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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 288 261
Rank change year-on-year -68 -27 -29
Contract jobs citing MySQL 97 85 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.64% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.71% 3.03% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 88
10th Percentile £312 £327 £250
25th Percentile £425 £404 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.93% -2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £588
90th Percentile £729 £600 £703
England median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile - £71.19 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.51 £76.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -82.40% +70.56% -30.77%

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 3,581 2,809 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.58% 21.13% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 1,947 2,547
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £806 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 38 22
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £24.79 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £68.63 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 - 10 £550 - 1
Central London -31 2 £530 +24.71% 25
East London +4 1 £615 +18.27% 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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Traefik
4 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.03%) Luigi
5 1 (1.03%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.92%) AWS
2 48 (49.48%) Azure
3 23 (23.71%) GCP
4 16 (16.49%) GitHub
5 12 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (12.37%) Serverless
5 12 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (11.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.28%) AWS KMS
8 7 (7.22%) Azure Databricks
8 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) SSL
2 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.09%) SSH
4 2 (2.06%) 4G
4 2 (2.06%) 5G
4 2 (2.06%) HTTP
5 1 (1.03%) Firewall
5 1 (1.03%) MQTT
5 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (71.13%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (39.18%) MongoDB
3 34 (35.05%) SQL Server
4 26 (26.80%) Relational Database
5 19 (19.59%) NoSQL
6 16 (16.49%) Redis
7 14 (14.43%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (8.25%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
11 3 (3.09%) Power BI
12 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
12 2 (2.06%) KDB
12 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
13 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (34.02%) Git
2 18 (18.56%) Jenkins
3 17 (17.53%) GitLab
4 9 (9.28%) Gradle
4 9 (9.28%) Maven
5 7 (7.22%) JIRA
5 7 (7.22%) JUnit
6 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.15%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.12%) Mockito
8 2 (2.06%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (2.06%) Mocha
8 2 (2.06%) Selenium
8 2 (2.06%) Subversion
8 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.53%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Banking
5 6 (6.19%) Retail
6 4 (4.12%) Advertising
6 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.06%) Front Office
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
8 2 (2.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.03%) Local Government
9 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (43.30%) Developer
2 20 (20.62%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Senior
4 17 (17.53%) DBA
5 13 (13.40%) Administrator
5 13 (13.40%) Java Developer
6 11 (11.34%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Senior DBA
8 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) MySQL DBA
10 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Lead
10 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.08%) Terraform
2 31 (31.96%) RESTful
3 30 (30.93%) HTML
4 28 (28.87%) CSS
5 27 (27.84%) Kafka
5 27 (27.84%) React
5 27 (27.84%) REST
6 19 (19.59%) Vue
7 18 (18.56%) AngularJS
8 17 (17.53%) HTML5
8 17 (17.53%) Spring
8 17 (17.53%) Spring Boot
9 16 (16.49%) CSS3
10 15 (15.46%) Node.js
10 15 (15.46%) OAuth
11 13 (13.40%) Flask
12 12 (12.37%) Django
12 12 (12.37%) Keycloak
13 11 (11.34%) OAuth2
13 11 (11.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.53%) Product Ownership
3 11 (11.34%) Replication
4 8 (8.25%) PKI
5 7 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (5.15%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (2.06%) Equities
9 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (1.03%) IoT
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.90%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.22%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.22%) Unix
4 5 (5.15%) Windows
5 4 (4.12%) macOS
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) CI/CD
2 43 (44.33%) Agile
3 38 (39.18%) DevOps
4 37 (38.14%) Microservices
5 36 (37.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (30.93%) Containerisation
7 27 (27.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (21.65%) Event-Driven
8 21 (21.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 20 (20.62%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (20.62%) Test Automation
10 17 (17.53%) Scrum
11 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (16.49%) High Availability
11 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.49%) Validation
12 15 (15.46%) Computer Science
12 15 (15.46%) Secrets Management
13 14 (14.43%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) SQL
2 39 (40.21%) Python
3 29 (29.90%) Java
4 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
5 20 (20.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.40%) Bash
7 8 (8.25%) PHP
8 7 (7.22%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.15%) Go
10 3 (3.09%) C#
10 3 (3.09%) C++
10 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.03%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.03%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.03%) Bicep
12 1 (1.03%) Perl
12 1 (1.03%) Ruby
12 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (32.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (15.46%) Degree
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.71%) QA
2 10 (10.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (44.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.03%) Varnish
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (39.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.37%) Ansible
2 12 (12.37%) Grafana
3 11 (11.34%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.19%) Puppet
5 3 (3.09%) Istio
5 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.06%) Argo
6 2 (2.06%) Kibana
7 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.03%) SCOM
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 21 (21.65%) Oracle
2 11 (11.34%) Google
2 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.31%) Databricks
4 4 (4.12%) Splunk
4 4 (4.12%) webMethods
5 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.06%) Solace
5 2 (2.06%) Sybase
5 2 (2.06%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Informatica
6 1 (1.03%) Kepware
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Progress
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) VMware
6 1 (1.03%) WSO2