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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 255 251
Rank change year-on-year -87 -4 +28
Contract jobs citing MySQL 253 237 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.97% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.08% 5.11% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 138 247
10th Percentile £204 £337 £309
25th Percentile £353 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £508 £558 £624
90th Percentile £589 £693 £698
UK median daily rate £425 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £12.95 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%
75th Percentile £90.00 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile - £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.74% -59.36% +57.96%

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 6,204 4,639 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.07% 19.04% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,328 3,266 4,416
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £669
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 93 139
10th Percentile £18.13 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.55 £24.25 £20.80
Median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%
75th Percentile £74.76 £65.62 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.88 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -68 88 £475 - 33
North of England -75 51 £415 -6.74% 32
Midlands -38 46 £437 -10.82% 17
West Midlands -26 41 £436 -11.02% 10
South East -50 39 £208 -45.89% 24
North West -39 30 £450 +1.12% 24
Yorkshire -59 19 £365 -11.84% 4
South West -13 18 £409 -46.36% 19
East of England -30 7 - - 20
East Midlands -28 5 £540 +9.09% 7
North East -18 2 £400 -13.98% 4
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 10 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.56%) Apache
3 4 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.58%) SAS
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) Moodle
5 2 (0.79%) Appian
5 2 (0.79%) Camunda
5 2 (0.79%) Drupal
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.79%) Magento
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 115 (45.45%) AWS
2 49 (19.37%) Azure
3 36 (14.23%) GCP
4 34 (13.44%) GitHub
5 18 (7.11%) SaaS
6 17 (6.72%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.72%) Serverless
7 15 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.93%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.16%) Route 53
11 8 (3.16%) Sauce Labs
12 7 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) DNS
1 5 (1.98%) Firewall
1 5 (1.98%) Wireless
2 4 (1.58%) Internet
3 3 (1.19%) WAN
4 2 (0.79%) FTP
4 2 (0.79%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.79%) NaaS
4 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (39.92%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (29.64%) Relational Database
3 52 (20.55%) SQL Server
4 33 (13.04%) MongoDB
5 32 (12.65%) NoSQL
6 25 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (5.93%) Oracle Database
8 15 (5.93%) Power BI
9 13 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.14%) DynamoDB
9 13 (5.14%) Pentaho
10 12 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.74%) Hadoop
10 12 (4.74%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.56%) Redis
13 8 (3.16%) DB2
13 8 (3.16%) Metadata
13 8 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (17.39%) Git
2 36 (14.23%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.07%) GitLab
4 19 (7.51%) JIRA
5 10 (3.95%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.95%) JUnit
5 10 (3.95%) Maven
6 9 (3.56%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (3.16%) Android Studio
7 8 (3.16%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.16%) Postman
7 8 (3.16%) Selenium
7 8 (3.16%) Xcode
8 7 (2.77%) Mockito
9 6 (2.37%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.37%) Gradle
9 6 (2.37%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.37%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.37%) TestRail
10 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
General
1 70 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.07%) Finance
3 26 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.74%) Retail
6 11 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.95%) Banking
8 8 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.37%) Marketing
10 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.58%) Legal
11 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.19%) Electronics
13 2 (0.79%) Billing
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Publishing
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) French Language
Job Titles
1 77 (30.43%) Developer
2 37 (14.62%) DBA
3 33 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 29 (11.46%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.09%) Senior
6 22 (8.70%) Technical Support
7 18 (7.11%) Oracle DBA
7 18 (7.11%) Support Engineer
8 17 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.35%) Architect
10 11 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.95%) Administrator
11 10 (3.95%) Lead
12 9 (3.56%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.56%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Technical Support Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.16%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.16%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.32%) Spring
2 55 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 51 (20.16%) React
4 45 (17.79%) RESTful
5 40 (15.81%) CSS
6 32 (12.65%) REST
7 29 (11.46%) HTML
8 28 (11.07%) AngularJS
8 28 (11.07%) Kafka
9 26 (10.28%) Spring MVC
10 22 (8.70%) GraphQL
11 18 (7.11%) Hibernate
12 17 (6.72%) .NET
13 14 (5.53%) Node.js
14 11 (4.35%) CSS3
14 11 (4.35%) HTML5
14 11 (4.35%) Redux
15 10 (3.95%) Jest
15 10 (3.95%) JPA
15 10 (3.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.56%) Virtual Team
7 8 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.16%) Replication
8 7 (2.77%) Clustering
9 5 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.58%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.58%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.19%) Mobile Payment
12 1 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.32%) Linux
2 44 (17.39%) Unix
3 34 (13.44%) Windows
4 11 (4.35%) Android
5 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.48%) CI/CD
2 66 (26.09%) Agile
3 65 (25.69%) Microservices
4 47 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.39%) DevOps
6 34 (13.44%) ETL
7 33 (13.04%) Code Quality
7 33 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 33 (13.04%) Data Modelling
8 31 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (11.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (11.46%) MVC
9 29 (11.46%) OO
9 29 (11.46%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.07%) Computer Science
10 28 (11.07%) Performance Tuning
11 27 (10.67%) Analytics
11 27 (10.67%) Observability
12 24 (9.49%) AI
13 23 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 124 (49.01%) SQL
2 114 (45.06%) Java
3 95 (37.55%) Python
4 67 (26.48%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.28%) Perl
6 20 (7.91%) PHP
7 14 (5.53%) Bash
8 10 (3.95%) Go
8 10 (3.95%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.77%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.98%) Ruby
12 4 (1.58%) Scala
13 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.19%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.79%) C++
14 2 (0.79%) Korn
Qualifications
1 70 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.65%) Degree
4 21 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.37%) OCP
7 6 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.49%) QA
2 18 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.56%) SLA
4 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.98%) GDPR
6 4 (1.58%) NIST
7 3 (1.19%) FATCA
8 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.79%) NCSC
8 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.58%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.79%) NFS
5 2 (0.79%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) Ceph
6 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.40%) iptables
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Lustre
6 1 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.49%) Grafana
3 17 (6.72%) Terraform
4 13 (5.14%) Ansible
5 11 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.58%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.19%) Kibana
7 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.79%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.79%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 94 (37.15%) Oracle
2 42 (16.60%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.88%) Talend
4 18 (7.11%) Denodo
5 13 (5.14%) Google
6 12 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.74%) Splunk
7 9 (3.56%) Informatica
8 8 (3.16%) Advent
9 5 (1.98%) SAP
10 4 (1.58%) Databricks
10 4 (1.58%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.19%) Adobe
11 3 (1.19%) Percona
11 3 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.79%) Ciena
12 2 (0.79%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.79%) EMC
12 2 (0.79%) PagerDuty