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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 266 219
Rank change year-on-year -87 -47 +41
Contract jobs citing MySQL 77 98 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.73% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 3.39% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 149
10th Percentile £298 £367 £300
25th Percentile £403 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £538 £650
90th Percentile £591 £600 £725
England median daily rate £439 £460 £456
% change year-on-year -4.62% +0.82% -7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £47.50
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £25.09 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -39.13% +9.52%

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 3,500 2,895 4,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.72% 21.42% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 2,030 3,051
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 30
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% -24.41%
75th Percentile £60.12 £61.25 £54.19
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.25 £72.75
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.33% -36.00%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -18 6 £440 +4.14% 3
East London 0 1 £410 -21.15%
South London -11 1 £550 +16.09%
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 (7.79%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.90%) Moodle
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.30%) IIS
5 1 (1.30%) Luigi
5 1 (1.30%) nginx
5 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.05%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) Azure
3 13 (16.88%) GCP
4 8 (10.39%) GitHub
5 7 (9.09%) Serverless
6 6 (7.79%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.60%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) FTP
2 2 (2.60%) NaaS
2 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) WAN
3 1 (1.30%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.30%) MQTT
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.48%) MongoDB
3 14 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
5 11 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 8 (10.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.79%) Power BI
8 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (6.49%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.19%) Metadata
9 4 (5.19%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.90%) Flink
10 3 (3.90%) OLAP
10 3 (3.90%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (3.90%) Redis
10 3 (3.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Git
2 8 (10.39%) Maven
3 6 (7.79%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.49%) JUnit
5 4 (5.19%) Gradle
6 3 (3.90%) ERwin
6 3 (3.90%) Mockito
7 2 (2.60%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.60%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.30%) MLflow
8 1 (1.30%) PHPUnit
General
1 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.99%) Retail
4 5 (6.49%) Advertising
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Billing
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Publishing
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) French Language
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Full-Stack Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Lead
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 8 (10.39%) DBA
5 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Java Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Technical Leader
6 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Service Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.90%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.90%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.57%) Spring
2 17 (22.08%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.48%) REST
4 14 (18.18%) Kafka
4 14 (18.18%) RESTful
5 13 (16.88%) React
6 12 (15.58%) CSS
7 11 (14.29%) HTML
8 10 (12.99%) GraphQL
8 10 (12.99%) Vue
9 8 (10.39%) Spring MVC
10 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 7 (9.09%) Django
11 5 (6.49%) jQuery
11 5 (6.49%) Laravel
11 5 (6.49%) Web Services
12 4 (5.19%) CSS3
12 4 (5.19%) J2EE
12 4 (5.19%) Node.js
12 4 (5.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.90%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.30%) Equities
6 1 (1.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (40.26%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Unix
3 7 (9.09%) Windows
4 6 (7.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
2 22 (28.57%) Microservices
3 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
4 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.08%) DevOps
6 14 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (15.58%) Agile
8 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.99%) Front End Development
9 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (11.69%) MVC
11 8 (10.39%) Analytics
11 8 (10.39%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.39%) Observability
11 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
12 7 (9.09%) API Development
12 7 (9.09%) Clean Code
12 7 (9.09%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Java
2 31 (40.26%) SQL
3 25 (32.47%) Python
4 11 (14.29%) PHP
5 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.49%) Bash
7 4 (5.19%) Go
7 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) Perl
8 2 (2.60%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.30%) Elixir
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) QA
2 10 (12.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.19%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) NFS
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Terraform
2 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.79%) Grafana
5 4 (5.19%) Kibana
6 3 (3.90%) Puppet
7 2 (2.60%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Oracle
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Google
4 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.60%) Ciena
5 2 (2.60%) Netlify
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) BT
6 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) Pega
6 1 (1.30%) Percona
6 1 (1.30%) Progress
6 1 (1.30%) Sybase
6 1 (1.30%) TIBCO