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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 284 246
Rank change year-on-year -66 -38 +6
Contract jobs citing MySQL 95 77 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.57% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.61% 2.68% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 101
10th Percentile £314 £358 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £597 £538 £619
90th Percentile £735 £600 £738
England median daily rate £478 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +7.42% -1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £68.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £80.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -83.11% +77.78% -18.18%

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 3,633 2,868 3,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.84% 21.28% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,494 1,999 2,617
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £680 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.86 £25.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.68% +19.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.68 £87.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 £550 - 4
Central London -29 3 £530 +21.14% 17
East London +2 2 £513 -1.44% 1
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 (5.26%) Apache
1 5 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) Traefik
3 2 (2.11%) nginx
3 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) JBoss
4 1 (1.05%) Luigi
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (62.11%) AWS
2 40 (42.11%) Azure
3 19 (20.00%) GCP
4 14 (14.74%) GitHub
4 14 (14.74%) Serverless
5 11 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (8.42%) AWS KMS
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Databricks
8 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) DNS
2 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.21%) SSL
4 3 (3.16%) SSH
5 2 (2.11%) 4G
5 2 (2.11%) 5G
5 2 (2.11%) Firewall
5 2 (2.11%) HTTP
5 2 (2.11%) VPN
6 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (64.21%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (35.79%) MongoDB
3 32 (33.68%) SQL Server
4 22 (23.16%) Relational Database
5 17 (17.89%) NoSQL
6 16 (16.84%) Redis
7 12 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (9.47%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (3.16%) MariaDB
11 3 (3.16%) Power BI
12 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 2 (2.11%) KDB
12 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
13 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (1.05%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Git
2 16 (16.84%) GitLab
2 16 (16.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) Gradle
3 7 (7.37%) Maven
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 5 (5.26%) JUnit
6 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.11%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.11%) Mocha
7 2 (2.11%) Mockito
7 2 (2.11%) Selenium
8 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.05%) Capybara
8 1 (1.05%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.05%) RSpec
8 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.89%) Finance
4 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Advertising
7 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
8 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.11%) Front Office
9 2 (2.11%) Legal
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) French Language
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (42.11%) Developer
2 20 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (20.00%) Senior
4 15 (15.79%) DBA
5 13 (13.68%) Java Developer
6 11 (11.58%) Administrator
7 7 (7.37%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior DBA
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.79%) Terraform
2 31 (32.63%) HTML
3 27 (28.42%) CSS
3 27 (28.42%) REST
4 25 (26.32%) Kafka
5 24 (25.26%) React
5 24 (25.26%) RESTful
6 21 (22.11%) Spring
7 20 (21.05%) Spring Boot
8 17 (17.89%) Vue
9 16 (16.84%) HTML5
10 15 (15.79%) AngularJS
10 15 (15.79%) CSS3
10 15 (15.79%) OAuth
11 14 (14.74%) Node.js
12 11 (11.58%) GraphQL
12 11 (11.58%) OAuth2
13 10 (10.53%) Flask
14 9 (9.47%) Keycloak
14 9 (9.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.74%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.53%) Replication
4 7 (7.37%) PKI
5 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (5.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.11%) Equities
8 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.05%) IoT
9 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (30.53%) Linux
2 8 (8.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.37%) Ubuntu
4 6 (6.32%) Windows
5 5 (5.26%) Unix
6 2 (2.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
2 38 (40.00%) DevOps
3 37 (38.95%) Agile
4 35 (36.84%) Microservices
5 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (28.42%) Containerisation
6 27 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 19 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 19 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (17.89%) Scrum
9 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.84%) Test Automation
11 15 (15.79%) High Availability
11 15 (15.79%) Validation
12 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
12 13 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (13.68%) Secrets Management
12 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.32%) SQL
2 33 (34.74%) Python
3 32 (33.68%) Java
4 25 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 16 (16.84%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.53%) PHP
7 9 (9.47%) Bash
8 5 (5.26%) Go
8 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.16%) C#
9 3 (3.16%) C++
10 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.05%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.05%) Bicep
11 1 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) Ruby
11 1 (1.05%) Scala
11 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 30 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.68%) Degree
4 9 (9.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.05%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.11%) QA
2 9 (9.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) Varnish
3 1 (1.05%) NFS
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.58%) Ansible
3 10 (10.53%) Grafana
3 10 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.26%) Puppet
5 4 (4.21%) Kibana
6 3 (3.16%) Istio
6 3 (3.16%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.11%) Argo
8 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.05%) SCOM
8 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 23 (24.21%) Oracle
2 10 (10.53%) Databricks
3 9 (9.47%) Google
4 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.21%) Splunk
6 3 (3.16%) webMethods
7 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) Solace
7 2 (2.11%) Sybase
7 2 (2.11%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.05%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) Kepware
8 1 (1.05%) Netlify
8 1 (1.05%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.05%) SAP
8 1 (1.05%) WSO2