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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 262 231
Rank change year-on-year -84 -31 +45
Contract jobs citing MySQL 78 92 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.71% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 3.31% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 144
10th Percentile £298 £365 £313
25th Percentile £403 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £652
90th Percentile £591 £615 £725
England median daily rate £437 £462 £463
% change year-on-year -5.25% -0.22% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £47.50
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -44.86% -39.13% +9.52%

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 3,415 2,777 4,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.72% 21.54% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 1,944 3,007
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £725
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 28 32 34
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.14 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.31 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -18.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.56 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £38.25 £33.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.70% -15.15% -29.76%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -21 6 £440 +4.14% 12
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 6 (7.69%) Apache
2 4 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.85%) Moodle
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.28%) Camunda
5 1 (1.28%) IIS
5 1 (1.28%) Luigi
5 1 (1.28%) nginx
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Magento
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) AWS
2 19 (24.36%) Azure
3 12 (15.38%) GCP
4 9 (11.54%) GitHub
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 6 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.56%) Route 53
10 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) FTP
2 2 (2.56%) NaaS
2 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (1.28%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.28%) MQTT
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 14 (17.95%) Relational Database
4 12 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 8 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.69%) Power BI
8 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
8 5 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (6.41%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.13%) Metadata
9 4 (5.13%) RDBMS
9 4 (5.13%) Redis
10 3 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.85%) Flink
10 3 (3.85%) OLAP
10 3 (3.85%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Git
2 8 (10.26%) Maven
3 7 (8.97%) GitLab
4 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.69%) JUnit
5 4 (5.13%) Gradle
5 4 (5.13%) Mockito
6 3 (3.85%) ERwin
7 2 (2.56%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.56%) JIRA
7 2 (2.56%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.56%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.28%) Ant
8 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.28%) MLflow
8 1 (1.28%) PHPUnit
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Retail
4 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.41%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Billing
7 2 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) Publishing
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Banking
8 1 (1.28%) French Language
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
2 10 (12.82%) Senior
3 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Lead
4 8 (10.26%) DBA
5 6 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 5 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Architect
7 4 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.13%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.85%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.49%) Spring
2 18 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.23%) Kafka
3 15 (19.23%) REST
4 14 (17.95%) React
4 14 (17.95%) RESTful
5 12 (15.38%) CSS
6 11 (14.10%) HTML
6 11 (14.10%) Vue
7 10 (12.82%) GraphQL
8 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.97%) Django
9 7 (8.97%) Spring MVC
10 5 (6.41%) Bootstrap
10 5 (6.41%) jQuery
10 5 (6.41%) Laravel
10 5 (6.41%) Web Services
11 4 (5.13%) Apache Camel
11 4 (5.13%) Keycloak
11 4 (5.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.85%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.85%) PKI
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.28%) CMDB
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.28%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.28%) IoT
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.28%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 31 (39.74%) Linux
2 8 (10.26%) Unix
3 7 (8.97%) Windows
4 6 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.28%) VMS
5 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
2 22 (28.21%) Microservices
3 21 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 19 (24.36%) DevOps
5 17 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (15.38%) Agile
8 11 (14.10%) Decision-Making
8 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.10%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (12.82%) Front End Development
10 9 (11.54%) Observability
10 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.26%) Analytics
11 8 (10.26%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.26%) MVC
12 7 (8.97%) API Development
12 7 (8.97%) Code Quality
12 7 (8.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) Java
1 32 (41.03%) SQL
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 11 (14.10%) PHP
4 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.41%) Bash
5 5 (6.41%) Go
6 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.56%) C++
7 2 (2.56%) Perl
7 2 (2.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) Bicep
8 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) Elixir
8 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Degree
4 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) QA
2 10 (12.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) NCSC
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (23.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) NFS
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.28%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Terraform
2 13 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.97%) Ansible
3 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.69%) Grafana
5 4 (5.13%) Kibana
6 3 (3.85%) Puppet
7 2 (2.56%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Oracle
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (2.56%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.56%) Ciena
5 2 (2.56%) Netlify
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) BT
6 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) Pega
6 1 (1.28%) Progress
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.28%) Sybase
6 1 (1.28%) TIBCO