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

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 272 258
Rank change year-on-year -98 -14 +24
Contract jobs citing MySQL 223 224 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.92% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 4.81% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 134 238
10th Percentile £204 £336 £313
25th Percentile £365 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £465 £493
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -5.68% -3.33%
75th Percentile £500 £559 £619
90th Percentile £588 £697 £697
UK median daily rate £437 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -10.82% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £12.95 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%
75th Percentile £90.00 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile - £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.74% -59.36% +57.96%

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 6,258 4,661 6,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.58% 19.06% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,333 3,274 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 95 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.94 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -79 77 £475 +0.26% 39
Midlands -37 40 £447 -11.04% 16
South East -55 40 £208 -46.62% 53
North of England -86 40 £420 -5.94% 37
West Midlands -32 35 £442 -17.00% 5
North West -29 28 £425 -4.49% 17
South West -26 17 £409 -37.08% 21
Yorkshire -72 10 £420 +1.45% 16
East of England -31 5 - - 17
East Midlands -35 5 £540 +9.09% 11
North East -24 2 £400 -13.98% 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 9 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.59%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.79%) SAS
4 3 (1.35%) Confluence
4 3 (1.35%) Moodle
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Appian
5 2 (0.90%) Camunda
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.90%) Magento
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 105 (47.09%) AWS
2 46 (20.63%) Azure
3 31 (13.90%) GCP
4 28 (12.56%) GitHub
5 15 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.73%) SaaS
5 15 (6.73%) Serverless
6 13 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.38%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.04%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (2.69%) Route 53
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) DNS
1 5 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.90%) FTP
3 2 (0.90%) Internet
3 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.90%) NaaS
3 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) SAN
4 1 (0.45%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.45%) SSH
4 1 (0.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (41.26%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (26.91%) Relational Database
3 52 (23.32%) SQL Server
4 28 (12.56%) MongoDB
5 26 (11.66%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.76%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (9.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (6.73%) Power BI
9 13 (5.83%) Pentaho
10 12 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (5.38%) DynamoDB
11 11 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.93%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.04%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.59%) Metadata
13 8 (3.59%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.59%) Redis
14 7 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (2.69%) DB2
15 6 (2.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) Git
2 26 (11.66%) GitLab
3 25 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.73%) JIRA
5 10 (4.48%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.48%) Maven
6 9 (4.04%) JUnit
7 8 (3.59%) Postman
7 8 (3.59%) Selenium
8 7 (3.14%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (3.14%) Mockito
9 6 (2.69%) Gradle
9 6 (2.69%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.69%) TestRail
10 5 (2.24%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.24%) Eclipse
10 5 (2.24%) Xcode
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.35%) ERwin
General
1 59 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.87%) Finance
4 19 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.38%) Retail
6 7 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.69%) Marketing
8 4 (1.79%) Banking
8 4 (1.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Advertising
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Electronics
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 66 (29.60%) Developer
2 34 (15.25%) DBA
3 32 (14.35%) Java Developer
4 29 (13.00%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.42%) Senior
6 17 (7.62%) Support Engineer
6 17 (7.62%) Technical Support
7 15 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) Lead
9 13 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.38%) Architect
10 12 (5.38%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.93%) Administrator
11 11 (4.93%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.04%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.59%) SC Cleared DBA
13 8 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.59%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (3.59%) Technical Support Engineer
14 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.56%) Spring
2 52 (23.32%) Spring Boot
3 46 (20.63%) React
4 39 (17.49%) RESTful
5 37 (16.59%) CSS
6 31 (13.90%) HTML
7 30 (13.45%) REST
8 26 (11.66%) Spring MVC
9 25 (11.21%) Kafka
10 22 (9.87%) AngularJS
11 19 (8.52%) GraphQL
12 18 (8.07%) Hibernate
13 15 (6.73%) .NET
14 11 (4.93%) CSS3
14 11 (4.93%) HTML5
14 11 (4.93%) Node.js
14 11 (4.93%) Redux
15 10 (4.48%) Jest
15 10 (4.48%) JPA
15 10 (4.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.59%) Replication
6 6 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.24%) Clustering
7 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.90%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.87%) Linux
2 32 (14.35%) Unix
3 26 (11.66%) Windows
4 8 (3.59%) Android
5 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.56%) CI/CD
2 52 (23.32%) Agile
2 52 (23.32%) Microservices
3 40 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (15.70%) DevOps
5 31 (13.90%) Code Quality
5 31 (13.90%) ETL
6 28 (12.56%) Containerisation
6 28 (12.56%) MVC
7 27 (12.11%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (11.66%) Software Engineering
9 25 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (10.76%) Data Modelling
11 23 (10.31%) Analytics
11 23 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 23 (10.31%) Observability
11 23 (10.31%) Test Automation
12 22 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (9.87%) OO
13 20 (8.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 114 (51.12%) SQL
2 101 (45.29%) Java
3 75 (33.63%) Python
4 60 (26.91%) JavaScript
5 20 (8.97%) Perl
6 19 (8.52%) PHP
7 14 (6.28%) Bash
8 10 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.14%) Go
9 7 (3.14%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.14%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.69%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.69%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.35%) HiveQL
11 3 (1.35%) Ruby
11 3 (1.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) Korn
13 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 49 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.11%) Degree
4 18 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.69%) OCP
6 6 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.42%) QA
2 15 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.69%) SLA
4 5 (2.24%) GDPR
5 4 (1.79%) NIST
6 3 (1.35%) FATCA
7 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.90%) NCSC
7 2 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.14%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.35%) HDFS
5 2 (0.90%) NFS
5 2 (0.90%) Varnish
6 1 (0.45%) Ceph
6 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.45%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) Lustre
6 1 (0.45%) Samba
6 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.76%) Grafana
3 14 (6.28%) Terraform
4 9 (4.04%) Ansible
4 9 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.79%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.35%) Kibana
6 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 79 (35.43%) Oracle
2 39 (17.49%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.87%) Talend
4 18 (8.07%) Denodo
5 11 (4.93%) Google
6 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.14%) Splunk
8 6 (2.69%) Advent
8 6 (2.69%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) SAP
10 3 (1.35%) Adobe
10 3 (1.35%) Databricks
10 3 (1.35%) Percona
10 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Ciena
11 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.90%) Netlify
11 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
169 MySQL jobs in England