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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 254 236
Rank change year-on-year -20 -18 +8
Contract jobs citing MySQL 95 124 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.80% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 3.72% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 80 123
10th Percentile £204 £250 £331
25th Percentile £408 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £625
90th Percentile £634 £693 £725
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,894 3,330 3,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.71% 21.48% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,336 2,761
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £686
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +4.12%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -8 15 £475 -13.71% 55
West London -9 8 £208 -43.92% 4
East London - 1 £520 - 4
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 (6.32%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.11%) nginx
4 1 (1.05%) Luigi
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.05%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (61.05%) AWS
2 27 (28.42%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (13.68%) GCP
5 10 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.47%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (9.47%) GitHub
7 7 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (6.32%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.26%) Serverless
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.21%) Datadog
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) DNS
2 2 (2.11%) DHCP
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) LAN
3 1 (1.05%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) SSH
3 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.63%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 18 (18.95%) MongoDB
4 16 (16.84%) SQL Server
5 15 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (14.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (10.53%) Hadoop
8 6 (6.32%) Power BI
8 6 (6.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.26%) MariaDB
9 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (4.21%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (4.21%) Redis
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (3.16%) Pentaho
11 3 (3.16%) Tableau
12 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Git
2 9 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.26%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.16%) GitLab
5 3 (3.16%) JUnit
6 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.11%) JMeter
6 2 (2.11%) Mockito
6 2 (2.11%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.05%) Babel
7 1 (1.05%) ERwin
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.05%) Mocha
7 1 (1.05%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 24 (25.26%) Finance
2 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Banking
4 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.11%) Front Office
6 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Developer
2 15 (15.79%) Java Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Senior
7 8 (8.42%) Technical Support
8 7 (7.37%) Architect
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.21%) PHP Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) Spring
2 18 (18.95%) Spring Boot
3 17 (17.89%) React
3 17 (17.89%) REST
4 15 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 15 (15.79%) HTML
5 14 (14.74%) RESTful
6 13 (13.68%) CSS
7 9 (9.47%) Kafka
8 8 (8.42%) Node.js
9 7 (7.37%) Hibernate
10 6 (6.32%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.26%) JSON
11 5 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (5.26%) Vue
12 4 (4.21%) Django
12 4 (4.21%) HTML5
12 4 (4.21%) LAMP
12 4 (4.21%) Laravel
12 4 (4.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
1 12 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.37%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.37%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Replication
5 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.58%) Windows
3 9 (9.47%) Unix
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.05%) CentOS
5 1 (1.05%) Debian
5 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.63%) Microservices
2 28 (29.47%) Agile
3 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
4 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (21.05%) DevOps
6 20 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 17 (17.89%) Analytics
7 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
8 15 (15.79%) OO
9 13 (13.68%) OOP
10 12 (12.63%) Clean Code
10 12 (12.63%) Code Quality
10 12 (12.63%) Fintech
11 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.58%) ETL
11 11 (11.58%) Migration
12 10 (10.53%) Process Improvement
13 9 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.53%) Java
2 32 (33.68%) JavaScript
3 30 (31.58%) Python
4 29 (30.53%) SQL
5 11 (11.58%) PHP
6 10 (10.53%) Bash
7 9 (9.47%) Perl
7 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.26%) Ruby
9 4 (4.21%) Go
10 3 (3.16%) Scala
11 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.05%) Bicep
12 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.05%) Rust
12 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) OCP
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.05%) CCNP
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 7 (7.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Varnish
2 1 (1.05%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.68%) Terraform
3 12 (12.63%) Ansible
4 4 (4.21%) Puppet
5 3 (3.16%) Kibana
5 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.11%) Grafana
6 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.05%) Icinga
7 1 (1.05%) Nagios
7 1 (1.05%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Oracle
2 7 (7.37%) Informatica
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Google
3 6 (6.32%) Talend
4 4 (4.21%) Splunk
5 3 (3.16%) Databricks
5 3 (3.16%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.16%) Zend
6 2 (2.11%) New Relic
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco
7 1 (1.05%) HP
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.05%) VMware