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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 299 236
Rank change year-on-year -105 -63 +23
Contract jobs citing MySQL 222 214 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 4.39% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 139 271
10th Percentile £237 £333 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £465 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +0.54% -6.80%
75th Percentile £491 £538 £592
90th Percentile £584 £613 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £468 £463
% change year-on-year -3.74% +1.08% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 8
10th Percentile £12.95 £23.68 £25.20
25th Percentile £13.51 £27.93 £38.44
Median hourly rate £19.30 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.86% -39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76.50 £57.50 £73.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £35.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +30.00% -49.09% +73.61%

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 6,717 4,876 6,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 18.37% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,509 3,374 4,719
10th Percentile £353 £356 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £709 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 91 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.69% -34.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -34.78%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -90 77 £450 - 52
Midlands -28 44 £449 -8.47% 13
North of England -71 39 £477 +3.14% 33
South East -45 37 £338 -10.00% 31
West Midlands -30 33 £447 -13.20% 10
North West -23 31 £478 +7.42% 21
South West -25 13 £409 -25.64% 15
East Midlands -13 11 £540 +10.20% 3
East of England -28 7 £850 +76.17% 14
Yorkshire -58 6 £333 -16.98% 4
North East -45 2 £400 -18.37% 8
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 (4.95%) Apache
2 8 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.70%) Confluence
4 5 (2.25%) IIS
4 5 (2.25%) nginx
4 5 (2.25%) SAS
5 4 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.80%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.35%) Moodle
7 2 (0.90%) Appian
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Luigi
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.59%) AWS
2 51 (22.97%) Azure
3 31 (13.96%) GCP
4 23 (10.36%) Power Platform
5 18 (8.11%) GitHub
6 14 (6.31%) Serverless
7 8 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.70%) SaaS
9 6 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.80%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.15%) Firewall
2 6 (2.70%) DNS
3 5 (2.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.90%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.90%) FTP
4 2 (0.90%) NaaS
4 2 (0.90%) SAN
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) HTTP
5 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.45%) MQTT
5 1 (0.45%) NAS
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (40.54%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (28.38%) SQL Server
3 42 (18.92%) Relational Database
4 30 (13.51%) MongoDB
5 28 (12.61%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (10.36%) Power BI
8 18 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (7.21%) Pentaho
10 12 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (5.41%) Hadoop
10 12 (5.41%) Oracle Database
11 11 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.95%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.50%) Redis
13 8 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (3.60%) DynamoDB
13 8 (3.60%) Metadata
14 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
15 6 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 41 (18.47%) Git
2 20 (9.01%) GitLab
3 16 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.05%) JIRA
4 9 (4.05%) JUnit
5 7 (3.15%) Maven
6 5 (2.25%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.35%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.35%) ERwin
7 3 (1.35%) Gradle
7 3 (1.35%) Mockito
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.35%) Xcode
8 2 (0.90%) Firebug
8 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.46%) Finance
3 21 (9.46%) Retail
4 17 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.70%) Advertising
5 6 (2.70%) Marketing
6 5 (2.25%) Banking
6 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Billing
8 2 (0.90%) Front Office
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.90%) Publishing
8 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.45%) Electronics
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (24.77%) Developer
2 43 (19.37%) DBA
3 35 (15.77%) Data Engineer
4 30 (13.51%) Senior
5 23 (10.36%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.11%) Support Engineer
7 15 (6.76%) Administrator
7 15 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (6.76%) Lead
7 15 (6.76%) SQL DBA
8 14 (6.31%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared DBA
11 10 (4.50%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.50%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.50%) Technical Support
12 9 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.05%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (3.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.07%) Spring
2 44 (19.82%) Spring Boot
3 36 (16.22%) CSS
4 34 (15.32%) React
5 32 (14.41%) HTML
6 30 (13.51%) Kafka
6 30 (13.51%) RESTful
7 24 (10.81%) REST
8 21 (9.46%) Spring MVC
9 15 (6.76%) AngularJS
9 15 (6.76%) CSS3
9 15 (6.76%) GraphQL
9 15 (6.76%) HTML5
10 14 (6.31%) Vue
11 11 (4.95%) Redux
12 10 (4.50%) Django
12 10 (4.50%) Jest
13 9 (4.05%) Hibernate
13 9 (4.05%) jQuery
13 9 (4.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.50%) Replication
5 9 (4.05%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (2.70%) Clustering
6 6 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.35%) PKI
9 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (26.58%) Linux
2 28 (12.61%) Unix
3 26 (11.71%) Windows
4 12 (5.41%) Android
5 11 (4.95%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.15%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.80%) Solaris
9 3 (1.35%) CentOS
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.23%) CI/CD
2 42 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.02%) Microservices
4 39 (17.57%) Agile
5 37 (16.67%) DevOps
6 31 (13.96%) Performance Tuning
7 30 (13.51%) ETL
8 29 (13.06%) Analytics
9 28 (12.61%) Software Engineering
10 26 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (11.26%) Containerisation
12 23 (10.36%) Code Quality
12 23 (10.36%) Observability
13 22 (9.91%) AI
13 22 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.91%) MVC
14 21 (9.46%) Data Integration
15 18 (8.11%) Service Delivery
15 18 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.30%) SQL
2 79 (35.59%) Java
3 66 (29.73%) Python
4 43 (19.37%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.56%) PHP
6 17 (7.66%) Bash
7 16 (7.21%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.41%) Perl
8 12 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.95%) PL/SQL
10 10 (4.50%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.70%) Go
11 6 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.80%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.35%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.90%) C#
14 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.71%) Degree
4 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.80%) OCP
9 3 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.36%) QA
2 16 (7.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.25%) GDPR
4 4 (1.80%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) FATCA
5 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (14.86%) Docker
2 9 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.35%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.35%) HDFS
4 3 (1.35%) Postfix
5 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (12.16%) Grafana
2 25 (11.26%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.26%) Terraform
3 16 (7.21%) Ansible
4 11 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.25%) SCOM
6 4 (1.80%) Kibana
6 4 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.35%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.35%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 83 (37.39%) Oracle
2 51 (22.97%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.26%) Talend
4 20 (9.01%) Google
5 18 (8.11%) Denodo
6 11 (4.95%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.15%) Informatica
8 6 (2.70%) Splunk
9 4 (1.80%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.35%) Cisco
10 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.35%) F5
10 3 (1.35%) Juniper
11 2 (0.90%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.90%) Ciena
11 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.90%) Netlify
11 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Sybase