MySQL Contracts in London

MySQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 226 268
Rank change year-on-year -40 +42 -48
Contract jobs citing MySQL 94 185 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 1.05% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.54% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 145 164
10th Percentile £365 £305 £354
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £734
England median daily rate £465 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +0.54% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £54.43
25th Percentile - £42.50 £59.19
Median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -33.58% +23.18%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £75.69
90th Percentile - - £80.08
England median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% +16.67%

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 2,855 4,078 5,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.50% 23.14% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,996 3,040 3,732
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 33 46
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £27.50 £35.44
Median hourly rate £42.00 £47.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -22.76% +11.82%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £82.88
90th Percentile £79.25 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £39.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year -13.38% -32.38% +53.56%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in London.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in London

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 -2 16 £423 -31.72% 68
South London +1 3 £474 -0.26% 2
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.51%) Apache
2 5 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.26%) Camunda
4 3 (3.19%) Skype for Business
5 2 (2.13%) Alfresco
5 2 (2.13%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.13%) Confluence
5 2 (2.13%) IIS
6 1 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.06%) Drupal
6 1 (1.06%) JBoss
6 1 (1.06%) SAS
6 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) FileZilla
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.06%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.13%) AWS
2 16 (17.02%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
3 10 (10.64%) GCP
4 7 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.26%) GitHub
6 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.26%) Serverless
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.13%) IaaS
8 2 (2.13%) PaaS
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) HTTP
2 3 (3.19%) Skype
2 3 (3.19%) VoIP
3 2 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.13%) DHCP
3 2 (2.13%) DNS
4 1 (1.06%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) FTP
4 1 (1.06%) LAN
4 1 (1.06%) Multicast
4 1 (1.06%) Network Security
4 1 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.06%) WAN
4 1 (1.06%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (42.55%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (30.85%) MongoDB
3 17 (18.09%) Relational Database
4 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.51%) Redis
6 5 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.32%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (4.26%) Power BI
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.13%) Big Data
9 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
9 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Git
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
2 10 (10.64%) JUnit
3 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.51%) JIRA
4 6 (6.38%) Maven
5 5 (5.32%) Gradle
6 4 (4.26%) Mockito
7 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.19%) TestNG
8 2 (2.13%) JMeter
8 2 (2.13%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.06%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.06%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Finance
2 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.45%) Banking
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Billing
6 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.06%) Games
6 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.06%) Legal
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Developer
2 15 (15.96%) Java Developer
3 14 (14.89%) Senior
4 10 (10.64%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.57%) Architect
6 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Lead
8 6 (6.38%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) .NET Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Angular Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Digital Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.19%) React Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.53%) Spring
2 23 (24.47%) Spring Boot
3 19 (20.21%) AngularJS
4 18 (19.15%) React
5 17 (18.09%) HTML
6 16 (17.02%) RESTful
7 15 (15.96%) Kafka
8 13 (13.83%) REST
9 9 (9.57%) CSS
9 9 (9.57%) Hibernate
10 7 (7.45%) .NET
10 7 (7.45%) Node.js
11 6 (6.38%) Laravel
11 6 (6.38%) XML
12 5 (5.32%) JPA
12 5 (5.32%) Vue
12 5 (5.32%) Web Services
13 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
13 4 (4.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) PKI
2 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.47%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Windows
3 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.32%) Unix
5 3 (3.19%) CentOS
5 3 (3.19%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) AIX
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Debian
6 1 (1.06%) HPUX
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Solaris
6 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.04%) Microservices
2 30 (31.91%) Agile
3 19 (20.21%) High Availability
4 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
4 17 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (15.96%) DevOps
5 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
6 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
7 11 (11.70%) TDD
7 11 (11.70%) Unit Testing
8 9 (9.57%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.57%) ITIL
9 8 (8.51%) Code Quality
9 8 (8.51%) Design Patterns
9 8 (8.51%) Front End Development
9 8 (8.51%) SOLID
10 7 (7.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.23%) Java
2 28 (29.79%) SQL
3 24 (25.53%) Python
4 15 (15.96%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.57%) PHP
7 6 (6.38%) Bash
8 5 (5.32%) Ruby
9 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.13%) Scala
11 1 (1.06%) Bicep
11 1 (1.06%) C#
11 1 (1.06%) Dart
11 1 (1.06%) Go
11 1 (1.06%) Groovy
11 1 (1.06%) Perl
11 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Degree
4 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.19%) PhD
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.06%) CCNP
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) OCP
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.06%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) SLA
3 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (26.60%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.19%) KVM
2 3 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.06%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 15 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Terraform
3 11 (11.70%) Ansible
4 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.13%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.13%) Istio
7 2 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (2.13%) logstash
7 2 (2.13%) Nagios
7 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.13%) QRadar
7 2 (2.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (1.06%) Icinga
8 1 (1.06%) Packer
8 1 (1.06%) Salt
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Oracle
2 8 (8.51%) Google
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Cisco
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.19%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Informatica
6 2 (2.13%) Talend
7 1 (1.06%) Actifio
7 1 (1.06%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.06%) Delphix
7 1 (1.06%) HP
7 1 (1.06%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.06%) New Relic
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Sun
7 1 (1.06%) Tenable