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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 260 226
Rank change year-on-year -82 -34 +53
Contract jobs citing MySQL 76 95 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 3.42% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 133
10th Percentile £278 £400 £302
25th Percentile £393 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -15.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £650
90th Percentile £601 £697 £725
England median daily rate £415 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -10.75% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £28.45 £68.75
% change year-on-year +23.02% -58.62% +49.29%

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 3,288 2,780 3,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.26% 22.42% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,236 1,959 2,827
10th Percentile £363 £380 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +40.41% -20.37% -31.30%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -15 8 £440 +4.76% 8
East London - 1 £410 - 2
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 7 (9.21%) Apache
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.95%) Moodle
5 2 (2.63%) Camunda
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.32%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.32%) IIS
6 1 (1.32%) nginx
6 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (55.26%) AWS
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 12 (15.79%) GCP
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon Kinesis
4 9 (11.84%) Serverless
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.53%) GitHub
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (7.89%) Route 53
7 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) DNS
2 4 (5.26%) Firewall
3 3 (3.95%) WAN
4 2 (2.63%) FTP
4 2 (2.63%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.63%) NaaS
4 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) DHCP
5 1 (1.32%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.32%) LAN
5 1 (1.32%) MQTT
5 1 (1.32%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.32%) SSH
5 1 (1.32%) VLAN
5 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (18.42%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.79%) MongoDB
4 11 (14.47%) NoSQL
4 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
5 10 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (10.53%) DynamoDB
7 7 (9.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (9.21%) Power BI
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (6.58%) Redis
8 5 (6.58%) Tableau
9 4 (5.26%) DocumentDB
9 4 (5.26%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.26%) Metadata
9 4 (5.26%) OLAP
10 3 (3.95%) Flink
10 3 (3.95%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Git
2 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.84%) GitLab
3 9 (11.84%) Maven
4 5 (6.58%) Gradle
4 5 (6.58%) JUnit
4 5 (6.58%) Mockito
5 3 (3.95%) ERwin
6 2 (2.63%) Ant
6 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.63%) JIRA
6 2 (2.63%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.32%) MLflow
7 1 (1.32%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Retail
4 4 (5.26%) Advertising
5 3 (3.95%) Marketing
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Billing
6 2 (2.63%) Publishing
6 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) French Language
7 1 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Developer
2 8 (10.53%) Architect
2 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
2 8 (10.53%) Lead
2 8 (10.53%) Senior
3 6 (7.89%) DBA
3 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (7.89%) Java Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Python Developer
3 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Technical Leader
5 4 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Java Architect
5 4 (5.26%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.95%) PHP Developer
6 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.26%) Spring
2 18 (23.68%) Kafka
2 18 (23.68%) Spring Boot
3 16 (21.05%) RESTful
4 15 (19.74%) React
5 14 (18.42%) REST
6 10 (13.16%) CSS
7 9 (11.84%) HTML
7 9 (11.84%) Vue
8 8 (10.53%) GraphQL
8 8 (10.53%) Hibernate
8 8 (10.53%) JPA
9 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
9 7 (9.21%) Spring MVC
10 6 (7.89%) Bootstrap
10 6 (7.89%) Django
10 6 (7.89%) gRPC
11 5 (6.58%) jQuery
11 5 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (6.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.26%) Legacy Code
4 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) PKI
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Clustering
7 1 (1.32%) CMDB
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.32%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.53%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Unix
2 7 (9.21%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.95%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.26%) Microservices
2 22 (28.95%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
3 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (22.37%) DevOps
5 12 (15.79%) Observability
5 12 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (14.47%) Agile
6 11 (14.47%) Decision-Making
6 11 (14.47%) Integration Patterns
6 11 (14.47%) Refactoring
7 10 (13.16%) Translating Business Requirements
8 9 (11.84%) API Development
8 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven
8 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.84%) Migration
8 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.53%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) SQL
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) Python
4 11 (14.47%) PHP
5 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) Bash
6 5 (6.58%) Go
7 3 (3.95%) Perl
7 3 (3.95%) Scala
8 2 (2.63%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) C
9 1 (1.32%) CFML
9 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.32%) Elixir
9 1 (1.32%) Korn
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.32%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.32%) CCNA
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.32%) OCP
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.32%) PMP
6 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) QA
2 9 (11.84%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.26%) NIST
3 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.26%) SLA
4 2 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.63%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (27.63%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) NFS
4 1 (1.32%) Ceph
4 1 (1.32%) iptables
4 1 (1.32%) KVM
4 1 (1.32%) Lustre
4 1 (1.32%) Samba
4 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.11%) Terraform
3 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.58%) Ansible
5 4 (5.26%) Grafana
6 3 (3.95%) Kibana
7 2 (2.63%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (2.63%) Puppet
8 1 (1.32%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.32%) SELinux
8 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.26%) Google
4 3 (3.95%) Percona
5 2 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (2.63%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.63%) Ciena
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.63%) Netlify
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.32%) Kepware
6 1 (1.32%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.32%) Progress
6 1 (1.32%) Sybase