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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 303 238
Rank change year-on-year -97 -65 -18
Contract jobs citing MySQL 243 221 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.79% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 4.37% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 162 219
10th Percentile £300 £204 £203
25th Percentile £419 £318 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -8.40%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £554
90th Percentile £675 £588 £640
UK median daily rate £510 £441 £450
% change year-on-year +15.58% -1.94% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile - £38.95 £29.50
25th Percentile - £61.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £13.51 £76.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -82.40% +70.56% -30.77%
75th Percentile £61.38 £87.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £77.00 - £48.50
UK median hourly rate £25.09 £76.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.31% +70.56% -25.00%

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 6,751 5,063 5,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.14% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,481 3,474 3,964
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -35.37%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 95 £525 +16.67% 208
North of England -49 59 £520 +10.64% 50
North West -20 47 £523 +16.11% 26
Midlands -21 38 £449 -2.97% 26
West Midlands -34 25 £455 +6.94% 18
South East -82 24 £417 +101.07% 45
East Midlands -6 13 £300 -40.59% 8
East of England -16 12 £469 -2.09% 29
Yorkshire -38 10 £200 -57.89% 18
South West -39 5 £456 -6.89% 14
North East -41 2 £523 -0.48% 6
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 12 (4.94%) Apache
2 11 (4.53%) Confluence
3 5 (2.06%) IIS
3 5 (2.06%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.06%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.06%) WordPress
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.65%) nginx
4 4 (1.65%) Traefik
5 3 (1.23%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Luigi
7 1 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (47.33%) AWS
2 93 (38.27%) Azure
3 46 (18.93%) GCP
4 29 (11.93%) GitHub
5 23 (9.47%) Serverless
6 22 (9.05%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.58%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.12%) AWS KMS
14 9 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.88%) Azure Databricks
16 6 (2.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) SSL
2 12 (4.94%) DNS
3 8 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.88%) HTTP
4 7 (2.88%) SSH
5 6 (2.47%) 5G
6 5 (2.06%) 4G
7 4 (1.65%) Firewall
8 2 (0.82%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.41%) MQTT
9 1 (0.41%) NAS
9 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.41%) SAN
9 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (61.32%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (40.33%) SQL Server
3 56 (23.05%) Relational Database
4 55 (22.63%) MongoDB
5 34 (13.99%) NoSQL
5 34 (13.99%) Redis
6 22 (9.05%) Power BI
7 20 (8.23%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.35%) DynamoDB
9 13 (5.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (4.53%) Oracle Database
11 10 (4.12%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.47%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.47%) Pentaho
15 5 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 61 (25.10%) Git
2 32 (13.17%) Jenkins
3 31 (12.76%) GitLab
4 14 (5.76%) JUnit
5 12 (4.94%) JIRA
6 10 (4.12%) Maven
7 9 (3.70%) Gradle
8 7 (2.88%) Mockito
8 7 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.06%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.06%) Selenium
10 4 (1.65%) Mocha
11 3 (1.23%) Android Studio
11 3 (1.23%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.23%) Subversion
11 3 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.23%) Xcode
12 2 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.82%) Firebug
General
1 70 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.70%) Finance
5 14 (5.76%) Retail
6 12 (4.94%) Banking
7 7 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.65%) Advertising
9 4 (1.65%) Marketing
9 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (30.04%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) DBA
3 38 (15.64%) Administrator
4 32 (13.17%) Senior
5 27 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (9.05%) Python Developer
6 22 (9.05%) SQL DBA
7 21 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.00%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.00%) Java Engineer
8 17 (7.00%) SC Cleared DBA
9 14 (5.76%) Lead
10 13 (5.35%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.12%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) Architect
13 9 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.22%) RESTful
2 51 (20.99%) Terraform
3 48 (19.75%) CSS
3 48 (19.75%) REST
4 47 (19.34%) HTML
5 44 (18.11%) Kafka
6 42 (17.28%) React
7 32 (13.17%) Spring
7 32 (13.17%) Spring Boot
8 25 (10.29%) AngularJS
8 25 (10.29%) Django
9 23 (9.47%) Vue
10 22 (9.05%) GraphQL
11 21 (8.64%) FastAPI
11 21 (8.64%) HTML5
12 20 (8.23%) CSS3
12 20 (8.23%) Node.js
13 19 (7.82%) Flask
13 19 (7.82%) OAuth
14 16 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.52%) Replication
3 20 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (7.82%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.53%) Clustering
6 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.29%) PKI
6 8 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.47%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.65%) Life Science
9 4 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) Equities
11 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.99%) Linux
2 23 (9.47%) Windows
3 20 (8.23%) Unix
4 16 (6.58%) Solaris
5 13 (5.35%) Ubuntu
5 13 (5.35%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.53%) Android
6 11 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.65%) macOS
8 3 (1.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.41%) Rocky
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (40.33%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.10%) DevOps
3 73 (30.04%) Agile
4 58 (23.87%) Microservices
5 55 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (21.81%) Performance Tuning
7 49 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (17.70%) Software Engineering
9 37 (15.23%) Containerisation
10 35 (14.40%) Test Automation
11 34 (13.99%) Event-Driven
11 34 (13.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 33 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (12.76%) Observability
14 29 (11.93%) AI
15 27 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (11.11%) Data Modelling
16 25 (10.29%) Computer Science
16 25 (10.29%) Migration
16 25 (10.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.09%) SQL
2 85 (34.98%) Python
3 73 (30.04%) Java
4 54 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.70%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.88%) Bash
7 18 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.41%) T-SQL
8 17 (7.00%) PHP
8 17 (7.00%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.70%) C#
10 8 (3.29%) Perl
11 7 (2.88%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.88%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.47%) Ruby
13 5 (2.06%) Go
13 5 (2.06%) Rust
14 4 (1.65%) C++
15 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 84 (34.57%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.23%) Degree
4 36 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.94%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (4.53%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.53%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.53%) OCP
9 10 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (3.70%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.99%) QA
2 10 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) SLA
4 2 (0.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (31.28%) Docker
2 11 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.23%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.23%) Postfix
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 67 (27.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.82%) Ansible
2 19 (7.82%) Grafana
2 19 (7.82%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.94%) SCOM
4 7 (2.88%) Puppet
5 5 (2.06%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.65%) Istio
7 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) Argo
8 2 (0.82%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 87 (35.80%) Oracle
2 68 (27.98%) Microsoft
3 28 (11.52%) Google
4 16 (6.58%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.53%) Databricks
6 8 (3.29%) SAP
6 8 (3.29%) Splunk
7 6 (2.47%) webMethods
8 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.23%) Cisco
9 3 (1.23%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.23%) F5
9 3 (1.23%) IBM
9 3 (1.23%) Juniper
9 3 (1.23%) Talend
10 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.82%) Informatica
10 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.82%) Solace
10 2 (0.82%) Sybase