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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 249 257
Rank change year-on-year -112 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing MySQL 246 237 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 5.10% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 140 245
10th Percentile £204 £337 £312
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £522 £553 £619
90th Percentile £588 £691 £698
UK median daily rate £435 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.30% -4.76%
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% +57.81%
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% +60.44%

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 6,221 4,644 6,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.07% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,334 3,267 4,410
10th Percentile £350 £357 £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 £663 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 95 139
10th Percentile £18.10 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.80
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -28.19%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.55 £73.75 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +56.30% -17.23% -30.43%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -74 86 £463 -2.63% 33
North of England -76 47 £450 +1.12% 32
Midlands -32 44 £437 -10.82% 17
South East -52 40 £208 -45.89% 24
West Midlands -31 39 £437 -10.82% 10
North West -25 30 £450 +1.12% 24
South West -13 18 £409 -46.36% 19
Yorkshire -61 15 £468 +13.04% 4
East of England -33 7 - - 20
East Midlands -30 5 £540 +9.09% 7
North East -21 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 10 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.66%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.63%) SAS
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) Moodle
5 2 (0.81%) Appian
5 2 (0.81%) Camunda
5 2 (0.81%) Drupal
5 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Magento
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.81%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (46.34%) AWS
2 47 (19.11%) Azure
3 36 (14.63%) GCP
4 33 (13.41%) GitHub
5 18 (7.32%) Serverless
6 17 (6.91%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.91%) SaaS
7 15 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (6.10%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.25%) Route 53
12 7 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (2.85%) Sauce Labs
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) DNS
1 5 (2.03%) Firewall
2 4 (1.63%) Internet
2 4 (1.63%) Wireless
3 3 (1.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.81%) FTP
4 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.81%) NaaS
4 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) SAN
5 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (41.87%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (29.67%) Relational Database
3 52 (21.14%) SQL Server
4 33 (13.41%) MongoDB
5 32 (13.01%) NoSQL
6 26 (10.57%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (9.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (6.10%) Power BI
9 13 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.28%) Pentaho
10 12 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.88%) DynamoDB
10 12 (4.88%) Hadoop
10 12 (4.88%) RDBMS
11 10 (4.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.66%) Oracle Database
12 9 (3.66%) Redis
12 9 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (3.25%) DB2
13 8 (3.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (17.48%) Git
2 35 (14.23%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.38%) GitLab
4 19 (7.72%) JIRA
5 10 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.07%) JUnit
5 10 (4.07%) Maven
6 8 (3.25%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (3.25%) Postman
6 8 (3.25%) Selenium
7 7 (2.85%) Android Studio
7 7 (2.85%) Eclipse
7 7 (2.85%) Mockito
7 7 (2.85%) Xcode
8 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.44%) Gradle
8 6 (2.44%) PyCharm
8 6 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.44%) TestRail
9 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 69 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.16%) Finance
3 23 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.88%) Retail
6 10 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.85%) Banking
9 6 (2.44%) Marketing
10 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.22%) Electronics
13 2 (0.81%) Advertising
13 2 (0.81%) Billing
13 2 (0.81%) Front Office
13 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Publishing
14 1 (0.41%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 77 (31.30%) Developer
2 34 (13.82%) DBA
3 33 (13.41%) Java Developer
4 29 (11.79%) Data Engineer
5 24 (9.76%) Senior
6 20 (8.13%) Technical Support
7 17 (6.91%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.91%) Support Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (4.88%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (4.88%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Administrator
10 11 (4.47%) Architect
10 11 (4.47%) Lead
11 9 (3.66%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.39%) Spring
2 56 (22.76%) Spring Boot
3 51 (20.73%) React
4 45 (18.29%) RESTful
5 39 (15.85%) CSS
6 32 (13.01%) REST
7 29 (11.79%) HTML
7 29 (11.79%) Kafka
8 27 (10.98%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.57%) Spring MVC
10 21 (8.54%) GraphQL
11 18 (7.32%) Hibernate
12 17 (6.91%) .NET
13 14 (5.69%) Node.js
14 11 (4.47%) CSS3
14 11 (4.47%) HTML5
14 11 (4.47%) Redux
15 10 (4.07%) Jest
15 10 (4.07%) JPA
15 10 (4.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.66%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.25%) Replication
6 7 (2.85%) Clustering
6 7 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.63%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.63%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.22%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.58%) Linux
2 37 (15.04%) Unix
3 32 (13.01%) Windows
4 10 (4.07%) Android
5 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.24%) CI/CD
2 66 (26.83%) Microservices
3 64 (26.02%) Agile
4 46 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.89%) DevOps
6 33 (13.41%) Code Quality
6 33 (13.41%) Containerisation
6 33 (13.41%) Data Modelling
7 32 (13.01%) ETL
8 31 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (11.79%) MVC
9 29 (11.79%) Software Engineering
10 27 (10.98%) Computer Science
10 27 (10.98%) Observability
10 27 (10.98%) OO
10 27 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (9.76%) Analytics
13 23 (9.35%) AI
13 23 (9.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 124 (50.41%) SQL
2 111 (45.12%) Java
3 88 (35.77%) Python
4 65 (26.42%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.76%) Perl
6 21 (8.54%) PHP
7 15 (6.10%) Bash
8 10 (4.07%) Go
9 9 (3.66%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.25%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.85%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.03%) Ruby
12 5 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.03%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.63%) Scala
14 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.22%) HiveQL
14 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.81%) C++
15 2 (0.81%) Korn
Qualifications
1 71 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.60%) Degree
4 20 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.44%) OCP
6 6 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.35%) QA
2 16 (6.50%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.85%) SLA
4 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.03%) GDPR
6 4 (1.63%) NIST
7 3 (1.22%) FATCA
8 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.81%) NCSC
8 2 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (18.70%) Docker
2 5 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.22%) HDFS
5 2 (0.81%) NFS
5 2 (0.81%) Varnish
6 1 (0.41%) Ceph
6 1 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.41%) iptables
6 1 (0.41%) KVM
6 1 (0.41%) Lustre
6 1 (0.41%) Samba
6 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.76%) Grafana
3 17 (6.91%) Terraform
4 13 (5.28%) Ansible
5 11 (4.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.22%) Kibana
7 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 83 (33.74%) Oracle
2 42 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.94%) Talend
4 18 (7.32%) Denodo
5 13 (5.28%) Google
6 11 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.47%) Splunk
7 8 (3.25%) Advent
8 6 (2.44%) Informatica
9 5 (2.03%) SAP
10 4 (1.63%) Databricks
10 4 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.22%) Adobe
11 3 (1.22%) Percona
11 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.81%) Ciena
12 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.81%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.81%) Sybase