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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 239 220
Rank change year-on-year -76 -19 +42
Contract jobs citing MySQL 91 101 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.80% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 3.60% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 55 141
10th Percentile £241 £402 £325
25th Percentile £388 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £656
90th Percentile £658 £690 £725
England median daily rate £425 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +98.49% -59.36% +60.44%

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 3,174 2,809 3,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.98% 22.23% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,164 2,007 2,740
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.88 £28.60 £25.79
Median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -7.72% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £89.00 £77.50 £65.52
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -29.08%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 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
Central London -17 16 £575 +36.09% 14
West London - 4 £208 - 1
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 7 (7.69%) Apache
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.30%) Moodle
5 2 (2.20%) Camunda
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.10%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.10%) Confluence
6 1 (1.10%) nginx
6 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Magento
1 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (58.24%) AWS
2 22 (24.18%) Azure
3 18 (19.78%) GCP
4 16 (17.58%) Amazon S3
5 13 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (13.19%) GitHub
6 12 (13.19%) Serverless
6 12 (13.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (12.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 11 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (8.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (8.79%) Route 53
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
11 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) Firewall
3 3 (3.30%) WAN
4 2 (2.20%) FTP
4 2 (2.20%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.20%) NaaS
4 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.10%) DHCP
5 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.10%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.10%) LAN
5 1 (1.10%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.10%) SSH
5 1 (1.10%) VLAN
5 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (26.37%) Relational Database
3 16 (17.58%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
5 12 (13.19%) NoSQL
5 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
6 11 (12.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (10.99%) DynamoDB
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (7.69%) Power BI
9 6 (6.59%) Hadoop
9 6 (6.59%) Redis
9 6 (6.59%) Tableau
10 4 (4.40%) DocumentDB
10 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (4.40%) Metadata
10 4 (4.40%) OLAP
10 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.30%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.89%) Maven
4 8 (8.79%) GitLab
5 7 (7.69%) JUnit
5 7 (7.69%) Mockito
6 5 (5.49%) Gradle
7 4 (4.40%) CircleCI
7 4 (4.40%) JIRA
8 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.30%) ERwin
9 2 (2.20%) Ant
9 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
10 1 (1.10%) Babel
10 1 (1.10%) MLflow
10 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Retail
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Billing
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Front Office
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Publishing
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) French Language
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Developer
2 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
3 9 (9.89%) Senior
3 9 (9.89%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Java Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.49%) PHP Developer
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) DBA
8 4 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) Spring
2 21 (23.08%) RESTful
3 20 (21.98%) React
3 20 (21.98%) REST
3 20 (21.98%) Spring Boot
4 18 (19.78%) Kafka
5 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 13 (14.29%) CSS
6 11 (12.09%) Hibernate
7 9 (9.89%) HTML
7 9 (9.89%) JPA
7 9 (9.89%) Spring MVC
8 8 (8.79%) Django
8 8 (8.79%) Vue
9 7 (7.69%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.59%) Bootstrap
10 6 (6.59%) gRPC
10 6 (6.59%) Web Services
11 5 (5.49%) J2EE
11 5 (5.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Code
5 4 (4.40%) Replication
5 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.10%) Clustering
8 1 (1.10%) CMDB
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Unix
3 10 (10.99%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) CI/CD
2 31 (34.07%) Microservices
3 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (24.18%) DevOps
5 21 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 19 (20.88%) Agile
7 15 (16.48%) Migration
8 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (14.29%) Analytics
9 13 (14.29%) Observability
9 13 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.19%) Event-Driven
10 12 (13.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (12.09%) Refactoring
11 11 (12.09%) Visualisation
12 10 (10.99%) Clean Code
12 10 (10.99%) Data Migration
12 10 (10.99%) MVC
12 10 (10.99%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.96%) Java
2 39 (42.86%) SQL
3 30 (32.97%) Python
4 20 (21.98%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.99%) PHP
6 8 (8.79%) Bash
6 8 (8.79%) Go
7 7 (7.69%) Perl
8 4 (4.40%) Scala
9 2 (2.20%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.10%) C
10 1 (1.10%) CFML
10 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.10%) Elixir
10 1 (1.10%) Korn
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) Degree
4 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) OCP
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.99%) QA
3 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.40%) NIST
3 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.40%) SLA
4 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (34.07%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) NFS
3 1 (1.10%) Ceph
3 1 (1.10%) iptables
3 1 (1.10%) KVM
3 1 (1.10%) Lustre
3 1 (1.10%) Samba
3 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.10%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.48%) Terraform
3 10 (10.99%) Ansible
4 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 2 (2.20%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.10%) SELinux
6 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.59%) Google
4 4 (4.40%) Databricks
4 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.40%) Informatica
4 4 (4.40%) Splunk
4 4 (4.40%) Talend
5 3 (3.30%) Percona
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) Adobe
6 2 (2.20%) Amdocs
6 2 (2.20%) Ciena
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.10%) Netlify
7 1 (1.10%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.10%) Sybase