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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 268 263
Rank change year-on-year -87 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 236 236 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.97% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 5.05% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 138 241
10th Percentile £204 £337 £313
25th Percentile £365 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £623
90th Percentile £588 £690 £690
UK median daily rate £437 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -8.39% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £22.27 £25.25
25th Percentile £12.95 £24.39 £37.06
Median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.81%
75th Percentile £90.00 £31.99 £74.38
90th Percentile - £33.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.74% -59.36% +60.44%

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 6,245 4,669 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.13% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 3,270 4,423
10th Percentile £350 £357 £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 £659 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 94 137
10th Percentile £17.55 £20.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.28 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.46 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.56% -17.23% -33.33%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -71 84 £525 +10.82% 30
North of England -80 43 £425 -4.49% 29
Midlands -38 42 £437 -10.82% 15
South East -49 40 £213 -45.34% 30
West Midlands -32 37 £437 -10.82% 6
North West -29 30 £450 +1.12% 18
South West -16 18 £409 -37.08% 17
Yorkshire -65 11 £372 -10.14% 9
East Midlands -30 5 £540 +9.09% 9
East of England -35 5 - - 11
North East -22 2 £400 -13.98% 2
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 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.81%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.69%) SAS
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) Moodle
5 2 (0.85%) Appian
5 2 (0.85%) Camunda
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.85%) Magento
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (47.88%) AWS
2 46 (19.49%) Azure
3 34 (14.41%) GCP
4 29 (12.29%) GitHub
5 18 (7.63%) Serverless
6 17 (7.20%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.78%) SaaS
8 15 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.36%) Power Platform
9 14 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (3.39%) Route 53
13 7 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.54%) Sauce Labs
15 5 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.12%) DNS
1 5 (2.12%) Firewall
2 3 (1.27%) WAN
2 3 (1.27%) Wireless
3 2 (0.85%) FTP
3 2 (0.85%) Internet
3 2 (0.85%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.85%) NaaS
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.42%) SAN
4 1 (0.42%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.42%) SSH
4 1 (0.42%) VLAN
4 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (41.10%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (27.54%) Relational Database
3 53 (22.46%) SQL Server
4 30 (12.71%) MongoDB
5 26 (11.02%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (11.02%) NoSQL
6 23 (9.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (6.36%) Power BI
8 13 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.51%) Pentaho
9 12 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (5.08%) DynamoDB
10 11 (4.66%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.81%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.39%) DB2
12 8 (3.39%) Metadata
12 8 (3.39%) Redis
13 7 (2.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (16.53%) Git
2 31 (13.14%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.86%) GitLab
4 17 (7.20%) JIRA
5 10 (4.24%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.24%) JUnit
5 10 (4.24%) Maven
6 8 (3.39%) Postman
6 8 (3.39%) Selenium
7 7 (2.97%) Browser DevTools
7 7 (2.97%) Mockito
8 6 (2.54%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.54%) Eclipse
8 6 (2.54%) Gradle
8 6 (2.54%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.54%) TestRail
8 6 (2.54%) Xcode
9 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 63 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (9.32%) Finance
3 20 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.08%) Retail
5 9 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.54%) Marketing
8 5 (2.12%) Banking
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Electronics
10 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Advertising
11 2 (0.85%) Billing
11 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 72 (30.51%) Developer
2 35 (14.83%) DBA
3 33 (13.98%) Java Developer
4 29 (12.29%) Data Engineer
5 24 (10.17%) Senior
6 18 (7.63%) Technical Support
7 16 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.78%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (5.08%) Lead
9 12 (5.08%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.66%) Administrator
10 11 (4.66%) Architect
11 9 (3.81%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.39%) SC Cleared DBA
12 8 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Software Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.42%) Spring
2 55 (23.31%) Spring Boot
3 49 (20.76%) React
4 42 (17.80%) RESTful
5 38 (16.10%) CSS
6 31 (13.14%) REST
7 30 (12.71%) HTML
8 29 (12.29%) Kafka
9 26 (11.02%) Spring MVC
10 25 (10.59%) AngularJS
11 20 (8.47%) GraphQL
12 18 (7.63%) Hibernate
13 17 (7.20%) .NET
14 11 (4.66%) CSS3
14 11 (4.66%) HTML5
14 11 (4.66%) Node.js
14 11 (4.66%) Redux
15 10 (4.24%) Jest
15 10 (4.24%) JPA
15 10 (4.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.39%) Replication
5 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.12%) Clustering
7 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.27%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.85%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.46%) Linux
2 35 (14.83%) Unix
3 30 (12.71%) Windows
4 9 (3.81%) Android
5 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.54%) CI/CD
2 58 (24.58%) Agile
3 57 (24.15%) Microservices
4 42 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (16.53%) DevOps
6 32 (13.56%) ETL
7 31 (13.14%) Code Quality
8 30 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (12.29%) Containerisation
10 28 (11.86%) MVC
10 28 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (11.86%) Software Engineering
11 27 (11.44%) Observability
12 26 (11.02%) Data Modelling
13 24 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.75%) Analytics
14 23 (9.75%) Computer Science
14 23 (9.75%) OO
14 23 (9.75%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.32%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 122 (51.69%) SQL
2 104 (44.07%) Java
3 80 (33.90%) Python
4 62 (26.27%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.32%) Perl
6 19 (8.05%) PHP
7 16 (6.78%) Bash
8 10 (4.24%) Go
8 10 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.39%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.97%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.54%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.69%) Scala
14 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.27%) HiveQL
14 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.27%) Ruby
15 2 (0.85%) C++
15 2 (0.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 70 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.44%) Degree
4 18 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.54%) OCP
6 6 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.90%) QA
2 16 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) SLA
4 6 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.12%) GDPR
6 4 (1.69%) NIST
7 3 (1.27%) FATCA
8 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.85%) NCSC
8 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.37%) Docker
2 5 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.27%) HDFS
5 2 (0.85%) NFS
5 2 (0.85%) Varnish
6 1 (0.42%) Ceph
6 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.42%) iptables
6 1 (0.42%) KVM
6 1 (0.42%) Lustre
6 1 (0.42%) Samba
6 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.17%) Grafana
3 18 (7.63%) Terraform
4 13 (5.51%) Ansible
5 11 (4.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.69%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.69%) Kibana
7 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.85%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 81 (34.32%) Oracle
2 42 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.32%) Talend
4 18 (7.63%) Denodo
5 11 (4.66%) Google
6 10 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.24%) Splunk
7 8 (3.39%) Advent
8 6 (2.54%) Informatica
9 5 (2.12%) SAP
10 4 (1.69%) Databricks
10 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.27%) Adobe
11 3 (1.27%) Percona
11 3 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.85%) Ciena
12 2 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.85%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.85%) Sybase