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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 266 251
Rank change year-on-year -49 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 245 235 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.89% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.51% 4.82% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 134 269
10th Percentile £204 £222 £305
25th Percentile £267 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £631
90th Percentile £600 £718 £702
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £26.97
25th Percentile £31.25 - £44.60
Median hourly rate £69.44 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.40% -46.15% +123.52%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £35.00 £67.27
% change year-on-year +90.00% -47.97% +86.85%

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 5,436 4,879 6,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.27% 18.57% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,785 3,242 4,410
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +1.35% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.48
25th Percentile £27.69 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.90 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -25.26%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -35 88 £475 -5.00% 32
North of England -60 52 £415 -9.40% 49
South East -31 44 £208 -44.67% 40
Midlands -40 34 £450 -9.09% 26
West Midlands -26 31 £450 -8.16% 15
North West -41 30 £420 -5.94% 31
Yorkshire -49 21 £389 -22.25% 12
South West -10 14 £450 -48.57% 25
East of England -25 6 - - 14
East Midlands -28 3 - - 11
North East - 1 - - 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 9 (3.67%) Apache
2 7 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.04%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.22%) nginx
6 2 (0.82%) Camunda
6 2 (0.82%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) Appian
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.82%) Windchill
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Magento
2 2 (0.82%) Shopify
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.49%) AWS
2 54 (22.04%) Azure
3 41 (16.73%) GCP
4 37 (15.10%) GitHub
5 25 (10.20%) SaaS
6 23 (9.39%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (8.57%) Amazon S3
8 20 (8.16%) Serverless
9 16 (6.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.12%) Sauce Labs
11 14 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (3.67%) Apigee
16 9 (3.67%) Route 53
17 8 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) Wireless
2 7 (2.86%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) 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 97 (39.59%) Relational Database
2 90 (36.73%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (18.78%) SQL Server
4 34 (13.88%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (13.06%) MongoDB
6 24 (9.80%) NoSQL
7 18 (7.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 17 (6.94%) DynamoDB
9 15 (6.12%) Oracle Database
10 14 (5.71%) RDBMS
11 13 (5.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (5.31%) Hadoop
12 12 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.67%) DB2
13 9 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.27%) Power BI
14 8 (3.27%) Redis
15 6 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (2.45%) MariaDB
15 6 (2.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (20.00%) Git
2 37 (15.10%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.39%) GitLab
4 17 (6.94%) Browser DevTools
4 17 (6.94%) JIRA
5 15 (6.12%) Android Studio
5 15 (6.12%) Eclipse
5 15 (6.12%) Xcode
6 11 (4.49%) Postman
7 10 (4.08%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.08%) JUnit
7 10 (4.08%) Mockito
8 8 (3.27%) Selenium
9 7 (2.86%) Gradle
9 7 (2.86%) Maven
10 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.45%) PyCharm
10 6 (2.45%) REST Assured
10 6 (2.45%) TestRail
11 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 81 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.47%) Finance
3 22 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.12%) Banking
6 13 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Retail
7 8 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.45%) Marketing
9 5 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Legal
10 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.22%) Electronics
11 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.82%) Front Office
12 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (37.55%) Developer
2 36 (14.69%) Technical Support
3 25 (10.20%) Java Developer
4 19 (7.76%) DBA
4 19 (7.76%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.35%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.94%) Senior
6 17 (6.94%) Technical Engineer
6 17 (6.94%) Technical Support Engineer
7 16 (6.53%) UX Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (6.12%) Oracle DBA
9 13 (5.31%) PHP Developer
10 12 (4.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 12 (4.90%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.08%) Lead
12 9 (3.67%) Architect
12 9 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.67%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.41%) React
2 46 (18.78%) CSS
3 43 (17.55%) Spring Boot
4 42 (17.14%) Spring
5 41 (16.73%) RESTful
6 33 (13.47%) REST
7 30 (12.24%) HTML
8 29 (11.84%) AngularJS
9 27 (11.02%) GraphQL
10 22 (8.98%) Kafka
11 18 (7.35%) .NET
11 18 (7.35%) Hibernate
12 17 (6.94%) Ajax
12 17 (6.94%) Node.js
13 15 (6.12%) Vue
14 14 (5.71%) Spring MVC
15 10 (4.08%) Django
15 10 (4.08%) Laravel
15 10 (4.08%) SOAP
16 9 (3.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.94%) Mobile App
4 14 (5.71%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.67%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.27%) Clustering
9 7 (2.86%) Replication
10 5 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.63%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.22%) Mobile Payment
13 2 (0.82%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.35%) Linux
2 48 (19.59%) Unix
3 42 (17.14%) Windows
4 18 (7.35%) Android
5 7 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.20%) CI/CD
2 65 (26.53%) Microservices
3 64 (26.12%) Agile
4 62 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (20.00%) DevOps
6 45 (18.37%) Containerisation
7 44 (17.96%) OO
8 34 (13.88%) Computer Science
8 34 (13.88%) Software Engineering
8 34 (13.88%) User Experience
9 32 (13.06%) OOP
10 29 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (11.43%) Data Modelling
11 28 (11.43%) ETL
12 26 (10.61%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.20%) MVC
13 25 (10.20%) TDD
14 24 (9.80%) Migration
15 23 (9.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 112 (45.71%) Java
2 109 (44.49%) SQL
3 107 (43.67%) Python
4 81 (33.06%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.51%) Perl
6 33 (13.47%) PHP
7 17 (6.94%) Bash
8 11 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.08%) Go
9 10 (4.08%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.45%) VBA
11 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.63%) Scala
12 3 (1.22%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) CFML
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.51%) Degree
3 28 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.63%) OCP
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) ISEB
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) QA
2 12 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.04%) GDPR
4 5 (2.04%) SLA
5 4 (1.63%) NIST
5 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) FATCA
7 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.82%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (22.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.22%) 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 44 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.57%) Terraform
3 15 (6.12%) Ansible
4 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.04%) Grafana
6 4 (1.63%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.22%) Kibana
7 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
7 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.82%) Consul
8 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 88 (35.92%) Oracle
2 44 (17.96%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.16%) Splunk
4 18 (7.35%) Google
4 18 (7.35%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.08%) Talend
6 9 (3.67%) Advent
7 7 (2.86%) Databricks
7 7 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.45%) Informatica
9 5 (2.04%) SAP
10 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.82%) Denodo
11 2 (0.82%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.82%) Percona
11 2 (0.82%) PTC
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.82%) Zend