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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 263 241
Rank change year-on-year -39 -22 +17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 244 239 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.89% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 4.83% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 141 257
10th Percentile £204 £203 £303
25th Percentile £221 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £613
90th Percentile £600 £700 £682
UK median daily rate £425 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -13.71% -1.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 13
10th Percentile £25.76 - £26.97
25th Percentile £34.06 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £80.94 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +63.52%

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 5,332 4,953 5,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.79% 18.37% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,720 3,290 4,214
10th Percentile £326 £351 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £656
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 70 139
10th Percentile £19.38 £21.11 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -12.30% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.45
90th Percentile £84.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £32.80 £46.18
% change year-on-year +41.79% -28.98% -16.04%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -26 85 £475 -4.04% 37
North of England -45 55 £415 -13.32% 60
South East -9 50 £208 -42.16% 87
North West -35 33 £425 -4.82% 27
Midlands -32 28 £436 -9.82% 50
West Midlands -23 27 £436 -8.60% 25
Yorkshire -38 22 £388 -38.00% 25
South West -13 14 £528 -39.66% 40
East of England -20 6 £475 +111.11% 48
East Midlands -32 1 - - 24
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 7 (2.87%) Apache
2 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.05%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Camunda
5 2 (0.82%) Drupal
5 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.82%) Windchill
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Magento
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (41.80%) AWS
2 56 (22.95%) Azure
3 40 (16.39%) GCP
4 38 (15.57%) GitHub
5 34 (13.93%) SaaS
6 24 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (9.84%) Serverless
7 22 (9.02%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (7.38%) Sauce Labs
9 17 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.33%) Apigee
10 13 (5.33%) Route 53
10 13 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 12 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.15%) Wireless
2 7 (2.87%) DNS
3 4 (1.64%) Internet
4 2 (0.82%) SMTP
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (42.62%) Relational Database
2 87 (35.66%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (18.03%) SQL Server
4 35 (14.34%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (14.34%) MongoDB
5 28 (11.48%) NoSQL
6 20 (8.20%) DynamoDB
7 19 (7.79%) RDBMS
8 17 (6.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (6.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 15 (6.15%) Redis
10 12 (4.92%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.69%) DB2
11 9 (3.69%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.28%) MariaDB
13 7 (2.87%) Power BI
14 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.46%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (20.08%) Git
2 39 (15.98%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.43%) Browser DevTools
4 22 (9.02%) GitLab
5 18 (7.38%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.38%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.38%) Xcode
6 17 (6.97%) JIRA
7 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.69%) Postman
9 8 (3.28%) Gradle
9 8 (3.28%) JUnit
9 8 (3.28%) Maven
10 7 (2.87%) Mockito
11 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.46%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.46%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.46%) Selenium
11 6 (2.46%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.46%) TestRail
General
1 91 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.70%) Finance
3 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.56%) Banking
6 12 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.46%) Marketing
8 6 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.64%) Legal
9 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.64%) Retail
10 3 (1.23%) Electronics
10 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (36.89%) Developer
2 44 (18.03%) Technical Support
3 24 (9.84%) Support Engineer
4 23 (9.43%) Java Developer
4 23 (9.43%) Technical Engineer
4 23 (9.43%) Technical Support Engineer
5 20 (8.20%) DBA
6 19 (7.79%) UX Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (6.97%) Senior
8 15 (6.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 15 (6.15%) Oracle DBA
9 14 (5.74%) PHP Developer
9 14 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Architect
11 10 (4.10%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Java Architect
12 9 (3.69%) Lead
12 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.28%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (21.72%) CSS
2 49 (20.08%) React
3 43 (17.62%) Spring Boot
4 40 (16.39%) RESTful
5 39 (15.98%) Spring
6 37 (15.16%) HTML
7 35 (14.34%) AngularJS
8 33 (13.52%) REST
9 32 (13.11%) GraphQL
10 20 (8.20%) Ajax
11 19 (7.79%) Node.js
12 18 (7.38%) .NET
12 18 (7.38%) Kafka
13 17 (6.97%) Hibernate
14 14 (5.74%) Vue
15 10 (4.10%) OAuth
15 10 (4.10%) OpenID
15 10 (4.10%) SOAP
15 10 (4.10%) Spring MVC
16 9 (3.69%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.20%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.92%) Virtual Team
6 10 (4.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.28%) Clustering
8 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.87%) Replication
9 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.05%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.64%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.82%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) IoT
12 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 64 (26.23%) Linux
2 50 (20.49%) Unix
3 45 (18.44%) Windows
4 19 (7.79%) Android
5 7 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 68 (27.87%) Agile
3 63 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (25.00%) Microservices
5 52 (21.31%) OO
6 51 (20.90%) DevOps
7 48 (19.67%) Containerisation
8 36 (14.75%) OOP
8 36 (14.75%) User Experience
9 33 (13.52%) Computer Science
10 31 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (12.30%) Software Engineering
12 28 (11.48%) TDD
13 26 (10.66%) Data Modelling
14 25 (10.25%) MVC
15 24 (9.84%) AI
15 24 (9.84%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.43%) ETL
17 22 (9.02%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 112 (45.90%) Java
1 112 (45.90%) Python
2 104 (42.62%) SQL
3 89 (36.48%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.80%) Perl
5 34 (13.93%) PHP
6 17 (6.97%) Bash
7 11 (4.51%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.87%) Go
8 7 (2.87%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.46%) VBA
10 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.64%) Ruby
10 4 (1.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) CFML
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (14.75%) Degree
2 35 (14.34%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.64%) OCP
8 4 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ISEB
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.66%) QA
2 8 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.05%) SLA
5 4 (1.64%) GDPR
5 4 (1.64%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 59 (24.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Ceph
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
4 1 (0.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.41%) Lustre
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) Samba
4 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.66%) Terraform
3 16 (6.56%) Ansible
4 5 (2.05%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.05%) Puppet
5 4 (1.64%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.64%) Grafana
6 3 (1.23%) Kibana
6 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.82%) Consul
7 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 88 (36.07%) Oracle
2 43 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.84%) Splunk
4 21 (8.61%) ServiceNow
5 17 (6.97%) Google
6 9 (3.69%) Advent
7 8 (3.28%) Databricks
8 7 (2.87%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.46%) SAP
9 6 (2.46%) Talend
10 5 (2.05%) Gigya
10 5 (2.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.82%) Adobe
12 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.82%) Denodo
12 2 (0.82%) Percona
12 2 (0.82%) PTC
12 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.82%) Zend