MySQL Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

MySQL
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing MySQL 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.66% 0.68% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 4.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 £255 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £260 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £288 £265 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £500
% change year-on-year +1.22% -59.00% +1.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 19 22 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.58% 14.86% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 26
10th Percentile £222 £351 £150
25th Percentile £232 £406 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -8.63% +6.49%
75th Percentile £436 £534 £575
90th Percentile £483 £571 £663
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.30
Median hourly rate - - £32.31
Median % change year-on-year - - +104.49%
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £48.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.98% -2.67% +139.71%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Oxford -5 1 £275 +5.77% 2
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP