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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 287 251
Rank change year-on-year -107 -36 +13
Contract jobs citing MySQL 211 213 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 4.59% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 135 250
10th Percentile £204 £350 £313
25th Percentile £390 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £465 £474
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -1.85% -5.25%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £599
90th Percentile £588 £640 £696
UK median daily rate £443 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.84% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 8
10th Percentile £12.95 £23.68 £25.20
25th Percentile - £27.93 £38.44
Median hourly rate £13.51 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.40% -39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £57.50 £73.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £35.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +15.00% -49.09% +49.29%

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 6,523 4,641 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 18.79% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,430 3,213 4,628
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 90 142
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.38 £65.34 £53.29
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.62 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.19% -12.53% -31.73%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -85 75 £450 - 40
Midlands -22 45 £447 -8.78% 11
South East -49 40 £306 -25.76% 27
West Midlands -33 34 £447 -13.20% 9
North of England -93 24 £475 +2.15% 46
North West -38 19 £475 +5.56% 28
South West -22 16 £409 -25.64% 12
East Midlands -17 11 £540 +10.20% 2
East of England -29 6 £850 +94.29% 13
Yorkshire -63 3 £333 -16.98% 12
North East -42 2 £400 -18.37% 6
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 (4.74%) Apache
2 8 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.84%) Confluence
4 5 (2.37%) IIS
4 5 (2.37%) nginx
4 5 (2.37%) SAS
5 4 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.42%) Moodle
7 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.95%) Appian
7 2 (0.95%) Camunda
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) CMS
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (48.82%) AWS
2 41 (19.43%) Azure
3 30 (14.22%) GCP
4 19 (9.00%) Power Platform
5 18 (8.53%) GitHub
6 15 (7.11%) Serverless
7 11 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.32%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.32%) SaaS
10 7 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.37%) Route 53
12 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) DNS
2 7 (3.32%) 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 (0.47%) HTTP
4 1 (0.47%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.47%) MQTT
4 1 (0.47%) NAS
4 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (40.76%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (24.64%) SQL Server
3 44 (20.85%) Relational Database
4 30 (14.22%) MongoDB
4 30 (14.22%) NoSQL
5 23 (10.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (9.00%) Power BI
8 16 (7.58%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.69%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (5.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (5.21%) Hadoop
10 11 (5.21%) Oracle Database
10 11 (5.21%) RDBMS
10 11 (5.21%) Redis
11 10 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.79%) Metadata
13 7 (3.32%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (19.91%) Git
2 24 (11.37%) GitLab
3 20 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.74%) Maven
5 9 (4.27%) JIRA
5 9 (4.27%) JUnit
6 6 (2.84%) Browser DevTools
6 6 (2.84%) Gradle
7 5 (2.37%) Mockito
8 4 (1.90%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.90%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.90%) Xcode
9 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) ERwin
10 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.95%) Firebug
10 2 (0.95%) JMeter
10 2 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 39 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.95%) Finance
4 18 (8.53%) Retail
5 16 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Marketing
7 5 (2.37%) Advertising
7 5 (2.37%) Banking
7 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Billing
9 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.95%) Publishing
9 2 (0.95%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) French Language
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (25.59%) Developer
2 33 (15.64%) Data Engineer
2 33 (15.64%) DBA
3 29 (13.74%) Senior
4 25 (11.85%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.06%) Support Engineer
6 15 (7.11%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.16%) Technical Support
9 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (5.69%) Java Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Architect
10 11 (5.21%) Lead
11 10 (4.74%) Administrator
12 9 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.27%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.79%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (3.79%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.59%) Spring
2 49 (23.22%) Spring Boot
3 38 (18.01%) CSS
4 36 (17.06%) React
5 32 (15.17%) HTML
6 31 (14.69%) RESTful
7 30 (14.22%) Kafka
8 24 (11.37%) Spring MVC
9 22 (10.43%) REST
10 17 (8.06%) AngularJS
11 13 (6.16%) CSS3
11 13 (6.16%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.16%) Hibernate
11 13 (6.16%) HTML5
11 13 (6.16%) Vue
12 12 (5.69%) JPA
13 11 (5.21%) Redux
14 10 (4.74%) Jest
14 10 (4.74%) OAuth
15 9 (4.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.27%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.37%) Replication
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.42%) PKI
10 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.95%) Clustering
10 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.54%) Linux
2 29 (13.74%) Unix
3 25 (11.85%) Windows
4 13 (6.16%) Android
5 9 (4.27%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.42%) CentOS
7 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.12%) CI/CD
2 43 (20.38%) Microservices
3 38 (18.01%) Agile
3 38 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.59%) DevOps
5 28 (13.27%) Analytics
5 28 (13.27%) ETL
5 28 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
5 28 (13.27%) Software Engineering
6 25 (11.85%) Code Quality
6 25 (11.85%) MVC
6 25 (11.85%) Observability
7 24 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (11.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (10.90%) Containerisation
9 21 (9.95%) AI
10 20 (9.48%) Data Integration
11 18 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (8.53%) Data Modelling
11 18 (8.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (47.39%) SQL
2 83 (39.34%) Java
3 61 (28.91%) Python
4 48 (22.75%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.58%) PHP
6 15 (7.11%) Perl
7 14 (6.64%) Bash
7 14 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.69%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.27%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.84%) Go
12 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.42%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.42%) Ruby
14 2 (0.95%) C++
14 2 (0.95%) Korn
14 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (32.70%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) Degree
4 14 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.90%) OCP
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.37%) QA
2 16 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.84%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.90%) NIST
4 4 (1.90%) SLA
5 3 (1.42%) FATCA
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Docker
2 9 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.37%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.42%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.42%) HDFS
4 3 (1.42%) Postfix
5 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (12.32%) Grafana
2 25 (11.85%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.90%) Terraform
4 13 (6.16%) Ansible
5 10 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.90%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.42%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.42%) Kibana
7 3 (1.42%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 79 (37.44%) Oracle
2 38 (18.01%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.85%) Talend
4 19 (9.00%) Google
5 18 (8.53%) Denodo
6 7 (3.32%) Informatica
7 6 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.37%) Splunk
9 3 (1.42%) Cisco
9 3 (1.42%) F5
9 3 (1.42%) Juniper
10 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.95%) Ciena
10 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.95%) Databricks
10 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.95%) Netlify
10 2 (0.95%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.95%) Sybase