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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 258 246
Rank change year-on-year -77 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 251 248 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.97% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.28% 5.14% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 146 261
10th Percentile £204 £323 £305
25th Percentile £336 £402 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £630
90th Percentile £600 £690 £712
UK median daily rate £440 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -11.29% -0.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £31.12
25th Percentile £26.67 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.47 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.34% -50.00% +60.92%
75th Percentile £80.94 - £76.53
90th Percentile £89.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +82.86% -50.00% +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 5,866 4,828 6,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.89% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,325 4,344
10th Percentile £344 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.54
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.75 £21.15
Median hourly rate £51.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -10.33% -24.95%
75th Percentile £74.92 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -50 93 £475 -5.00% 40
North of England -75 47 £433 -2.81% 43
South East -43 44 £208 -45.29% 46
Midlands -30 43 £449 -10.30% 23
West Midlands -22 39 £449 -10.75% 19
North West -38 26 £433 -2.81% 26
Yorkshire -56 20 £420 -16.00% 8
South West -22 11 £450 -40.98% 34
East of England -24 6 - - 27
East Midlands -25 4 - - 4
North East -13 1 - - 9
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 (3.59%) Apache
2 8 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.79%) Confluence
4 5 (1.99%) SugarCRM
5 3 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.20%) Moodle
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.20%) SAS
6 2 (0.80%) Appian
6 2 (0.80%) Camunda
6 2 (0.80%) Drupal
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.82%) AWS
2 52 (20.72%) Azure
3 39 (15.54%) GCP
4 35 (13.94%) GitHub
5 21 (8.37%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.97%) SaaS
7 19 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (6.37%) Serverless
9 14 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (5.18%) Sauce Labs
10 13 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.78%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (3.19%) Route 53
15 7 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.98%) Wireless
2 5 (1.99%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 3 (1.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) FTP
6 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) NaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.40%) SSH
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (38.65%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (34.26%) Relational Database
3 55 (21.91%) SQL Server
4 32 (12.75%) MongoDB
5 31 (12.35%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (9.96%) NoSQL
7 16 (6.37%) DynamoDB
7 16 (6.37%) Oracle Database
8 14 (5.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 13 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.18%) Hadoop
9 13 (5.18%) RDBMS
10 12 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (4.78%) Power BI
11 9 (3.59%) DB2
11 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (2.79%) Redis
13 6 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (19.12%) Git
2 39 (15.54%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.36%) GitLab
4 21 (8.37%) JIRA
5 14 (5.58%) Browser DevTools
6 13 (5.18%) Android Studio
6 13 (5.18%) Eclipse
6 13 (5.18%) Xcode
7 11 (4.38%) Postman
8 10 (3.98%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.98%) JUnit
9 9 (3.59%) Bitbucket
9 9 (3.59%) Maven
10 8 (3.19%) Mockito
10 8 (3.19%) Selenium
11 6 (2.39%) Gradle
11 6 (2.39%) PyCharm
11 6 (2.39%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.39%) TestRail
12 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
General
1 82 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.55%) Finance
3 21 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.18%) Banking
6 11 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.38%) Retail
6 11 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.79%) Marketing
8 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (34.66%) Developer
2 30 (11.95%) DBA
3 28 (11.16%) Technical Support
4 26 (10.36%) Java Developer
5 19 (7.57%) Senior
5 19 (7.57%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) Oracle DBA
7 17 (6.77%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (5.58%) Technical Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Technical Support Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) UX Engineer
10 12 (4.78%) Lead
10 12 (4.78%) PHP Developer
11 10 (3.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 9 (3.59%) Architect
12 9 (3.59%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.73%) React
2 46 (18.33%) CSS
3 43 (17.13%) Spring
4 40 (15.94%) Spring Boot
5 39 (15.54%) RESTful
6 36 (14.34%) REST
7 30 (11.95%) HTML
8 29 (11.55%) AngularJS
9 24 (9.56%) GraphQL
10 23 (9.16%) Kafka
11 19 (7.57%) .NET
12 18 (7.17%) Hibernate
12 18 (7.17%) Spring MVC
13 14 (5.58%) Ajax
13 14 (5.58%) Node.js
14 13 (5.18%) Vue
15 9 (3.59%) Django
15 9 (3.59%) JPA
15 9 (3.59%) OpenID
15 9 (3.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.58%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.78%) Virtual Team
5 11 (4.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.98%) Clustering
7 9 (3.59%) Replication
8 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.59%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Mobile Payment
12 2 (0.80%) Acoustics
12 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (25.10%) Linux
2 47 (18.73%) Unix
3 38 (15.14%) Windows
4 16 (6.37%) Android
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.08%) CI/CD
2 65 (25.90%) Agile
3 63 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (24.30%) Microservices
5 50 (19.92%) DevOps
6 41 (16.33%) Containerisation
7 38 (15.14%) OO
8 34 (13.55%) ETL
9 31 (12.35%) Data Modelling
9 31 (12.35%) User Experience
10 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.55%) Computer Science
11 29 (11.55%) MVC
12 26 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.36%) OOP
12 26 (10.36%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (9.56%) Analytics
14 24 (9.56%) Migration
15 23 (9.16%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 109 (43.43%) SQL
2 105 (41.83%) Java
3 101 (40.24%) Python
4 75 (29.88%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.75%) PHP
6 31 (12.35%) Perl
7 19 (7.57%) Bash
8 10 (3.98%) Go
8 10 (3.98%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.59%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.79%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.59%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.59%) Scala
11 4 (1.59%) VBA
12 3 (1.20%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.20%) Ruby
12 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 53 (21.12%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.34%) Degree
4 23 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.19%) OCP
6 8 (3.19%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) CCNA
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ISEB
8 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) QA
2 13 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.19%) SLA
4 6 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.99%) GDPR
6 4 (1.59%) NIST
6 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.20%) FATCA
8 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (20.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.40%) Ceph
4 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Lustre
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Samba
4 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.97%) Terraform
3 18 (7.17%) Ansible
4 11 (4.38%) Grafana
5 7 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.20%) Kibana
7 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.20%) Puppet
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) Consul
8 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (36.25%) Oracle
2 47 (18.73%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.77%) Splunk
4 16 (6.37%) Google
4 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.37%) Talend
5 9 (3.59%) Advent
5 9 (3.59%) Informatica
6 8 (3.19%) Denodo
7 6 (2.39%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.99%) Databricks
8 5 (1.99%) SAP
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) Percona
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe
10 2 (0.80%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.80%) Sybase
10 2 (0.80%) Zend