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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 251 224
Rank change year-on-year -71 -27 +40
Contract jobs citing MySQL 86 101 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.80% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.64% 3.59% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 141
10th Percentile £260 £400 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £650
90th Percentile £673 £690 £725
England median daily rate £425 £462 £500
% change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
% change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.58%

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 3,253 2,815 3,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.02% 22.20% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 2,001 2,749
10th Percentile £363 £375 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +0.90% -3.04%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £695
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £18.53 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +8.23%
75th Percentile £61.13 £60.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £78.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -27.27%

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 6 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

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 6 April 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
Central London -17 15 £575 +36.09% 14
West London - 3 £208 - 1
East London - 1 £410 -
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 7 (8.14%) Apache
2 6 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.49%) Moodle
5 2 (2.33%) Camunda
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.16%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.16%) nginx
6 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Magento
2 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (58.14%) AWS
2 20 (23.26%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) GCP
4 14 (16.28%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.79%) GitHub
5 11 (12.79%) Serverless
5 11 (12.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (11.63%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.30%) Route 53
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (8.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
10 6 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
2 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 3 (3.49%) WAN
4 2 (2.33%) FTP
4 2 (2.33%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.33%) NaaS
4 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.16%) LAN
5 1 (1.16%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.16%) SSH
5 1 (1.16%) VLAN
5 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (25.58%) Relational Database
3 16 (18.60%) MongoDB
4 13 (15.12%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
6 10 (11.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
7 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
8 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.14%) Power BI
9 6 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (6.98%) Redis
9 6 (6.98%) Tableau
10 5 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (5.81%) Hadoop
11 4 (4.65%) DocumentDB
11 4 (4.65%) Metadata
11 4 (4.65%) OLAP
12 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.49%) Flink
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) Git
2 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.47%) GitLab
3 9 (10.47%) Maven
4 7 (8.14%) JUnit
4 7 (8.14%) Mockito
5 5 (5.81%) Gradle
6 4 (4.65%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.49%) ERwin
7 3 (3.49%) JIRA
8 2 (2.33%) Ant
8 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.16%) Babel
9 1 (1.16%) MLflow
9 1 (1.16%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 21 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Finance
3 8 (9.30%) Retail
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Billing
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
6 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.33%) Publishing
6 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.16%) French Language
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Developer
2 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) Architect
4 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.65%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) DBA
8 4 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Service Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) Spring
2 21 (24.42%) Spring Boot
3 20 (23.26%) Kafka
3 20 (23.26%) React
4 19 (22.09%) REST
4 19 (22.09%) RESTful
5 12 (13.95%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.95%) CSS
6 11 (12.79%) Hibernate
7 9 (10.47%) HTML
7 9 (10.47%) JPA
7 9 (10.47%) Spring MVC
8 8 (9.30%) GraphQL
9 7 (8.14%) Django
9 7 (8.14%) Vue
10 6 (6.98%) Bootstrap
10 6 (6.98%) gRPC
11 5 (5.81%) jQuery
11 5 (5.81%) Node.js
11 5 (5.81%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.65%) Legacy Code
6 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.49%) Replication
6 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.16%) Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) CMDB
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.58%) Linux
2 10 (11.63%) Unix
3 9 (10.47%) Windows
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.05%) Microservices
2 30 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 21 (24.42%) DevOps
4 20 (23.26%) Containerisation
5 18 (20.93%) Agile
5 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.44%) Observability
7 14 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (15.12%) Migration
9 12 (13.95%) Event-Driven
9 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
10 11 (12.79%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (12.79%) Refactoring
10 11 (12.79%) Visualisation
11 10 (11.63%) Analytics
11 10 (11.63%) Data Governance
11 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
11 10 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (11.63%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 40 (46.51%) Java
2 39 (45.35%) SQL
3 27 (31.40%) Python
4 17 (19.77%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.30%) Go
5 8 (9.30%) PHP
6 7 (8.14%) Bash
7 6 (6.98%) Perl
8 4 (4.65%) Scala
9 2 (2.33%) C++
9 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) CFML
10 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.16%) Elixir
10 1 (1.16%) Korn
10 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) Degree
4 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) OCP
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.16%) CCNA
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.16%) PMP
7 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.79%) QA
3 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.65%) NIST
3 4 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.65%) SLA
4 2 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (32.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) NFS
2 2 (2.33%) Varnish
3 1 (1.16%) Ceph
3 1 (1.16%) iptables
3 1 (1.16%) KVM
3 1 (1.16%) Lustre
3 1 (1.16%) Samba
3 1 (1.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.44%) Terraform
3 9 (10.47%) Ansible
4 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.49%) Grafana
5 3 (3.49%) Kibana
6 2 (2.33%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.16%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.16%) Puppet
7 1 (1.16%) SELinux
7 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Oracle
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) Google
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.65%) Splunk
5 3 (3.49%) Adobe
5 3 (3.49%) Percona
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Amdocs
6 2 (2.33%) Ciena
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
6 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Talend
7 1 (1.16%) BT
7 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.16%) Netlify
7 1 (1.16%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto