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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 246 224
Rank change year-on-year -66 -22 +38
Contract jobs citing MySQL 251 311 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.99% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.70% 5.56% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 195 304
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £315 £317 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £580
90th Percentile £588 £650 £677
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £38.95 £29.50 £28.56
25th Percentile £61.75 £34.38 £52.02
Median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%

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 5,344 5,598 6,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.58% 17.81% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,715 3,742 4,649
10th Percentile £327 £350 £355
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £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 77 79 136
10th Percentile £20.91 £18.00 £18.91
25th Percentile £29.25 £24.88 £24.37
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.62% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.85 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £65.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.66% -35.60% +5.56%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -12 95 £450 -5.26% 42
North of England -47 55 £425 -17.48% 40
South East -3 48 £208 +1.22% 74
North West -24 36 £425 -5.13% 26
Midlands -38 28 £425 -3.41% 38
West Midlands -23 24 £425 +16.44% 28
Yorkshire -41 16 £376 -30.26% 13
South West -3 10 £465 +16.25% 29
East of England -18 6 £479 +39.99% 14
East Midlands -13 4 £432 -12.83% 10
North East -4 3 £500 - 1
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 (3.98%) Apache
1 10 (3.98%) Confluence
2 5 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.99%) SugarCRM
3 2 (0.80%) Alfresco
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.80%) Camunda
3 2 (0.80%) Drupal
3 2 (0.80%) nginx
3 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.80%) Windchill
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Magento
2 2 (0.80%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (41.43%) AWS
2 57 (22.71%) Azure
3 34 (13.55%) GitHub
4 32 (12.75%) GCP
5 29 (11.55%) SaaS
6 28 (11.16%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (9.56%) Serverless
8 19 (7.57%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.17%) Sauce Labs
10 17 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.18%) Apigee
14 11 (4.38%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.59%) Datadog
15 9 (3.59%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.17%) Wireless
2 5 (1.99%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) SMTP
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (41.43%) Relational Database
2 95 (37.85%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (17.13%) SQL Server
4 36 (14.34%) MongoDB
5 32 (12.75%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (9.56%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.37%) RDBMS
8 20 (7.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (5.58%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.18%) MariaDB
10 13 (5.18%) Oracle Database
11 12 (4.78%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.78%) Redis
12 10 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (3.59%) DB2
13 9 (3.59%) Power BI
13 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (21.51%) Git
2 28 (11.16%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.96%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (7.57%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.17%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.17%) Xcode
6 17 (6.77%) JIRA
7 9 (3.59%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.59%) GitLab
8 8 (3.19%) JUnit
9 6 (2.39%) Firebug
9 6 (2.39%) Gradle
9 6 (2.39%) Maven
9 6 (2.39%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.39%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.99%) Mockito
10 5 (1.99%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.59%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 3 (1.20%) Storybook
General
1 101 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.94%) Finance
3 26 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.37%) Banking
6 14 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.39%) Marketing
8 6 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 105 (41.83%) Developer
2 40 (15.94%) Technical Support
3 25 (9.96%) Java Developer
3 25 (9.96%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.96%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (9.96%) Technical Support Engineer
4 22 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (8.76%) Senior
5 19 (7.57%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 16 (6.37%) PHP Developer
8 15 (5.98%) DBA
9 14 (5.58%) Java Engineer
9 14 (5.58%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.18%) Architect
11 12 (4.78%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.59%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (22.71%) CSS
2 45 (17.93%) React
3 43 (17.13%) RESTful
4 42 (16.73%) HTML
5 39 (15.54%) Spring Boot
6 38 (15.14%) AngularJS
7 36 (14.34%) Spring
8 31 (12.35%) GraphQL
9 29 (11.55%) Node.js
10 26 (10.36%) REST
11 21 (8.37%) Ajax
12 18 (7.17%) .NET
13 16 (6.37%) Kafka
14 15 (5.98%) Vue
15 13 (5.18%) Hibernate
15 13 (5.18%) Laravel
15 13 (5.18%) XML
16 10 (3.98%) SOAP
16 10 (3.98%) Web Services
17 8 (3.19%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.37%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.58%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.19%) Clustering
7 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.79%) Replication
9 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.99%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.59%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.80%) PKI
12 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.30%) Linux
2 43 (17.13%) Unix
2 43 (17.13%) Windows
3 18 (7.17%) Android
4 12 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.59%) CentOS
6 3 (1.20%) Debian
6 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.68%) Agile
2 67 (26.69%) CI/CD
2 67 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (24.30%) Microservices
4 50 (19.92%) OO
5 49 (19.52%) DevOps
6 41 (16.33%) Containerisation
6 41 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (13.94%) User Experience
8 30 (11.95%) OOP
8 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
9 27 (10.76%) Computer Science
10 26 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (9.96%) Analytics
11 25 (9.96%) Data Modelling
12 24 (9.56%) AI
12 24 (9.56%) Migration
13 23 (9.16%) Clean Code
13 23 (9.16%) MVC
14 22 (8.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 108 (43.03%) Java
2 102 (40.64%) Python
3 90 (35.86%) SQL
4 87 (34.66%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.34%) Perl
6 35 (13.94%) PHP
7 20 (7.97%) Bash
8 14 (5.58%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.98%) Ruby
10 8 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.79%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.39%) VBA
13 5 (1.99%) C#
13 5 (1.99%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.59%) Go
14 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.20%) Scala
16 2 (0.80%) Rust
16 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.35%) Degree
3 22 (8.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (8.37%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.59%) OCP
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.40%) CCNP
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 24 (9.56%) QA
2 8 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.99%) GDPR
3 5 (1.99%) SLA
4 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (20.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.16%) Terraform
3 17 (6.77%) Ansible
4 9 (3.59%) Puppet
5 7 (2.79%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.20%) Kibana
6 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.20%) Salt
7 2 (0.80%) Consul
7 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.80%) Grafana
7 2 (0.80%) Icinga
7 2 (0.80%) Nagios
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (36.25%) Oracle
2 48 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.76%) Splunk
4 20 (7.97%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.37%) Google
6 9 (3.59%) Advent
7 7 (2.79%) Databricks
7 7 (2.79%) Informatica
8 6 (2.39%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.39%) SAP
8 6 (2.39%) Talend
9 5 (1.99%) Gigya
10 4 (1.59%) Zend
11 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.20%) New Relic
11 3 (1.20%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.80%) Percona
12 2 (0.80%) Salesforce