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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 263 212
Rank change year-on-year -101 -51 +39
Contract jobs citing MySQL 71 99 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.73% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 3.38% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 158
10th Percentile £310 £366 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £642
90th Percentile £600 £600 £725
England median daily rate £449 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.91% +1.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile - £80.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.33% -33.58%
75th Percentile - £85.63 £47.50
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -75.88% +18.52% +28.57%

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 3,512 2,933 4,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.63% 21.51% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,352 2,053 3,003
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.53 £23.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -13.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £58.06 £62.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £84.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.24% -13.56% -29.76%

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 July 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
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 July 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 4 £535 +27.38% 2
South London -13 3 £550 +16.09%
East London +2 1 £410 -21.15%
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 5 (7.04%) Apache
2 4 (5.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.23%) Moodle
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.41%) Confluence
5 1 (1.41%) IIS
5 1 (1.41%) Luigi
5 1 (1.41%) nginx
5 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Magento
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) AWS
2 20 (28.17%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) GitHub
5 8 (11.27%) Serverless
6 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.82%) SaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) FTP
2 2 (2.82%) NaaS
2 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.41%) MQTT
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (46.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (21.13%) MongoDB
3 14 (19.72%) Relational Database
4 12 (16.90%) NoSQL
5 10 (14.08%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
6 5 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (5.63%) Power BI
7 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (4.23%) Redis
9 2 (2.82%) Flink
9 2 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.82%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.82%) Metadata
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.82%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Git
2 11 (15.49%) Maven
3 7 (9.86%) Gradle
4 6 (8.45%) GitLab
5 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.04%) JUnit
6 3 (4.23%) JIRA
6 3 (4.23%) Mockito
7 2 (2.82%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.82%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.82%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.41%) Capybara
8 1 (1.41%) ERwin
8 1 (1.41%) Mocha
8 1 (1.41%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.41%) RSpec
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Retail
5 5 (7.04%) Advertising
6 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Billing
7 2 (2.82%) Front Office
7 2 (2.82%) Publishing
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) French Language
8 1 (1.41%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Developer
2 13 (18.31%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (15.49%) Senior
5 8 (11.27%) DBA
6 7 (9.86%) Lead
7 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Technical Leader
8 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Service Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Service Manager
10 3 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 3 (4.23%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.21%) Spring
2 20 (28.17%) Spring Boot
3 17 (23.94%) REST
4 16 (22.54%) CSS
5 15 (21.13%) HTML
5 15 (21.13%) RESTful
6 14 (19.72%) Kafka
7 11 (15.49%) Spring MVC
7 11 (15.49%) Vue
8 10 (14.08%) React
9 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
10 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
10 6 (8.45%) HTML5
10 6 (8.45%) Laravel
10 6 (8.45%) Node.js
11 5 (7.04%) CSS3
11 5 (7.04%) jQuery
11 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (7.04%) Sass
11 5 (7.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Legacy Code
4 3 (4.23%) PKI
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) CMDB
6 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.62%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Unix
3 7 (9.86%) Windows
4 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Microservices
2 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
3 20 (28.17%) DevOps
4 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.94%) Agile
5 17 (23.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (21.13%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.90%) MVC
8 11 (15.49%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
10 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
11 8 (11.27%) Data Protection
11 8 (11.27%) E-Commerce
11 8 (11.27%) Observability
11 8 (11.27%) Scrum
12 7 (9.86%) AI
12 7 (9.86%) Code Quality
12 7 (9.86%) Design Patterns
12 7 (9.86%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Java
2 26 (36.62%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) Python
4 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.90%) PHP
6 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
8 2 (2.82%) C++
8 2 (2.82%) Go
8 2 (2.82%) Perl
8 2 (2.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.41%) Bicep
9 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.41%) Elixir
9 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) QA
2 8 (11.27%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.63%) SLA
4 2 (2.82%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) NFS
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
1 14 (19.72%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) Ansible
2 6 (8.45%) Grafana
2 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.63%) Kibana
4 3 (4.23%) Puppet
5 2 (2.82%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Google
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Amdocs
4 2 (2.82%) Ciena
4 2 (2.82%) Netlify
4 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.82%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) BT
5 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.41%) Informatica
5 1 (1.41%) Pega
5 1 (1.41%) Percona
5 1 (1.41%) Progress
5 1 (1.41%) Sybase
5 1 (1.41%) TIBCO