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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 266 257
Rank change year-on-year -119 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 211 214 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.88% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.63% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 135 250
10th Percentile £204 £343 £324
25th Percentile £374 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £611
90th Percentile £588 £621 £696
UK median daily rate £438 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -6.67% -1.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £24.85
25th Percentile - £24.39 £36.25
Median hourly rate £13.51 £28.45 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.51% -57.85% +28.57%
75th Percentile £75.50 £31.99 £73.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +23.02% -59.36% +52.01%

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 6,409 4,622 6,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 19.00% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,363 3,197 4,566
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £791
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.04% -14.53% -33.33%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -92 73 £450 - 43
Midlands -17 44 £447 -8.78% 13
South East -46 42 £275 -31.68% 28
West Midlands -30 33 £447 -13.20% 11
North of England -87 28 £472 +3.63% 38
North West -45 17 £475 +6.74% 22
South West -20 16 £409 -25.64% 12
East Midlands -21 11 £540 +10.20% 2
Yorkshire -60 9 £420 +4.87% 11
East of England -22 5 - - 11
North East -31 2 £400 -15.34% 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 10 (4.74%) Apache
2 8 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.84%) Confluence
4 5 (2.37%) nginx
5 4 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.90%) IIS
5 4 (1.90%) SAS
5 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.42%) Moodle
7 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.95%) Appian
7 2 (0.95%) Camunda
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) CMS
8 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (50.71%) AWS
2 45 (21.33%) Azure
3 35 (16.59%) GCP
4 18 (8.53%) GitHub
5 17 (8.06%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.64%) Serverless
7 13 (6.16%) SaaS
8 10 (4.74%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.37%) Route 53
13 5 (2.37%) Sauce Labs
14 4 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) DNS
2 7 (3.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.95%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.95%) FTP
3 2 (0.95%) NaaS
3 2 (0.95%) SAN
3 2 (0.95%) WAN
4 1 (0.47%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.47%) MQTT
4 1 (0.47%) NAS
4 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (37.91%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (27.01%) SQL Server
3 41 (19.43%) Relational Database
4 29 (13.74%) MongoDB
4 29 (13.74%) NoSQL
5 23 (10.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (9.48%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (8.06%) Power BI
8 16 (7.58%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.69%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (5.21%) Hadoop
10 11 (5.21%) Oracle Database
11 10 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.79%) Metadata
13 8 (3.79%) Redis
14 7 (3.32%) RDBMS
15 6 (2.84%) Data Lake
16 5 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (18.96%) Git
2 29 (13.74%) GitLab
3 26 (12.32%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.11%) JIRA
5 10 (4.74%) Maven
6 9 (4.27%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.27%) JUnit
7 8 (3.79%) Postman
7 8 (3.79%) Selenium
8 7 (3.32%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (2.84%) Gradle
9 6 (2.84%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.84%) TestRail
10 5 (2.37%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.37%) Eclipse
10 5 (2.37%) Mockito
10 5 (2.37%) Xcode
11 4 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.42%) ERwin
General
1 41 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.00%) Finance
4 17 (8.06%) Retail
5 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Banking
7 5 (2.37%) Advertising
7 5 (2.37%) Marketing
7 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Billing
9 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.95%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) French Language
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (24.17%) Developer
2 33 (15.64%) DBA
3 31 (14.69%) Data Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Senior
5 24 (11.37%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.53%) Support Engineer
7 15 (7.11%) Lead
7 15 (7.11%) Technical Support
8 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) Architect
9 11 (5.21%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Administrator
10 10 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (4.27%) Oracle DBA
11 9 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Technical Support Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.17%) Spring
2 46 (21.80%) Spring Boot
3 39 (18.48%) CSS
4 37 (17.54%) React
5 32 (15.17%) HTML
6 29 (13.74%) Kafka
6 29 (13.74%) RESTful
7 25 (11.85%) REST
8 24 (11.37%) Spring MVC
9 18 (8.53%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.58%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.16%) CSS3
11 13 (6.16%) Hibernate
11 13 (6.16%) HTML5
12 12 (5.69%) JPA
12 12 (5.69%) Vue
13 11 (5.21%) Redux
14 10 (4.74%) .NET
14 10 (4.74%) Jest
15 9 (4.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.21%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.27%) Mobile Payment
6 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.37%) Replication
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.42%) PKI
10 2 (0.95%) Clustering
10 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.47%) LIMS
11 1 (0.47%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.01%) Linux
2 31 (14.69%) Unix
3 27 (12.80%) Windows
4 14 (6.64%) Android
5 7 (3.32%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.42%) CentOS
7 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.01%) CI/CD
2 43 (20.38%) Microservices
3 37 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (17.06%) Agile
5 34 (16.11%) DevOps
6 31 (14.69%) ETL
7 27 (12.80%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (12.32%) Analytics
9 25 (11.85%) MVC
10 24 (11.37%) Observability
10 24 (11.37%) Software Engineering
11 23 (10.90%) Code Quality
11 23 (10.90%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (8.53%) Data Integration
13 18 (8.53%) OO
13 18 (8.53%) Service Delivery
13 18 (8.53%) Test Automation
14 17 (8.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (50.24%) SQL
2 88 (41.71%) Java
3 63 (29.86%) Python
4 57 (27.01%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.95%) PHP
6 17 (8.06%) Perl
7 14 (6.64%) Bash
7 14 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.21%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.27%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.84%) Go
10 6 (2.84%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.42%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.42%) Ruby
13 2 (0.95%) C++
13 2 (0.95%) Korn
13 2 (0.95%) Scala
14 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 66 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) Degree
4 15 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.90%) OCP
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.32%) QA
2 15 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.84%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.90%) NIST
4 4 (1.90%) SLA
5 3 (1.42%) FATCA
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (14.69%) Docker
2 9 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.37%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.42%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.42%) HDFS
4 3 (1.42%) Postfix
5 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (12.32%) Grafana
2 23 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.48%) Terraform
4 11 (5.21%) Ansible
5 10 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.90%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.42%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.42%) Kibana
7 3 (1.42%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 77 (36.49%) Oracle
2 38 (18.01%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.85%) Talend
4 19 (9.00%) Google
5 18 (8.53%) Denodo
6 10 (4.74%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.32%) Informatica
8 6 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.84%) Splunk
9 3 (1.42%) Cisco
9 3 (1.42%) F5
9 3 (1.42%) Juniper
10 2 (0.95%) Adobe
10 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.95%) Ciena
10 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.95%) Databricks
10 2 (0.95%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.95%) Sybase