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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 236 212
Rank change year-on-year -63 -24 +34
Contract jobs citing MySQL 247 315 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.01% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.64% 5.66% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 204 312
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £313 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £582
90th Percentile £590 £649 £678
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
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 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +44.44%

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 5,326 5,564 6,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.91% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,676 3,746 4,701
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 81 141
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £25.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -26.92% -4.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -36 93 £450 -8.16% 225
North of England -38 52 £470 -6.09% 140
South East -4 46 £208 +1.22% 220
North West -35 27 £450 - 94
Midlands -36 26 £400 -9.09% 54
West Midlands -42 22 £400 - 39
Yorkshire -26 21 £390 -27.71% 32
South West +8 13 £465 +32.86% 41
East of England -15 7 £479 +39.99% 31
North East -7 4 £525 - 15
East Midlands -20 4 £432 -11.94% 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 11 (4.45%) Confluence
2 10 (4.05%) Apache
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.02%) SugarCRM
4 2 (0.81%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.81%) Camunda
4 2 (0.81%) Drupal
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Luigi
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.81%) Windchill
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.32%) AWS
2 61 (24.70%) Azure
3 29 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (11.74%) GCP
4 28 (11.34%) GitHub
5 27 (10.93%) SaaS
6 25 (10.12%) Serverless
7 18 (7.29%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.29%) Sauce Labs
8 16 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.26%) Apigee
12 12 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.64%) Datadog
14 9 (3.64%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.29%) Wireless
2 5 (2.02%) DNS
3 4 (1.62%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) DHCP
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) 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 94 (38.06%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (36.84%) Relational Database
3 41 (16.60%) SQL Server
4 36 (14.57%) MongoDB
5 31 (12.55%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (10.93%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.50%) RDBMS
8 18 (7.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 15 (6.07%) Oracle Database
10 14 (5.67%) DynamoDB
11 13 (5.26%) MariaDB
12 12 (4.86%) Hadoop
13 11 (4.45%) Redis
14 10 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (3.64%) Power BI
16 8 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (2.43%) BigQuery
17 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 5 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
18 5 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 53 (21.46%) Git
2 33 (13.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.12%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.29%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.29%) JIRA
5 18 (7.29%) Xcode
6 10 (4.05%) GitLab
6 10 (4.05%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.83%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.83%) Maven
8 6 (2.43%) Firebug
8 6 (2.43%) Gradle
8 6 (2.43%) JUnit
8 6 (2.43%) PyCharm
9 5 (2.02%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.62%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.21%) Mockito
11 3 (1.21%) Storybook
General
1 92 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.57%) Finance
3 28 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.07%) Banking
6 11 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.43%) Marketing
9 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Electronics
10 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Military
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 96 (38.87%) Developer
2 40 (16.19%) Technical Support
3 25 (10.12%) Support Engineer
3 25 (10.12%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (10.12%) Technical Support Engineer
4 21 (8.50%) Senior
5 19 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 19 (7.69%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 16 (6.48%) DBA
7 16 (6.48%) Java Engineer
7 16 (6.48%) PHP Developer
8 14 (5.67%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.86%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (4.45%) Architect
11 11 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.67%) CSS
2 42 (17.00%) React
3 41 (16.60%) HTML
3 41 (16.60%) RESTful
4 37 (14.98%) AngularJS
5 36 (14.57%) Spring Boot
6 33 (13.36%) Node.js
6 33 (13.36%) Spring
7 28 (11.34%) GraphQL
8 22 (8.91%) REST
9 21 (8.50%) Ajax
10 14 (5.67%) .NET
10 14 (5.67%) Kafka
10 14 (5.67%) Laravel
11 13 (5.26%) Vue
11 13 (5.26%) XML
12 12 (4.86%) Web Services
13 8 (3.24%) JSON
13 8 (3.24%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (2.83%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.50%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.45%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.83%) Clustering
6 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.02%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.02%) Replication
9 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.62%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.81%) IoT
10 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.10%) Linux
2 44 (17.81%) Windows
3 43 (17.41%) Unix
4 18 (7.29%) Android
5 12 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.62%) CentOS
7 3 (1.21%) Debian
7 3 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.94%) Agile
2 62 (25.10%) CI/CD
2 62 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (23.48%) Microservices
4 49 (19.84%) DevOps
4 49 (19.84%) OO
5 40 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 35 (14.17%) User Experience
8 32 (12.96%) Software Engineering
9 28 (11.34%) OOP
10 26 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.12%) Analytics
12 24 (9.72%) Clean Code
13 23 (9.31%) Data Modelling
13 23 (9.31%) ETL
14 22 (8.91%) Computer Science
15 21 (8.50%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.50%) Migration
16 20 (8.10%) AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.70%) Java
2 102 (41.30%) Python
3 91 (36.84%) SQL
4 89 (36.03%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.57%) Perl
6 33 (13.36%) PHP
7 20 (8.10%) Bash
8 16 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.05%) Ruby
10 8 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.83%) VBA
12 6 (2.43%) C#
12 6 (2.43%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.62%) Go
14 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.21%) Scala
15 3 (1.21%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.81%) Rust
17 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.53%) Degree
4 18 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.62%) OCP
6 4 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.53%) QA
2 11 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.02%) SLA
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (17.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.81%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.12%) Terraform
3 18 (7.29%) Ansible
4 9 (3.64%) Puppet
5 7 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.21%) Grafana
6 3 (1.21%) Kibana
6 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.21%) Salt
7 2 (0.81%) Consul
7 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.81%) Icinga
7 2 (0.81%) Nagios
7 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 92 (37.25%) Oracle
2 46 (18.62%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.91%) Splunk
4 20 (8.10%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.67%) Google
6 9 (3.64%) Talend
7 7 (2.83%) Informatica
8 6 (2.43%) Databricks
8 6 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.02%) Gigya
9 5 (2.02%) SAP
10 4 (1.62%) Advent
10 4 (1.62%) Zend
11 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.21%) New Relic
11 3 (1.21%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.81%) PTC
12 2 (0.81%) VMware