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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 284 232
Rank change year-on-year -77 -52 +30
Contract jobs citing MySQL 86 77 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.58% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.36% 2.73% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 107
10th Percentile £311 £356 £258
25th Percentile £425 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £619
90th Percentile £738 £600 £730
England median daily rate £472 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +7.89% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £68.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £80.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -83.11% +77.78% -18.18%

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 3,645 2,819 3,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.29% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,488 1,957 2,651
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £501 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 24
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +7.14% -14.78%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £57.51
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -11.49% +20.00% -34.09%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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
South London - 9 £550 - 2
Central London -25 3 £530 +21.14% 14
East London +3 2 £513 -1.44% 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 5 (5.81%) Apache
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) JBoss
4 1 (1.16%) Luigi
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) Traefik
4 1 (1.16%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Magento
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 33 (38.37%) Azure
3 15 (17.44%) GCP
4 14 (16.28%) GitHub
4 14 (16.28%) Serverless
5 11 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (10.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (9.30%) AWS KMS
8 7 (8.14%) Azure Databricks
8 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) DNS
1 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.49%) SSL
3 2 (2.33%) SSH
4 1 (1.16%) 4G
4 1 (1.16%) 5G
4 1 (1.16%) Firewall
4 1 (1.16%) HTTP
4 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) MQTT
4 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (63.95%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (36.05%) MongoDB
2 31 (36.05%) SQL Server
3 19 (22.09%) Relational Database
4 15 (17.44%) NoSQL
5 14 (16.28%) Redis
6 12 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
9 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.65%) Power BI
9 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (2.33%) KDB
11 2 (2.33%) MariaDB
11 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (30.23%) Git
2 14 (16.28%) GitLab
3 13 (15.12%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.98%) Gradle
4 6 (6.98%) Maven
5 4 (4.65%) JIRA
5 4 (4.65%) JUnit
6 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.33%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.33%) Mocha
6 2 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.16%) Capybara
7 1 (1.16%) Mockito
7 1 (1.16%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.16%) RSpec
7 1 (1.16%) Selenium
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Public Sector
3 17 (19.77%) Finance
4 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Advertising
5 5 (5.81%) Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Marketing
6 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Front Office
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.16%) French Language
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (41.86%) Developer
2 19 (22.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (20.93%) Senior
4 13 (15.12%) DBA
5 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.47%) Administrator
7 7 (8.14%) Lead
8 6 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Senior DBA
10 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.21%) Terraform
2 30 (34.88%) HTML
3 26 (30.23%) CSS
4 25 (29.07%) REST
5 22 (25.58%) React
6 21 (24.42%) Kafka
7 20 (23.26%) RESTful
7 20 (23.26%) Spring
8 19 (22.09%) Spring Boot
9 17 (19.77%) Vue
10 16 (18.60%) HTML5
11 15 (17.44%) CSS3
12 13 (15.12%) AngularJS
12 13 (15.12%) Node.js
13 12 (13.95%) OAuth
14 11 (12.79%) GraphQL
15 9 (10.47%) OAuth2
16 8 (9.30%) .NET
17 7 (8.14%) Flask
17 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.63%) Replication
4 6 (6.98%) PKI
5 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.33%) Equities
8 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.33%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.16%) IoT
9 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.16%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.23%) Linux
2 8 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.14%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.81%) Windows
5 4 (4.65%) Unix
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.16%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 35 (40.70%) DevOps
3 32 (37.21%) Microservices
4 30 (34.88%) Agile
4 30 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (29.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (26.74%) Containerisation
6 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (22.09%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (19.77%) Event-Driven
8 17 (19.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 16 (18.60%) Scrum
10 15 (17.44%) High Availability
10 15 (17.44%) Validation
11 13 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (15.12%) Secrets Management
11 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
13 11 (12.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) SQL
2 31 (36.05%) Java
3 29 (33.72%) Python
4 24 (27.91%) JavaScript
5 16 (18.60%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.47%) PHP
7 8 (9.30%) Bash
8 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.49%) Go
10 2 (2.33%) C#
10 2 (2.33%) C++
10 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.16%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.16%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.16%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.16%) Perl
11 1 (1.16%) Ruby
11 1 (1.16%) Scala
11 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.63%) Degree
4 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.16%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) QA
2 10 (11.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (37.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) Varnish
3 1 (1.16%) NFS
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (33.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.63%) Ansible
3 7 (8.14%) Grafana
3 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.65%) Kibana
4 4 (4.65%) Puppet
5 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.16%) Argo
6 1 (1.16%) Istio
6 1 (1.16%) SCOM
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Oracle
2 9 (10.47%) Databricks
3 7 (8.14%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.49%) Splunk
5 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.33%) Solace
5 2 (2.33%) Sybase
5 2 (2.33%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) Kepware
6 1 (1.16%) Netlify
6 1 (1.16%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.16%) SAP
6 1 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (1.16%) WSO2