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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 272 271
Rank change year-on-year -103 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing MySQL 216 218 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.90% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 4.72% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 132 236
10th Percentile £204 £350 £313
25th Percentile £336 £401 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% -0.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £497 £557 £619
90th Percentile £588 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £436 £490 £490
% change year-on-year -11.02% - -2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £12.95 £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £13.09 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £52.22 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +83.55% -58.62% +57.81%
75th Percentile £86.25 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £33.80 £77.50
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 6,254 4,616 6,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 19.00% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,306 3,235 4,478
10th Percentile £350 £362 £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 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 88 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.27 £32.05 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.49% -20.37% -30.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £60.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -32.54%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -83 78 £450 -4.76% 36
South East -56 40 £208 -49.08% 44
Midlands -33 38 £447 -11.49% 11
North of England -78 34 £409 -11.20% 47
West Midlands -31 32 £447 -16.06% 5
North West -32 24 £415 -6.74% 24
South West -23 17 £409 -37.08% 9
Yorkshire -66 8 £420 -13.85% 20
East Midlands -31 6 £540 +8.00% 6
East of England -38 5 - - 11
North East -23 2 £400 -13.98% 3
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 9 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.70%) Apache
3 4 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.85%) SAS
4 3 (1.39%) Confluence
4 3 (1.39%) Moodle
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.93%) Appian
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) nginx
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.93%) Magento
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.93%) Shopify
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 105 (48.61%) AWS
2 43 (19.91%) Azure
3 29 (13.43%) GCP
4 23 (10.65%) GitHub
5 16 (7.41%) SaaS
6 15 (6.94%) Serverless
7 14 (6.48%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.09%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (2.78%) Route 53
13 6 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) DNS
1 5 (2.31%) Firewall
2 3 (1.39%) WAN
3 2 (0.93%) FTP
3 2 (0.93%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.93%) NaaS
3 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) DHCP
4 1 (0.46%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) MQTT
4 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) SAN
4 1 (0.46%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.46%) SSH
4 1 (0.46%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (39.81%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (26.85%) Relational Database
3 49 (22.69%) SQL Server
4 29 (13.43%) MongoDB
5 25 (11.57%) NoSQL
6 23 (10.65%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (10.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (6.48%) Power BI
9 13 (6.02%) Pentaho
10 12 (5.56%) DynamoDB
11 11 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (5.09%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (4.17%) Redis
13 8 (3.70%) Metadata
14 6 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.78%) Tableau
15 5 (2.31%) DB2
Development Applications
1 36 (16.67%) Git
2 26 (12.04%) GitLab
3 20 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.94%) JIRA
5 10 (4.63%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.63%) Maven
6 9 (4.17%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (3.70%) Postman
7 8 (3.70%) Selenium
8 7 (3.24%) JUnit
8 7 (3.24%) Mockito
9 6 (2.78%) Android Studio
9 6 (2.78%) Eclipse
9 6 (2.78%) Gradle
9 6 (2.78%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.78%) TestRail
9 6 (2.78%) Xcode
10 5 (2.31%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.39%) Firebug
General
1 51 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.80%) Finance
4 15 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.02%) Retail
6 5 (2.31%) Advertising
6 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.31%) Marketing
6 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.85%) Legal
8 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Billing
9 2 (0.93%) Front Office
9 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) French Language
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 66 (30.56%) Developer
2 31 (14.35%) Java Developer
3 29 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 28 (12.96%) DBA
5 21 (9.72%) Senior
6 20 (9.26%) Support Engineer
7 19 (8.80%) Technical Support
8 15 (6.94%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (6.48%) Lead
10 12 (5.56%) Architect
10 12 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.09%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) Technical Support Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.70%) Administrator
13 8 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared DBA
13 8 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (3.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.00%) Spring
2 49 (22.69%) Spring Boot
3 44 (20.37%) React
4 37 (17.13%) CSS
4 37 (17.13%) RESTful
5 30 (13.89%) HTML
5 30 (13.89%) REST
6 26 (12.04%) Kafka
6 26 (12.04%) Spring MVC
7 22 (10.19%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.26%) GraphQL
9 17 (7.87%) Hibernate
10 14 (6.48%) .NET
11 13 (6.02%) Vue
12 11 (5.09%) CSS3
12 11 (5.09%) HTML5
12 11 (5.09%) Node.js
12 11 (5.09%) Redux
13 10 (4.63%) Jest
13 10 (4.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.24%) Replication
6 6 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.85%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.85%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.39%) Clustering
9 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.46%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.46%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.46%) Linux
2 31 (14.35%) Unix
3 26 (12.04%) Windows
4 10 (4.63%) Android
5 3 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 48 (22.22%) Microservices
3 45 (20.83%) Agile
3 45 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (14.35%) DevOps
5 30 (13.89%) Code Quality
5 30 (13.89%) ETL
6 28 (12.96%) MVC
7 27 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 27 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (12.04%) Software Engineering
9 24 (11.11%) OO
10 23 (10.65%) Analytics
10 23 (10.65%) Computer Science
10 23 (10.65%) Observability
10 23 (10.65%) Test Automation
11 21 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (9.72%) Data Modelling
11 21 (9.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.93%) SQL
2 99 (45.83%) Java
3 70 (32.41%) Python
4 59 (27.31%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.65%) PHP
6 21 (9.72%) Perl
7 13 (6.02%) Bash
8 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.24%) Go
9 7 (3.24%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.39%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.39%) Ruby
12 3 (1.39%) Scala
13 2 (0.93%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) Korn
14 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.50%) Degree
4 20 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.31%) OCP
6 5 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) QA
2 15 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.31%) GDPR
5 4 (1.85%) NIST
5 4 (1.85%) SLA
6 3 (1.39%) FATCA
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.39%) HDFS
5 2 (0.93%) NFS
5 2 (0.93%) Varnish
6 1 (0.46%) Ceph
6 1 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.46%) KVM
6 1 (0.46%) Lustre
6 1 (0.46%) Samba
6 1 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.11%) Grafana
3 13 (6.02%) Terraform
4 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.70%) Ansible
6 4 (1.85%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.39%) Kibana
7 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) SELinux
Vendors
1 74 (34.26%) Oracle
2 36 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.19%) Talend
4 18 (8.33%) Denodo
5 12 (5.56%) Google
6 8 (3.70%) Splunk
7 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.78%) Informatica
9 5 (2.31%) Advent
10 3 (1.39%) Adobe
10 3 (1.39%) Databricks
10 3 (1.39%) Percona
10 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.93%) Ciena
11 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.93%) Netlify
11 2 (0.93%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.93%) Sybase