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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 247 247
Rank change year-on-year -96 0 +16
Contract jobs citing MySQL 249 256 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 1.03% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.22% 5.41% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 153 259
10th Percentile £204 £320 £305
25th Percentile £331 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £568 £621
90th Percentile £600 £687 £702
UK median daily rate £440 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £26.75
25th Percentile £26.67 £24.39 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% -59.36% +60.92%
75th Percentile £88.13 £31.99 £76.53
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.22
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +124.96% -59.36% +60.68%

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 5,905 4,731 6,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.06% 19.12% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,095 3,320 4,433
10th Percentile £345 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £662
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 87 155
10th Percentile £18.18 £20.21 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.11 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% -17.74% -32.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £55.19
90th Percentile £85.08 £71.50 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -32.92%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -66 90 £475 -1.30% 34
North of England -69 47 £415 -6.74% 29
Midlands -28 46 £447 -10.60% 24
South East -49 43 £208 -45.29% 29
West Midlands -30 42 £447 -11.04% 18
North West -50 27 £438 -1.69% 20
Yorkshire -58 18 £369 -10.99% 4
South West -22 11 £450 -40.98% 22
East of England -29 6 - - 18
East Midlands -31 4 - - 6
North East -10 2 £400 -13.04% 5
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 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.61%) Apache
3 7 (2.81%) Confluence
4 4 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.20%) Moodle
5 3 (1.20%) SAS
6 2 (0.80%) Appian
6 2 (0.80%) Camunda
6 2 (0.80%) Drupal
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.01%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 107 (42.97%) AWS
2 53 (21.29%) Azure
3 40 (16.06%) GCP
4 35 (14.06%) GitHub
5 20 (8.03%) SaaS
6 19 (7.63%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (6.43%) Serverless
8 14 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.82%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.42%) Sauce Labs
12 9 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.21%) Route 53
14 7 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.21%) Wireless
2 5 (2.01%) DNS
3 4 (1.61%) Firewall
3 4 (1.61%) Internet
4 3 (1.20%) WAN
5 2 (0.80%) FTP
5 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.80%) NaaS
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.40%) SSH
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (39.76%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (32.53%) Relational Database
3 57 (22.89%) SQL Server
4 33 (13.25%) MongoDB
5 28 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (11.24%) NoSQL
6 17 (6.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.43%) Oracle Database
8 14 (5.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 14 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.62%) DynamoDB
8 14 (5.62%) Hadoop
9 13 (5.22%) RDBMS
10 12 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.82%) Power BI
11 10 (4.02%) Pentaho
12 8 (3.21%) DB2
12 8 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (2.81%) Redis
14 6 (2.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (18.47%) Git
2 37 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.64%) GitLab
4 19 (7.63%) JIRA
5 12 (4.82%) Browser DevTools
6 11 (4.42%) Android Studio
6 11 (4.42%) Eclipse
6 11 (4.42%) Postman
6 11 (4.42%) Xcode
7 10 (4.02%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.02%) JUnit
7 10 (4.02%) Maven
8 9 (3.61%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.21%) Selenium
10 7 (2.81%) Mockito
11 6 (2.41%) Gradle
11 6 (2.41%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.41%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.41%) TestRail
12 4 (1.61%) CircleCI
General
1 78 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.65%) Finance
3 26 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.82%) Retail
5 12 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.42%) Banking
7 10 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Legal
9 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.61%) Marketing
9 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (30.92%) Developer
2 35 (14.06%) DBA
3 25 (10.04%) Technical Support
4 23 (9.24%) Java Developer
5 22 (8.84%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.63%) Senior
6 19 (7.63%) Software Engineer
6 19 (7.63%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) Oracle DBA
8 13 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (4.82%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (4.82%) Technical Support Engineer
10 11 (4.42%) Lead
10 11 (4.42%) UX Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Architect
11 10 (4.02%) PHP Developer
12 9 (3.61%) Administrator
12 9 (3.61%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.67%) React
1 44 (17.67%) Spring
2 41 (16.47%) RESTful
3 40 (16.06%) Spring Boot
4 38 (15.26%) CSS
5 34 (13.65%) REST
6 28 (11.24%) AngularJS
7 25 (10.04%) Kafka
8 22 (8.84%) GraphQL
8 22 (8.84%) HTML
9 19 (7.63%) Spring MVC
10 18 (7.23%) .NET
10 18 (7.23%) Hibernate
11 16 (6.43%) Node.js
12 13 (5.22%) Vue
13 12 (4.82%) Ajax
14 9 (3.61%) Django
14 9 (3.61%) JPA
14 9 (3.61%) OpenID
15 8 (3.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.82%) Mobile App
5 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.02%) Clustering
6 10 (4.02%) Replication
6 10 (4.02%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.61%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Mobile Payment
11 2 (0.80%) Acoustics
11 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.10%) Linux
2 46 (18.47%) Unix
3 36 (14.46%) Windows
4 14 (5.62%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.11%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.70%) Agile
3 61 (24.50%) Microservices
4 58 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (19.28%) DevOps
6 38 (15.26%) Containerisation
7 35 (14.06%) ETL
8 34 (13.65%) OO
9 32 (12.85%) Data Modelling
10 29 (11.65%) Analytics
11 28 (11.24%) Computer Science
11 28 (11.24%) Software Engineering
12 26 (10.44%) MVC
12 26 (10.44%) User Experience
13 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.04%) OOP
13 25 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
14 23 (9.24%) AI
14 23 (9.24%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (9.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (45.38%) SQL
2 103 (41.37%) Java
3 100 (40.16%) Python
4 66 (26.51%) JavaScript
5 29 (11.65%) Perl
6 26 (10.44%) PHP
7 16 (6.43%) Bash
8 10 (4.02%) Go
8 10 (4.02%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.81%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.61%) Scala
11 4 (1.61%) VBA
12 3 (1.20%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.20%) Ruby
12 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) C++
13 2 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.06%) Degree
4 22 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.21%) OCP
6 8 (3.21%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
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 21 (8.43%) QA
2 16 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.61%) SLA
4 6 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.61%) NIST
6 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.20%) FATCA
8 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (19.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.40%) Ceph
4 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Lustre
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Samba
4 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.83%) Grafana
2 17 (6.83%) Terraform
3 15 (6.02%) Ansible
4 9 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.61%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.80%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.80%) Consul
7 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.80%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 92 (36.95%) Oracle
2 45 (18.07%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.43%) Talend
4 16 (6.43%) Google
5 15 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.02%) Splunk
6 13 (5.22%) Denodo
7 9 (3.61%) Informatica
8 8 (3.21%) Advent
9 5 (2.01%) Databricks
9 5 (2.01%) SAP
10 4 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.20%) Percona
11 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.80%) Adobe
12 2 (0.80%) Ciena
12 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.80%) Sybase