £221 £313 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -11.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £607
90th Percentile £588 £650 £696
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 13
10th Percentile £33.88 - £26.97
25th Percentile £40.44 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £73.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +49.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,387 5,297 6,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 18.15% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,531 4,440
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £663 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 75 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.20 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.48 £24.70
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.20% -33.76% -7.69%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -35 88 £463 -5.13% 31
North of England -45 58 £412 -8.44% 49
South East -15 53 £208 +1.22% 52
North West -34 36 £415 -6.74% 24
Midlands -31 26 £463 -3.04% 37
West Midlands -28 24 £425 -10.90% 17
Yorkshire -35 22 £388 -44.64% 21
South West -4 8 £438 +9.38% 28
East of England -12 7 £479 +112.78% 20
East Midlands -28 2 £556 +12.37% 18
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 (4.03%) Apache
2 7 (2.82%) Confluence
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.02%) SugarCRM
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) Drupal
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.40%) Luigi
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.84%) 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 (3.63%) 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 93 (37.50%) AWS
2 60 (24.19%) Azure
3 38 (15.32%) GCP
4 37 (14.92%) SaaS
5 34 (13.71%) GitHub
6 24 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (8.87%) Serverless
8 21 (8.47%) Sauce Labs
9 17 (6.85%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (5.24%) Apigee
12 13 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.63%) Datadog
15 8 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.23%) Route 53
15 8 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.26%) Wireless
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) Internet
3 3 (1.21%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) DHCP
4 2 (0.81%) SMTP
4 2 (0.81%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (44.76%) Relational Database
2 89 (35.89%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (18.55%) SQL Server
4 30 (12.10%) MongoDB
5 28 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 21 (8.47%) RDBMS
7 17 (6.85%) Apache Cassandra
8 14 (5.65%) MariaDB
9 13 (5.24%) DynamoDB
9 13 (5.24%) Oracle Database
10 11 (4.44%) Redis
11 10 (4.03%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.63%) DB2
12 9 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (2.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 53 (21.37%) Git
2 36 (14.52%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.69%) Browser DevTools
4 21 (8.47%) Android Studio
4 21 (8.47%) Eclipse
4 21 (8.47%) Xcode
5 20 (8.06%) JIRA
6 16 (6.45%) GitLab
7 9 (3.63%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.63%) Postman
8 8 (3.23%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.82%) Firebug
10 6 (2.42%) JUnit
10 6 (2.42%) PyCharm
10 6 (2.42%) REST Assured
10 6 (2.42%) Selenium
10 6 (2.42%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.42%) TestRail
11 5 (2.02%) Gradle
11 5 (2.02%) SonarLint
General
1 102 (41.13%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.52%) Finance
3 23 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.85%) Banking
6 14 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.42%) Marketing
8 6 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Legal
9 4 (1.61%) 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%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 96 (38.71%) Developer
2 47 (18.95%) Technical Support
3 29 (11.69%) Support Engineer
3 29 (11.69%) Technical Engineer
3 29 (11.69%) Technical Support Engineer
4 22 (8.87%) UX Engineer
5 20 (8.06%) Java Developer
6 18 (7.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 18 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (6.45%) PHP Developer
8 15 (6.05%) DBA
8 15 (6.05%) Senior
9 11 (4.44%) Java Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Oracle DBA
10 10 (4.03%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.63%) Architect
11 9 (3.63%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.23%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.23%) Cloud Developer
12 8 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.39%) CSS
2 48 (19.35%) React
3 41 (16.53%) RESTful
4 39 (15.73%) HTML
5 37 (14.92%) AngularJS
6 36 (14.52%) GraphQL
7 34 (13.71%) Spring Boot
8 30 (12.10%) Spring
9 29 (11.69%) REST
10 24 (9.68%) Node.js
11 23 (9.27%) Ajax
12 22 (8.87%) .NET
13 14 (5.65%) Vue
14 13 (5.24%) Hibernate
14 13 (5.24%) Kafka
15 12 (4.84%) Laravel
15 12 (4.84%) XML
16 10 (4.03%) SOAP
17 8 (3.23%) Web Services
18 7 (2.82%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.68%) Mobile App
2 22 (8.87%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.24%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.23%) Clustering
7 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.82%) Replication
9 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.02%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.61%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.81%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.81%) IoT
14 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.42%) Linux
2 50 (20.16%) Unix
3 49 (19.76%) Windows
4 21 (8.47%) Android
5 12 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.61%) CentOS
7 3 (1.21%) Debian
7 3 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.24%) Agile
2 74 (29.84%) CI/CD
3 64 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (23.79%) Microservices
5 57 (22.98%) OO
6 52 (20.97%) DevOps
7 43 (17.34%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.32%) User Experience
9 33 (13.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (13.31%) OOP
10 29 (11.69%) Computer Science
11 27 (10.89%) TDD
12 25 (10.08%) Data Modelling
12 25 (10.08%) Migration
12 25 (10.08%) Software Engineering
13 24 (9.68%) ETL
14 23 (9.27%) AI
14 23 (9.27%) Clean Code
14 23 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.87%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 113 (45.56%) Python
2 108 (43.55%) Java
3 98 (39.52%) JavaScript
4 92 (37.10%) SQL
5 43 (17.34%) Perl
6 39 (15.73%) PHP
7 21 (8.47%) Bash
8 12 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.82%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.82%) Ruby
11 6 (2.42%) VBA
12 4 (1.61%) Go
12 4 (1.61%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.21%) C#
13 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.21%) Scala
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) CFML
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.90%) Degree
2 30 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.02%) OCP
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
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%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.29%) QA
2 8 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
3 5 (2.02%) SLA
4 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 52 (20.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.81%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
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 41 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.08%) Terraform
3 18 (7.26%) Ansible
4 9 (3.63%) Puppet
5 7 (2.82%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.21%) Kibana
7 3 (1.21%) Salt
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.81%) Grafana
8 2 (0.81%) Icinga
8 2 (0.81%) Nagios
8 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 94 (37.90%) Oracle
2 48 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 26 (10.48%) Splunk
4 24 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.05%) Google
6 9 (3.63%) Advent
7 8 (3.23%) Databricks
8 6 (2.42%) Informatica
8 6 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.42%) SAP
9 5 (2.02%) Gigya
9 5 (2.02%) Talend
10 4 (1.61%) Zend
11 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.21%) New Relic
11 3 (1.21%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.81%) Percona
12 2 (0.81%) PTC
12 2 (0.81%) VMware