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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 291 257
Rank change year-on-year -58 -34 -16
Contract jobs citing MySQL 97 81 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.60% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.70% 2.82% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 57 98
10th Percentile £310 £345 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £600
90th Percentile £730 £600 £738
England median daily rate £480 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +9.60% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £68.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £76.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -82.40% +70.56% -28.00%

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 3,586 2,870 3,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.62% 21.28% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,471 1,984 2,610
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £713
90th Percentile £738 £822 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.02 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.95% +19.44% -12.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -28.57%

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 3 October 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
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 3 October 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
South London - 10 £550 - 1
Central London -30 2 £530 +24.71% 18
East London +4 1 £615 +18.27% 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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Traefik
4 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.03%) Luigi
5 1 (1.03%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.92%) AWS
2 44 (45.36%) Azure
3 20 (20.62%) GCP
4 16 (16.49%) GitHub
5 12 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (12.37%) Serverless
5 12 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (10.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.28%) AWS KMS
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.22%) Azure Databricks
8 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) SSL
2 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.09%) SSH
4 2 (2.06%) 4G
4 2 (2.06%) 5G
4 2 (2.06%) HTTP
5 1 (1.03%) Firewall
5 1 (1.03%) MQTT
5 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (68.04%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (37.11%) MongoDB
3 34 (35.05%) SQL Server
4 23 (23.71%) Relational Database
5 17 (17.53%) NoSQL
6 16 (16.49%) Redis
7 15 (15.46%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
11 3 (3.09%) Power BI
12 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
12 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (2.06%) KDB
12 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
13 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (1.03%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (32.99%) Git
2 18 (18.56%) GitLab
3 16 (16.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.22%) Gradle
4 7 (7.22%) Maven
5 6 (6.19%) JIRA
6 5 (5.15%) JUnit
7 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.06%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (2.06%) Mocha
8 2 (2.06%) Mockito
8 2 (2.06%) Selenium
8 2 (2.06%) Subversion
8 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.03%) Capybara
9 1 (1.03%) RSpec
9 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.53%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Banking
6 5 (5.15%) Advertising
6 5 (5.15%) Retail
7 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.06%) Front Office
9 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Marketing
10 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (41.24%) Developer
2 21 (21.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Senior
4 17 (17.53%) DBA
5 13 (13.40%) Administrator
6 11 (11.34%) Java Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Python Developer
8 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Lead
9 7 (7.22%) Python Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DBA
10 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Technical Leader
11 5 (5.15%) Azure Developer
12 4 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.14%) Terraform
2 31 (31.96%) HTML
3 27 (27.84%) CSS
3 27 (27.84%) RESTful
4 26 (26.80%) Kafka
4 26 (26.80%) React
4 26 (26.80%) REST
5 20 (20.62%) Vue
6 18 (18.56%) Spring
6 18 (18.56%) Spring Boot
7 17 (17.53%) AngularJS
7 17 (17.53%) HTML5
8 16 (16.49%) CSS3
9 15 (15.46%) OAuth
10 14 (14.43%) Node.js
11 13 (13.40%) Flask
12 11 (11.34%) Django
12 11 (11.34%) Keycloak
12 11 (11.34%) OAuth2
13 10 (10.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.49%) Product Ownership
3 11 (11.34%) Replication
4 9 (9.28%) PKI
5 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (5.15%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.06%) Equities
9 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (1.03%) IoT
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.99%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.25%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.15%) Unix
4 5 (5.15%) Windows
5 2 (2.06%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) CI/CD
2 38 (39.18%) Agile
3 37 (38.14%) DevOps
4 36 (37.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (37.11%) Microservices
5 30 (30.93%) Containerisation
6 27 (27.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.59%) Event-Driven
8 19 (19.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (19.59%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (18.56%) Test Automation
10 17 (17.53%) Scrum
11 16 (16.49%) High Availability
11 16 (16.49%) Secrets Management
11 16 (16.49%) Validation
12 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
13 14 (14.43%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (14.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (46.39%) SQL
2 38 (39.18%) Python
3 29 (29.90%) Java
4 27 (27.84%) JavaScript
5 19 (19.59%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.40%) Bash
7 9 (9.28%) PHP
8 7 (7.22%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.15%) Go
10 3 (3.09%) C#
10 3 (3.09%) C++
10 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.03%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.03%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.03%) Bicep
12 1 (1.03%) Perl
12 1 (1.03%) Ruby
12 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (32.99%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.40%) Degree
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.65%) QA
2 10 (10.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (42.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.03%) Varnish
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (37.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.40%) Ansible
3 12 (12.37%) Grafana
3 12 (12.37%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.22%) Puppet
5 4 (4.12%) Kibana
6 3 (3.09%) Istio
6 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.06%) Argo
8 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.03%) SCOM
8 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Oracle
2 10 (10.31%) Databricks
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.28%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) Splunk
5 3 (3.09%) webMethods
6 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.06%) Solace
6 2 (2.06%) Sybase
6 2 (2.06%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) Informatica
7 1 (1.03%) Kepware
7 1 (1.03%) Netlify
7 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.03%) Progress
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) WSO2