MySQL Contracts in London

MySQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 225 275
Rank change year-on-year -34 +50 -74
Contract jobs citing MySQL 94 169 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.75% 0.95% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.36% 4.40% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 138 177
10th Percentile £400 £300 £373
25th Percentile £407 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% -1.01% -5.57%
75th Percentile £581 £645 £700
90th Percentile £699 £725 £775
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £45.15
25th Percentile - - £47.44
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £68.38
90th Percentile - - £77.15
England median hourly rate £28.45 £68.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -58.62% +57.58% +102.93%

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 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in London.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -3 17 £423 -32.78% 26
South London +9 3 £474 -0.26% 1
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.64%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Apache
3 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.26%) Camunda
4 3 (3.19%) IIS
4 3 (3.19%) Skype for Business
5 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (2.13%) Alfresco
6 1 (1.06%) CMS
6 1 (1.06%) Drupal
6 1 (1.06%) JBoss
6 1 (1.06%) Magnolia
6 1 (1.06%) nginx
6 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) iTrent
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.06%) Shopify
1 1 (1.06%) Unit4 Business World
1 1 (1.06%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.36%) AWS
2 15 (15.96%) Azure
3 11 (11.70%) GCP
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.57%) Slack
5 7 (7.45%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.32%) Serverless
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.13%) GitHub
10 2 (2.13%) IaaS
10 2 (2.13%) PaaS
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) HTTP
2 5 (5.32%) VoIP
3 3 (3.19%) Skype
3 3 (3.19%) VPN
4 2 (2.13%) BGP
4 2 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.13%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.13%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.13%) Firewall
4 2 (2.13%) MPLS
4 2 (2.13%) OSPF
4 2 (2.13%) SDH
5 1 (1.06%) FTP
5 1 (1.06%) Multicast
5 1 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.06%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (48.94%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (39.36%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.89%) Relational Database
3 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
4 10 (10.64%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.51%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.45%) Redis
7 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
9 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.13%) GIS
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.06%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.06%) DB2
10 1 (1.06%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (22.34%) Git
2 19 (20.21%) JUnit
3 17 (18.09%) JIRA
4 13 (13.83%) GitLab
5 10 (10.64%) Cucumber
6 9 (9.57%) Jasmine
6 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
7 7 (7.45%) Maven
8 5 (5.32%) Gradle
9 4 (4.26%) Mockito
9 4 (4.26%) TestNG
10 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.13%) JMeter
11 2 (2.13%) PHPUnit
12 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
12 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.06%) Toad
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.70%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (48.94%) Developer
2 18 (19.15%) Java Developer
3 16 (17.02%) Lead
4 10 (10.64%) Lead Developer
4 10 (10.64%) Senior
5 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Lead Java Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.45%) DBA
7 5 (5.32%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.26%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) Angular Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Architect
8 4 (4.26%) MySQL DBA
8 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Digital Developer
9 3 (3.19%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.79%) Spring
2 27 (28.72%) Spring Boot
3 22 (23.40%) RESTful
4 17 (18.09%) HTML
5 16 (17.02%) AngularJS
6 14 (14.89%) React
7 13 (13.83%) Kafka
8 12 (12.77%) OpenAPI
8 12 (12.77%) Swagger
9 11 (11.70%) Spring Security
10 10 (10.64%) CSS
10 10 (10.64%) REST
10 10 (10.64%) Spring Batch
11 9 (9.57%) Hibernate
12 8 (8.51%) .NET
13 6 (6.38%) .NET Framework
13 6 (6.38%) Node.js
13 6 (6.38%) Web Services
14 5 (5.32%) JPA
14 5 (5.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (8.51%) PKI
3 4 (4.26%) Clustering
3 4 (4.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.91%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (14.89%) Windows
4 6 (6.38%) Unix
5 4 (4.26%) VMS
6 2 (2.13%) CentOS
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.06%) Solaris
7 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.91%) Microservices
2 29 (30.85%) CI/CD
3 25 (26.60%) Agile
4 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
5 22 (23.40%) High Availability
6 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.09%) TDD
8 16 (17.02%) DevOps
9 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
10 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.70%) API Design
12 11 (11.70%) BDD
12 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.64%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (10.64%) Unit Testing
14 9 (9.57%) OWASP
15 8 (8.51%) OO
15 8 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.36%) Java
2 35 (37.23%) SQL
3 22 (23.40%) Python
4 14 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.77%) Bash
6 6 (6.38%) PHP
7 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.19%) Ruby
10 2 (2.13%) Perl
11 1 (1.06%) C#
11 1 (1.06%) Dart
11 1 (1.06%) Groovy
11 1 (1.06%) Korn
11 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) Degree
4 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.19%) PhD
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) OCP
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.06%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.26%) SLA
3 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (34.04%) Docker
2 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (3.19%) KVM
3 3 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Terraform
3 11 (11.70%) Ansible
4 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.13%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.13%) Istio
7 2 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (2.13%) logstash
7 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.13%) QRadar
7 2 (2.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (1.06%) Nagios
8 1 (1.06%) Packer
8 1 (1.06%) Rancher
8 1 (1.06%) Salt
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Oracle
2 6 (6.38%) Google
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.32%) Cisco
4 3 (3.19%) Sybase
5 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.13%) EMC
5 2 (2.13%) Informatica
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.13%) Splunk
5 2 (2.13%) Sun
5 2 (2.13%) Talend
5 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.06%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto