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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 262 245
Rank change year-on-year -81 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 246 233 362
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.90% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 4.85% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 135 267
10th Percentile £204 £311 £305
25th Percentile £321 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £530 £581 £631
90th Percentile £600 £696 £712
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 14
10th Percentile £12.95 - £27.07
25th Percentile £31.25 - £47.07
Median hourly rate £69.44 £35.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +98.40% -47.08% +127.42%
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.15
90th Percentile £89.50 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £68.63
% change year-on-year +82.86% -49.00% +90.65%

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 5,650 4,809 6,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.22% 18.53% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,920 3,243 4,366
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £657
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 83 159
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.83
25th Percentile £27.25 £25.13 £21.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £73.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.32% -10.33% -24.01%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -53 92 £475 -5.00% 58
North of England -71 52 £420 -6.25% 49
South East -29 43 £208 -44.67% 47
Midlands -34 34 £450 -10.00% 35
West Midlands -26 31 £450 -10.45% 27
North West -39 30 £425 -4.49% 29
Yorkshire -57 21 £390 -22.00% 14
South West -10 12 £450 -40.98% 21
East of England -24 6 - - 14
East Midlands -28 3 - - 8
North East -15 1 - - 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 (3.25%) Apache
2 7 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.03%) SugarCRM
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.22%) nginx
6 2 (0.81%) Appian
6 2 (0.81%) Camunda
6 2 (0.81%) Drupal
6 2 (0.81%) Moodle
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.47%) 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
4 1 (0.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (3.66%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.81%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.31%) AWS
2 54 (21.95%) Azure
3 41 (16.67%) GCP
4 36 (14.63%) GitHub
5 23 (9.35%) SaaS
6 21 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (8.54%) Amazon S3
7 19 (7.72%) Serverless
8 15 (6.10%) Amazon Kinesis
9 14 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.69%) Sauce Labs
10 13 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.25%) Apigee
13 8 (3.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.47%) Wireless
2 6 (2.44%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) SMTP
4 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.41%) SSH
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) VLAN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (37.80%) Relational Database
2 92 (37.40%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (19.11%) SQL Server
4 35 (14.23%) MongoDB
5 32 (13.01%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (10.16%) NoSQL
7 17 (6.91%) Apache Cassandra
8 16 (6.50%) DynamoDB
8 16 (6.50%) Oracle Database
9 13 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.28%) RDBMS
10 12 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.88%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.66%) DB2
11 9 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.25%) Power BI
13 7 (2.85%) Redis
14 6 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.44%) MariaDB
14 6 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (19.92%) Git
2 36 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.35%) GitLab
4 17 (6.91%) JIRA
5 16 (6.50%) Browser DevTools
6 14 (5.69%) Android Studio
6 14 (5.69%) Eclipse
6 14 (5.69%) Xcode
7 11 (4.47%) Postman
8 10 (4.07%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.07%) JUnit
8 10 (4.07%) Mockito
9 8 (3.25%) Selenium
10 7 (2.85%) Maven
11 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.44%) Gradle
11 6 (2.44%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.44%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.44%) TestRail
12 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 79 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.01%) Finance
3 22 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.28%) Banking
6 12 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.66%) Retail
9 6 (2.44%) Marketing
10 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.22%) Electronics
12 3 (1.22%) Front Office
12 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.41%) Law
14 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (38.21%) Developer
2 32 (13.01%) Technical Support
3 28 (11.38%) Java Developer
4 23 (9.35%) DBA
5 18 (7.32%) Senior
5 18 (7.32%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 17 (6.91%) Oracle DBA
7 16 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (6.50%) Technical Engineer
7 16 (6.50%) Technical Support Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) UX Engineer
9 14 (5.69%) PHP Developer
10 12 (4.88%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 11 (4.47%) Lead
12 9 (3.66%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.66%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.25%) Architect
13 8 (3.25%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.73%) React
2 48 (19.51%) CSS
3 44 (17.89%) Spring
4 43 (17.48%) Spring Boot
5 41 (16.67%) RESTful
6 34 (13.82%) REST
7 31 (12.60%) HTML
8 29 (11.79%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.57%) GraphQL
10 23 (9.35%) Kafka
11 19 (7.72%) .NET
12 18 (7.32%) Hibernate
12 18 (7.32%) Node.js
13 16 (6.50%) Ajax
13 16 (6.50%) Spring MVC
13 16 (6.50%) Vue
14 10 (4.07%) Django
14 10 (4.07%) SOAP
15 9 (3.66%) Laravel
15 9 (3.66%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.50%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.28%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.25%) Clustering
9 7 (2.85%) Replication
10 5 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.63%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.22%) Mobile Payment
13 2 (0.81%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (26.02%) Linux
2 45 (18.29%) Unix
3 39 (15.85%) Windows
4 17 (6.91%) Android
5 6 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.49%) CI/CD
2 65 (26.42%) Agile
2 65 (26.42%) Microservices
3 60 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (20.33%) DevOps
5 44 (17.89%) Containerisation
6 41 (16.67%) OO
7 35 (14.23%) User Experience
8 32 (13.01%) Computer Science
8 32 (13.01%) Software Engineering
9 29 (11.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (11.38%) Data Modelling
10 28 (11.38%) ETL
10 28 (11.38%) OOP
11 27 (10.98%) MVC
12 26 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.57%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (10.16%) TDD
14 23 (9.35%) Code Quality
14 23 (9.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.72%) Java
2 108 (43.90%) SQL
3 103 (41.87%) Python
4 80 (32.52%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.82%) Perl
5 34 (13.82%) PHP
6 18 (7.32%) Bash
7 10 (4.07%) Go
7 10 (4.07%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.07%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.44%) VBA
9 5 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.63%) Scala
11 3 (1.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) CFML
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.04%) Degree
3 26 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.25%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.63%) OCP
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) ISEB
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.76%) QA
2 13 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.44%) SLA
4 5 (2.03%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) NIST
5 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) FATCA
7 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.81%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (21.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Ceph
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 43 (17.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.13%) Terraform
3 15 (6.10%) Ansible
4 7 (2.85%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.03%) Grafana
6 4 (1.63%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.22%) Kibana
7 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) Consul
8 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 86 (34.96%) Oracle
2 43 (17.48%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.72%) Splunk
4 18 (7.32%) Google
5 17 (6.91%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.07%) Talend
7 9 (3.66%) Advent
8 7 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.44%) Informatica
10 5 (2.03%) Databricks
10 5 (2.03%) SAP
11 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.22%) Percona
12 2 (0.81%) Adobe
12 2 (0.81%) Denodo
12 2 (0.81%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.81%) Zend
13 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.41%) Netlify