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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 295 233
Rank change year-on-year -66 -62 +19
Contract jobs citing MySQL 79 75 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.56% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.65% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 122
10th Percentile £310 £361 £266
25th Percentile £425 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% +1.54%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £619
90th Percentile £604 £600 £723
England median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -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 £46.25
% change year-on-year -74.85% +65.95% -15.14%

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 3,632 2,834 3,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.06% 21.04% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,461 1,981 2,762
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 37 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.80 £25.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £54.69 £64.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.50
England median hourly rate £38.25 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.05% +12.67% -38.31%

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 31 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 31 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 - 9 £550 - 1
Central London -25 3 £530 +24.71% 4
East London +3 1 £410 -21.15% 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 (6.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.27%) IIS
3 1 (1.27%) JBoss
3 1 (1.27%) Luigi
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) AWS
2 26 (32.91%) Azure
3 12 (15.19%) GCP
4 11 (13.92%) Serverless
5 10 (12.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (12.66%) GitHub
6 9 (11.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (10.13%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.06%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.53%) npm
11 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.80%) SSL
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) SSH
4 1 (1.27%) 4G
4 1 (1.27%) 5G
4 1 (1.27%) FTP
4 1 (1.27%) HTTP
4 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.27%) MQTT
4 1 (1.27%) NaaS
4 1 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (58.23%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (34.18%) MongoDB
3 23 (29.11%) SQL Server
4 17 (21.52%) Relational Database
5 14 (17.72%) NoSQL
5 14 (17.72%) Redis
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (11.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (7.59%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (5.06%) Power BI
9 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (2.53%) KDB
11 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
11 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.27%) Metadata
12 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (26.58%) Git
2 12 (15.19%) GitLab
3 10 (12.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.59%) Maven
5 5 (6.33%) Gradle
6 3 (3.80%) JIRA
6 3 (3.80%) JUnit
7 2 (2.53%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.53%) Mocha
8 1 (1.27%) Capybara
8 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.27%) RSpec
8 1 (1.27%) Selenium
8 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (25.32%) Public Sector
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Finance
3 5 (6.33%) Advertising
4 4 (5.06%) Marketing
4 4 (5.06%) Retail
5 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.53%) Front Office
6 2 (2.53%) Legal
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Publishing
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Billing
7 1 (1.27%) French Language
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Local Government
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) DBA
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (13.92%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Administrator
6 7 (8.86%) Lead
7 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.33%) Senior DBA
9 4 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Azure Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 3 (3.80%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 24 (30.38%) HTML
3 21 (26.58%) CSS
3 21 (26.58%) REST
4 20 (25.32%) Spring
5 18 (22.78%) Spring Boot
6 17 (21.52%) Kafka
7 16 (20.25%) RESTful
8 13 (16.46%) React
8 13 (16.46%) Vue
9 11 (13.92%) HTML5
10 10 (12.66%) AngularJS
10 10 (12.66%) CSS3
11 9 (11.39%) GraphQL
11 9 (11.39%) Node.js
12 8 (10.13%) OAuth
13 6 (7.59%) Keycloak
13 6 (7.59%) Laravel
14 5 (6.33%) OAuth2
14 5 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.66%) Replication
3 6 (7.59%) PKI
3 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.53%) Equities
7 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.53%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.27%) CMDB
8 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.27%) IoT
8 1 (1.27%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.91%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.86%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.59%) Windows
5 5 (6.33%) Unix
6 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) CI/CD
2 29 (36.71%) DevOps
3 25 (31.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (30.38%) Microservices
5 23 (29.11%) Agile
6 22 (27.85%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
8 19 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (18.99%) High Availability
9 15 (18.99%) Validation
10 13 (16.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (15.19%) Secrets Management
12 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.92%) Observability
12 11 (13.92%) Scrum
12 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
13 10 (12.66%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) SQL
2 29 (36.71%) Java
3 23 (29.11%) Python
4 17 (21.52%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.66%) PHP
6 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.86%) Bash
8 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.80%) C++
9 3 (3.80%) Go
10 2 (2.53%) C#
10 2 (2.53%) Perl
10 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.27%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.27%) Bicep
11 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.27%) Ruby
11 1 (1.27%) Scala
11 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) QA
2 12 (15.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.80%) SLA
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (30.38%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Varnish
3 1 (1.27%) NFS
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (29.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.66%) Ansible
3 8 (10.13%) Grafana
3 8 (10.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.06%) Kibana
4 4 (5.06%) Puppet
5 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.27%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.27%) Argo
6 1 (1.27%) SCOM
6 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Oracle
2 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.59%) Databricks
3 6 (7.59%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Solace
5 2 (2.53%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.27%) Adobe
6 1 (1.27%) Amdocs
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) Ciena
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Pega
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) RedGate
6 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.27%) VMware