MySQL Contract Job Trends in London

MySQL
England > London

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

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	345	286	245
Rank change year-on-year	-59	-41	-11
Contract jobs citing MySQL	124	93	130
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.61%	0.67%	0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.46%	3.22%	3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted	95	68	84
10^th Percentile	£393	£204	£265
25^th Percentile	£425	£404	£394
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£510	£450	£489
Median % change year-on-year	+13.33%	-7.93%	-6.01%
75^th Percentile	£600	£559	£600
90^th Percentile	£725	£619	£684
England median daily rate	£500	£425	£450
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-5.56%	-10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	6	1
10^th Percentile	-	£68.25	-
25^th Percentile	£41.25	£71.19	£42.50
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£82.50	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-48.48%	+83.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£43.75	£87.50	£47.50
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£33.80	£76.75	£45.00
% change year-on-year	-55.97%	+70.56%	-31.95%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in London.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	3,589	2,891	3,391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	17.63%	20.98%	21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,483	2,010	2,384
10^th Percentile	£363	£367	£363
25^th Percentile	£435	£425	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£528	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+1.85%	-8.13%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£671	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£789	£850
England median daily rate	£515	£505	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.93%	-8.14%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	42	40	23
10^th Percentile	£23.59	£18.25	£28.12
25^th Percentile	£26.51	£30.69	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£48.00	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-11.46%	+6.67%	-
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£66.56	£58.25
90^th Percentile	£67.50	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£41.71	£43.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-4.11%	+24.29%	-26.62%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 6 November 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.

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 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South London	-	10	£550	-
Central London	-28	5	£525	+13.51%	4
East London	+2	1	£615	+18.27%
MySQL England

MySQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing MySQL also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing MySQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	71.0%	88
2	AWS	65.3%	81
3	Azure	51.6%	64
3	CI/CD	51.6%	64
3	SQL	51.6%	64
6	Agile	50.0%	62
7	Docker	48.4%	60
8	Kubernetes	46.8%	58
9	Security Cleared	44.4%	55
10	Microservices	40.3%	50
11	MongoDB	39.5%	49
11	SC Cleared	39.5%	49
13	Python	38.7%	48
14	SQL Server	37.1%	46
15	RESTful	34.7%	43
16	Containerisation	33.9%	42
16	Git	33.9%	42
16	Java	33.9%	42
16	Oracle	33.9%	42
20	Infrastructure as Code	33.1%	41
20	React	33.1%	41
22	DevOps	31.5%	39
22	Terraform	31.5%	39
24	JavaScript	30.6%	38
25	Kafka	29.8%	37
25	Linux	29.8%	37
27	REST	29.0%	36
28	HTML	27.4%	34
29	CSS	26.6%	33
29	Relational Database	26.6%	33

MySQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	71.0%	88
2	MongoDB	39.5%	49
3	SQL Server	37.1%	46
4	Relational Database	26.6%	33
5	NoSQL	19.4%	24
6	Amazon RDS	14.5%	18
7	Redis	12.9%	16
8	Amazon Aurora	10.5%	13
8	DynamoDB	10.5%	13
10	Oracle Database	4.8%	6
10	RDBMS	4.8%	6
12	Azure SQL Database	3.2%	4
12	SQL Server Integration Services	3.2%	4
14	Amazon Redshift	2.4%	3
14	Data Warehouse	2.4%	3
14	MariaDB	2.4%	3
14	Oracle Reports	2.4%	3
18	BigQuery	1.6%	2
18	Hadoop	1.6%	2
18	KDB	1.6%	2