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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	353	273	251
Rank change year-on-year	-80	-22	-12
Contract jobs citing MySQL	104	87	132
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.51%	0.65%	0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	2.91%	3.13%	3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	82	62	89
10^th Percentile	£313	£325	£250
25^th Percentile	£425	£401	£363
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£450	£490
Median % change year-on-year	+16.67%	-8.16%	-2.00%
75^th Percentile	£600	£547	£588
90^th Percentile	£725	£600	£698
England median daily rate	£500	£425	£450
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-5.56%	-10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	6	1
10^th Percentile	-	£68.25	-
25^th Percentile	-	£71.19	£42.50
Median hourly rate	-	£82.50	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-	+83.33%	-14.29%
75^th Percentile	-	£87.50	£47.50
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£13.51	£76.75	£45.00
% change year-on-year	-82.40%	+70.56%	-30.77%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	3,578	2,781	3,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	17.57%	20.92%	22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,463	1,928	2,524
10^th Percentile	£363	£375	£363
25^th Percentile	£430	£431	£456
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£537	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-2.36%	-4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£802	£850
England median daily rate	£510	£510	£550
% change year-on-year	-	-7.27%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	33	39	22
10^th Percentile	£20.10	£18.25	£27.81
25^th Percentile	£25.25	£31.29	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£36.25	£52.50	£43.75
Median % change year-on-year	-30.95%	+20.00%	-12.06%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£68.38	£62.21
90^th Percentile	£67.50	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£40.25	£42.00	£34.47
% change year-on-year	-4.16%	+21.85%	-33.44%

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 19 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.

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 19 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	-32	2	£530	+24.71%	22
East London	+4	1	£615	+18.27%	2
MySQL England

MySQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 October 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 with a requirement for MySQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	69.2%	72
2	AWS	65.4%	68
3	CI/CD	53.8%	56
4	Azure	51.9%	54
5	SQL	49.0%	51
6	Agile	48.1%	50
7	Docker	46.2%	48
8	Kubernetes	42.3%	44
9	Security Cleared	41.3%	43
10	Microservices	38.5%	40
10	Python	38.5%	40
12	MongoDB	37.5%	39
13	DevOps	36.5%	38
13	SC Cleared	36.5%	38
13	SQL Server	36.5%	38
16	Git	34.6%	36
16	Infrastructure as Code	34.6%	36
18	Containerisation	33.7%	35
18	Terraform	33.7%	35
20	RESTful	32.7%	34
21	Java	30.8%	32
22	Linux	29.8%	31
23	HTML	28.8%	30
23	JavaScript	28.8%	30
23	REST	28.8%	30
26	Kafka	27.9%	29
26	Problem-Solving	27.9%	29
26	React	27.9%	29
26	Relational Database	27.9%	29
30	CSS	26.9%	28

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	69.2%	72
2	MongoDB	37.5%	39
3	SQL Server	36.5%	38
4	Relational Database	27.9%	29
5	NoSQL	18.3%	19
6	Redis	15.4%	16
7	Amazon RDS	13.5%	14
8	Amazon Aurora	10.6%	11
9	DynamoDB	7.7%	8
10	RDBMS	4.8%	5
11	Azure SQL Database	3.8%	4
12	MariaDB	2.9%	3
12	Power BI	2.9%	3
14	BigQuery	1.9%	2
14	KDB	1.9%	2
14	Oracle Database	1.9%	2
14	SQL Server Integration Services	1.9%	2
18	Amazon Redshift	1.0%	1
18	Apache Cassandra	1.0%	1
18	Big Data	1.0%	1