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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 293 229
Rank change year-on-year -115 -64 +13
Contract jobs citing MySQL 222 221 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 4.38% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 154 251
10th Percentile £311 £290 £250
25th Percentile £408 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £575
90th Percentile £599 £589 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -7.22%
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 £35.00 £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -56.25% +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 6,960 5,045 6,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 18.16% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,650 3,491 4,381
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 79 91
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.65 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -7.60% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.38 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -1.41% -35.45%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -86 72 £488 +8.33% 48
North of England -60 48 £478 +6.22% 28
Midlands -11 47 £448 -10.05% 15
West Midlands -24 39 £448 +3.47% 12
North West -30 35 £478 +7.42% 17
South East -76 30 £403 +87.21% 39
East of England -7 11 £850 +76.17% 8
South West -40 9 £409 -25.64% 11
Yorkshire -50 9 £333 -16.98% 6
East Midlands -15 8 £540 +8.54% 3
North East -45 4 £500 +2.04% 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 11 (4.95%) Apache
2 8 (3.60%) Confluence
3 7 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.25%) IIS
4 5 (2.25%) SAS
4 5 (2.25%) WordPress
5 4 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.80%) nginx
5 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.80%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.35%) CMS
6 3 (1.35%) Moodle
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.45%) Drupal
8 1 (0.45%) JBoss
8 1 (0.45%) Luigi
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.69%) AWS
2 63 (28.38%) Azure
3 29 (13.06%) GCP
4 22 (9.91%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.21%) GitHub
5 16 (7.21%) Serverless
6 9 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.15%) SaaS
9 6 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.25%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (1.80%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.50%) SSL
2 7 (3.15%) Firewall
3 5 (2.25%) DNS
4 2 (0.90%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.90%) FTP
4 2 (0.90%) NaaS
4 2 (0.90%) SAN
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) HTTP
5 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.45%) MQTT
5 1 (0.45%) NAS
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) SSH
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (45.05%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (29.73%) SQL Server
3 41 (18.47%) Relational Database
4 31 (13.96%) NoSQL
5 29 (13.06%) MongoDB
6 22 (9.91%) Power BI
7 21 (9.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (6.31%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (4.50%) DynamoDB
10 10 (4.50%) RDBMS
10 10 (4.50%) Redis
11 9 (4.05%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.60%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 46 (20.72%) Git
2 21 (9.46%) GitLab
3 16 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.95%) JIRA
5 9 (4.05%) JUnit
6 8 (3.60%) Maven
7 5 (2.25%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.80%) Gradle
8 4 (1.80%) Mocha
9 3 (1.35%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.35%) Mockito
9 3 (1.35%) Xcode
10 2 (0.90%) Firebug
10 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.45%) RSpec
General
1 55 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.66%) Finance
5 15 (6.76%) Retail
6 6 (2.70%) Advertising
6 6 (2.70%) Marketing
7 5 (2.25%) Banking
7 5 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Publishing
10 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (27.03%) Developer
2 48 (21.62%) DBA
3 30 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 30 (13.51%) Senior
4 23 (10.36%) Java Developer
5 21 (9.46%) Administrator
6 19 (8.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (8.11%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.21%) SC Cleared DBA
8 16 (7.21%) Support Engineer
9 14 (6.31%) Lead
10 13 (5.86%) Architect
10 13 (5.86%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.86%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.95%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.15%) Technical Engineer
14 7 (3.15%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (21.62%) Spring
2 43 (19.37%) Spring Boot
3 41 (18.47%) CSS
4 37 (16.67%) HTML
5 35 (15.77%) RESTful
6 34 (15.32%) Kafka
7 30 (13.51%) REST
8 29 (13.06%) React
9 23 (10.36%) Spring MVC
10 16 (7.21%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.21%) HTML5
11 15 (6.76%) CSS3
12 14 (6.31%) Node.js
13 13 (5.86%) Vue
14 12 (5.41%) Jest
15 11 (4.95%) GraphQL
16 10 (4.50%) Hibernate
17 9 (4.05%) jQuery
17 9 (4.05%) OAuth
17 9 (4.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.31%) Replication
4 10 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.60%) Clustering
7 7 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.70%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.25%) Life Science
9 5 (2.25%) PKI
10 4 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.35%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.62%) Linux
2 24 (10.81%) Windows
3 21 (9.46%) Unix
4 11 (4.95%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.05%) Android
6 9 (4.05%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.80%) Solaris
8 3 (1.35%) CentOS
9 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.83%) CI/CD
2 53 (23.87%) Agile
3 50 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (22.07%) DevOps
5 43 (19.37%) Performance Tuning
6 42 (18.92%) Microservices
7 33 (14.86%) Software Engineering
8 30 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (12.61%) ETL
10 27 (12.16%) AI
10 27 (12.16%) Observability
11 26 (11.71%) Analytics
11 26 (11.71%) Code Quality
12 25 (11.26%) MVC
13 24 (10.81%) Test Automation
14 23 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.91%) Containerisation
15 22 (9.91%) Data Integration
15 22 (9.91%) Data Modelling
16 21 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.79%) SQL
2 77 (34.68%) Java
3 58 (26.13%) Python
4 49 (22.07%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.91%) PHP
6 18 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.76%) Bash
8 14 (6.31%) T-SQL
9 9 (4.05%) Perl
9 9 (4.05%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.60%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.60%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.25%) C#
12 4 (1.80%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.80%) Ruby
13 3 (1.35%) C++
13 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.35%) HiveQL
14 2 (0.90%) Go
14 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (36.04%) Security Cleared
2 69 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (9.91%) Degree
5 12 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.95%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (4.50%) OCP
8 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.60%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.36%) QA
2 12 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.70%) SLA
4 5 (2.25%) GDPR
5 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.80%) WCAG
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (18.92%) Docker
2 8 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.35%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.35%) HDFS
4 3 (1.35%) Postfix
5 2 (0.90%) Varnish
6 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.45%) NFS
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (18.02%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.06%) Terraform
3 23 (10.36%) Grafana
4 16 (7.21%) Ansible
5 8 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.15%) SCOM
7 4 (1.80%) Kibana
7 4 (1.80%) Puppet
8 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.35%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.45%) Argo
10 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (36.94%) Oracle
2 53 (23.87%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.46%) Talend
4 18 (8.11%) Google
5 16 (7.21%) Denodo
6 14 (6.31%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.15%) Informatica
8 5 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.25%) Splunk
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco
9 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.35%) F5
9 3 (1.35%) Juniper
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.35%) Sybase
10 2 (0.90%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.90%) Databricks
10 2 (0.90%) SAP