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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 262 235
Rank change year-on-year -30 -27 +17
Contract jobs citing MySQL 88 117 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.77% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.99% 3.59% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 120
10th Percentile £204 £249 £337
25th Percentile £406 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £489 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -9.49% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £645
90th Percentile £630 £746 £739
England median daily rate £415 £444 £500
% change year-on-year -6.43% -11.30% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +49.43%

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 2,948 3,261 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.53% 21.54% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,065 2,253 2,640
10th Percentile £363 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £766 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.61 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.42 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £43.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.55% -17.22%
75th Percentile £67.38 £58.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £70.33
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -9.45%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 15 £575 +4.55% 8
West London -9 8 £208 -43.92% 1
East London - 1 £520 - 1
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 6 (6.82%) Apache
2 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.27%) nginx
4 1 (1.14%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.14%) Luigi
4 1 (1.14%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.14%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.82%) AWS
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (15.91%) GCP
4 11 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (9.09%) GitHub
5 8 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (7.95%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.68%) Serverless
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.55%) Datadog
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.41%) Fastly
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DHCP
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
1 2 (2.27%) SSH
2 1 (1.14%) InfiniBand
2 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) VLAN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 17 (19.32%) MongoDB
3 17 (19.32%) SQL Server
4 14 (15.91%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (9.09%) Hadoop
7 6 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (5.68%) MariaDB
8 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.41%) Power BI
10 3 (3.41%) Redis
10 3 (3.41%) Tableau
11 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.14%) AllegroGraph
12 1 (1.14%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.68%) JIRA
4 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.55%) GitLab
5 3 (3.41%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.41%) JUnit
6 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.27%) JMeter
6 2 (2.27%) Mockito
6 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.14%) Babel
7 1 (1.14%) ERwin
7 1 (1.14%) Gatling
7 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.14%) Mocha
7 1 (1.14%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 22 (25.00%) Finance
1 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Banking
3 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.27%) Front Office
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
6 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Developer
2 12 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 10 (11.36%) Java Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Technical Support
6 7 (7.95%) Senior
7 6 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.55%) PHP Developer
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Tester
10 2 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) RESTful
2 16 (18.18%) HTML
2 16 (18.18%) React
2 16 (18.18%) Spring
3 15 (17.05%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.91%) REST
5 13 (14.77%) CSS
6 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.23%) Kafka
8 8 (9.09%) Hibernate
8 8 (9.09%) Node.js
9 7 (7.95%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.82%) Vue
11 5 (5.68%) Django
11 5 (5.68%) JSON
11 5 (5.68%) Ruby on Rails
12 4 (4.55%) HTML5
12 4 (4.55%) JPA
12 4 (4.55%) Web Services
12 4 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.82%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.55%) Replication
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
2 11 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (11.36%) Unix
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Debian
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Agile
1 27 (30.68%) CI/CD
1 27 (30.68%) Microservices
2 24 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.00%) DevOps
4 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 17 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (17.05%) Analytics
6 15 (17.05%) OO
7 14 (15.91%) Clean Code
7 14 (15.91%) Migration
7 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 13 (14.77%) OOP
9 11 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.36%) Fintech
10 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (11.36%) Process Improvement
11 9 (10.23%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.59%) Java
2 35 (39.77%) JavaScript
3 29 (32.95%) SQL
4 28 (31.82%) Python
5 11 (12.50%) Bash
6 10 (11.36%) Perl
6 10 (11.36%) PHP
7 5 (5.68%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.68%) Ruby
7 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.55%) Go
9 3 (3.41%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) Bicep
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) CFML
10 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
10 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) Degree
4 10 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.41%) OCP
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.14%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
7 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) QA
2 7 (7.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Ceph
2 1 (1.14%) iptables
2 1 (1.14%) KVM
2 1 (1.14%) Lustre
2 1 (1.14%) NFS
2 1 (1.14%) Samba
2 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.14%) Varnish
2 1 (1.14%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.05%) Terraform
3 13 (14.77%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.55%) Puppet
5 3 (3.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.27%) Grafana
6 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.14%) Icinga
7 1 (1.14%) Nagios
7 1 (1.14%) Salt
7 1 (1.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Oracle
2 6 (6.82%) Informatica
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.68%) Google
3 5 (5.68%) Splunk
3 5 (5.68%) Talend
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.41%) Zend
6 2 (2.27%) Adobe
6 2 (2.27%) New Relic
6 2 (2.27%) Percona
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) HP
7 1 (1.14%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.14%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.14%) Zoomdata