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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 269 251
Rank change year-on-year -120 -18 +13
Contract jobs citing MySQL 207 214 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.89% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.71% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 241
10th Percentile £204 £350 £313
25th Percentile £331 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £619
90th Percentile £588 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £437 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 6
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £25.09 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% -58.62% +49.29%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +73.99% -59.36% +76.77%

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 6,298 4,547 6,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 18.95% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,308 3,168 4,519
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 86 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.61% -19.88% -29.76%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.88 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.12% -15.49% -31.09%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -77 77 £450 -1.64% 28
South East -51 38 £208 -48.45% 29
Midlands -46 37 £442 -12.48% 11
West Midlands -42 29 £437 -15.15% 6
North of England -90 28 £449 +0.79% 40
North West -40 18 £475 +6.74% 21
South West -21 17 £409 -37.08% 5
East Midlands -24 8 £540 +8.54% 5
Yorkshire -65 8 £420 +3.13% 15
East of England -34 6 - - 8
North East -33 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 (4.83%) Apache
2 9 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.93%) SAS
4 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.45%) Moodle
4 3 (1.45%) nginx
4 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) Appian
5 2 (0.97%) Camunda
5 2 (0.97%) IIS
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) CMS
6 1 (0.48%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (47.83%) AWS
2 43 (20.77%) Azure
3 29 (14.01%) GCP
4 19 (9.18%) GitHub
5 14 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.76%) SaaS
5 14 (6.76%) Serverless
6 10 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.86%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (3.86%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (2.90%) Route 53
9 6 (2.90%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) DNS
1 6 (2.90%) Firewall
2 3 (1.45%) WAN
3 2 (0.97%) FTP
3 2 (0.97%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.97%) NaaS
3 2 (0.97%) SAN
3 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.48%) DHCP
4 1 (0.48%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) MQTT
4 1 (0.48%) NAS
4 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.48%) SSH
4 1 (0.48%) VLAN
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (39.61%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (24.64%) SQL Server
3 46 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 29 (14.01%) MongoDB
4 29 (14.01%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (6.76%) Power BI
7 13 (6.28%) Pentaho
8 12 (5.80%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.31%) Hadoop
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (4.35%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.86%) Metadata
12 8 (3.86%) Redis
13 7 (3.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.38%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.43%) Git
2 27 (13.04%) GitLab
3 21 (10.14%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.25%) JIRA
5 10 (4.83%) Maven
6 9 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.86%) Postman
7 8 (3.86%) Selenium
8 6 (2.90%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.90%) Eclipse
8 6 (2.90%) Gradle
8 6 (2.90%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.90%) TestRail
8 6 (2.90%) Xcode
9 5 (2.42%) JUnit
9 5 (2.42%) Mockito
10 4 (1.93%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.45%) ERwin
11 3 (1.45%) Firebug
General
1 43 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.25%) Finance
4 14 (6.76%) Retail
5 13 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.42%) Advertising
6 5 (2.42%) Marketing
6 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.97%) Banking
7 2 (0.97%) Billing
7 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.48%) Electronics
8 1 (0.48%) French Language
8 1 (0.48%) Front Office
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (24.15%) Developer
2 33 (15.94%) DBA
3 28 (13.53%) Data Engineer
4 24 (11.59%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.63%) Senior
6 20 (9.66%) Support Engineer
7 19 (9.18%) Technical Support
8 15 (7.25%) Lead
9 14 (6.76%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.31%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Technical Support Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Administrator
12 10 (4.83%) Architect
13 9 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
14 8 (3.86%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.86%) SC Cleared DBA
14 8 (3.86%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (3.38%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.19%) Spring
2 43 (20.77%) Spring Boot
3 39 (18.84%) React
4 36 (17.39%) CSS
5 30 (14.49%) RESTful
6 29 (14.01%) HTML
6 29 (14.01%) Kafka
7 24 (11.59%) REST
8 20 (9.66%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.66%) Spring MVC
9 17 (8.21%) GraphQL
10 12 (5.80%) CSS3
10 12 (5.80%) HTML5
10 12 (5.80%) Vue
11 11 (5.31%) Hibernate
11 11 (5.31%) Redux
11 11 (5.31%) XML
12 10 (4.83%) Jest
12 10 (4.83%) LDAP
13 9 (4.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.90%) Mobile Payment
6 5 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.42%) Replication
7 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.97%) Clustering
8 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.97%) PKI
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.48%) Life Science
9 1 (0.48%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.54%) Linux
2 31 (14.98%) Unix
3 28 (13.53%) Windows
4 12 (5.80%) Android
5 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.67%) CI/CD
2 40 (19.32%) Microservices
3 38 (18.36%) Agile
3 38 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.94%) DevOps
5 28 (13.53%) ETL
5 28 (13.53%) Performance Tuning
6 25 (12.08%) Code Quality
7 24 (11.59%) Containerisation
7 24 (11.59%) Software Engineering
8 23 (11.11%) Observability
9 22 (10.63%) Analytics
9 22 (10.63%) MVC
9 22 (10.63%) OO
10 21 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (9.66%) Test Automation
12 18 (8.70%) Computer Science
12 18 (8.70%) Data Modelling
12 18 (8.70%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 105 (50.72%) SQL
2 86 (41.55%) Java
3 67 (32.37%) Python
4 57 (27.54%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.14%) Perl
5 21 (10.14%) PHP
6 15 (7.25%) Bash
7 12 (5.80%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.38%) Go
8 7 (3.38%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.45%) HiveQL
11 3 (1.45%) Ruby
11 3 (1.45%) Scala
12 2 (0.97%) C++
12 2 (0.97%) Korn
13 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 48 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.11%) Degree
4 16 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.42%) OCP
7 5 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.48%) CCNA
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.08%) QA
2 16 (7.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.90%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.93%) NIST
4 4 (1.93%) SLA
5 3 (1.45%) FATCA
5 3 (1.45%) GDPR
6 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.97%) NCSC
6 2 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (14.98%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.45%) HDFS
5 2 (0.97%) NFS
6 1 (0.48%) Ceph
6 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.48%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.48%) iptables
6 1 (0.48%) KVM
6 1 (0.48%) Lustre
6 1 (0.48%) Postfix
6 1 (0.48%) Samba
6 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (12.08%) Grafana
2 23 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.18%) Terraform
4 10 (4.83%) Ansible
4 10 (4.83%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.93%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.45%) Kibana
7 2 (0.97%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.97%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.97%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 75 (36.23%) Oracle
2 37 (17.87%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.63%) Talend
4 18 (8.70%) Denodo
5 12 (5.80%) Google
6 8 (3.86%) Splunk
7 7 (3.38%) Informatica
7 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.45%) Databricks
10 2 (0.97%) Adobe
10 2 (0.97%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.97%) Ciena
10 2 (0.97%) Cisco
10 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.97%) Netlify
10 2 (0.97%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.97%) Sybase