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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 127 141
Rank change year-on-year -75 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing MySQL 30 38 50
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.44% 1.07% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.83% 8.02% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 38
10th Percentile - £163 -
25th Percentile £204 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £208 £313
Median % change year-on-year +93.37% -33.60% -37.50%
75th Percentile £452 £414 £438
90th Percentile £473 £473 £505
England median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £21.90 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.63% +36.17%
England median hourly rate £19.30 £76.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -74.85% +33.48% +4.55%

All Database & BI 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 783 474 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.58% 13.37% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 330 406
10th Percentile £313 £221 £290
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -7.45% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £644 £661
England median daily rate £500 £515 £545
% change year-on-year -2.91% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 22
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.18 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -53.48% +3.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £62.83
England median hourly rate £38.38 £34.82 £36.25
% change year-on-year +10.23% -3.96% -34.09%

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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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
Thames Valley -49 12 £403 -3.65% 18
Surrey -27 10 £208 - 5
Buckinghamshire -32 8 £404 +24.52% 7
West Sussex - 5 £459 -
Hampshire -26 3 £450 +9.09% 7
Berkshire -35 3 £338 -23.99% 4
Oxfordshire -27 1 £330 - 7
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 3 (10.00%) Apache
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
1 3 (10.00%) nginx
1 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) GCP
2 5 (16.67%) SaaS
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 3 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (3.33%) Dialogflow
6 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) BIG-IP
3 2 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (36.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (13.33%) Couchbase
3 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) Vitess
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.33%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) JUnit
4 3 (10.00%) Android Studio
4 3 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (10.00%) Xcode
5 2 (6.67%) Firebug
5 2 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) DBA
1 8 (26.67%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Support
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) UX Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) CSS
2 7 (23.33%) HTML
3 5 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 5 (16.67%) Spring
3 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
4 4 (13.33%) JPA
4 4 (13.33%) jQuery
4 4 (13.33%) React
4 4 (13.33%) Spring MVC
4 4 (13.33%) XML
5 3 (10.00%) .NET
5 3 (10.00%) Ajax
5 3 (10.00%) LAMP
5 3 (10.00%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (10.00%) OAuth
5 3 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Life Science
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Unix
3 6 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (10.00%) Android
4 3 (10.00%) CentOS
4 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (23.33%) OO
3 6 (20.00%) AI
3 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Microservices
4 5 (16.67%) MVC
4 5 (16.67%) OOP
4 5 (16.67%) System Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) AOP
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (13.33%) Digital Banking
5 4 (13.33%) High Availability
5 4 (13.33%) Inversion of Control
5 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (13.33%) Web Development
6 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (36.67%) Java
5 9 (30.00%) Bash
5 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
7 5 (16.67%) Perl
8 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (6.67%) C#
10 1 (3.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) Degree
4 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Dovecot
2 3 (10.00%) Postfix
3 1 (3.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (46.67%) Oracle
3 4 (13.33%) Google
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) F5
4 3 (10.00%) Juniper
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Talend