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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 280 251
Rank change year-on-year -101 -29 +17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 217 211 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.85% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.52% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 134 255
10th Percentile £215 £350 £318
25th Percentile £398 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £465 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -1.59% -5.50%
75th Percentile £488 £547 £597
90th Percentile £588 £643 £700
UK median daily rate £447 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.89% - -5.00%
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% +24.86%
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 6,601 4,663 6,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.25% 18.68% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,472 3,237 4,672
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 86 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -14.53% -29.76%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.31 £53.84
90th Percentile £81.43 £78.10 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -30.43%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -80 77 £450 - 25
Midlands -22 45 £447 -8.78% 7
South East -51 38 £338 -16.92% 24
West Midlands -30 34 £447 -13.20% 5
North of England -84 31 £476 +2.37% 38
North West -28 26 £478 +6.22% 23
South West -28 16 £409 -25.64% 9
East Midlands -13 11 £540 +10.20% 2
East of England -24 6 £850 +76.17% 9
Yorkshire -65 3 £333 -16.98% 8
North East -47 2 £400 -18.37% 7
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 (4.61%) Apache
2 7 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.76%) Confluence
4 5 (2.30%) IIS
4 5 (2.30%) nginx
4 5 (2.30%) SAS
5 4 (1.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.84%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.38%) Moodle
7 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.92%) Appian
7 2 (0.92%) Camunda
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) CMS
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (48.39%) AWS
2 40 (18.43%) Azure
3 30 (13.82%) GCP
4 18 (8.29%) GitHub
4 18 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.91%) Serverless
6 11 (5.07%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.76%) SaaS
11 5 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.30%) Route 53
12 4 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) DNS
2 7 (3.23%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.92%) FTP
3 2 (0.92%) NaaS
3 2 (0.92%) SAN
3 2 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.46%) MQTT
4 1 (0.46%) NAS
4 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (26.27%) SQL Server
3 43 (19.82%) Relational Database
4 30 (13.82%) MongoDB
4 30 (13.82%) NoSQL
5 23 (10.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (10.14%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (8.29%) Power BI
8 16 (7.37%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (5.53%) DynamoDB
10 11 (5.07%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (5.07%) Hadoop
10 11 (5.07%) Oracle Database
10 11 (5.07%) RDBMS
10 11 (5.07%) Redis
11 9 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.69%) Metadata
13 7 (3.23%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (18.43%) Git
2 24 (11.06%) GitLab
3 19 (8.76%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.15%) JIRA
4 9 (4.15%) JUnit
4 9 (4.15%) Maven
5 5 (2.30%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (2.30%) Gradle
5 5 (2.30%) Mockito
6 4 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.38%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.38%) ERwin
7 3 (1.38%) Xcode
8 2 (0.92%) JMeter
8 2 (0.92%) Postman
8 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.68%) Finance
4 19 (8.76%) Retail
5 15 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.76%) Advertising
6 6 (2.76%) Marketing
7 5 (2.30%) Banking
7 5 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Billing
9 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.92%) Publishing
9 2 (0.92%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.46%) Electronics
10 1 (0.46%) French Language
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (24.88%) Developer
2 39 (17.97%) DBA
3 33 (15.21%) Data Engineer
4 30 (13.82%) Senior
5 24 (11.06%) Java Developer
6 17 (7.83%) Software Engineer
6 17 (7.83%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.45%) Java Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Administrator
8 13 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (5.99%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.07%) Architect
9 11 (5.07%) Lead
9 11 (5.07%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.61%) Oracle DBA
10 10 (4.61%) SC Cleared DBA
11 9 (4.15%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (4.15%) SQL DBA
12 8 (3.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.35%) Spring
2 50 (23.04%) Spring Boot
3 36 (16.59%) CSS
4 35 (16.13%) React
5 32 (14.75%) RESTful
6 31 (14.29%) HTML
6 31 (14.29%) Kafka
7 23 (10.60%) REST
7 23 (10.60%) Spring MVC
8 16 (7.37%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.45%) Vue
10 13 (5.99%) CSS3
10 13 (5.99%) HTML5
11 12 (5.53%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.53%) Hibernate
11 12 (5.53%) JPA
12 11 (5.07%) Redux
13 10 (4.61%) Jest
13 10 (4.61%) OAuth
14 9 (4.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.15%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.76%) Replication
7 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.38%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.38%) PKI
9 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.92%) Clustering
9 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (25.81%) Linux
2 28 (12.90%) Unix
3 23 (10.60%) Windows
4 12 (5.53%) Android
5 9 (4.15%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.84%) Solaris
8 3 (1.38%) CentOS
8 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.35%) CI/CD
2 42 (19.35%) Microservices
3 39 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (17.51%) Agile
5 35 (16.13%) DevOps
6 30 (13.82%) Software Engineering
7 29 (13.36%) Performance Tuning
8 28 (12.90%) Analytics
8 28 (12.90%) ETL
9 26 (11.98%) Observability
10 25 (11.52%) Code Quality
10 25 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (11.06%) MVC
12 22 (10.14%) Containerisation
13 20 (9.22%) AI
14 19 (8.76%) Data Integration
14 19 (8.76%) Event-Driven
15 18 (8.29%) Service Delivery
16 17 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.93%) SQL
2 83 (38.25%) Java
3 61 (28.11%) Python
4 46 (21.20%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.83%) PHP
6 16 (7.37%) Bash
7 14 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.99%) Perl
9 12 (5.53%) PL/SQL
10 10 (4.61%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.23%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.76%) Go
13 5 (2.30%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.84%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.38%) HiveQL
15 3 (1.38%) Ruby
16 2 (0.92%) C++
16 2 (0.92%) Korn
17 1 (0.46%) C#
Qualifications
1 73 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.68%) Degree
4 13 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.84%) OCP
8 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.52%) QA
2 15 (6.91%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.84%) NIST
4 4 (1.84%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) FATCA
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) NCSC
6 2 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (15.67%) Docker
2 9 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.38%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.38%) HDFS
4 3 (1.38%) Postfix
5 1 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.46%) NFS
5 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (11.98%) Grafana
1 26 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.60%) Terraform
3 13 (5.99%) Ansible
4 10 (4.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.84%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.38%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.38%) Kibana
6 3 (1.38%) Puppet
7 2 (0.92%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 83 (38.25%) Oracle
2 42 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.52%) Talend
4 19 (8.76%) Google
5 18 (8.29%) Denodo
6 7 (3.23%) Informatica
7 6 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.30%) Splunk
9 3 (1.38%) Cisco
9 3 (1.38%) F5
9 3 (1.38%) Juniper
10 2 (0.92%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.92%) Ciena
10 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.92%) Netlify
10 2 (0.92%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.92%) Sybase