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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 246 224
Rank change year-on-year -66 -22 +40
Contract jobs citing MySQL 247 312 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.02% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 5.63% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 195 292
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £272 £323 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £582
90th Percentile £588 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £34.25 £29.50 £26.97
25th Percentile £42.25 £34.38 £44.60
Median hourly rate £73.50 £45.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.33% -30.77% +48.98%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +63.33% -30.77% +48.98%

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 5,396 5,542 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 18.13% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,756 3,707 4,513
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £665 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 78 130
10th Percentile £21.30 £18.35 £18.38
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.31 £22.69
Median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.55 £64.52
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -39 93 £463 -5.37% 37
North of England -53 54 £414 -17.20% 63
South East -7 49 £208 +1.22% 86
North West -26 36 £415 -7.05% 29
Midlands -40 26 £463 +5.11% 43
West Midlands -34 24 £425 +11.11% 28
Yorkshire -39 16 £376 -28.33% 25
South West -8 9 £450 +12.50% 38
East of England -17 7 £479 +39.99% 24
North East -7 2 £500 - 10
East Midlands -18 2 £556 +12.37% 15
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 (4.05%) Apache
2 9 (3.64%) Confluence
3 6 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.02%) SugarCRM
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Drupal
5 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.81%) Windchill
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) 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 97 (39.27%) AWS
2 55 (22.27%) Azure
3 34 (13.77%) GCP
3 34 (13.77%) GitHub
4 30 (12.15%) SaaS
5 27 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (8.91%) Serverless
7 19 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
8 18 (7.29%) Amazon S3
9 15 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.26%) Apigee
12 11 (4.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.64%) Datadog
14 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.24%) Route 53
14 8 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.29%) Wireless
2 4 (1.62%) DNS
2 4 (1.62%) 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
1 106 (42.91%) Relational Database
2 94 (38.06%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 34 (13.77%) MongoDB
5 30 (12.15%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (9.31%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.50%) RDBMS
8 20 (8.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (5.67%) DynamoDB
9 14 (5.67%) MariaDB
10 13 (5.26%) Oracle Database
11 12 (4.86%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.86%) Redis
12 10 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.64%) DB2
13 9 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.83%) Power BI
15 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (22.27%) Git
2 30 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.93%) Browser DevTools
4 20 (8.10%) Eclipse
5 19 (7.69%) Android Studio
5 19 (7.69%) Xcode
6 16 (6.48%) JIRA
7 11 (4.45%) GitLab
8 9 (3.64%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.83%) Firebug
10 6 (2.43%) Gradle
10 6 (2.43%) JUnit
10 6 (2.43%) Maven
10 6 (2.43%) PyCharm
10 6 (2.43%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.02%) Mockito
11 5 (2.02%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.62%) Vagrant
13 3 (1.21%) Postman
13 3 (1.21%) Storybook
General
1 104 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.38%) Finance
3 26 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.48%) Banking
6 14 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.43%) Marketing
8 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Legal
9 4 (1.62%) 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
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (40.49%) Developer
2 43 (17.41%) Technical Support
3 27 (10.93%) Support Engineer
3 27 (10.93%) Technical Engineer
3 27 (10.93%) Technical Support Engineer
4 24 (9.72%) Java Developer
5 20 (8.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (8.10%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 16 (6.48%) PHP Developer
7 16 (6.48%) Senior
8 15 (6.07%) DBA
9 13 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (4.45%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Architect
11 10 (4.05%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.64%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (23.08%) CSS
2 45 (18.22%) React
3 42 (17.00%) RESTful
4 39 (15.79%) HTML
5 38 (15.38%) Spring Boot
6 36 (14.57%) AngularJS
7 34 (13.77%) Spring
8 32 (12.96%) GraphQL
9 26 (10.53%) Node.js
10 24 (9.72%) REST
11 22 (8.91%) Ajax
12 16 (6.48%) .NET
13 14 (5.67%) Kafka
14 13 (5.26%) Hibernate
14 13 (5.26%) Vue
15 12 (4.86%) Laravel
15 12 (4.86%) XML
16 10 (4.05%) SOAP
16 10 (4.05%) Web Services
17 8 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.91%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.67%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.24%) Clustering
7 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.83%) Replication
9 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.02%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.62%) 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
13 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 64 (25.91%) Linux
2 46 (18.62%) Unix
3 45 (18.22%) Windows
4 19 (7.69%) Android
5 12 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.62%) 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 80 (32.39%) Agile
2 67 (27.13%) CI/CD
3 66 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (24.70%) Microservices
5 53 (21.46%) OO
6 47 (19.03%) DevOps
7 41 (16.60%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (14.57%) User Experience
10 31 (12.55%) OOP
11 29 (11.74%) Software Engineering
12 27 (10.93%) Computer Science
13 26 (10.53%) Data Modelling
14 24 (9.72%) AI
14 24 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.72%) Migration
15 23 (9.31%) Analytics
15 23 (9.31%) MVC
16 22 (8.91%) Clean Code
17 21 (8.50%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 108 (43.72%) Java
2 106 (42.91%) Python
3 88 (35.63%) SQL
4 87 (35.22%) JavaScript
5 39 (15.79%) Perl
6 34 (13.77%) PHP
7 21 (8.50%) Bash
8 13 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.24%) Ruby
9 8 (3.24%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.43%) VBA
12 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.62%) Go
13 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.62%) Scala
14 3 (1.21%) C#
15 2 (0.81%) Rust
16 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.55%) Degree
1 31 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.02%) OCP
6 5 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.40%) ISEB
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.31%) QA
2 9 (3.64%) 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 50 (20.24%) 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 40 (16.19%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.12%) Terraform
3 18 (7.29%) Ansible
4 9 (3.64%) Puppet
5 7 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.62%) 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 92 (37.25%) Oracle
2 46 (18.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.72%) Splunk
4 19 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.48%) Google
6 9 (3.64%) Advent
7 8 (3.24%) Databricks
8 7 (2.83%) Informatica
9 6 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.43%) SAP
9 6 (2.43%) Talend
10 5 (2.02%) Gigya
11 4 (1.62%) Zend
12 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.21%) New Relic
12 3 (1.21%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.81%) Percona
13 2 (0.81%) PTC
13 2 (0.81%) VMware