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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 282 227
Rank change year-on-year -83 -55 +31
Contract jobs citing MySQL 77 85 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.63% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.98% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 129
10th Percentile £310 £363 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £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 £593 £600 £725
England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile - £74.13 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -33.58%
75th Percentile - £83.75 £47.50
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
England median hourly rate £19.30 £76.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -74.85% +61.58% -13.64%

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 3,614 2,856 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.24% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,446 1,999 2,817
10th Percentile £364 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £547
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.31% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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 19 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 19 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 0 9 £550 +16.09% 1
Central London -21 4 £530 +24.71% 3
East London -1 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 (7.79%) Apache
2 3 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.30%) IIS
4 1 (1.30%) JBoss
4 1 (1.30%) Luigi
4 1 (1.30%) Moodle
4 1 (1.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.95%) AWS
2 21 (27.27%) Azure
3 13 (16.88%) GCP
4 10 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (10.39%) AWS KMS
5 8 (10.39%) GitHub
5 8 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (9.09%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
1 3 (3.90%) SSL
1 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) FTP
2 2 (2.60%) NaaS
2 2 (2.60%) WAN
3 1 (1.30%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.30%) MQTT
3 1 (1.30%) SSH
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (50.65%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (29.87%) MongoDB
3 19 (24.68%) SQL Server
4 15 (19.48%) Relational Database
5 12 (15.58%) Redis
6 11 (14.29%) NoSQL
7 10 (12.99%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (5.19%) Power BI
9 4 (5.19%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.60%) Flink
11 2 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (2.60%) InfluxDB
11 2 (2.60%) KDB
11 2 (2.60%) MariaDB
11 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) Maven
4 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.19%) Gradle
5 4 (5.19%) JIRA
6 2 (2.60%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.60%) JUnit
6 2 (2.60%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.60%) Mocha
6 2 (2.60%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.30%) Capybara
7 1 (1.30%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.30%) RSpec
General
1 20 (25.97%) Public Sector
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Retail
5 5 (6.49%) Advertising
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Billing
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Publishing
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) French Language
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Local Government
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 15 (19.48%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) DBA
4 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Administrator
7 7 (9.09%) Lead
8 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior DBA
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Analyst
10 4 (5.19%) Applications Support
10 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 3 (3.90%) Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.90%) Service Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.90%) Service Manager
11 3 (3.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) Spring
2 18 (23.38%) REST
3 17 (22.08%) HTML
3 17 (22.08%) Kafka
3 17 (22.08%) Spring Boot
4 16 (20.78%) CSS
5 13 (16.88%) RESTful
6 9 (11.69%) Vue
7 8 (10.39%) React
8 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 7 (9.09%) HTML5
8 7 (9.09%) Spring MVC
9 6 (7.79%) CSS3
9 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
9 6 (7.79%) Laravel
9 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (6.49%) Keycloak
10 5 (6.49%) Sass
11 4 (5.19%) Apache Camel
11 4 (5.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.69%) Replication
3 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.49%) PKI
6 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.90%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.60%) Equities
8 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.30%) CMDB
9 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.30%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.06%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Unix
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
3 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) CI/CD
2 23 (29.87%) DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (25.97%) Microservices
4 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (24.68%) Agile
6 17 (22.08%) Containerisation
7 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (18.18%) High Availability
9 13 (16.88%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (16.88%) Validation
10 12 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 11 (14.29%) Observability
11 11 (14.29%) Secrets Management
11 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.99%) Decision-Making
12 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
13 9 (11.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) SQL
2 27 (35.06%) Java
3 18 (23.38%) Python
4 14 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.58%) PHP
6 5 (6.49%) Bash
6 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.19%) C++
8 3 (3.90%) Go
8 3 (3.90%) Perl
9 2 (2.60%) C#
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
9 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.30%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.30%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.30%) Bicep
10 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.30%) Elixir
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) Degree
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) QA
2 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.49%) SLA
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) Varnish
4 1 (1.30%) NFS
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (32.47%) Terraform
2 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.69%) Ansible
4 7 (9.09%) Grafana
4 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.19%) Kibana
5 4 (5.19%) Puppet
6 2 (2.60%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) Google
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) Amdocs
5 2 (2.60%) Ciena
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) Solace
5 2 (2.60%) Sybase
5 2 (2.60%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.30%) Kepware
6 1 (1.30%) Netlify
6 1 (1.30%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.30%) VMware