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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 250 231
Rank change year-on-year -60 -19 +33
Contract jobs citing MySQL 91 106 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.83% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.89% 3.76% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 58 140
10th Percentile £250 £400 £311
25th Percentile £388 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -10.23% -4.35%
75th Percentile £590 £573 £657
90th Percentile £688 £690 £725
England median daily rate £433 £459 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% -8.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year +98.49% -59.36% +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 3,145 2,820 3,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.13% 22.06% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 2,004 2,736
10th Percentile £361 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +1.12% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £701 £688
90th Percentile £749 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -5.21% +0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.22 £28.03 £25.90
Median hourly rate £46.50 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66.88 £59.25 £52.31
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.88 £63.98
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +53.92% -18.48% -30.00%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -18 17 £575 +26.03% 15
West London - 4 £208 - 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 (7.69%) Apache
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.30%) Moodle
5 2 (2.20%) Camunda
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.10%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.10%) Confluence
6 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Magento
1 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (59.34%) AWS
2 22 (24.18%) Azure
3 19 (20.88%) GCP
4 17 (18.68%) Amazon S3
5 14 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (14.29%) GitHub
6 13 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (12.09%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.99%) Serverless
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (8.79%) Route 53
11 7 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
12 6 (6.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 3 (3.30%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) WAN
3 2 (2.20%) FTP
3 2 (2.20%) NaaS
4 1 (1.10%) DHCP
4 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.10%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.10%) LAN
4 1 (1.10%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.10%) SSH
4 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (43.96%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (25.27%) Relational Database
3 17 (18.68%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (17.58%) MongoDB
5 12 (13.19%) NoSQL
5 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
6 11 (12.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (9.89%) DynamoDB
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (7.69%) Power BI
9 6 (6.59%) Hadoop
9 6 (6.59%) Redis
9 6 (6.59%) Tableau
10 5 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (4.40%) DocumentDB
11 4 (4.40%) Metadata
11 4 (4.40%) OLAP
11 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (3.30%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.89%) Maven
4 8 (8.79%) GitLab
5 7 (7.69%) JUnit
5 7 (7.69%) Mockito
6 5 (5.49%) Gradle
7 4 (4.40%) CircleCI
7 4 (4.40%) JIRA
8 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.30%) ERwin
9 2 (2.20%) Ant
9 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
10 1 (1.10%) Babel
10 1 (1.10%) MLflow
10 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 21 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Retail
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Front Office
7 2 (2.20%) Billing
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Publishing
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.07%) Developer
2 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
3 9 (9.89%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.49%) PHP Developer
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) DBA
8 4 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) REST
1 21 (23.08%) RESTful
1 21 (23.08%) Spring
2 20 (21.98%) React
3 18 (19.78%) Kafka
3 18 (19.78%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.38%) CSS
5 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 11 (12.09%) Hibernate
7 10 (10.99%) HTML
8 9 (9.89%) JPA
8 9 (9.89%) Spring MVC
8 9 (9.89%) Vue
9 8 (8.79%) Django
10 7 (7.69%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.59%) Bootstrap
11 6 (6.59%) gRPC
11 6 (6.59%) Web Services
12 5 (5.49%) J2EE
12 5 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.40%) Replication
5 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.10%) Clustering
8 1 (1.10%) CMDB
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Unix
3 9 (9.89%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 30 (32.97%) Microservices
3 24 (26.37%) Containerisation
4 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.98%) DevOps
6 18 (19.78%) Agile
7 16 (17.58%) Migration
8 15 (16.48%) Analytics
8 15 (16.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 13 (14.29%) Observability
9 13 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (13.19%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
11 11 (12.09%) Data Migration
11 11 (12.09%) Visualisation
12 10 (10.99%) Clean Code
12 10 (10.99%) Decision-Making
12 10 (10.99%) MVC
12 10 (10.99%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.86%) Java
1 39 (42.86%) SQL
2 31 (34.07%) Python
3 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.99%) PHP
5 9 (9.89%) Bash
6 8 (8.79%) Go
7 7 (7.69%) Perl
8 4 (4.40%) Scala
9 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.20%) C++
10 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.10%) C
11 1 (1.10%) CFML
11 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.10%) Elixir
11 1 (1.10%) Korn
11 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) Degree
4 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) OCP
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.99%) QA
3 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.40%) NIST
3 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.40%) SLA
4 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (35.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Ceph
2 1 (1.10%) iptables
2 1 (1.10%) KVM
2 1 (1.10%) Lustre
2 1 (1.10%) NFS
2 1 (1.10%) Samba
2 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.10%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.58%) Terraform
3 11 (12.09%) Ansible
4 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 2 (2.20%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.10%) SELinux
6 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.59%) Google
4 5 (5.49%) Databricks
5 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.40%) Informatica
5 4 (4.40%) Splunk
5 4 (4.40%) Talend
6 3 (3.30%) Percona
6 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.20%) Adobe
7 2 (2.20%) Amdocs
7 2 (2.20%) Ciena
7 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.10%) BT
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco
8 1 (1.10%) SAP
8 1 (1.10%) Sybase