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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 250 209
Rank change year-on-year -57 -41 +43
Contract jobs citing MySQL 257 308 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.99% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.77% 5.54% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 199 313
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £316 £323 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £516 £550 £588
90th Percentile £591 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £38.95 £29.50 £28.56
25th Percentile £61.75 £34.38 £52.02
Median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%
75th Percentile £87.50 £48.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £48.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +44.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,387 5,559 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.82% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,739 3,741 4,686
10th Percentile £328 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £727 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 80 139
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.06 £22.30 £24.97
Median hourly rate £44.25 £34.47 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -25.37% -3.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.19 £67.88
90th Percentile £84.65 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% +2.62%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -16 94 £450 -7.69% 140
North of England -42 56 £450 -10.09% 85
South East -4 49 £208 +1.22% 77
North West -24 32 £450 +0.45% 54
Midlands -38 29 £419 -4.83% 47
West Midlands -37 25 £419 +9.48% 35
Yorkshire -33 20 £389 -25.95% 24
South West +1 12 £465 +16.25% 38
East of England -19 7 £479 +39.99% 25
North East -8 4 £525 - 7
East Midlands -15 4 £432 -11.94% 12
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 11 (4.28%) Confluence
2 10 (3.89%) Apache
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.95%) SugarCRM
4 2 (0.78%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.78%) Camunda
4 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 2 (0.78%) nginx
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Luigi
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.78%) Windchill
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.78%) Magento
2 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (43.19%) AWS
2 62 (24.12%) Azure
3 31 (12.06%) GitHub
4 30 (11.67%) GCP
5 28 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (10.51%) SaaS
7 25 (9.73%) Serverless
8 19 (7.39%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (7.00%) Sauce Labs
10 15 (5.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (5.06%) Apigee
13 12 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.50%) Datadog
15 9 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.50%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.00%) Wireless
2 5 (1.95%) DNS
3 4 (1.56%) Internet
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) SMTP
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (39.30%) Relational Database
2 98 (38.13%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (17.51%) SQL Server
4 39 (15.18%) MongoDB
5 31 (12.06%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (10.51%) NoSQL
7 22 (8.56%) RDBMS
8 18 (7.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (5.45%) DynamoDB
9 14 (5.45%) Oracle Database
10 13 (5.06%) MariaDB
11 12 (4.67%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.67%) Redis
12 10 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.50%) Power BI
14 8 (3.11%) DB2
14 8 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (2.33%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (21.01%) Git
2 33 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.73%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (7.39%) Eclipse
5 18 (7.00%) Android Studio
5 18 (7.00%) JIRA
5 18 (7.00%) Xcode
6 11 (4.28%) GitLab
7 10 (3.89%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.72%) Maven
9 6 (2.33%) Firebug
9 6 (2.33%) Gradle
9 6 (2.33%) JUnit
9 6 (2.33%) PyCharm
10 5 (1.95%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.56%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.17%) Mockito
12 3 (1.17%) Storybook
General
1 99 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.56%) Finance
3 28 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.84%) Banking
6 13 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.33%) Marketing
8 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 3 (1.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (40.86%) Developer
2 40 (15.56%) Technical Support
3 25 (9.73%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.73%) Technical Engineer
3 25 (9.73%) Technical Support Engineer
4 21 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (8.17%) Java Developer
4 21 (8.17%) Senior
5 19 (7.39%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 16 (6.23%) Java Engineer
7 16 (6.23%) PHP Developer
8 15 (5.84%) DBA
9 14 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.67%) Architect
10 12 (4.67%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (4.28%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (3.89%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.79%) CSS
2 45 (17.51%) React
3 43 (16.73%) RESTful
4 41 (15.95%) HTML
5 38 (14.79%) AngularJS
5 38 (14.79%) Spring Boot
6 35 (13.62%) Node.js
6 35 (13.62%) Spring
7 31 (12.06%) GraphQL
8 27 (10.51%) REST
9 21 (8.17%) Ajax
10 17 (6.61%) .NET
11 14 (5.45%) Kafka
11 14 (5.45%) Laravel
12 13 (5.06%) Vue
12 13 (5.06%) XML
13 12 (4.67%) Web Services
14 10 (3.89%) SOAP
15 8 (3.11%) JSON
15 8 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.17%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.06%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.72%) Clustering
9 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.95%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.95%) Replication
11 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.56%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
12 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.74%) Linux
2 43 (16.73%) Unix
2 43 (16.73%) Windows
3 18 (7.00%) Android
4 12 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.56%) CentOS
6 3 (1.17%) Debian
6 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.79%) Agile
2 67 (26.07%) CI/CD
3 64 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (24.12%) Microservices
5 50 (19.46%) DevOps
6 49 (19.07%) OO
7 42 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (15.18%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.62%) User Experience
10 31 (12.06%) Software Engineering
11 28 (10.89%) OOP
12 27 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (10.12%) Analytics
14 25 (9.73%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.73%) ETL
15 24 (9.34%) Computer Science
16 23 (8.95%) Clean Code
16 23 (8.95%) Migration
17 21 (8.17%) AI
18 20 (7.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (43.19%) Java
2 104 (40.47%) Python
3 96 (37.35%) SQL
4 90 (35.02%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.01%) Perl
6 34 (13.23%) PHP
7 20 (7.78%) Bash
8 16 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.89%) Ruby
10 8 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.72%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.33%) C#
12 6 (2.33%) VBA
13 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.56%) Go
14 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.17%) Scala
16 2 (0.78%) Rust
16 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.89%) Degree
3 27 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.56%) OCP
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) CCNP
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) ISEB
9 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) QA
2 11 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.95%) SLA
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (17.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (14.01%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.34%) Terraform
3 17 (6.61%) Ansible
4 9 (3.50%) Puppet
5 7 (2.72%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.17%) Grafana
6 3 (1.17%) Kibana
6 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Salt
7 2 (0.78%) Consul
7 2 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.78%) Icinga
7 2 (0.78%) Nagios
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (35.80%) Oracle
2 47 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.56%) Splunk
4 20 (7.78%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.45%) Google
6 9 (3.50%) Talend
7 8 (3.11%) Advent
8 7 (2.72%) Databricks
8 7 (2.72%) Informatica
9 6 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.33%) SAP
10 5 (1.95%) Gigya
11 4 (1.56%) Zend
12 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.17%) New Relic
12 3 (1.17%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.78%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.78%) PTC
13 2 (0.78%) VMware