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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 258 244
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing MySQL 90 122 178
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.78% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.10% 3.61% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 76 114
10th Percentile £204 £250 £333
25th Percentile £402 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £489 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -6.01% -13.33%
75th Percentile £578 £614 £631
90th Percentile £641 £738 £734
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +46.68%

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 2,901 3,379 3,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.51% 21.72% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,019 2,365 2,710
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 26 34
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.67 £19.63
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.38 £35.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year - -1.16% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £59.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £71.66
England median hourly rate £47.61 £39.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.08% -15.55% -7.64%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -4 13 £575 +4.55% 9
West London -6 8 £208 -43.92% 1
East London - 1 £520 -
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 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) Luigi
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Magento
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.11%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (60.00%) AWS
2 23 (25.56%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (14.44%) GCP
5 11 (12.22%) Amazon S3
6 10 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (8.89%) GitHub
9 7 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.56%) Serverless
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.44%) Datadog
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.33%) SaaS
13 2 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DHCP
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
1 2 (2.22%) SSH
2 1 (1.11%) InfiniBand
2 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.11%) LAN
2 1 (1.11%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) VLAN
2 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.56%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (28.89%) Relational Database
3 18 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 16 (17.78%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (17.78%) SQL Server
5 14 (15.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (11.11%) Hadoop
7 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (5.56%) MariaDB
8 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
9 4 (4.44%) Redis
10 3 (3.33%) Power BI
10 3 (3.33%) Tableau
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.22%) Big Data
11 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (21.11%) Git
2 9 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.56%) JIRA
4 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.33%) GitLab
5 3 (3.33%) JUnit
6 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.22%) JMeter
6 2 (2.22%) Mockito
6 2 (2.22%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.11%) Babel
7 1 (1.11%) ERwin
7 1 (1.11%) Gatling
7 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.11%) Mocha
7 1 (1.11%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 24 (26.67%) Finance
2 23 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.22%) Front Office
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Law
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Developer
2 13 (14.44%) Java Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Senior
5 8 (8.89%) Technical Support
6 5 (5.56%) Architect
7 4 (4.44%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (4.44%) PHP Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Ruby Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) Spring
2 15 (16.67%) HTML
2 15 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.56%) React
3 14 (15.56%) REST
3 14 (15.56%) RESTful
4 13 (14.44%) CSS
5 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.89%) Kafka
6 8 (8.89%) Node.js
7 7 (7.78%) Hibernate
8 6 (6.67%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (5.56%) Vue
10 4 (4.44%) Django
10 4 (4.44%) HTML5
10 4 (4.44%) JSON
10 4 (4.44%) LAMP
10 4 (4.44%) Web Services
11 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.78%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.44%) Replication
5 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.11%) Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Linux
2 11 (12.22%) Windows
3 10 (11.11%) Unix
4 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Debian
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) Agile
1 29 (32.22%) Microservices
2 24 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.33%) DevOps
5 18 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (18.89%) Containerisation
6 17 (18.89%) Software Engineering
7 15 (16.67%) Analytics
7 15 (16.67%) OO
8 13 (14.44%) Migration
8 13 (14.44%) OOP
9 12 (13.33%) Clean Code
9 12 (13.33%) Fintech
10 11 (12.22%) Computer Science
10 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.11%) Process Improvement
12 9 (10.00%) Code Quality
12 9 (10.00%) ETL
12 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) Java
2 32 (35.56%) JavaScript
3 29 (32.22%) Python
4 28 (31.11%) SQL
5 11 (12.22%) PHP
6 10 (11.11%) Bash
6 10 (11.11%) Perl
7 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.56%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.56%) Ruby
9 3 (3.33%) Go
9 3 (3.33%) Scala
10 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.11%) Bicep
11 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.11%) Rust
11 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) OCP
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
6 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 7 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Ceph
2 1 (1.11%) iptables
2 1 (1.11%) KVM
2 1 (1.11%) Lustre
2 1 (1.11%) NFS
2 1 (1.11%) Samba
2 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.11%) Varnish
2 1 (1.11%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.56%) Terraform
3 12 (13.33%) Ansible
4 4 (4.44%) Puppet
5 3 (3.33%) Kibana
5 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.22%) Grafana
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.11%) Icinga
7 1 (1.11%) Nagios
7 1 (1.11%) Salt
7 1 (1.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Oracle
2 7 (7.78%) Informatica
3 6 (6.67%) Google
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Talend
4 4 (4.44%) Splunk
5 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.33%) Zend
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
6 2 (2.22%) Percona
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Adobe
7 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.11%) Zoomdata