MySQL Contract Job Trends in the South East

MySQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 125 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +52
Contract jobs citing MySQL 40 51 96
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.21% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.06% 8.66% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 72
10th Percentile £163 - £226
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -60.00% +2.50%
75th Percentile £224 £419 £576
90th Percentile £435 £468 £675
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.54
25th Percentile - - £58.57
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 £45.00 £66.13
% change year-on-year +70.56% -31.95% +46.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 496 589 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.50% 14.03% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 382 556
10th Percentile £205 £244 £303
25th Percentile £330 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.68% +9.50%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £684
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 41
10th Percentile - £22.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.08% -1.67% +130.05%
75th Percentile £40.90 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £33.22 £49.75
% change year-on-year +30.96% -33.24% -0.50%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the South East

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South East over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Surrey +1 28 £208 +1.22% 2
Thames Valley +10 9 £412 +8.50% 46
Berkshire +9 7 £434 +15.73% 29
Hampshire -6 3 £447 -0.67% 5
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £363 -34.09% 9
Oxfordshire -9 1 £275 +5.77% 8
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) SaaS
2 16 (40.00%) Sauce Labs
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) Azure
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (85.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.00%) MariaDB
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Browser DevTools
2 17 (42.50%) Eclipse
3 16 (40.00%) Android Studio
3 16 (40.00%) Xcode
4 6 (15.00%) Firebug
5 2 (5.00%) Git
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) GitLab
6 1 (2.50%) Gradle
6 1 (2.50%) Maven
6 1 (2.50%) Mocha
6 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
General
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Automotive
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (72.50%) Technical Support
2 23 (57.50%) Support Engineer
2 23 (57.50%) Technical Engineer
2 23 (57.50%) Technical Support Engineer
3 17 (42.50%) UX Engineer
4 16 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 7 (17.50%) Developer
6 6 (15.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Database Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) IT Support
8 2 (5.00%) PHP Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Developer
9 1 (2.50%) HTML CSS Developer
9 1 (2.50%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) CSS
2 19 (47.50%) AngularJS
2 19 (47.50%) React
3 18 (45.00%) Ajax
3 18 (45.00%) GraphQL
4 8 (20.00%) HTML
5 6 (15.00%) XML
6 5 (12.50%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) Vue
9 2 (5.00%) Laravel
9 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (2.50%) .NET
10 1 (2.50%) DWR
10 1 (2.50%) JDBC
10 1 (2.50%) jQuery
10 1 (2.50%) JSON
10 1 (2.50%) JSP
10 1 (2.50%) Servlets
10 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Clustering
2 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Linux
1 23 (57.50%) Unix
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) OO
2 17 (42.50%) Mobile Application Development
2 17 (42.50%) User Experience
3 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (15.00%) OOP
3 6 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (12.50%) DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (7.50%) Analytics
6 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (7.50%) Data Governance
6 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (7.50%) Data Security
6 3 (7.50%) High Availability
6 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) JavaScript
2 26 (65.00%) Python
3 24 (60.00%) Java
4 23 (57.50%) Perl
5 11 (27.50%) SQL
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.00%) OCP
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (82.50%) Oracle
2 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (42.50%) ServiceNow
3 17 (42.50%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Google