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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 251 239
Rank change year-on-year -22 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing MySQL 87 132 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.13% 3.72% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 89 129
10th Percentile £325 £250 £330
25th Percentile £401 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -14.16%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £613
90th Percentile £600 £698 £728
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 £42.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +70.56% -30.77% +44.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,781 3,546 4,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.92% 22.21% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,928 2,524 2,879
10th Percentile £375 £363 £386
25th Percentile £431 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £802 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £19.05
25th Percentile £31.29 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.75 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.06% -9.55%
75th Percentile £68.38 £62.21 £64.88
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £51.78
% change year-on-year +21.85% -33.44% +3.56%

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 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 -1 10 £425 -22.80% 14
West London 0 6 £208 -43.92% 8
East London - 1 £520 - 10
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 (5.75%) Apache
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.15%) Luigi
4 1 (1.15%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) AWS
2 23 (26.44%) Azure
3 13 (14.94%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 8 (9.20%) GitHub
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.45%) Datadog
7 3 (3.45%) Serverless
7 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) LAN
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) Skype
3 1 (1.15%) SSH
3 1 (1.15%) VoIP
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.18%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (20.69%) Relational Database
3 17 (19.54%) SQL Server
4 15 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
6 12 (13.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (12.64%) Hadoop
8 6 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.75%) MariaDB
9 5 (5.75%) Power BI
10 4 (4.60%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.60%) Redis
11 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (3.45%) Pentaho
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (2.30%) Big Data
12 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (2.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Git
2 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.30%) JMeter
4 2 (2.30%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.15%) ERwin
5 1 (1.15%) Gatling
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) JUnit
5 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.15%) Mocha
5 1 (1.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 24 (27.59%) Finance
2 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.64%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.15%) Billing
6 1 (1.15%) Front Office
6 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (35.63%) Developer
2 15 (17.24%) Java Engineer
3 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
3 11 (12.64%) Java Software Engineer
3 11 (12.64%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.60%) PHP Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Ruby Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Spring
2 14 (16.09%) HTML
2 14 (16.09%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.94%) React
3 13 (14.94%) REST
3 13 (14.94%) RESTful
4 12 (13.79%) CSS
5 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
7 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.75%) Kafka
8 5 (5.75%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (5.75%) Web Services
9 4 (4.60%) Django
9 4 (4.60%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.60%) HTML5
9 4 (4.60%) JSON
9 4 (4.60%) LAMP
9 4 (4.60%) Laravel
10 3 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Cloud Native
1 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.05%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 10 (11.49%) Windows
3 8 (9.20%) Unix
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) AIX
5 1 (1.15%) CentOS
5 1 (1.15%) Debian
5 1 (1.15%) HPUX
5 1 (1.15%) Solaris
5 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.89%) Microservices
2 24 (27.59%) Agile
3 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
5 18 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.24%) Analytics
7 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 15 (17.24%) DevOps
8 12 (13.79%) Fintech
8 12 (13.79%) OO
9 11 (12.64%) Clean Code
9 11 (12.64%) ETL
10 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.34%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.34%) OOP
12 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
12 8 (9.20%) Migration
12 8 (9.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) Java
2 28 (32.18%) JavaScript
2 28 (32.18%) SQL
3 26 (29.89%) Python
4 10 (11.49%) PHP
5 8 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.05%) Bash
6 7 (8.05%) Perl
7 5 (5.75%) Ruby
8 4 (4.60%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.15%) Bicep
10 1 (1.15%) C#
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.15%) Rust
10 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) CCNP
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.15%) OCP
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) QA
2 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) KVM
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Ansible
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Puppet
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Kibana
4 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.15%) Icinga
5 1 (1.15%) Nagios
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Oracle
2 7 (8.05%) Informatica
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.90%) Talend
4 5 (5.75%) Google
5 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.45%) Zend
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco
6 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.30%) New Relic
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) VMware
7 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.15%) Zoomdata