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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 258 222
Rank change year-on-year -54 -36 +33
Contract jobs citing MySQL 243 254 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.93% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.54% 5.06% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 153 265
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £238 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £565 £601
90th Percentile £600 £670 £678
UK median daily rate £425 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -11.87% -3.55% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile £33.88 - £29.43
25th Percentile £40.44 - £52.02
Median hourly rate £73.50 - £66.13
75th Percentile £87.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - £66.13
% change year-on-year - - +66.37%

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 5,350 5,017 5,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 18.33% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 3,337 4,213
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 70 128
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.78 £19.05
25th Percentile £29.56 £24.25 £25.23
Median hourly rate £54.70 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.93 £64.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.57% -24.21% -16.04%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -26 83 £500 +1.52% 42
North of England -52 57 £415 -8.65% 100
South East -18 50 £208 -42.16% 143
North West -31 35 £425 -4.82% 33
Midlands -36 27 £444 -6.97% 81
West Midlands -31 25 £419 -12.21% 31
Yorkshire -37 22 £388 -38.00% 52
South West -4 13 £450 -32.08% 63
East of England -19 6 £475 +111.11% 89
East Midlands -30 2 £556 +11.25% 48
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 6 (2.47%) Apache
2 5 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.06%) SugarCRM
3 4 (1.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Camunda
4 2 (0.82%) Drupal
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.06%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.82%) Windchill
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.70%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.82%) Magento
2 2 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.33%) AWS
2 55 (22.63%) Azure
3 37 (15.23%) GCP
3 37 (15.23%) GitHub
4 35 (14.40%) SaaS
5 24 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (9.88%) Serverless
6 20 (8.23%) Amazon S3
7 19 (7.82%) Sauce Labs
8 18 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.35%) Apigee
10 13 (5.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.53%) Route 53
12 11 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) Wireless
2 6 (2.47%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) Internet
4 2 (0.82%) SMTP
4 2 (0.82%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.41%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (44.03%) Relational Database
2 90 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (17.28%) SQL Server
4 34 (13.99%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (13.17%) MongoDB
6 26 (10.70%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.64%) RDBMS
8 19 (7.82%) DynamoDB
9 17 (7.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (5.76%) Redis
12 13 (5.35%) Oracle Database
13 10 (4.12%) Hadoop
14 9 (3.70%) DB2
14 9 (3.70%) MariaDB
14 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (2.47%) Power BI
17 5 (2.06%) BigQuery
17 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (20.58%) Git
2 37 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.29%) Browser DevTools
4 20 (8.23%) GitLab
5 19 (7.82%) Android Studio
5 19 (7.82%) Eclipse
5 19 (7.82%) Xcode
6 17 (7.00%) JIRA
7 10 (4.12%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.70%) Postman
9 8 (3.29%) Gradle
9 8 (3.29%) JUnit
9 8 (3.29%) Maven
10 7 (2.88%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.88%) Mockito
11 6 (2.47%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.47%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.47%) Selenium
11 6 (2.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.47%) TestRail
General
1 93 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.99%) Finance
3 22 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Banking
6 14 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.47%) Marketing
8 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.23%) Electronics
10 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (38.68%) Developer
2 45 (18.52%) Technical Support
3 25 (10.29%) Support Engineer
3 25 (10.29%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (10.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (9.47%) Java Developer
5 20 (8.23%) UX Engineer
6 19 (7.82%) DBA
6 19 (7.82%) Senior
7 17 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 15 (6.17%) PHP Developer
10 14 (5.76%) Oracle DBA
10 14 (5.76%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Architect
11 11 (4.53%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.12%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.29%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.29%) Cloud Developer
13 8 (3.29%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.63%) CSS
2 47 (19.34%) React
3 42 (17.28%) Spring Boot
4 41 (16.87%) RESTful
5 38 (15.64%) HTML
5 38 (15.64%) Spring
6 36 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 32 (13.17%) GraphQL
7 32 (13.17%) REST
8 22 (9.05%) .NET
9 21 (8.64%) Ajax
9 21 (8.64%) Node.js
10 16 (6.58%) Hibernate
10 16 (6.58%) Kafka
11 15 (6.17%) Vue
12 10 (4.12%) Laravel
12 10 (4.12%) SOAP
13 9 (3.70%) OpenID
13 9 (3.70%) Spring MVC
14 8 (3.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.64%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.35%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.29%) Clustering
7 8 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.88%) Replication
9 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.06%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.65%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.82%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) IoT
13 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 63 (25.93%) Linux
2 50 (20.58%) Unix
3 45 (18.52%) Windows
4 19 (7.82%) Android
5 7 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.45%) CI/CD
2 70 (28.81%) Agile
3 62 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (25.10%) Microservices
5 55 (22.63%) OO
6 53 (21.81%) DevOps
7 44 (18.11%) Containerisation
8 37 (15.23%) User Experience
9 36 (14.81%) OOP
10 31 (12.76%) Computer Science
10 31 (12.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (11.93%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.93%) TDD
12 25 (10.29%) AI
12 25 (10.29%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (9.88%) MVC
14 23 (9.47%) Migration
15 22 (9.05%) ETL
15 22 (9.05%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.09%) Java
2 109 (44.86%) Python
3 98 (40.33%) SQL
4 91 (37.45%) JavaScript
5 41 (16.87%) Perl
6 36 (14.81%) PHP
7 17 (7.00%) Bash
8 12 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.47%) Go
10 6 (2.47%) VBA
11 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.06%) Ruby
12 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.65%) Scala
13 3 (1.23%) C#
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) CFML
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (13.99%) Degree
2 33 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.65%) OCP
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ISEB
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.11%) QA
2 7 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.06%) SLA
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.23%) NIST
5 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.82%) 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 46 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.29%) Terraform
3 15 (6.17%) Ansible
4 5 (2.06%) Puppet
5 4 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.23%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.23%) Kibana
6 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.82%) Consul
7 2 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.82%) Grafana
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (37.45%) Oracle
2 43 (17.70%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.88%) Splunk
4 22 (9.05%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.17%) Google
6 9 (3.70%) Advent
7 8 (3.29%) Databricks
8 7 (2.88%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.47%) SAP
10 5 (2.06%) Gigya
10 5 (2.06%) Informatica
11 4 (1.65%) Talend
12 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.82%) Adobe
13 2 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.82%) Percona
13 2 (0.82%) PTC
13 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.82%) Zend
14 1 (0.41%) Atlassian