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 citing MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 132 128
Rank change year-on-year -75 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing MySQL 21 40 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 1.09% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.11% 8.06% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 38
10th Percentile £204 £163 -
25th Percentile £298 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £208 £205
Median % change year-on-year +113.86% +1.22% -60.00%
75th Percentile £488 £224 £419
90th Percentile £574 £435 £468
England median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills 676 496 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.26% 13.52% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 365 387
10th Percentile £319 £205 £250
25th Percentile £413 £330 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £625
90th Percentile £652 £638 £660
England median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.56% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 4 20
10th Percentile £14.09 - £22.24
25th Percentile £23.81 £13.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £29.79 £18.75 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +58.85% -61.08% -1.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £40.90 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.09 £70.41 £64.73
England median hourly rate £41.36 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +24.29% -30.00%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey -38 7 £208 - 7
Hampshire -35 5 £543 +21.36% 11
West Sussex - 5 £459 - 4
Thames Valley -49 4 £444 +7.84% 12
Oxfordshire -21 3 £413 +50.00% 8
Buckinghamshire -22 1 £600 +65.52% 1
MySQL
England

MySQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Relational Database38.1%8
2SQL Server33.3%7
3PostgreSQL28.6%6
4Apache Cassandra19.0%4
4Couchbase19.0%4
4Data Lake19.0%4
4Power BI19.0%4
8BigQuery9.5%2
8MongoDB9.5%2
10Amazon RDS4.8%1
10Amazon Redshift4.8%1
10Azure SQL Database4.8%1
10MariaDB4.8%1
10NoSQL4.8%1
10Pentaho4.8%1
10RDBMS4.8%1