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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 270 261
Rank change year-on-year -99 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing MySQL 231 228 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.93% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 4.86% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 136 243
10th Percentile £204 £336 £313
25th Percentile £365 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -7.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £519 £552 £619
90th Percentile £588 £690 £690
UK median daily rate £437 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -8.67% -4.30% -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 6,244 4,691 6,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 19.09% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 3,293 4,442
10th Percentile £350 £358 £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 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 94 133
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.67 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.37 £65.46 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -65 81 £500 +9.29% 47
South East -43 42 £208 -46.62% 58
Midlands -33 41 £442 -9.80% 14
North of England -75 40 £420 -5.94% 29
West Midlands -35 36 £437 -10.82% 8
North West -32 28 £425 -4.49% 16
South West -20 18 £409 -37.08% 15
Yorkshire -63 10 £420 +1.45% 10
East of England -26 5 - - 20
East Midlands -30 5 £540 +9.09% 6
North East -24 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 (3.90%) Apache
1 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.73%) SAS
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Confluence
3 3 (1.30%) Moodle
4 2 (0.87%) Appian
4 2 (0.87%) Camunda
4 2 (0.87%) nginx
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.87%) Magento
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.05%) AWS
2 46 (19.91%) Azure
3 34 (14.72%) GCP
4 29 (12.55%) GitHub
5 16 (6.93%) SaaS
5 16 (6.93%) Serverless
6 15 (6.49%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 14 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.46%) Route 53
12 7 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (2.60%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) DNS
1 5 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (1.30%) WAN
3 2 (0.87%) FTP
3 2 (0.87%) Internet
3 2 (0.87%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.87%) NaaS
3 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.87%) Wireless
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) SAN
4 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
4 1 (0.43%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (41.13%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (27.71%) Relational Database
3 51 (22.08%) SQL Server
4 30 (12.99%) MongoDB
5 26 (11.26%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (6.49%) Power BI
9 13 (5.63%) Pentaho
10 12 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (5.19%) DynamoDB
11 11 (4.76%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.46%) Metadata
13 8 (3.46%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.46%) Redis
14 7 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (2.60%) DB2
15 6 (2.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (16.45%) Git
2 28 (12.12%) GitLab
2 28 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.36%) JIRA
4 10 (4.33%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.33%) JUnit
4 10 (4.33%) Maven
5 8 (3.46%) Browser DevTools
5 8 (3.46%) Postman
5 8 (3.46%) Selenium
6 7 (3.03%) Mockito
7 6 (2.60%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.60%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.60%) Gradle
7 6 (2.60%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.60%) TestRail
7 6 (2.60%) Xcode
8 4 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.73%) Oracle APEX
General
1 62 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (9.96%) Finance
3 21 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.19%) Retail
5 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.03%) Marketing
7 6 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.73%) Banking
8 4 (1.73%) Legal
8 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.30%) Electronics
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Front Office
10 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 69 (29.87%) Developer
2 34 (14.72%) DBA
3 32 (13.85%) Java Developer
4 30 (12.99%) Data Engineer
5 22 (9.52%) Senior
6 19 (8.23%) Technical Support
7 18 (7.79%) Support Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.63%) Lead
11 12 (5.19%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.76%) Administrator
12 11 (4.76%) Architect
12 11 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (3.90%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
13 9 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
14 8 (3.46%) SC Cleared DBA
14 8 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.46%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.54%) Spring
2 54 (23.38%) Spring Boot
3 48 (20.78%) React
4 41 (17.75%) RESTful
5 39 (16.88%) CSS
6 32 (13.85%) HTML
7 31 (13.42%) REST
8 27 (11.69%) Kafka
9 26 (11.26%) Spring MVC
10 24 (10.39%) AngularJS
11 20 (8.66%) GraphQL
12 18 (7.79%) Hibernate
13 15 (6.49%) .NET
14 11 (4.76%) CSS3
14 11 (4.76%) HTML5
14 11 (4.76%) Node.js
14 11 (4.76%) Redux
15 10 (4.33%) Jest
15 10 (4.33%) JPA
15 10 (4.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.46%) Replication
6 6 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.16%) Clustering
7 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.30%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.94%) Linux
2 34 (14.72%) Unix
3 28 (12.12%) Windows
4 9 (3.90%) Android
5 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.84%) CI/CD
2 56 (24.24%) Agile
3 55 (23.81%) Microservices
4 42 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (15.58%) DevOps
6 32 (13.85%) ETL
7 31 (13.42%) Code Quality
8 30 (12.99%) Containerisation
9 28 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (12.12%) MVC
9 28 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (11.69%) Software Engineering
11 26 (11.26%) Data Modelling
12 25 (10.82%) Observability
13 24 (10.39%) Analytics
13 24 (10.39%) Computer Science
13 24 (10.39%) OO
14 23 (9.96%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (8.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 119 (51.52%) SQL
2 104 (45.02%) Java
3 80 (34.63%) Python
4 63 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.52%) Perl
6 19 (8.23%) PHP
7 16 (6.93%) Bash
8 10 (4.33%) Go
8 10 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.46%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.03%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.60%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.30%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.30%) Ruby
12 3 (1.30%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) C++
13 2 (0.87%) Korn
13 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 68 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.12%) Degree
4 19 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.60%) OCP
6 6 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.43%) PMP
10 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.09%) QA
2 16 (6.93%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.60%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.60%) SLA
4 5 (2.16%) GDPR
5 4 (1.73%) NIST
6 3 (1.30%) FATCA
7 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.87%) NCSC
7 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (16.88%) Docker
2 5 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.73%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.30%) HDFS
5 2 (0.87%) NFS
5 2 (0.87%) Varnish
6 1 (0.43%) Ceph
6 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.43%) iptables
6 1 (0.43%) KVM
6 1 (0.43%) Lustre
6 1 (0.43%) Samba
6 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 31 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.39%) Grafana
3 17 (7.36%) Terraform
4 11 (4.76%) Ansible
4 11 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.73%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.30%) Kibana
6 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 81 (35.06%) Oracle
2 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.52%) Talend
4 18 (7.79%) Denodo
5 11 (4.76%) Google
6 10 (4.33%) Splunk
7 9 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.60%) Advent
8 6 (2.60%) Informatica
9 5 (2.16%) SAP
10 3 (1.30%) Adobe
10 3 (1.30%) Databricks
10 3 (1.30%) Percona
10 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.87%) Ciena
11 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.87%) Netlify
11 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty