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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 250 254
Rank change year-on-year -92 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing MySQL 246 236 338
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.12% 5.09% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 137 251
10th Percentile £204 £345 £305
25th Percentile £345 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -8.63%
75th Percentile £525 £560 £631
90th Percentile £599 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £433 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -8.95% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £26.25
25th Percentile £26.67 £24.39 £51.94
Median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% -58.62% +57.81%
75th Percentile £88.13 £31.99 £75.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.57
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +124.96% -59.36% +60.44%

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 5,966 4,635 6,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.93% 19.06% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,143 3,251 4,412
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.19 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% -16.01% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +58.03% -21.15% -29.54%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -72 89 £475 -1.30% 36
North of England -68 50 £415 -6.74% 33
Midlands -35 44 £437 -10.82% 17
West Midlands -31 39 £437 -10.82% 11
South East -53 39 £208 -45.89% 25
North West -34 29 £450 +1.12% 27
Yorkshire -61 19 £365 -10.37% 3
South West -19 15 £409 -46.36% 21
East of England -26 6 - - 20
East Midlands -30 5 £540 +9.09% 6
North East -16 2 £400 -13.04% 3
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 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.66%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) Moodle
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.81%) Appian
5 2 (0.81%) Camunda
5 2 (0.81%) Drupal
5 2 (0.81%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.03%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.81%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 110 (44.72%) AWS
2 50 (20.33%) Azure
3 38 (15.45%) GCP
4 33 (13.41%) GitHub
5 19 (7.72%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.32%) SaaS
7 15 (6.10%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.69%) Serverless
9 13 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.66%) Sauce Labs
12 8 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.25%) Route 53
13 7 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) Wireless
2 5 (2.03%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) Firewall
3 4 (1.63%) Internet
4 3 (1.22%) WAN
5 2 (0.81%) FTP
5 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.81%) NaaS
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (38.62%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (30.49%) Relational Database
3 52 (21.14%) SQL Server
4 31 (12.60%) MongoDB
5 28 (11.38%) NoSQL
6 26 (10.57%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.50%) Oracle Database
9 15 (6.10%) Power BI
10 14 (5.69%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.88%) DynamoDB
11 12 (4.88%) RDBMS
12 11 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (4.07%) Pentaho
14 8 (3.25%) DB2
14 8 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.85%) Redis
15 7 (2.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (17.07%) Git
2 37 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.16%) GitLab
4 17 (6.91%) JIRA
5 10 (4.07%) Browser DevTools
5 10 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.07%) JUnit
5 10 (4.07%) Maven
6 9 (3.66%) Android Studio
6 9 (3.66%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.66%) Xcode
7 8 (3.25%) Postman
7 8 (3.25%) Selenium
8 7 (2.85%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.85%) Mockito
9 6 (2.44%) Gradle
9 6 (2.44%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.44%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.44%) TestRail
10 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 71 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.41%) Finance
3 26 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.88%) Retail
5 12 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.47%) Banking
7 9 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.03%) Marketing
8 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Legal
9 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Electronics
10 3 (1.22%) Front Office
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
11 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (30.08%) Developer
2 37 (15.04%) DBA
3 28 (11.38%) Java Developer
4 25 (10.16%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.35%) Technical Support
6 20 (8.13%) Senior
7 19 (7.72%) Oracle DBA
7 19 (7.72%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.91%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Architect
11 10 (4.07%) Administrator
11 10 (4.07%) Technical Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Technical Support Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Lead
12 9 (3.66%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.66%) UX Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.51%) Spring
2 47 (19.11%) React
3 45 (18.29%) Spring Boot
4 42 (17.07%) RESTful
5 37 (15.04%) CSS
6 33 (13.41%) REST
7 28 (11.38%) AngularJS
8 25 (10.16%) Kafka
9 24 (9.76%) HTML
10 23 (9.35%) Spring MVC
11 20 (8.13%) GraphQL
12 17 (6.91%) .NET
12 17 (6.91%) Hibernate
13 14 (5.69%) Node.js
14 10 (4.07%) Ajax
14 10 (4.07%) Vue
15 9 (3.66%) Django
15 9 (3.66%) HTML5
15 9 (3.66%) JPA
15 9 (3.66%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (4.47%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.07%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.66%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.25%) Replication
9 7 (2.85%) Clustering
10 5 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.63%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Mobile Payment
13 2 (0.81%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.81%) Legacy Code
14 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.58%) Linux
2 44 (17.89%) Unix
3 34 (13.82%) Windows
4 12 (4.88%) Android
5 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.83%) CI/CD
2 63 (25.61%) Agile
3 62 (25.20%) Microservices
4 51 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (17.48%) DevOps
6 34 (13.82%) Containerisation
7 32 (13.01%) Data Modelling
7 32 (13.01%) ETL
8 31 (12.60%) OO
9 29 (11.79%) Analytics
9 29 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (11.38%) Computer Science
10 28 (11.38%) Software Engineering
11 26 (10.57%) Code Quality
11 26 (10.57%) MVC
12 25 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
14 23 (9.35%) AI
14 23 (9.35%) Observability
14 23 (9.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 113 (45.93%) SQL
2 107 (43.50%) Java
3 94 (38.21%) Python
4 65 (26.42%) JavaScript
5 27 (10.98%) Perl
6 23 (9.35%) PHP
7 13 (5.28%) Bash
8 10 (4.07%) Go
8 10 (4.07%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.85%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.44%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.63%) Scala
13 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.22%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.22%) Ruby
13 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.81%) C++
14 2 (0.81%) Korn
Qualifications
1 63 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.41%) Degree
4 21 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.44%) OCP
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.54%) QA
2 18 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.66%) SLA
4 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.63%) NIST
4 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.22%) FATCA
5 3 (1.22%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (19.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.41%) Ceph
4 1 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
4 1 (0.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.41%) Lustre
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) Samba
4 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.32%) Grafana
3 15 (6.10%) Terraform
4 14 (5.69%) Ansible
5 9 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (36.99%) Oracle
2 42 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.94%) Talend
4 14 (5.69%) Denodo
4 14 (5.69%) Google
5 13 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.28%) Splunk
6 9 (3.66%) Informatica
7 8 (3.25%) Advent
8 5 (2.03%) Databricks
8 5 (2.03%) SAP
9 4 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.22%) Percona
10 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.81%) Adobe
11 2 (0.81%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.81%) EMC
11 2 (0.81%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.81%) Sybase