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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 248 233
Rank change year-on-year -57 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 96 103 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.06% 3.51% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 125
10th Percentile £227 £403 £310
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.74% -1.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £663
90th Percentile £669 £690 £745
England median daily rate £437 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.95% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £66.30 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
England median hourly rate £69.44 £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +98.40% -50.00% +60.92%

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 3,141 2,937 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.33% 22.13% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,153 2,057 2,611
10th Percentile £361 £373 £385
25th Percentile £420 £454 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -5.58%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.25 £28.72 £26.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -8.89% +3.14%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.00 £53.84
90th Percentile £88.50 £77.63 £64.78
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.20% -10.33% -25.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -17 17 £575 +17.95% 20
West London - 5 £208 - 3
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 (7.29%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.13%) Moodle
4 2 (2.08%) Camunda
4 2 (2.08%) nginx
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.04%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (1.04%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
1 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (61.46%) AWS
2 23 (23.96%) Azure
3 19 (19.79%) GCP
4 17 (17.71%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (17.71%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.58%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (13.54%) GitHub
6 13 (13.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (9.38%) Serverless
9 8 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (8.33%) Route 53
10 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
12 5 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (4.17%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) DNS
2 2 (2.08%) Firewall
2 2 (2.08%) WAN
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) FTP
3 1 (1.04%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.04%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.04%) LAN
3 1 (1.04%) NaaS
3 1 (1.04%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.04%) SSH
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 20 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 12 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 11 (11.46%) NoSQL
7 9 (9.38%) DynamoDB
8 8 (8.33%) Hadoop
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (6.25%) Power BI
10 6 (6.25%) Redis
10 6 (6.25%) Tableau
11 4 (4.17%) DocumentDB
11 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (4.17%) MariaDB
11 4 (4.17%) Metadata
11 4 (4.17%) OLAP
11 4 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.96%) Git
2 19 (19.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.33%) GitLab
3 8 (8.33%) Maven
4 7 (7.29%) JUnit
4 7 (7.29%) Mockito
5 5 (5.21%) Gradle
6 4 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.17%) JIRA
7 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.13%) ERwin
8 2 (2.08%) Ant
8 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.04%) Babel
9 1 (1.04%) Gatling
9 1 (1.04%) JMeter
9 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 7 (7.29%) Banking
3 7 (7.29%) Retail
4 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.13%) Front Office
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Billing
7 1 (1.04%) Law
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (39.58%) Developer
2 13 (13.54%) Java Developer
3 10 (10.42%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Java Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 7 (7.29%) Architect
6 7 (7.29%) PHP Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Technical Support
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Java Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Data Modeller
9 3 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Moodle Developer
9 3 (3.13%) MySQL Developer
9 3 (3.13%) PHP MySQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) Spring
2 21 (21.88%) RESTful
3 20 (20.83%) React
3 20 (20.83%) REST
4 19 (19.79%) Spring Boot
5 17 (17.71%) Kafka
6 16 (16.67%) CSS
7 13 (13.54%) HTML
8 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 12 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 9 (9.38%) JPA
9 9 (9.38%) Vue
10 8 (8.33%) Django
10 8 (8.33%) Spring MVC
11 7 (7.29%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.21%) Bootstrap
12 5 (5.21%) gRPC
12 5 (5.21%) Node.js
12 5 (5.21%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (5.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.46%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.42%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.17%) Replication
7 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.04%) Clustering
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.96%) Linux
2 10 (10.42%) Unix
3 9 (9.38%) Windows
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) CI/CD
2 34 (35.42%) Microservices
3 27 (28.13%) Containerisation
3 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.92%) DevOps
5 19 (19.79%) Agile
6 16 (16.67%) Analytics
7 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.63%) Migration
8 14 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (14.58%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.54%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 12 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 12 (12.50%) Observability
10 12 (12.50%) OOP
11 11 (11.46%) Fintech
11 11 (11.46%) MVC
12 10 (10.42%) Front End Development
12 10 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) Java
2 35 (36.46%) SQL
3 30 (31.25%) Python
4 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.54%) PHP
6 9 (9.38%) Bash
7 8 (8.33%) Go
8 7 (7.29%) Perl
9 4 (4.17%) Scala
10 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.04%) C
12 1 (1.04%) C++
12 1 (1.04%) CFML
12 1 (1.04%) Elixir
12 1 (1.04%) Korn
12 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) Degree
4 9 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.08%) OCP
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.17%) NIST
3 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.13%) SLA
5 2 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (35.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Ceph
2 1 (1.04%) iptables
2 1 (1.04%) KVM
2 1 (1.04%) Lustre
2 1 (1.04%) NFS
2 1 (1.04%) Samba
2 1 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.04%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (17.71%) Terraform
3 12 (12.50%) Ansible
4 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Kibana
6 2 (2.08%) Grafana
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.04%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.04%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.04%) SELinux
7 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) Google
4 5 (5.21%) Databricks
4 5 (5.21%) Splunk
5 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.17%) Informatica
5 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.17%) Talend
6 3 (3.13%) Percona
7 2 (2.08%) Adobe
7 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.08%) Zend
8 1 (1.04%) Amdocs
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.04%) BT
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco
8 1 (1.04%) SAP
8 1 (1.04%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.04%) Sybase