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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 286 234
Rank change year-on-year -70 -52 +19
Contract jobs citing MySQL 80 78 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.58% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 2.75% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 49 123
10th Percentile £310 £363 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £619
90th Percentile £600 £600 £698
England median daily rate £450 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +0.56% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile - £74.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile - £83.75 £47.50
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £76.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year -74.85% +65.95% -13.95%

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 3,620 2,834 3,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.05% 21.19% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,444 1,982 2,780
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £694 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £501 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.34% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 26
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.53 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £60.75 £84.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -6 9 £550 +16.09% 1
Central London -28 3 £530 +24.71% 3
East London +4 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 6 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) JBoss
4 1 (1.25%) Luigi
4 1 (1.25%) Moodle
4 1 (1.25%) nginx
4 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 12 (15.00%) GCP
4 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (12.50%) GitHub
4 10 (12.50%) Serverless
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 8 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) DNS
1 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) SSL
3 2 (2.50%) FTP
3 2 (2.50%) NaaS
3 2 (2.50%) SSH
3 2 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (1.25%) 4G
4 1 (1.25%) 5G
4 1 (1.25%) HTTP
4 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.25%) MQTT
4 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (53.75%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (33.75%) MongoDB
3 22 (27.50%) SQL Server
4 15 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 15 (18.75%) Relational Database
5 14 (17.50%) Redis
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (5.00%) Power BI
9 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.50%) Flink
11 2 (2.50%) InfluxDB
11 2 (2.50%) KDB
11 2 (2.50%) MariaDB
11 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.50%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (13.75%) GitLab
3 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.50%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) Gradle
5 4 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (2.50%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.50%) Mocha
6 2 (2.50%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.25%) Capybara
7 1 (1.25%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.25%) RSpec
7 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 20 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Advertising
4 5 (6.25%) Retail
5 4 (5.00%) Marketing
5 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.50%) Billing
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) French Language
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Senior
3 14 (17.50%) DBA
4 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.00%) Administrator
7 7 (8.75%) Lead
8 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior DBA
10 4 (5.00%) Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
10 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.25%) Terraform
2 22 (27.50%) HTML
2 22 (27.50%) REST
3 20 (25.00%) CSS
3 20 (25.00%) Spring
4 17 (21.25%) Kafka
4 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
5 15 (18.75%) RESTful
6 12 (15.00%) Vue
7 11 (13.75%) React
8 10 (12.50%) HTML5
9 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
9 9 (11.25%) CSS3
9 9 (11.25%) GraphQL
10 7 (8.75%) Node.js
10 7 (8.75%) OAuth
11 6 (7.50%) Laravel
11 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (7.50%) Spring MVC
12 5 (6.25%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Replication
3 6 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.25%) PKI
5 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.50%) Equities
7 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.25%) CMDB
8 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 28 (35.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Unix
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.25%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) CI/CD
2 26 (32.50%) DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (27.50%) Agile
4 22 (27.50%) Microservices
5 21 (26.25%) Performance Tuning
6 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (21.25%) Containerisation
9 15 (18.75%) Validation
10 14 (17.50%) High Availability
11 12 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.75%) Observability
12 11 (13.75%) Scrum
12 11 (13.75%) Secrets Management
13 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) SQL
2 29 (36.25%) Java
3 23 (28.75%) Python
4 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.00%) PHP
6 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.75%) Bash
8 4 (5.00%) C++
8 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.75%) Go
9 3 (3.75%) Perl
10 2 (2.50%) C#
11 1 (1.25%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.25%) Bicep
11 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.25%) Ruby
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) Degree
5 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) QA
2 12 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.00%) SLA
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Varnish
4 1 (1.25%) NFS
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.25%) Ansible
3 8 (10.00%) Grafana
3 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.00%) Kibana
4 4 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Databricks
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.75%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) Amdocs
6 2 (2.50%) Ciena
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Solace
6 2 (2.50%) Sybase
6 2 (2.50%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) Netlify
7 1 (1.25%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.25%) VMware