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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 319 233
Rank change year-on-year -88 -86 -10
Contract jobs citing MySQL 238 206 347
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.74% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 4.07% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 148 231
10th Percentile £302 £204 £213
25th Percentile £413 £344 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £441 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.94% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £564
90th Percentile £674 £584 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile - £68.25 £34.38
Median hourly rate £13.51 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -83.11% +77.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £61.38 £87.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £77.00 - £48.50
UK median hourly rate £25.09 £80.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -68.64% +77.78% -17.43%

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 6,810 5,064 5,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.76% 18.26% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,542 3,482 4,047
10th Percentile £351 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 73 81
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -34.58%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -61 95 £525 +16.67% 177
North of England -53 54 £511 +6.10% 60
North West -32 44 £520 +15.56% 31
Midlands -25 37 £447 -3.30% 22
South East -73 26 £403 +93.98% 38
West Midlands -32 25 £450 -2.70% 18
East of England -11 13 £469 -2.09% 34
East Midlands -10 12 £300 -40.59% 4
Yorkshire -43 8 £463 -5.13% 24
South West -44 7 £424 -13.52% 16
North East -43 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 10 (4.20%) Apache
1 10 (4.20%) Confluence
2 5 (2.10%) IIS
2 5 (2.10%) nginx
2 5 (2.10%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.10%) WordPress
3 4 (1.68%) Traefik
4 3 (1.26%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.42%) Drupal
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Luigi
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (46.22%) AWS
2 82 (34.45%) Azure
3 36 (15.13%) GCP
4 29 (12.18%) GitHub
5 24 (10.08%) Serverless
6 19 (7.98%) Power Platform
7 17 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.46%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.78%) AWS KMS
14 7 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.94%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.72%) SSL
2 12 (5.04%) DNS
3 8 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.94%) HTTP
4 7 (2.94%) SSH
5 6 (2.52%) 5G
6 5 (2.10%) 4G
7 4 (1.68%) Firewall
8 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.42%) MQTT
9 1 (0.42%) NAS
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (57.56%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (39.08%) SQL Server
3 49 (20.59%) Relational Database
4 44 (18.49%) MongoDB
5 33 (13.87%) Redis
6 32 (13.45%) NoSQL
7 19 (7.98%) Power BI
8 18 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.46%) DynamoDB
9 13 (5.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.78%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.78%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.52%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (2.10%) Couchbase
14 5 (2.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (24.79%) Git
2 30 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.76%) GitLab
4 13 (5.46%) JIRA
5 12 (5.04%) JUnit
6 8 (3.36%) Maven
7 7 (2.94%) Gradle
8 5 (2.10%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (2.10%) Mockito
8 5 (2.10%) Selenium
8 5 (2.10%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.68%) Mocha
10 3 (1.26%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.26%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.26%) Xcode
11 2 (0.84%) Firebug
11 2 (0.84%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.84%) Subversion
11 2 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.08%) Finance
5 13 (5.46%) Retail
6 11 (4.62%) Banking
7 7 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.10%) Advertising
8 5 (2.10%) Marketing
8 5 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.42%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (30.67%) Developer
2 61 (25.63%) DBA
3 36 (15.13%) Administrator
4 33 (13.87%) Senior
5 28 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (10.08%) SQL DBA
7 21 (8.82%) Python Developer
8 19 (7.98%) Java Developer
8 19 (7.98%) Software Engineer
9 18 (7.56%) SC Cleared DBA
10 17 (7.14%) Lead
11 14 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Python Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.62%) Support Engineer
14 10 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) Architect
15 9 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.43%) HTML
1 51 (21.43%) Terraform
2 50 (21.01%) CSS
2 50 (21.01%) RESTful
3 45 (18.91%) REST
4 42 (17.65%) React
5 41 (17.23%) Kafka
6 36 (15.13%) Spring
7 35 (14.71%) Spring Boot
8 24 (10.08%) AngularJS
9 23 (9.66%) Django
9 23 (9.66%) Vue
10 22 (9.24%) FastAPI
10 22 (9.24%) HTML5
11 21 (8.82%) CSS3
12 20 (8.40%) GraphQL
12 20 (8.40%) Node.js
12 20 (8.40%) OAuth
13 18 (7.56%) Flask
14 15 (6.30%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.08%) Replication
3 17 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.62%) Clustering
6 9 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.36%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.94%) PKI
8 7 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.52%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.68%) Life Science
10 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.68%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.01%) Linux
2 21 (8.82%) Windows
3 19 (7.98%) Unix
4 15 (6.30%) Solaris
5 13 (5.46%) Windows Server
6 12 (5.04%) Ubuntu
7 10 (4.20%) Android
7 10 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.26%) CentOS
9 2 (0.84%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 73 (30.67%) DevOps
3 62 (26.05%) Agile
4 53 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (21.85%) Microservices
6 48 (20.17%) Performance Tuning
7 47 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (17.23%) Software Engineering
9 36 (15.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 33 (13.87%) Event-Driven
11 33 (13.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 29 (12.18%) Test Automation
13 27 (11.34%) AI
14 25 (10.50%) Code Quality
14 25 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.50%) Data Modelling
14 25 (10.50%) Migration
14 25 (10.50%) Observability
14 25 (10.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.90%) SQL
2 82 (34.45%) Python
3 70 (29.41%) Java
4 55 (23.11%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.08%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.24%) Bash
7 19 (7.98%) PHP
7 19 (7.98%) T-SQL
8 17 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 16 (6.72%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.36%) C#
11 7 (2.94%) Perl
11 7 (2.94%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.52%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.10%) Go
14 4 (1.68%) C++
14 4 (1.68%) Ruby
15 3 (1.26%) Rust
16 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.03%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.71%) Degree
3 35 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (5.04%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.62%) OCP
8 10 (4.20%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.71%) QA
2 9 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 73 (30.67%) Docker
2 11 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.26%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.26%) Postfix
5 2 (0.84%) Varnish
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (24.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.98%) Grafana
3 16 (6.72%) Ansible
3 16 (6.72%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.04%) SCOM
5 6 (2.52%) Puppet
6 5 (2.10%) HAProxy
7 4 (1.68%) Istio
7 4 (1.68%) Kibana
8 3 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.84%) Argo
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (33.19%) Oracle
2 65 (27.31%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.24%) Google
4 16 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.62%) Databricks
6 8 (3.36%) Splunk
7 6 (2.52%) Talend
8 5 (2.10%) webMethods
9 4 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.26%) Cisco
10 3 (1.26%) Denodo
10 3 (1.26%) F5
10 3 (1.26%) Informatica
10 3 (1.26%) Juniper
10 3 (1.26%) SAP
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.84%) Solace
11 2 (0.84%) Sybase