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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 238 216
Rank change year-on-year -74 -22 +52
Contract jobs citing MySQL 243 314 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.02% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 5.64% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 198 302
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £304 £325 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £579
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £38.95 £29.50 £26.97
25th Percentile £61.75 £34.38 £44.60
Median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +46.68%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +46.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,305 5,572 6,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 18.07% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,697 3,725 4,614
10th Percentile £328 £350 £355
25th Percentile £412 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £668 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 78 132
10th Percentile £22.68 £18.35 £18.64
25th Percentile £31.18 £24.88 £23.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -17.71% -7.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £64.65
90th Percentile £86.45 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -2.78%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -21 91 £456 -6.65% 47
North of England -59 54 £415 -17.08% 42
South East -10 47 £208 +1.22% 82
North West -24 36 £425 -4.82% 26
Midlands -39 26 £463 +5.11% 39
West Midlands -25 24 £425 +11.11% 26
Yorkshire -43 16 £376 -28.33% 15
South West +7 10 £458 +14.38% 32
East of England -15 6 £479 +39.99% 18
North East -6 2 £500 - 1
East Midlands -22 2 £556 +12.37% 13
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 11 (4.53%) Apache
2 9 (3.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.06%) SugarCRM
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Drupal
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.06%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.82%) Windchill
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.70%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Magento
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (39.92%) AWS
2 54 (22.22%) Azure
3 35 (14.40%) GitHub
4 32 (13.17%) GCP
5 29 (11.93%) SaaS
6 26 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (9.05%) Serverless
8 18 (7.41%) Sauce Labs
9 17 (7.00%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (5.35%) Apigee
13 11 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.70%) Datadog
15 8 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.88%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.41%) Wireless
2 5 (2.06%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) DHCP
4 3 (1.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.82%) LAN
5 2 (0.82%) SMTP
5 2 (0.82%) SSH
5 2 (0.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
6 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (42.80%) Relational Database
2 94 (38.68%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (16.46%) SQL Server
4 34 (13.99%) MongoDB
5 30 (12.35%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (9.47%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.64%) RDBMS
8 20 (8.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (5.76%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.35%) MariaDB
10 13 (5.35%) Oracle Database
11 12 (4.94%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.94%) Redis
12 10 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (3.70%) DB2
13 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.47%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.47%) Power BI
15 6 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (22.22%) Git
2 28 (11.52%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.29%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (7.82%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.41%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.41%) Xcode
6 16 (6.58%) JIRA
7 10 (4.12%) GitLab
8 9 (3.70%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.88%) JUnit
10 6 (2.47%) Firebug
10 6 (2.47%) Gradle
10 6 (2.47%) Maven
10 6 (2.47%) PyCharm
10 6 (2.47%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.06%) Mockito
11 5 (2.06%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.65%) Vagrant
13 3 (1.23%) Postman
13 3 (1.23%) Storybook
General
1 99 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.05%) Finance
3 25 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Banking
6 14 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.47%) Marketing
8 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.23%) Electronics
10 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (41.56%) Developer
2 41 (16.87%) Technical Support
3 25 (10.29%) Support Engineer
3 25 (10.29%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (10.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 24 (9.88%) Java Developer
5 21 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (7.82%) UX Engineer
7 18 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 17 (7.00%) Senior
9 16 (6.58%) PHP Developer
10 15 (6.17%) DBA
11 13 (5.35%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.53%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (4.53%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.12%) Architect
14 9 (3.70%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (3.29%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.63%) CSS
2 43 (17.70%) React
3 41 (16.87%) RESTful
4 39 (16.05%) HTML
5 38 (15.64%) Spring Boot
6 35 (14.40%) AngularJS
7 34 (13.99%) Spring
8 31 (12.76%) GraphQL
9 26 (10.70%) Node.js
10 25 (10.29%) REST
11 21 (8.64%) Ajax
12 16 (6.58%) .NET
13 13 (5.35%) Hibernate
13 13 (5.35%) Kafka
13 13 (5.35%) Vue
14 12 (4.94%) Laravel
14 12 (4.94%) XML
15 10 (4.12%) SOAP
15 10 (4.12%) Web Services
16 8 (3.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.64%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.76%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.29%) Clustering
6 8 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.88%) Replication
8 6 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.06%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.65%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (25.93%) Linux
2 45 (18.52%) Unix
3 44 (18.11%) Windows
4 18 (7.41%) Android
5 12 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.65%) CentOS
7 3 (1.23%) Debian
7 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.10%) Agile
2 66 (27.16%) CI/CD
3 65 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (25.10%) Microservices
5 51 (20.99%) OO
6 47 (19.34%) DevOps
7 40 (16.46%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (14.40%) User Experience
10 31 (12.76%) OOP
11 29 (11.93%) Software Engineering
12 27 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 25 (10.29%) Data Modelling
14 24 (9.88%) AI
14 24 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.88%) Migration
15 23 (9.47%) Analytics
15 23 (9.47%) MVC
16 22 (9.05%) TDD
17 21 (8.64%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 107 (44.03%) Java
2 104 (42.80%) Python
3 87 (35.80%) SQL
4 84 (34.57%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.64%) Perl
6 34 (13.99%) PHP
7 21 (8.64%) Bash
8 13 (5.35%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.29%) Ruby
9 8 (3.29%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.88%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.47%) VBA
12 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.65%) Go
13 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.23%) C#
14 3 (1.23%) Scala
15 2 (0.82%) Rust
16 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.76%) Degree
2 30 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.65%) OCP
7 4 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) CCNP
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ISEB
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.47%) QA
2 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.06%) GDPR
3 5 (2.06%) SLA
4 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (20.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.82%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) Ceph
3 1 (0.41%) iptables
3 1 (0.41%) KVM
3 1 (0.41%) Lustre
3 1 (0.41%) NFS
3 1 (0.41%) Samba
3 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.88%) Terraform
3 18 (7.41%) Ansible
4 9 (3.70%) Puppet
5 7 (2.88%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.23%) Kibana
6 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.23%) Salt
7 2 (0.82%) Consul
7 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.82%) Grafana
7 2 (0.82%) Icinga
7 2 (0.82%) Nagios
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 89 (36.63%) Oracle
2 46 (18.93%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.05%) Splunk
4 20 (8.23%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.58%) Google
6 9 (3.70%) Advent
7 7 (2.88%) Databricks
7 7 (2.88%) Informatica
8 6 (2.47%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.47%) SAP
8 6 (2.47%) Talend
9 5 (2.06%) Gigya
10 4 (1.65%) Zend
11 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.23%) New Relic
11 3 (1.23%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.82%) Percona
12 2 (0.82%) PTC
12 2 (0.82%) VMware