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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 228 230
Rank change year-on-year -84 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 209 343 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 1.04% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.16% 5.71% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 231 296
10th Percentile £204 £213 £316
25th Percentile £339 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £527 £565 £563
90th Percentile £583 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile - £29.50 £29.34
25th Percentile £68.25 £34.38 £44.60
Median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +77.78% -17.43% +21.11%

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 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -48 76 £450 -10.00% 100
North of England -31 44 £475 -5.09% 51
South East +8 38 £208 -22.43% 59
North West -19 22 £438 +6.06% 30
Midlands -46 17 £463 +26.71% 29
South West +31 13 £515 +47.14% 14
Yorkshire -29 12 £494 -10.23% 16
North East 0 10 £500 - 6
West Midlands -43 10 £425 +18.06% 17
East Midlands +2 7 £505 +18.48% 12
East of England -2 3 £479 +39.99% 28
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.26%) Apache
1 11 (5.26%) Confluence
2 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) SugarCRM
4 3 (1.44%) CMS
4 3 (1.44%) WordPress
5 2 (0.96%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.96%) Camunda
5 2 (0.96%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.96%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) Luigi
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Windchill
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (45.93%) AWS
2 51 (24.40%) Azure
3 24 (11.48%) GCP
4 22 (10.53%) Serverless
5 20 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (9.57%) SaaS
6 19 (9.09%) GitHub
7 15 (7.18%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (6.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
10 10 (4.78%) Apigee
10 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.78%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.26%) Wireless
2 4 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.96%) DHCP
3 2 (0.96%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) Skype
3 2 (0.96%) SMTP
3 2 (0.96%) VoIP
4 1 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) SSH
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (41.15%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (33.01%) Relational Database
3 40 (19.14%) MongoDB
4 39 (18.66%) SQL Server
5 23 (11.00%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (7.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 14 (6.70%) RDBMS
9 12 (5.74%) DynamoDB
10 10 (4.78%) Hadoop
10 10 (4.78%) MariaDB
10 10 (4.78%) Redis
11 8 (3.83%) Power BI
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.87%) Big Data
13 6 (2.87%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.39%) Pentaho
15 4 (1.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (26.32%) Git
2 21 (10.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.05%) JIRA
3 20 (9.57%) GitLab
4 18 (8.61%) Browser DevTools
5 14 (6.70%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.74%) Eclipse
7 11 (5.26%) Android Studio
7 11 (5.26%) Maven
7 11 (5.26%) Xcode
8 7 (3.35%) Artifactory
8 7 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.87%) Firebug
9 6 (2.87%) Gradle
10 5 (2.39%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.91%) gulp
11 4 (1.91%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.44%) JUnit
12 3 (1.44%) Mockito
General
1 70 (33.49%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.44%) Finance
4 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Banking
6 7 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.96%) Military
8 2 (0.96%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (45.93%) Developer
2 28 (13.40%) Technical Support
3 22 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (10.53%) Senior
4 19 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 18 (8.61%) Support Engineer
5 18 (8.61%) Technical Engineer
5 18 (8.61%) Technical Support Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.22%) Java Engineer
8 12 (5.74%) PHP Developer
8 12 (5.74%) UX Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Architect
9 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 11 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.35%) Analyst
12 7 (3.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.01%) CSS
2 42 (20.10%) React
3 40 (19.14%) Node.js
4 39 (18.66%) HTML
5 35 (16.75%) RESTful
6 33 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 33 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 30 (14.35%) Spring
8 22 (10.53%) GraphQL
9 20 (9.57%) REST
10 16 (7.66%) .NET
10 16 (7.66%) Kafka
11 13 (6.22%) Ajax
11 13 (6.22%) Vue
12 12 (5.74%) XML
13 11 (5.26%) Laravel
14 10 (4.78%) Dropwizard
15 9 (4.31%) Hibernate
15 9 (4.31%) Ruby on Rails
16 8 (3.83%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.66%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.87%) N-Tier
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.96%) IoT
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) PKI
8 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Replication
8 2 (0.96%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.01%) Linux
2 35 (16.75%) Windows
3 24 (11.48%) Unix
4 15 (7.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.26%) Android
6 4 (1.91%) CentOS
7 3 (1.44%) Debian
7 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.96%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) AIX
9 1 (0.48%) HPUX
9 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.14%) Agile
2 56 (26.79%) CI/CD
3 51 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (22.97%) Microservices
5 41 (19.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (18.18%) DevOps
7 34 (16.27%) OO
8 31 (14.83%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.44%) Containerisation
10 22 (10.53%) User Experience
11 21 (10.05%) Mentoring
12 20 (9.57%) OOP
12 20 (9.57%) TDD
13 19 (9.09%) Clean Code
14 17 (8.13%) Code Quality
14 17 (8.13%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.13%) ETL
15 16 (7.66%) Analytics
15 16 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (7.18%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 87 (41.63%) Java
2 81 (38.76%) JavaScript
3 80 (38.28%) SQL
4 73 (34.93%) Python
5 32 (15.31%) PHP
6 24 (11.48%) Perl
7 21 (10.05%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.18%) Bash
9 11 (5.26%) C#
10 10 (4.78%) Ruby
11 5 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.39%) VBA
12 4 (1.91%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.44%) Rust
13 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.96%) Scala
15 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.48%) Go
15 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.57%) Degree
4 17 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.96%) OCP
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CCNP
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.00%) QA
2 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.96%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (14.35%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) KVM
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.57%) Terraform
3 10 (4.78%) Ansible
4 8 (3.83%) Puppet
5 6 (2.87%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.91%) Grafana
7 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.44%) Salt
8 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.96%) Icinga
8 2 (0.96%) logstash
8 2 (0.96%) Nagios
8 2 (0.96%) QRadar
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.96%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 70 (33.49%) Oracle
2 34 (16.27%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.22%) Splunk
5 11 (5.26%) Google
6 6 (2.87%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.87%) Talend
7 5 (2.39%) Cisco
7 5 (2.39%) Gigya
8 4 (1.91%) Databricks
8 4 (1.91%) VMware
8 4 (1.91%) Zend
9 3 (1.44%) Informatica
9 3 (1.44%) New Relic
9 3 (1.44%) Rackspace
10 2 (0.96%) Brio
10 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.96%) HP
10 2 (0.96%) IBM
10 2 (0.96%) PTC