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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 294 241
Rank change year-on-year -97 -53 +30
Contract jobs citing MySQL 223 207 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.35% 4.41% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 132 266
10th Percentile £215 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £465 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +0.54% -6.09%
75th Percentile £496 £538 £599
90th Percentile £588 £615 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 8
10th Percentile £12.95 £23.68 £25.20
25th Percentile £13.51 £27.93 £38.44
Median hourly rate £19.30 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.86% -39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76.50 £57.50 £73.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £35.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +30.00% -49.09% +73.61%

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 6,666 4,690 6,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.29% 18.42% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,496 3,248 4,701
10th Percentile £354 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 87 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.01 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -75 79 £450 - 26
Midlands -24 44 £449 -8.47% 7
South East -50 38 £338 -16.92% 23
North of England -69 35 £477 +3.14% 35
West Midlands -31 33 £447 -13.20% 6
North West -25 28 £478 +7.42% 21
South West -31 15 £409 -25.64% 13
East Midlands -7 11 £540 +10.20% 1
East of England -25 7 £850 +76.17% 11
Yorkshire -56 5 £333 -16.98% 7
North East -45 2 £400 -18.37% 7
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 (4.48%) Apache
2 7 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.69%) Confluence
4 5 (2.24%) IIS
4 5 (2.24%) nginx
4 5 (2.24%) SAS
5 4 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.35%) Moodle
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.90%) Appian
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) Camunda
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.64%) AWS
2 46 (20.63%) Azure
3 30 (13.45%) GCP
4 20 (8.97%) GitHub
4 20 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.17%) Serverless
6 11 (4.93%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.69%) SaaS
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.24%) Route 53
11 5 (2.24%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.79%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) DNS
2 7 (3.14%) Firewall
3 2 (0.90%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.90%) FTP
3 2 (0.90%) NaaS
3 2 (0.90%) SAN
3 2 (0.90%) SSL
3 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.90%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) NAS
4 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (41.70%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (26.91%) SQL Server
3 44 (19.73%) Relational Database
4 30 (13.45%) MongoDB
5 29 (13.00%) NoSQL
6 23 (10.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (8.97%) Power BI
9 16 (7.17%) Pentaho
10 13 (5.83%) Redis
11 12 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (5.38%) DynamoDB
11 12 (5.38%) Oracle Database
12 11 (4.93%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (4.93%) Hadoop
12 11 (4.93%) RDBMS
13 10 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (3.59%) Metadata
15 7 (3.14%) Data Lake
16 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (18.39%) Git
2 23 (10.31%) GitLab
3 19 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.04%) JIRA
4 9 (4.04%) JUnit
5 8 (3.59%) Maven
6 5 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.79%) Gradle
7 4 (1.79%) Mockito
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.35%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.35%) ERwin
8 3 (1.35%) Xcode
9 2 (0.90%) Firebug
9 2 (0.90%) JMeter
9 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.90%) Selenium
9 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.42%) Finance
3 21 (9.42%) Retail
4 16 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.69%) Advertising
5 6 (2.69%) Marketing
6 5 (2.24%) Banking
6 5 (2.24%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Billing
8 2 (0.90%) Front Office
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.90%) Publishing
8 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.45%) Electronics
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (24.22%) Developer
2 41 (18.39%) DBA
3 34 (15.25%) Data Engineer
4 30 (13.45%) Senior
5 23 (10.31%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.07%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.17%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Administrator
9 14 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (6.28%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Lead
11 12 (5.38%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.38%) SQL DBA
12 11 (4.93%) Architect
12 11 (4.93%) SC Cleared DBA
12 11 (4.93%) Technical Support
13 10 (4.48%) Oracle DBA
14 9 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (4.04%) Python Developer
14 9 (4.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.77%) Spring
2 48 (21.52%) Spring Boot
3 36 (16.14%) CSS
4 35 (15.70%) React
5 32 (14.35%) HTML
5 32 (14.35%) Kafka
5 32 (14.35%) RESTful
6 25 (11.21%) REST
7 22 (9.87%) Spring MVC
8 15 (6.73%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.73%) Vue
9 14 (6.28%) CSS3
9 14 (6.28%) HTML5
10 13 (5.83%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.38%) Hibernate
11 12 (5.38%) JPA
11 12 (5.38%) OAuth
12 11 (4.93%) Redux
13 10 (4.48%) Django
13 10 (4.48%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.93%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.04%) Mobile Payment
6 8 (3.59%) Replication
7 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.35%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.35%) PKI
10 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.91%) Linux
2 29 (13.00%) Unix
3 25 (11.21%) Windows
4 12 (5.38%) Android
5 11 (4.93%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.24%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.79%) Solaris
9 3 (1.35%) CentOS
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.01%) CI/CD
2 42 (18.83%) Microservices
3 41 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (17.49%) Agile
5 38 (17.04%) DevOps
6 31 (13.90%) Performance Tuning
7 30 (13.45%) Software Engineering
8 29 (13.00%) Analytics
8 29 (13.00%) ETL
9 26 (11.66%) Observability
10 25 (11.21%) Containerisation
10 25 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (10.76%) Code Quality
11 24 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.31%) MVC
13 22 (9.87%) AI
14 19 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (8.52%) Data Integration
14 19 (8.52%) Event-Driven
14 19 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 107 (47.98%) SQL
2 82 (36.77%) Java
3 65 (29.15%) Python
4 45 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.07%) PHP
6 17 (7.62%) Bash
7 15 (6.73%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.83%) Perl
9 12 (5.38%) PL/SQL
10 10 (4.48%) Shell Script
11 9 (4.04%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.69%) Go
13 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.35%) HiveQL
15 3 (1.35%) Ruby
16 2 (0.90%) C#
16 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.76%) Degree
4 14 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.24%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.24%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.79%) OCP
7 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.21%) QA
2 15 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) NIST
4 4 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) FATCA
6 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (16.14%) Docker
2 9 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.24%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.35%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.35%) HDFS
4 3 (1.35%) Postfix
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.45%) NFS
6 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.11%) Grafana
2 27 (12.11%) Terraform
3 16 (7.17%) Ansible
4 11 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.79%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.79%) Kibana
5 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.35%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.35%) Puppet
7 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.90%) SCOM
8 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 85 (38.12%) Oracle
2 47 (21.08%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.21%) Talend
4 19 (8.52%) Google
5 18 (8.07%) Denodo
6 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.14%) Informatica
8 6 (2.69%) Splunk
9 5 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.35%) Cisco
10 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.35%) F5
10 3 (1.35%) Juniper
11 2 (0.90%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.90%) Ciena
11 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.90%) Netlify
11 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Sybase