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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 254 224
Rank change year-on-year -87 -30 +53
Contract jobs citing MySQL 73 88 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.73% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 3.27% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 140
10th Percentile £278 £400 £310
25th Percentile £403 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £644
90th Percentile £589 £675 £725
England median daily rate £425 £462 £475
% change year-on-year -7.91% -2.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £28.45 £70.00
% change year-on-year -52.51% -59.36% +52.01%

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 3,299 2,691 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.94% 22.28% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,245 1,877 2,871
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £704
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 34
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.99 £25.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% -8.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £54.06 £54.03
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%

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 4 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

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 4 June 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
Central London -20 7 £320 -24.26% 13
East London - 1 £410 -
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 (6.85%) Apache
2 4 (5.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.11%) Moodle
4 2 (2.74%) Camunda
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.37%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.37%) IIS
5 1 (1.37%) nginx
5 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (53.42%) AWS
2 15 (20.55%) Azure
3 11 (15.07%) GCP
4 10 (13.70%) GitHub
5 9 (12.33%) Serverless
6 8 (10.96%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (6.85%) Route 53
9 5 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) DNS
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) FTP
3 2 (2.74%) NaaS
3 2 (2.74%) WAN
4 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.37%) MQTT
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (47.95%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (19.18%) MongoDB
3 13 (17.81%) NoSQL
3 13 (17.81%) Relational Database
4 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
5 9 (12.33%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (10.96%) DynamoDB
7 7 (9.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (8.22%) Power BI
9 5 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (6.85%) Redis
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (5.48%) DocumentDB
10 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
10 4 (5.48%) Metadata
10 4 (5.48%) Tableau
11 3 (4.11%) Flink
11 3 (4.11%) OLAP
11 3 (4.11%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) Git
2 10 (13.70%) GitLab
2 10 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.33%) Maven
4 5 (6.85%) Gradle
4 5 (6.85%) JUnit
4 5 (6.85%) Mockito
5 3 (4.11%) ERwin
6 2 (2.74%) Ant
6 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.74%) JIRA
6 2 (2.74%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.37%) MLflow
7 1 (1.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.59%) Retail
4 4 (5.48%) Advertising
5 3 (4.11%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Billing
6 2 (2.74%) Publishing
6 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.37%) Banking
7 1 (1.37%) French Language
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Developer
2 8 (10.96%) Lead
3 7 (9.59%) Architect
3 7 (9.59%) DBA
3 7 (9.59%) Java Developer
3 7 (9.59%) Senior
4 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (8.22%) Java Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Python Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Java Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) Spring
2 18 (24.66%) Spring Boot
3 17 (23.29%) Kafka
4 16 (21.92%) RESTful
5 15 (20.55%) React
5 15 (20.55%) REST
6 11 (15.07%) CSS
7 10 (13.70%) Vue
8 9 (12.33%) HTML
9 8 (10.96%) GraphQL
10 7 (9.59%) AngularJS
10 7 (9.59%) Hibernate
10 7 (9.59%) JPA
10 7 (9.59%) Spring MVC
11 6 (8.22%) Bootstrap
11 6 (8.22%) Django
11 6 (8.22%) gRPC
12 5 (6.85%) jQuery
12 5 (6.85%) OAuth2
12 5 (6.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Code
4 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.11%) PKI
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.37%) CMDB
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (35.62%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Windows
3 6 (8.22%) Unix
4 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) CI/CD
2 23 (31.51%) Microservices
3 19 (26.03%) Containerisation
4 17 (23.29%) DevOps
5 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.44%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (15.07%) Decision-Making
7 11 (15.07%) Observability
8 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (13.70%) Integration Patterns
8 10 (13.70%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (12.33%) Agile
9 9 (12.33%) API Development
9 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.33%) Refactoring
10 8 (10.96%) Design Patterns
10 8 (10.96%) Event-Driven
10 8 (10.96%) MVC
10 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.59%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (46.58%) SQL
2 29 (39.73%) Java
3 18 (24.66%) Python
4 10 (13.70%) PHP
5 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.48%) Go
7 2 (2.74%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Perl
7 2 (2.74%) Scala
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) CFML
8 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.37%) Elixir
8 1 (1.37%) Korn
8 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) QA
2 9 (12.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.48%) NIST
3 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.48%) SLA
4 2 (2.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (28.77%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) NFS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.81%) Terraform
3 6 (8.22%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.85%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Ansible
6 3 (4.11%) Kibana
6 3 (4.11%) Puppet
7 2 (2.74%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Oracle
2 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.48%) Google
4 2 (2.74%) Adobe
4 2 (2.74%) Amdocs
4 2 (2.74%) Ciena
4 2 (2.74%) Databricks
4 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.74%) Netlify
4 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) BT
5 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) Informatica
5 1 (1.37%) Kepware
5 1 (1.37%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto