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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 269 260
Rank change year-on-year -113 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing MySQL 204 218 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.90% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.75% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 131 238
10th Percentile £204 £350 £313
25th Percentile £326 £401 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -0.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £558 £619
90th Percentile £588 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £437 £490 £478
% change year-on-year -10.82% +2.62% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £13.09 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £52.22 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +83.55% -58.62% +58.05%
75th Percentile £86.25 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +124.96% -59.36% +60.92%

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 6,192 4,588 6,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 19.02% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,250 3,197 4,459
10th Percentile £350 £363 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 86 131
10th Percentile £16.07 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.92 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.90 £32.43 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -19.43% -28.63%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.46 £60.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -76 77 £450 -4.76% 36
South East -51 37 £208 -49.08% 43
Midlands -36 35 £442 -12.48% 12
West Midlands -33 29 £437 -17.93% 4
North of England -85 29 £414 -8.62% 43
North West -37 19 £425 -4.49% 21
South West -22 17 £409 -37.08% 12
Yorkshire -67 8 £420 -6.82% 17
East Midlands -29 6 £540 +8.00% 8
East of England -34 5 - - 10
North East -22 2 £400 -13.98% 5
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 9 (4.41%) Apache
1 9 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.96%) SAS
3 3 (1.47%) Confluence
3 3 (1.47%) Moodle
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Appian
4 2 (0.98%) Camunda
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.49%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (48.04%) AWS
2 42 (20.59%) Azure
3 28 (13.73%) GCP
4 20 (9.80%) GitHub
5 16 (7.84%) SaaS
6 14 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.86%) Serverless
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (2.94%) Route 53
9 6 (2.94%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) DNS
1 5 (2.45%) Firewall
2 3 (1.47%) WAN
3 2 (0.98%) FTP
3 2 (0.98%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.98%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.98%) NaaS
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) DHCP
4 1 (0.49%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) MQTT
4 1 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.49%) SAN
4 1 (0.49%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.49%) SSH
4 1 (0.49%) VLAN
4 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (39.71%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (24.02%) Relational Database
3 46 (22.55%) SQL Server
4 26 (12.75%) MongoDB
4 26 (12.75%) NoSQL
5 21 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.86%) Power BI
8 13 (6.37%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.88%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (5.39%) Hadoop
11 10 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.92%) Metadata
13 8 (3.92%) Redis
14 6 (2.94%) Oracle Database
14 6 (2.94%) Tableau
15 5 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (17.16%) Git
2 26 (12.75%) GitLab
3 20 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.35%) JIRA
5 10 (4.90%) Maven
6 9 (4.41%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (4.41%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.92%) Postman
7 8 (3.92%) Selenium
8 7 (3.43%) JUnit
8 7 (3.43%) Mockito
9 6 (2.94%) Android Studio
9 6 (2.94%) Eclipse
9 6 (2.94%) Gradle
9 6 (2.94%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.94%) TestRail
9 6 (2.94%) Xcode
10 5 (2.45%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.96%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.47%) ERwin
General
1 42 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.35%) Finance
4 14 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.88%) Retail
6 5 (2.45%) Advertising
6 5 (2.45%) Marketing
6 5 (2.45%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.47%) Banking
7 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Billing
8 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Publishing
9 1 (0.49%) French Language
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (27.45%) Developer
2 29 (14.22%) DBA
2 29 (14.22%) Java Developer
3 28 (13.73%) Data Engineer
4 22 (10.78%) Senior
5 20 (9.80%) Support Engineer
6 19 (9.31%) Technical Support
7 15 (7.35%) Lead
8 14 (6.86%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Architect
10 11 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Technical Engineer
10 11 (5.39%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (3.92%) Administrator
11 8 (3.92%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (3.92%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.92%) SC Cleared DBA
11 8 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.43%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.49%) Spring
2 47 (23.04%) Spring Boot
3 40 (19.61%) React
4 37 (18.14%) CSS
5 34 (16.67%) RESTful
6 30 (14.71%) HTML
7 27 (13.24%) Kafka
8 25 (12.25%) REST
8 25 (12.25%) Spring MVC
9 21 (10.29%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.33%) GraphQL
11 16 (7.84%) Hibernate
12 13 (6.37%) Vue
13 11 (5.39%) CSS3
13 11 (5.39%) HTML5
13 11 (5.39%) Redux
14 10 (4.90%) .NET
14 10 (4.90%) Jest
14 10 (4.90%) LDAP
15 9 (4.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.39%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.43%) Replication
6 6 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.96%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.47%) Clustering
9 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.49%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 55 (26.96%) Linux
2 31 (15.20%) Unix
3 27 (13.24%) Windows
4 10 (4.90%) Android
5 3 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.02%) CI/CD
2 44 (21.57%) Microservices
3 41 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (19.61%) Agile
5 32 (15.69%) DevOps
6 28 (13.73%) ETL
7 27 (13.24%) Code Quality
7 27 (13.24%) MVC
8 26 (12.75%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (12.25%) Containerisation
9 25 (12.25%) Software Engineering
10 24 (11.76%) OO
11 23 (11.27%) Observability
12 22 (10.78%) Analytics
12 22 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (10.78%) Test Automation
13 21 (10.29%) Computer Science
14 20 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (9.80%) OOP
14 20 (9.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 103 (50.49%) SQL
2 91 (44.61%) Java
3 66 (32.35%) Python
4 58 (28.43%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.78%) PHP
6 21 (10.29%) Perl
7 14 (6.86%) Bash
8 11 (5.39%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.43%) Go
9 7 (3.43%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.94%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.47%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.47%) Ruby
13 3 (1.47%) Scala
14 2 (0.98%) C++
14 2 (0.98%) Korn
15 1 (0.49%) CFML
Qualifications
1 59 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.25%) Degree
4 19 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.45%) OCP
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.49%) CCNA
10 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.49%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.49%) PMP
10 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.76%) QA
2 15 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.96%) NIST
5 4 (1.96%) SLA
6 3 (1.47%) FATCA
7 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.98%) NCSC
7 2 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.47%) HDFS
5 2 (0.98%) NFS
6 1 (0.49%) Ceph
6 1 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.49%) iptables
6 1 (0.49%) KVM
6 1 (0.49%) Lustre
6 1 (0.49%) Samba
6 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.76%) Grafana
3 14 (6.86%) Terraform
4 9 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.92%) Ansible
6 4 (1.96%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.47%) Kibana
7 3 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.98%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.49%) SELinux
Vendors
1 74 (36.27%) Oracle
2 35 (17.16%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.78%) Talend
4 18 (8.82%) Denodo
5 12 (5.88%) Google
6 8 (3.92%) Splunk
7 7 (3.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.94%) Informatica
9 3 (1.47%) Percona
9 3 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.98%) Adobe
10 2 (0.98%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.98%) Ciena
10 2 (0.98%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.98%) Databricks
10 2 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.98%) Netlify
10 2 (0.98%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.98%) Sybase