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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 293 223
Rank change year-on-year -107 -70 +21
Contract jobs citing MySQL 228 226 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.81% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 4.47% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 155 251
10th Percentile £311 £247 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £575
90th Percentile £599 £586 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile - £32.68 £34.38
25th Percentile £13.51 £50.43 £43.44
Median hourly rate £19.30 £80.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.88% +39.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80.25 £83.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.09 £80.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -68.64% +39.13% +9.52%

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 6,979 5,051 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.32% 18.15% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,672 3,507 4,358
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £703 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 79 93
10th Percentile £15.28 £18.69 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.60% -31.82%
75th Percentile £67.47 £62.88 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -100 79 £525 +16.67% 95
Midlands -12 48 £448 -10.05% 12
North of England -57 46 £478 +4.48% 35
West Midlands -14 40 £448 +3.47% 9
North West -27 34 £478 +7.42% 23
South East -80 29 £403 +93.98% 33
East of England -8 13 £638 +33.16% 9
Yorkshire -45 9 £333 -16.98% 7
East Midlands -8 8 £540 +8.54% 3
South West -46 8 £409 -20.58% 11
North East -49 3 £500 - 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 9 (3.95%) Apache
2 8 (3.51%) Confluence
3 5 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.19%) IIS
3 5 (2.19%) SAS
3 5 (2.19%) WordPress
4 4 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.75%) nginx
4 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.75%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.32%) CMS
5 3 (1.32%) Moodle
6 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.44%) Drupal
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.98%) AWS
2 61 (26.75%) Azure
3 27 (11.84%) GCP
4 23 (10.09%) Power Platform
5 17 (7.46%) GitHub
6 16 (7.02%) Serverless
7 14 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.07%) SaaS
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.63%) AWS KMS
12 5 (2.19%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.19%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) SSL
2 8 (3.51%) DNS
3 7 (3.07%) Firewall
4 5 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.75%) HTTP
5 4 (1.75%) SSH
6 3 (1.32%) 5G
7 2 (0.88%) 4G
7 2 (0.88%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.88%) FTP
7 2 (0.88%) NaaS
7 2 (0.88%) SAN
7 2 (0.88%) WAN
8 1 (0.44%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) MQTT
8 1 (0.44%) NAS
8 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (30.26%) SQL Server
3 39 (17.11%) Relational Database
4 37 (16.23%) MongoDB
5 33 (14.47%) NoSQL
6 23 (10.09%) Power BI
7 21 (9.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (8.33%) Redis
9 16 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (6.14%) Pentaho
11 11 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (4.39%) DynamoDB
13 9 (3.95%) Oracle Database
13 9 (3.95%) RDBMS
13 9 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (3.07%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.63%) Hadoop
16 5 (2.19%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 49 (21.49%) Git
2 24 (10.53%) GitLab
3 19 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.82%) JIRA
5 9 (3.95%) JUnit
6 8 (3.51%) Maven
7 5 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.75%) Gradle
8 4 (1.75%) Mocha
9 3 (1.32%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.32%) Mockito
9 3 (1.32%) Xcode
10 2 (0.88%) Firebug
10 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.88%) Selenium
10 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.89%) Finance
5 15 (6.58%) Retail
6 6 (2.63%) Advertising
6 6 (2.63%) Marketing
6 6 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.19%) Banking
7 5 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Billing
9 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Front Office
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Publishing
9 2 (0.88%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (26.75%) Developer
2 54 (23.68%) DBA
3 33 (14.47%) Senior
4 30 (13.16%) Data Engineer
5 26 (11.40%) Administrator
6 21 (9.21%) Java Developer
7 19 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (7.89%) SC Cleared DBA
8 18 (7.89%) SQL DBA
9 16 (7.02%) Support Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Lead
10 13 (5.70%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.82%) Architect
12 11 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.82%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.95%) Software Developer
14 8 (3.51%) PHP Developer
14 8 (3.51%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.61%) Spring
2 44 (19.30%) CSS
3 42 (18.42%) Spring Boot
4 40 (17.54%) HTML
5 37 (16.23%) RESTful
6 34 (14.91%) Kafka
6 34 (14.91%) REST
7 28 (12.28%) React
8 22 (9.65%) Spring MVC
9 16 (7.02%) AngularJS
10 15 (6.58%) HTML5
11 14 (6.14%) CSS3
11 14 (6.14%) Node.js
12 13 (5.70%) Vue
13 12 (5.26%) GraphQL
14 11 (4.82%) Jest
15 10 (4.39%) Hibernate
15 10 (4.39%) OAuth
16 9 (3.95%) jQuery
16 9 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.77%) Replication
3 16 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.51%) Clustering
6 8 (3.51%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.63%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.19%) Life Science
9 5 (2.19%) PKI
10 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.32%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.49%) Linux
2 23 (10.09%) Windows
3 21 (9.21%) Unix
4 11 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.95%) Android
6 9 (3.95%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.75%) Solaris
8 3 (1.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.02%) CI/CD
2 53 (23.25%) Agile
3 51 (22.37%) DevOps
4 49 (21.49%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.11%) Microservices
7 33 (14.47%) Software Engineering
8 30 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 30 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (11.84%) Observability
10 26 (11.40%) AI
10 26 (11.40%) Data Modelling
10 26 (11.40%) ETL
10 26 (11.40%) Test Automation
11 25 (10.96%) Code Quality
12 24 (10.53%) Analytics
12 24 (10.53%) MVC
13 23 (10.09%) Event-Driven
14 22 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (9.65%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (44.30%) SQL
2 75 (32.89%) Java
3 62 (27.19%) Python
4 47 (20.61%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.65%) PHP
6 18 (7.89%) Bash
6 18 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.58%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.95%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.95%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.51%) Perl
11 5 (2.19%) C#
12 4 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.75%) Ruby
13 3 (1.32%) C++
13 3 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.32%) HiveQL
14 2 (0.88%) Go
14 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 84 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 72 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (10.09%) Degree
5 14 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.82%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (4.39%) OCP
9 7 (3.07%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.07%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.40%) QA
2 15 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.63%) GDPR
3 6 (2.63%) SLA
4 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.75%) WCAG
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (19.74%) Docker
2 8 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.32%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.32%) HDFS
4 3 (1.32%) Postfix
5 2 (0.88%) Varnish
6 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.44%) NFS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 41 (17.98%) Kubernetes
2 36 (15.79%) Terraform
3 25 (10.96%) Grafana
4 16 (7.02%) Ansible
5 10 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.07%) SCOM
7 4 (1.75%) Kibana
7 4 (1.75%) Puppet
8 3 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.32%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.88%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (35.53%) Oracle
2 54 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.33%) Talend
4 17 (7.46%) Google
5 16 (7.02%) Denodo
6 14 (6.14%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.63%) Informatica
8 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.19%) Splunk
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco
9 3 (1.32%) Databricks
9 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.32%) F5
9 3 (1.32%) Juniper
9 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.32%) SAP
9 3 (1.32%) Sybase
10 2 (0.88%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.88%) CyberArk