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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 299 219
Rank change year-on-year -118 -80 +21
Contract jobs citing MySQL 219 228 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.83% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 4.53% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 154 270
10th Percentile £311 £300 £263
25th Percentile £408 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £588
90th Percentile £589 £589 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £459 £450
% change year-on-year -1.91% +1.94% -7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile - £32.68 £34.38
25th Percentile £13.51 £50.43 £43.44
Median hourly rate £25.09 £80.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.64% +39.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77.00 £83.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.56% +18.52% +28.57%

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 6,924 5,032 6,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.38% 18.23% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,485 4,480
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 80 95
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £13.91
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68.47 £64.06 £58.73
90th Percentile £76.90 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -84 72 £475 +5.56% 37
Midlands -20 46 £449 -11.14% 11
North of England -66 46 £478 +6.22% 32
West Midlands -19 38 £448 -13.11% 8
North West -29 33 £478 +7.42% 20
South East -80 30 £403 +80.90% 32
East of England -12 10 £850 +76.17% 6
South West -41 10 £409 -25.64% 6
Yorkshire -51 9 £333 -16.98% 6
East Midlands -12 8 £540 +8.54% 3
North East -47 4 £500 +2.04% 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 11 (5.02%) Apache
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.20%) Confluence
3 5 (2.28%) IIS
3 5 (2.28%) SAS
3 5 (2.28%) WordPress
4 4 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.83%) nginx
4 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.37%) CMS
5 3 (1.37%) Moodle
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.46%) Appian
7 1 (0.46%) Drupal
7 1 (0.46%) Luigi
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.38%) AWS
2 59 (26.94%) Azure
3 29 (13.24%) GCP
4 21 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.31%) GitHub
5 16 (7.31%) Serverless
6 9 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.20%) SaaS
9 6 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.28%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.83%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.37%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.65%) SSL
2 7 (3.20%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.91%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.91%) FTP
4 2 (0.91%) NaaS
4 2 (0.91%) SAN
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) WAN
5 1 (0.46%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.46%) MQTT
5 1 (0.46%) NAS
5 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (43.84%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (28.77%) SQL Server
3 42 (19.18%) Relational Database
4 30 (13.70%) NoSQL
5 28 (12.79%) MongoDB
6 21 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (9.59%) Power BI
7 16 (7.31%) Pentaho
8 12 (5.48%) Oracle Database
9 11 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.57%) RDBMS
10 10 (4.57%) Redis
11 9 (4.11%) DynamoDB
12 8 (3.65%) Hadoop
13 7 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.20%) Data Lake
13 7 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (21.00%) Git
2 20 (9.13%) GitLab
3 16 (7.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.57%) JIRA
5 9 (4.11%) JUnit
5 9 (4.11%) Maven
6 5 (2.28%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.28%) Gradle
7 3 (1.37%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.37%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.37%) Mocha
7 3 (1.37%) Mockito
7 3 (1.37%) Xcode
8 2 (0.91%) Firebug
8 2 (0.91%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
General
1 51 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.68%) Finance
5 15 (6.85%) Retail
6 6 (2.74%) Advertising
6 6 (2.74%) Marketing
7 5 (2.28%) Banking
8 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Front Office
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Publishing
10 2 (0.91%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.46%) Electronics
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (27.85%) Developer
2 45 (20.55%) DBA
3 33 (15.07%) Data Engineer
4 31 (14.16%) Senior
5 26 (11.87%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.68%) Administrator
6 19 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (7.31%) SQL DBA
7 16 (7.31%) Support Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) SC Cleared DBA
8 14 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.94%) Lead
10 11 (5.02%) Architect
10 11 (5.02%) Java Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) PHP Developer
12 7 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (22.83%) Spring
2 45 (20.55%) Spring Boot
3 42 (19.18%) CSS
4 38 (17.35%) HTML
5 34 (15.53%) RESTful
6 33 (15.07%) Kafka
7 32 (14.61%) React
8 29 (13.24%) REST
9 24 (10.96%) Spring MVC
10 17 (7.76%) HTML5
11 16 (7.31%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.31%) CSS3
12 15 (6.85%) Node.js
13 14 (6.39%) Vue
14 12 (5.48%) Jest
15 11 (5.02%) GraphQL
16 10 (4.57%) Hibernate
16 10 (4.57%) Redux
16 10 (4.57%) XML
17 9 (4.11%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.39%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.48%) Replication
5 9 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.20%) Clustering
7 6 (2.74%) Mobile Payment
7 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.83%) Life Science
9 4 (1.83%) PKI
9 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.37%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.37%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.83%) Linux
2 24 (10.96%) Unix
3 23 (10.50%) Windows
4 11 (5.02%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.11%) Android
7 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.83%) Solaris
9 3 (1.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.77%) CI/CD
2 51 (23.29%) Agile
3 48 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (21.46%) DevOps
5 43 (19.63%) Microservices
6 40 (18.26%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (14.16%) Software Engineering
8 30 (13.70%) ETL
9 26 (11.87%) AI
9 26 (11.87%) Analytics
9 26 (11.87%) Code Quality
9 26 (11.87%) MVC
10 25 (11.42%) Observability
11 24 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.50%) Data Integration
12 23 (10.50%) Test Automation
13 22 (10.05%) Containerisation
14 20 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.29%) SQL
2 80 (36.53%) Java
3 57 (26.03%) Python
4 48 (21.92%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.05%) PHP
6 17 (7.76%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.85%) Bash
8 13 (5.94%) T-SQL
9 11 (5.02%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.11%) Perl
10 9 (4.11%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.28%) C#
13 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.83%) Ruby
14 3 (1.37%) C++
14 3 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.37%) HiveQL
15 2 (0.91%) Go
15 2 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 68 (31.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.59%) Degree
3 21 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.11%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.65%) OCP
7 7 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.50%) QA
2 13 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.28%) GDPR
3 5 (2.28%) SLA
4 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.83%) WCAG
5 3 (1.37%) FATCA
6 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (17.35%) Docker
2 8 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.37%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.37%) HDFS
4 3 (1.37%) Postfix
5 2 (0.91%) Varnish
6 1 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.46%) NFS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.79%) Terraform
3 23 (10.50%) Grafana
4 16 (7.31%) Ansible
5 8 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.74%) SCOM
7 4 (1.83%) Kibana
7 4 (1.83%) Puppet
8 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.37%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.91%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.46%) Argo
10 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (37.44%) Oracle
2 52 (23.74%) Microsoft
3 23 (10.50%) Talend
4 18 (8.22%) Google
5 16 (7.31%) Denodo
6 12 (5.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.20%) Informatica
8 5 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.28%) Splunk
9 3 (1.37%) Cisco
9 3 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.37%) F5
9 3 (1.37%) Juniper
9 3 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.37%) Sybase
10 2 (0.91%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.91%) Netlify
10 2 (0.91%) SAP