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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 253 256
Rank change year-on-year -93 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing MySQL 249 237 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.97% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.02% 5.11% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 138 244
10th Percentile £204 £337 £312
25th Percentile £359 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £508 £558 £620
90th Percentile £588 £693 £699
UK median daily rate £428 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -12.76% -2.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £12.95 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%
75th Percentile £90.00 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile - £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.74% -59.36% +57.96%

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 6,189 4,640 6,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.01% 19.03% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,322 3,266 4,400
10th Percentile £350 £357 £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 £663 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 93 139
10th Percentile £18.18 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.84 £24.25 £20.80
Median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.83 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -71 86 £475 - 33
North of England -76 50 £420 -5.62% 32
Midlands -35 46 £437 -10.82% 17
West Midlands -26 41 £436 -11.02% 10
South East -57 38 £208 -45.89% 24
North West -35 30 £450 +1.12% 24
South West -11 18 £409 -46.36% 19
Yorkshire -56 18 £369 -10.99% 4
East of England -28 7 - - 20
East Midlands -30 5 £540 +9.09% 7
North East -19 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 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.61%) Apache
3 4 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.61%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) Confluence
4 3 (1.20%) Moodle
5 2 (0.80%) Appian
5 2 (0.80%) Camunda
5 2 (0.80%) Drupal
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Magento
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (45.78%) AWS
2 48 (19.28%) Azure
3 36 (14.46%) GCP
4 34 (13.65%) GitHub
5 17 (6.83%) Amazon S3
5 17 (6.83%) SaaS
5 17 (6.83%) Serverless
6 15 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 14 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.02%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (3.21%) Route 53
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (2.81%) Sauce Labs
12 6 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) DNS
1 5 (2.01%) Firewall
2 4 (1.61%) Internet
2 4 (1.61%) Wireless
3 3 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) FTP
4 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.80%) NaaS
4 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.40%) SSH
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (40.56%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (29.32%) Relational Database
3 51 (20.48%) SQL Server
4 33 (13.25%) MongoDB
5 32 (12.85%) NoSQL
6 25 (10.04%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (9.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (6.02%) Power BI
9 14 (5.62%) Oracle Database
10 13 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (5.22%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.22%) Pentaho
11 12 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (4.82%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.82%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.02%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (3.61%) Redis
14 8 (3.21%) DB2
14 8 (3.21%) Metadata
14 8 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (17.67%) Git
2 36 (14.46%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.24%) GitLab
4 19 (7.63%) JIRA
5 10 (4.02%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.02%) JUnit
5 10 (4.02%) Maven
6 8 (3.21%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (3.21%) Postman
6 8 (3.21%) Selenium
7 7 (2.81%) Android Studio
7 7 (2.81%) Eclipse
7 7 (2.81%) Mockito
7 7 (2.81%) Xcode
8 6 (2.41%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.41%) Gradle
8 6 (2.41%) PyCharm
8 6 (2.41%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.41%) TestRail
9 4 (1.61%) CircleCI
General
1 69 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.84%) Finance
3 25 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.82%) Retail
6 11 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.61%) Banking
8 8 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.41%) Marketing
10 5 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Legal
11 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Electronics
13 2 (0.80%) Billing
13 2 (0.80%) Front Office
13 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Publishing
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) French Language
Job Titles
1 77 (30.92%) Developer
2 36 (14.46%) DBA
3 33 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 29 (11.65%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.24%) Senior
6 20 (8.03%) Technical Support
7 17 (6.83%) Oracle DBA
7 17 (6.83%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.83%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (4.42%) Architect
9 11 (4.42%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.02%) Administrator
10 10 (4.02%) Lead
11 9 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.21%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.21%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.21%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (3.21%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.69%) Spring
2 55 (22.09%) Spring Boot
3 50 (20.08%) React
4 45 (18.07%) RESTful
5 39 (15.66%) CSS
6 32 (12.85%) REST
7 29 (11.65%) HTML
8 28 (11.24%) Kafka
9 27 (10.84%) AngularJS
10 26 (10.44%) Spring MVC
11 21 (8.43%) GraphQL
12 18 (7.23%) Hibernate
13 17 (6.83%) .NET
14 14 (5.62%) Node.js
15 11 (4.42%) CSS3
15 11 (4.42%) HTML5
15 11 (4.42%) Redux
16 10 (4.02%) Jest
16 10 (4.02%) JPA
16 10 (4.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.21%) Replication
7 7 (2.81%) Clustering
7 7 (2.81%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.61%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.20%) Mobile Payment
11 1 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.89%) Linux
2 41 (16.47%) Unix
3 32 (12.85%) Windows
4 10 (4.02%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.91%) CI/CD
2 65 (26.10%) Agile
2 65 (26.10%) Microservices
3 47 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (17.67%) DevOps
5 33 (13.25%) Code Quality
5 33 (13.25%) Containerisation
5 33 (13.25%) Data Modelling
5 33 (13.25%) ETL
6 30 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (11.65%) MVC
7 29 (11.65%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (10.84%) Computer Science
9 27 (10.84%) Observability
9 27 (10.84%) OO
10 26 (10.44%) Analytics
11 24 (9.64%) AI
12 23 (9.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (49.40%) SQL
2 112 (44.98%) Java
3 92 (36.95%) Python
4 65 (26.10%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.64%) Perl
6 20 (8.03%) PHP
7 14 (5.62%) Bash
8 10 (4.02%) Go
9 9 (3.61%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.21%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.81%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.01%) Ruby
13 4 (1.61%) Scala
14 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.20%) HiveQL
14 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.80%) C++
15 2 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 70 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.45%) Degree
4 20 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.41%) OCP
7 6 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.64%) QA
2 18 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.61%) SLA
4 6 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.61%) NIST
7 3 (1.20%) FATCA
8 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
8 2 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (18.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.80%) NFS
5 2 (0.80%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) Ceph
6 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.40%) iptables
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Lustre
6 1 (0.40%) Samba
6 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.64%) Grafana
3 17 (6.83%) Terraform
4 13 (5.22%) Ansible
5 11 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.61%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.20%) Kibana
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.80%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 90 (36.14%) Oracle
2 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.64%) Talend
4 18 (7.23%) Denodo
5 13 (5.22%) Google
6 11 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.42%) Splunk
7 8 (3.21%) Advent
7 8 (3.21%) Informatica
8 5 (2.01%) SAP
9 4 (1.61%) Databricks
9 4 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.20%) Adobe
10 3 (1.20%) Percona
10 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.80%) Ciena
11 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.80%) EMC
11 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty