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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 259 234
Rank change year-on-year -85 -25 +40
Contract jobs citing MySQL 79 91 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.71% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 3.30% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 144
10th Percentile £300 £364 £313
25th Percentile £405 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £549 £538 £652
90th Percentile £613 £623 £725
England median daily rate £437 £465 £463
% change year-on-year -6.02% +0.54% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £47.50
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -44.86% -39.13% +9.52%

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 3,429 2,759 4,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 21.53% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,319 1,931 3,018
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £709 £720
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 34
10th Percentile £18.19 £25.14 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £44.50 £39.31 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% -18.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.88 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -26 6 £440 +4.14% 3
East London - 1 £410 -
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 (6.33%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.80%) Moodle
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.27%) Camunda
5 1 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (50.63%) AWS
2 17 (21.52%) Azure
3 11 (13.92%) GCP
3 11 (13.92%) GitHub
4 10 (12.66%) Serverless
5 8 (10.13%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.59%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.33%) Route 53
8 5 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) FTP
3 2 (2.53%) NaaS
3 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) WAN
4 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.27%) MQTT
4 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.72%) MongoDB
2 14 (17.72%) Relational Database
3 13 (16.46%) NoSQL
4 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
5 10 (12.66%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (10.13%) DynamoDB
7 7 (8.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (8.86%) Redis
8 6 (7.59%) Power BI
9 5 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (5.06%) DocumentDB
10 4 (5.06%) Hadoop
10 4 (5.06%) Metadata
10 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.80%) OLAP
11 3 (3.80%) Oracle OLAP
11 3 (3.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (18.99%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
3 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.13%) Maven
5 5 (6.33%) JUnit
6 4 (5.06%) Gradle
6 4 (5.06%) Mockito
7 3 (3.80%) ERwin
8 2 (2.53%) JIRA
8 2 (2.53%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.27%) Ant
9 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.27%) MLflow
9 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
General
1 15 (18.99%) Finance
1 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Retail
3 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.33%) Advertising
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Billing
6 2 (2.53%) Front Office
6 2 (2.53%) Publishing
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) French Language
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Developer
2 9 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (11.39%) Lead
3 8 (10.13%) DBA
3 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.13%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Architect
5 6 (7.59%) Java Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Python Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
6 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Java Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.65%) Spring
2 20 (25.32%) Spring Boot
3 17 (21.52%) Kafka
4 16 (20.25%) REST
4 16 (20.25%) RESTful
5 14 (17.72%) React
6 11 (13.92%) CSS
6 11 (13.92%) Vue
7 10 (12.66%) HTML
8 8 (10.13%) GraphQL
9 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.86%) Django
9 7 (8.86%) Hibernate
9 7 (8.86%) JPA
9 7 (8.86%) OAuth
9 7 (8.86%) Spring MVC
10 6 (7.59%) gRPC
11 5 (6.33%) Bootstrap
11 5 (6.33%) OAuth2
11 5 (6.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.80%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.80%) PKI
6 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.27%) CMDB
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.27%) IoT
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.27%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 31 (39.24%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
3 7 (8.86%) Windows
4 6 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) CI/CD
2 24 (30.38%) Microservices
3 21 (26.58%) DevOps
4 20 (25.32%) Containerisation
5 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (16.46%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (15.19%) Observability
8 11 (13.92%) Agile
8 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
9 9 (11.39%) Front End Development
9 9 (11.39%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.39%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (10.13%) Analytics
10 8 (10.13%) Event-Driven
10 8 (10.13%) MVC
10 8 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.77%) Java
1 33 (41.77%) SQL
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 11 (13.92%) PHP
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) Bash
6 4 (5.06%) Go
7 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.53%) C++
8 2 (2.53%) Perl
9 1 (1.27%) Bicep
9 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.27%) Elixir
9 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) Scala
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.99%) QA
2 9 (11.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.06%) NIST
3 4 (5.06%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (25.32%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.27%) NFS
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (21.52%) Terraform
2 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.59%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) Kibana
6 3 (3.80%) Puppet
7 2 (2.53%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (25.32%) Oracle
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.06%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.53%) Ciena
5 2 (2.53%) Netlify
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) Adobe
6 1 (1.27%) BT
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) IBM
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Percona
6 1 (1.27%) Progress
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase
6 1 (1.27%) TIBCO