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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 313 225
Rank change year-on-year -89 -88 +19
Contract jobs citing MySQL 231 208 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.75% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 4.18% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 142 245
10th Percentile £305 £204 £220
25th Percentile £408 £339 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £522 £565
90th Percentile £615 £587 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 4
10th Percentile - £35.07 £31.13
25th Percentile £13.51 £56.40 £38.44
Median hourly rate £19.30 £76.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.85% +65.95% -15.14%
75th Percentile £77.00 £81.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.70 £85.25 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £25.09 £76.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year -67.31% +65.95% -11.90%

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 6,946 4,982 6,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 17.95% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,636 3,432 4,286
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £705 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 80 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £21.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.05 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.25 £38.23 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +12.67% -38.31%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.20 £78.88 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -1.53% +19.52% -40.91%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -66 79 £525 +16.67% 85
Midlands -14 48 £445 -9.18% 10
North of England -67 48 £480 +6.56% 39
North West -34 36 £481 +8.09% 27
West Midlands -16 34 £447 +3.65% 7
South East -78 26 £369 +77.71% 36
East of England -6 14 £425 -11.23% 8
East Midlands -6 14 £300 -40.59% 3
South West -46 9 £409 -20.58% 12
Yorkshire -49 9 £398 +0.57% 7
North East -43 3 £500 - 6
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 8 (3.46%) Apache
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
2 5 (2.16%) IIS
2 5 (2.16%) WordPress
3 4 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.73%) nginx
3 4 (1.73%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.73%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.43%) Drupal
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Luigi
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (45.89%) AWS
2 64 (27.71%) Azure
3 27 (11.69%) Serverless
4 26 (11.26%) GCP
5 25 (10.82%) GitHub
6 19 (8.23%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.90%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.46%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.03%) SaaS
15 6 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.76%) DNS
2 10 (4.33%) SSL
3 8 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.60%) HTTP
4 6 (2.60%) SSH
5 5 (2.16%) 5G
5 5 (2.16%) Firewall
6 4 (1.73%) 4G
7 2 (0.87%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.43%) FTP
8 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.43%) MQTT
8 1 (0.43%) NaaS
8 1 (0.43%) NAS
8 1 (0.43%) SAN
8 1 (0.43%) VPN
8 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (51.95%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (30.74%) SQL Server
3 43 (18.61%) Relational Database
4 42 (18.18%) MongoDB
5 36 (15.58%) NoSQL
6 31 (13.42%) Redis
7 20 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (8.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (8.23%) Power BI
9 14 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (5.19%) DynamoDB
11 11 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.76%) Pentaho
12 9 (3.90%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (3.46%) Oracle Database
14 6 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.60%) Data Lake
15 5 (2.16%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 53 (22.94%) Git
2 26 (11.26%) GitLab
3 22 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.33%) JUnit
5 7 (3.03%) JIRA
6 6 (2.60%) Maven
7 5 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (2.16%) Gradle
8 4 (1.73%) Mocha
8 4 (1.73%) Selenium
8 4 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.30%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.30%) Mockito
9 3 (1.30%) Xcode
10 2 (0.87%) Firebug
10 2 (0.87%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.43%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.43%) RSpec
General
1 60 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.79%) Finance
5 12 (5.19%) Retail
6 7 (3.03%) Marketing
6 7 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.16%) Advertising
7 5 (2.16%) Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Front Office
9 2 (0.87%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Publishing
9 2 (0.87%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) French Language
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (28.57%) Developer
2 52 (22.51%) DBA
3 32 (13.85%) Senior
4 29 (12.55%) Administrator
5 28 (12.12%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 21 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (7.36%) Support Engineer
9 16 (6.93%) SC Cleared DBA
9 16 (6.93%) SQL DBA
10 14 (6.06%) Lead
10 14 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.19%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.33%) Architect
13 10 (4.33%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.78%) CSS
1 48 (20.78%) HTML
2 46 (19.91%) Spring
3 44 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 43 (18.61%) RESTful
4 43 (18.61%) Terraform
5 39 (16.88%) REST
6 36 (15.58%) Kafka
7 32 (13.85%) React
8 19 (8.23%) HTML5
8 19 (8.23%) Spring MVC
9 18 (7.79%) AngularJS
9 18 (7.79%) CSS3
9 18 (7.79%) Node.js
10 17 (7.36%) GraphQL
11 16 (6.93%) FastAPI
11 16 (6.93%) Vue
12 14 (6.06%) Django
12 14 (6.06%) OAuth
13 11 (4.76%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.09%) Replication
3 16 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.03%) Clustering
6 7 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.60%) Mobile Payment
7 6 (2.60%) PKI
8 5 (2.16%) Life Science
9 4 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.73%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.78%) Linux
2 19 (8.23%) Windows
3 15 (6.49%) Unix
4 12 (5.19%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.33%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.90%) Android
7 6 (2.60%) Solaris
8 3 (1.30%) CentOS
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 62 (26.84%) DevOps
3 56 (24.24%) Agile
4 50 (21.65%) Performance Tuning
5 47 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (19.05%) Microservices
7 40 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 33 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (12.99%) Observability
11 28 (12.12%) AI
11 28 (12.12%) Code Quality
12 27 (11.69%) Data Modelling
12 27 (11.69%) Event-Driven
13 26 (11.26%) Containerisation
13 26 (11.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 26 (11.26%) Test Automation
13 26 (11.26%) Validation
14 25 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.02%) SQL
2 76 (32.90%) Java
3 70 (30.30%) Python
4 49 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.79%) Bash
5 18 (7.79%) PHP
6 15 (6.49%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.63%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.63%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.03%) C#
8 7 (3.03%) Perl
8 7 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.16%) Ruby
10 3 (1.30%) C++
10 3 (1.30%) Go
11 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.87%) Rust
11 2 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 74 (32.03%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (10.39%) Degree
5 16 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.33%) Oracle Certification
8 9 (3.90%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.90%) OCP
9 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.43%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.12%) QA
2 14 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.60%) GDPR
4 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.73%) WCAG
5 3 (1.30%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (24.68%) Docker
2 7 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.30%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.30%) Postfix
5 2 (0.87%) Varnish
6 1 (0.43%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (20.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.26%) Grafana
3 16 (6.93%) Ansible
4 14 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.46%) SCOM
6 4 (1.73%) Kibana
6 4 (1.73%) Puppet
7 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.30%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 77 (33.33%) Oracle
2 53 (22.94%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.36%) Google
4 16 (6.93%) Talend
5 13 (5.63%) Denodo
5 13 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.03%) Databricks
6 7 (3.03%) Splunk
7 4 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco
8 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.30%) F5
8 3 (1.30%) Informatica
8 3 (1.30%) Juniper
8 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.87%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.87%) Solace
9 2 (0.87%) TIBCO