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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 271 213
Rank change year-on-year -100 -58 +46
Contract jobs citing MySQL 79 95 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.69% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 3.26% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 128
10th Percentile £310 £366 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £619
90th Percentile £599 £600 £725
England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile - £80.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.33% -33.58%
75th Percentile - £85.63 £47.50
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £80.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -75.88% +39.13% +4.55%

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 3,581 2,911 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.78% 21.29% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,417 2,053 2,822
10th Percentile £363 £378 £363
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 25
10th Percentile £17.72 £24.60 £32.85
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £86.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.60% -31.82%

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 10 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 10 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 -9 8 £550 +16.09% 1
Central London -36 4 £530 +24.71% 6
East London +2 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 (7.59%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.80%) Moodle
4 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (1.27%) JBoss
5 1 (1.27%) Luigi
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) AWS
2 21 (26.58%) Azure
3 13 (16.46%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (10.13%) GitHub
5 7 (8.86%) Serverless
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.59%) AWS KMS
6 6 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.53%) npm
9 2 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
1 3 (3.80%) SSL
2 2 (2.53%) DNS
2 2 (2.53%) FTP
2 2 (2.53%) NaaS
2 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) WAN
3 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.27%) MQTT
3 1 (1.27%) SSH
3 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.84%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (29.11%) MongoDB
3 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
4 15 (18.99%) Relational Database
5 12 (15.19%) NoSQL
6 10 (12.66%) Redis
7 8 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (8.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
10 4 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (5.06%) Power BI
10 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (2.53%) Flink
12 2 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (2.53%) InfluxDB
12 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
12 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
12 2 (2.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) GitLab
2 8 (10.13%) Maven
3 4 (5.06%) Gradle
3 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
4 2 (2.53%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.53%) JUnit
4 2 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.53%) Mocha
4 2 (2.53%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.27%) Capybara
5 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.27%) RSpec
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.19%) Finance
4 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.86%) Retail
6 5 (6.33%) Advertising
7 3 (3.80%) Marketing
8 2 (2.53%) Billing
8 2 (2.53%) Front Office
8 2 (2.53%) Legal
8 2 (2.53%) Publishing
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Banking
9 1 (1.27%) French Language
9 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.27%) Local Government
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) DBA
4 12 (15.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Administrator
6 7 (8.86%) Lead
7 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior DBA
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.06%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Service Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.06%) Service Manager
10 3 (3.80%) Applications Support
10 3 (3.80%) MySQL Developer
10 3 (3.80%) PHP MySQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.85%) Spring
2 19 (24.05%) REST
3 18 (22.78%) CSS
4 17 (21.52%) HTML
4 17 (21.52%) Spring Boot
5 16 (20.25%) Kafka
6 13 (16.46%) RESTful
7 10 (12.66%) Vue
8 9 (11.39%) React
9 8 (10.13%) AngularJS
9 8 (10.13%) Spring MVC
10 7 (8.86%) HTML5
11 6 (7.59%) CSS3
11 6 (7.59%) GraphQL
11 6 (7.59%) Laravel
11 6 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (7.59%) Sass
12 5 (6.33%) jQuery
12 5 (6.33%) Keycloak
12 5 (6.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) Replication
3 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.33%) PKI
5 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.80%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.27%) CMDB
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (34.18%) Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 8 (10.13%) Unix
4 7 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.44%) CI/CD
2 23 (29.11%) DevOps
3 21 (26.58%) Microservices
4 20 (25.32%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (24.05%) Agile
6 18 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (20.25%) Containerisation
7 16 (20.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (15.19%) Test Automation
9 11 (13.92%) High Availability
9 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (12.66%) Observability
10 10 (12.66%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.66%) Validation
11 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
11 9 (11.39%) MVC
11 9 (11.39%) Scrum
11 9 (11.39%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) SQL
2 28 (35.44%) Java
3 17 (21.52%) Python
4 15 (18.99%) JavaScript
5 14 (17.72%) PHP
6 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.06%) Bash
8 3 (3.80%) C++
8 3 (3.80%) Perl
9 2 (2.53%) Go
9 2 (2.53%) Ruby
9 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.27%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.27%) Bicep
10 1 (1.27%) C#
10 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.27%) Elixir
10 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.06%) Degree
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) QA
2 12 (15.19%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.59%) SLA
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (22.78%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Varnish
4 1 (1.27%) NFS
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (27.85%) Terraform
2 18 (22.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
4 6 (7.59%) Grafana
4 6 (7.59%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.06%) Kibana
5 4 (5.06%) Puppet
6 2 (2.53%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.27%) Argo
7 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Oracle
2 6 (7.59%) Google
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.53%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.53%) Ciena
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Sybase
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%) Progress
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) TIBCO