MySQL Contract Job Trends in London

MySQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 266 246
Rank change year-on-year -34 -20 -18
Contract jobs citing MySQL 88 90 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 3.02% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 47 115
10th Percentile £204 £342 £319
25th Percentile £363 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £648 £665
90th Percentile £650 £738 £725
England median daily rate £425 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +62.14% -46.15% +123.52%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,930 2,980 3,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.90% 21.59% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,021 2,020 2,643
10th Percentile £351 £363 £381
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £28.60 £26.02
Median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -2.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.25 £53.94
90th Percentile £89.50 £78.75 £64.35
England median hourly rate £45.75 £38.50 £42.35
% change year-on-year +18.83% -9.08% -27.53%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

MySQL job vacancy trend in London

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in London

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for MySQL in London

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the London region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Central London -7 15 £575 +15.00% 4
West London -15 8 £208 -57.65%
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (6.82%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.27%) Camunda
3 2 (2.27%) nginx
4 1 (1.14%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Luigi
4 1 (1.14%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
1 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (65.91%) AWS
2 21 (23.86%) Azure
3 18 (20.45%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (19.32%) Amazon S3
5 15 (17.05%) Amazon Kinesis
5 15 (17.05%) GCP
6 13 (14.77%) GitHub
6 13 (14.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 10 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.23%) Serverless
9 8 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.09%) Route 53
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (4.55%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) InfiniBand
2 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (1.14%) SSH
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) VLAN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (30.68%) Relational Database
3 21 (23.86%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (15.91%) MongoDB
5 13 (14.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
7 10 (11.36%) Hadoop
8 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
9 7 (7.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB
9 7 (7.95%) Power BI
9 7 (7.95%) Tableau
10 6 (6.82%) Redis
11 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (4.55%) DocumentDB
12 4 (4.55%) MariaDB
12 4 (4.55%) Metadata
12 4 (4.55%) OLAP
13 3 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (21.59%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.09%) GitLab
4 7 (7.95%) JUnit
4 7 (7.95%) Mockito
5 5 (5.68%) Gradle
5 5 (5.68%) Maven
6 4 (4.55%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.55%) ERwin
7 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.41%) JIRA
8 2 (2.27%) Ant
8 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.14%) Babel
9 1 (1.14%) Gatling
9 1 (1.14%) JMeter
9 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.14%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 21 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.73%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Banking
4 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.27%) Front Office
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Developer
2 11 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 11 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 7 (7.95%) Python Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.55%) PHP Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Data Modeller
9 3 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Tester
10 2 (2.27%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.27%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.86%) RESTful
2 20 (22.73%) Spring
2 20 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 18 (20.45%) React
4 16 (18.18%) Kafka
4 16 (18.18%) REST
5 13 (14.77%) HTML
6 12 (13.64%) CSS
6 12 (13.64%) Hibernate
7 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.23%) Django
7 9 (10.23%) JPA
8 7 (7.95%) Vue
9 6 (6.82%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.68%) Spring MVC
11 4 (4.55%) gRPC
11 4 (4.55%) OAuth
11 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.55%) OpenID
11 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.95%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.55%) Replication
6 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
7 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Unix
3 8 (9.09%) Windows
4 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 31 (35.23%) Microservices
3 27 (30.68%) Containerisation
4 24 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.00%) DevOps
6 18 (20.45%) Agile
7 17 (19.32%) Analytics
8 16 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 15 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (17.05%) Migration
9 15 (17.05%) OOP
10 13 (14.77%) Computer Science
10 13 (14.77%) OO
10 13 (14.77%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (13.64%) Clean Code
11 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.50%) Fintech
12 11 (12.50%) Observability
13 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven
13 10 (11.36%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Java
2 36 (40.91%) SQL
3 32 (36.36%) Python
4 24 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.36%) Bash
6 9 (10.23%) Perl
6 9 (10.23%) PHP
7 8 (9.09%) Go
8 5 (5.68%) Scala
9 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) CFML
10 1 (1.14%) Korn
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.77%) Degree
3 12 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) OCP
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CCNA
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.55%) NIST
2 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (39.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Ceph
2 1 (1.14%) iptables
2 1 (1.14%) KVM
2 1 (1.14%) Lustre
2 1 (1.14%) NFS
2 1 (1.14%) Samba
2 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.32%) Terraform
3 12 (13.64%) Ansible
4 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.27%) Puppet
6 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.14%) Grafana
7 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Oracle
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) Google
4 5 (5.68%) Databricks
4 5 (5.68%) Informatica
4 5 (5.68%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.55%) Talend
6 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.27%) Adobe
7 2 (2.27%) Percona
7 2 (2.27%) Zend
8 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.14%) SAP
8 1 (1.14%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.14%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.14%) Zoomdata