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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 243 212
Rank change year-on-year -71 -31 +40
Contract jobs citing MySQL 256 308 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.85% 5.62% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 199 314
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £316 £323 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £580
90th Percentile £591 £655 £677
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £38.95 £29.50 £28.56
25th Percentile £61.75 £34.38 £52.02
Median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%
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% +44.44%

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 5,279 5,478 6,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.73% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,665 3,671 4,710
10th Percentile £328 £345 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £532
% change year-on-year -5.12% -0.94% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 77 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.80 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.40 £24.97
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -28.57% +4.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +47.50% -35.95% +4.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -25 95 £450 -5.26% 146
North of England -42 57 £450 -12.62% 103
South East -5 48 £208 +1.22% 73
North West -27 33 £450 +0.45% 69
Midlands -36 29 £419 -4.83% 47
West Midlands -31 25 £419 +14.73% 35
Yorkshire -37 20 £389 -27.94% 28
South West +7 11 £465 +16.25% 40
East of England -19 6 £479 +39.99% 23
North East -5 4 £525 - 6
East Midlands -17 4 £432 -12.83% 12
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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 10 (3.91%) Apache
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.95%) SugarCRM
4 2 (0.78%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.78%) Camunda
4 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 2 (0.78%) nginx
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Luigi
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.78%) Windchill
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.78%) Magento
2 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (42.97%) AWS
2 62 (24.22%) Azure
3 32 (12.50%) GCP
4 31 (12.11%) GitHub
5 28 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (10.55%) SaaS
7 24 (9.38%) Serverless
8 19 (7.42%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.03%) Sauce Labs
10 17 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.86%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.08%) Apigee
14 11 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.52%) Datadog
16 9 (3.52%) Power Platform
17 8 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.03%) Wireless
2 5 (1.95%) DNS
3 4 (1.56%) Internet
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) SMTP
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (39.45%) Relational Database
2 98 (38.28%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (17.58%) SQL Server
4 41 (16.02%) MongoDB
5 31 (12.11%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (10.94%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.20%) RDBMS
8 20 (7.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (5.47%) DynamoDB
9 14 (5.47%) Oracle Database
10 13 (5.08%) MariaDB
11 12 (4.69%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.69%) Redis
12 9 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.52%) DB2
12 9 (3.52%) Power BI
12 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.34%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (21.88%) Git
2 32 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.77%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (7.42%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.03%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.03%) JIRA
5 18 (7.03%) Xcode
6 11 (4.30%) GitLab
7 10 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.52%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.13%) JUnit
10 7 (2.73%) Maven
11 6 (2.34%) Firebug
11 6 (2.34%) Gradle
11 6 (2.34%) PyCharm
12 5 (1.95%) Mockito
12 5 (1.95%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.56%) Vagrant
14 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
14 3 (1.17%) Storybook
General
1 100 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.63%) Finance
3 27 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.25%) Banking
6 14 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.34%) Marketing
8 6 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 3 (1.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (41.80%) Developer
2 40 (15.63%) Technical Support
3 25 (9.77%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.77%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (9.77%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (8.98%) Java Developer
5 21 (8.20%) Senior
6 19 (7.42%) UX Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 16 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) PHP Developer
9 15 (5.86%) DBA
10 14 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.47%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Architect
11 12 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.91%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (22.27%) CSS
2 47 (18.36%) React
3 44 (17.19%) RESTful
4 42 (16.41%) HTML
5 40 (15.63%) AngularJS
5 40 (15.63%) Spring Boot
6 37 (14.45%) Spring
7 34 (13.28%) Node.js
8 31 (12.11%) GraphQL
9 29 (11.33%) REST
10 21 (8.20%) Ajax
11 17 (6.64%) .NET
12 15 (5.86%) Kafka
12 15 (5.86%) Vue
13 13 (5.08%) Laravel
13 13 (5.08%) XML
14 11 (4.30%) Web Services
15 10 (3.91%) Hibernate
15 10 (3.91%) SOAP
16 8 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.20%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.47%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.73%) Clustering
9 6 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.95%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.95%) Replication
11 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.56%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.78%) IoT
12 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.83%) Linux
2 43 (16.80%) Unix
2 43 (16.80%) Windows
3 18 (7.03%) Android
4 12 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.56%) CentOS
6 3 (1.17%) Debian
6 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.30%) Agile
2 68 (26.56%) CI/CD
3 63 (24.61%) Microservices
3 63 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (19.53%) DevOps
4 50 (19.53%) OO
5 44 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (14.84%) Containerisation
7 35 (13.67%) User Experience
8 32 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 30 (11.72%) OOP
10 27 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.16%) Analytics
12 25 (9.77%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.38%) Computer Science
13 24 (9.38%) ETL
14 23 (8.98%) Clean Code
14 23 (8.98%) Migration
15 21 (8.20%) AI
15 21 (8.20%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 112 (43.75%) Java
2 103 (40.23%) Python
3 95 (37.11%) SQL
4 91 (35.55%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.06%) Perl
6 34 (13.28%) PHP
7 20 (7.81%) Bash
8 16 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.91%) Ruby
10 8 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.73%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.34%) VBA
13 5 (1.95%) C#
13 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.56%) Go
14 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.17%) Scala
16 2 (0.78%) Rust
16 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.94%) Degree
3 26 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.56%) OCP
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) CCNP
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) ISEB
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) QA
2 10 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.95%) SLA
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.98%) Terraform
3 17 (6.64%) Ansible
4 9 (3.52%) Puppet
5 7 (2.73%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.17%) Grafana
6 3 (1.17%) Kibana
6 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Salt
7 2 (0.78%) Consul
7 2 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.78%) Icinga
7 2 (0.78%) Nagios
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (35.55%) Oracle
2 48 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.59%) Splunk
4 20 (7.81%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.25%) Google
6 9 (3.52%) Advent
7 8 (3.13%) Talend
8 7 (2.73%) Databricks
8 7 (2.73%) Informatica
9 6 (2.34%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.34%) SAP
10 5 (1.95%) Gigya
11 4 (1.56%) Zend
12 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.17%) New Relic
12 3 (1.17%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.78%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.78%) PTC
13 2 (0.78%) VMware