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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 246 229
Rank change year-on-year -76 -17 +36
Contract jobs citing MySQL 87 102 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.72% 3.64% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 139
10th Percentile £227 £400 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £653
90th Percentile £669 £690 £725
England median daily rate £425 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
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 3,200 2,805 3,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.00% 22.21% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,005 2,742
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 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% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65.31 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.50 £65.27
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 14 £575 +36.09% 14
West London - 4 £208 - 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 7 (8.05%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.45%) Moodle
5 2 (2.30%) Camunda
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.15%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.15%) nginx
6 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (57.47%) AWS
2 22 (25.29%) Azure
3 18 (20.69%) GCP
4 14 (16.09%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (12.64%) Amazon Kinesis
5 11 (12.64%) GitHub
5 11 (12.64%) Serverless
5 11 (12.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (9.20%) Route 53
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) WAN
4 2 (2.30%) FTP
4 2 (2.30%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.30%) NaaS
4 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.15%) DHCP
5 1 (1.15%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.15%) SSH
5 1 (1.15%) VLAN
5 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (43.68%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (26.44%) Relational Database
3 15 (17.24%) MongoDB
4 14 (16.09%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
6 11 (12.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (12.64%) NoSQL
7 9 (10.34%) DynamoDB
8 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.05%) Power BI
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (6.90%) Hadoop
9 6 (6.90%) Tableau
10 5 (5.75%) Redis
11 4 (4.60%) DocumentDB
11 4 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (4.60%) Metadata
11 4 (4.60%) OLAP
11 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Git
1 18 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.34%) Maven
3 8 (9.20%) GitLab
4 7 (8.05%) JUnit
4 7 (8.05%) Mockito
5 5 (5.75%) Gradle
6 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.45%) ERwin
7 3 (3.45%) JIRA
8 2 (2.30%) Ant
8 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.30%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.15%) Babel
9 1 (1.15%) MLflow
9 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 21 (24.14%) Finance
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Retail
3 6 (6.90%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Billing
5 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.30%) Front Office
5 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.30%) Publishing
5 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) French Language
6 1 (1.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Developer
2 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Architect
4 8 (9.20%) Java Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 6 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DBA
7 4 (4.60%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Java Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Technical Support
8 3 (3.45%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.44%) Spring
2 20 (22.99%) Spring Boot
3 19 (21.84%) React
3 19 (21.84%) RESTful
4 18 (20.69%) Kafka
4 18 (20.69%) REST
5 12 (13.79%) AngularJS
6 11 (12.64%) Hibernate
7 10 (11.49%) CSS
8 9 (10.34%) JPA
8 9 (10.34%) Spring MVC
9 7 (8.05%) Django
9 7 (8.05%) GraphQL
9 7 (8.05%) Vue
10 6 (6.90%) Bootstrap
10 6 (6.90%) gRPC
10 6 (6.90%) HTML
11 5 (5.75%) J2EE
11 5 (5.75%) Node.js
11 5 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.49%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) Legacy Code
4 4 (4.60%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.15%) Clustering
7 1 (1.15%) CMDB
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Unix
3 10 (11.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.48%) Microservices
2 28 (32.18%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.99%) DevOps
4 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.69%) Agile
5 18 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 15 (17.24%) Migration
7 13 (14.94%) Analytics
7 13 (14.94%) Observability
7 13 (14.94%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (14.94%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (12.64%) Refactoring
9 11 (12.64%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.49%) API Development
10 10 (11.49%) Data Governance
10 10 (11.49%) Data Migration
10 10 (11.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.98%) Java
2 38 (43.68%) SQL
3 28 (32.18%) Python
4 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.20%) Go
6 7 (8.05%) Bash
6 7 (8.05%) Perl
6 7 (8.05%) PHP
7 4 (4.60%) Scala
8 2 (2.30%) C++
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.15%) C
9 1 (1.15%) CFML
9 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.15%) Elixir
9 1 (1.15%) Korn
9 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) OCP
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.15%) CCNA
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.15%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMP
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.49%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.60%) NIST
3 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.60%) SLA
4 2 (2.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (31.03%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) NFS
3 1 (1.15%) Ceph
3 1 (1.15%) iptables
3 1 (1.15%) KVM
3 1 (1.15%) Lustre
3 1 (1.15%) Samba
3 1 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 9 (10.34%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.30%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.15%) SELinux
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Oracle
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.90%) Google
4 4 (4.60%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.60%) Informatica
4 4 (4.60%) Splunk
4 4 (4.60%) Talend
5 3 (3.45%) Percona
5 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Adobe
6 2 (2.30%) Amdocs
6 2 (2.30%) Ciena
6 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.15%) Netlify
7 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto