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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 253 252
Rank change year-on-year -85 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing MySQL 244 241 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.99% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.11% 5.18% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 140 258
10th Percentile £204 £349 £305
25th Percentile £331 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -8.50% -8.88%
75th Percentile £526 £562 £631
90th Percentile £600 £691 £704
UK median daily rate £439 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -8.02% -4.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £26.75
25th Percentile £26.67 £24.39 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% -59.36% +60.92%
75th Percentile £88.13 £31.99 £76.53
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.22
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +124.96% -59.36% +60.68%

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 5,935 4,656 6,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.98% 19.05% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,128 3,260 4,425
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 £663
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 120 89 156
10th Percentile £18.23 £20.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.50 £32.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.92% -18.48% -30.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £54.66
90th Percentile £85.33 £70.00 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
% change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -29.32%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -63 91 £475 -2.56% 32
North of England -72 49 £415 -6.74% 36
Midlands -36 44 £442 -11.60% 18
South East -59 40 £208 -45.89% 24
West Midlands -35 39 £437 -13.03% 13
North West -33 28 £450 +1.12% 27
Yorkshire -60 19 £365 -10.37% 5
South West -22 11 £546 -28.39% 21
East of England -19 6 - - 21
East Midlands -37 5 £540 +8.00% 5
North East -13 2 £400 -13.04% 4
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 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.69%) Apache
3 4 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.64%) Confluence
4 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.23%) Moodle
4 3 (1.23%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) Appian
5 2 (0.82%) Camunda
5 2 (0.82%) Drupal
5 2 (0.82%) 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%) SugarCRM
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.82%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.85%) AWS
2 50 (20.49%) Azure
3 38 (15.57%) GCP
4 34 (13.93%) GitHub
5 20 (8.20%) Amazon S3
6 19 (7.79%) SaaS
7 15 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (6.15%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.74%) Serverless
9 13 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (4.10%) Sauce Labs
12 9 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.28%) Route 53
14 7 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.87%) Wireless
2 5 (2.05%) DNS
3 4 (1.64%) Firewall
3 4 (1.64%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) WAN
5 2 (0.82%) FTP
5 2 (0.82%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.82%) 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 (38.93%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (31.15%) Relational Database
3 53 (21.72%) SQL Server
4 32 (13.11%) MongoDB
5 27 (11.07%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (11.07%) NoSQL
6 17 (6.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.56%) Oracle Database
8 15 (6.15%) Power BI
9 14 (5.74%) Hadoop
10 13 (5.33%) DynamoDB
11 12 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.92%) RDBMS
12 11 (4.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (4.10%) Pentaho
14 8 (3.28%) DB2
14 8 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.87%) Redis
15 7 (2.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (17.62%) Git
2 37 (15.16%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.25%) GitLab
4 16 (6.56%) JIRA
5 11 (4.51%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (4.10%) Android Studio
6 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.10%) Eclipse
6 10 (4.10%) JUnit
6 10 (4.10%) Maven
6 10 (4.10%) Xcode
7 8 (3.28%) Postman
7 8 (3.28%) Selenium
8 7 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.87%) Mockito
9 6 (2.46%) Gradle
9 6 (2.46%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.46%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.46%) TestRail
10 4 (1.64%) CircleCI
General
1 72 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.52%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.92%) Retail
5 12 (4.92%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.51%) Banking
7 9 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.05%) Marketing
8 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.64%) Legal
9 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Electronics
10 3 (1.23%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (29.10%) Developer
2 37 (15.16%) DBA
3 24 (9.84%) Data Engineer
3 24 (9.84%) Technical Support
4 23 (9.43%) Java Developer
5 19 (7.79%) Oracle DBA
5 19 (7.79%) Senior
5 19 (7.79%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.38%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (4.51%) Architect
8 11 (4.51%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) Technical Support Engineer
9 10 (4.10%) Administrator
9 10 (4.10%) UX Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Lead
10 9 (3.69%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.28%) PHP Developer
11 8 (3.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (17.62%) React
1 43 (17.62%) Spring
2 41 (16.80%) RESTful
3 40 (16.39%) Spring Boot
4 35 (14.34%) CSS
5 34 (13.93%) REST
6 28 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 25 (10.25%) Kafka
8 21 (8.61%) GraphQL
8 21 (8.61%) HTML
9 19 (7.79%) Spring MVC
10 17 (6.97%) .NET
10 17 (6.97%) Hibernate
11 14 (5.74%) Node.js
12 11 (4.51%) Ajax
12 11 (4.51%) Vue
13 9 (3.69%) Django
13 9 (3.69%) JPA
13 9 (3.69%) OpenID
14 8 (3.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (4.10%) Mobile App
5 10 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.10%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.28%) Replication
8 7 (2.87%) Clustering
9 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.64%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Mobile Payment
12 2 (0.82%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.82%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 59 (24.18%) Linux
2 45 (18.44%) Unix
3 35 (14.34%) Windows
4 13 (5.33%) Android
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.64%) CI/CD
2 61 (25.00%) Agile
2 61 (25.00%) Microservices
3 51 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.62%) DevOps
5 36 (14.75%) Containerisation
6 32 (13.11%) Data Modelling
6 32 (13.11%) OO
7 31 (12.70%) ETL
8 30 (12.30%) Analytics
9 28 (11.48%) Computer Science
9 28 (11.48%) Software Engineering
10 26 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.25%) User Experience
12 24 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (9.43%) AI
13 23 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (9.43%) MVC
13 23 (9.43%) Observability
13 23 (9.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.85%) SQL
2 103 (42.21%) Java
3 96 (39.34%) Python
4 63 (25.82%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.48%) Perl
6 24 (9.84%) PHP
7 14 (5.74%) Bash
8 10 (4.10%) Go
8 10 (4.10%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.69%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.87%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.46%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.64%) Scala
13 3 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.23%) HiveQL
13 3 (1.23%) Ruby
13 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.82%) C++
14 2 (0.82%) Korn
Qualifications
1 62 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.52%) Degree
4 21 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.46%) OCP
7 6 (2.46%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) 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 (8.61%) QA
2 18 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.69%) SLA
4 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.64%) NIST
4 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.23%) FATCA
5 3 (1.23%) GDPR
6 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (19.26%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.23%) 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 37 (15.16%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.97%) Grafana
3 16 (6.56%) Terraform
4 15 (6.15%) Ansible
5 9 (3.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.64%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.82%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.82%) Consul
8 2 (0.82%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 92 (37.70%) Oracle
2 43 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.61%) Talend
4 14 (5.74%) Google
4 14 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.74%) Splunk
5 13 (5.33%) Denodo
6 9 (3.69%) Informatica
7 8 (3.28%) Advent
8 5 (2.05%) Databricks
8 5 (2.05%) SAP
9 4 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.23%) Percona
10 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) Ciena
11 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.82%) EMC
11 2 (0.82%) PagerDuty