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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 115 166
Rank change year-on-year -52 +51 -10
Contract jobs citing MySQL 39 38 44
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.28% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.07% 9.27% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 26
10th Percentile £204 £200 £305
25th Percentile £204 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £384 £413
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% -7.03% -15.82%
75th Percentile £407 £442 £522
90th Percentile £529 £496 £553
England median daily rate £425 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -8.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - £20.85 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £21.90 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -70.80% +108.33%
75th Percentile - £22.95 £78.75
90th Percentile - - £79.50
England median hourly rate £56.47 £28.45 £68.75
% change year-on-year +98.49% -58.62% +57.58%

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 642 410 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.72% 13.76% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 282 404
10th Percentile £297 £321 £305
25th Percentile £400 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% -2.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £624
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 34
10th Percentile £12.66 £23.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £26.26 £25.30 £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.86 £42.50 £58.95
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -27.91% +7.19%
75th Percentile £40.00 £59.24 £78.58
90th Percentile £82.05 £65.62 £83.12
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -31.91%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -24 25 £306 -23.05% 13
Berkshire -29 17 £208 -47.86% 3
Surrey -7 10 £208 -25.23% 2
Buckinghamshire -14 7 £450 - 8
Hampshire -45 2 £398 -1.24% 4
Oxfordshire -15 1 £275 - 2
East Sussex - 1 £150 -
Sussex - 1 £400 -
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 2 (5.13%) Appian
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 9 (23.08%) SaaS
3 8 (20.51%) Sauce Labs
4 7 (17.95%) Azure
4 7 (17.95%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (64.10%) Relational Database
2 11 (28.21%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Browser DevTools
2 8 (20.51%) Android Studio
2 8 (20.51%) Eclipse
2 8 (20.51%) Xcode
3 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Storybook
4 1 (2.56%) Firebug
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.69%) Electronics
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Technical Support
2 11 (28.21%) Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Support Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Technical Support Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) UX Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (10.26%) DBA
9 3 (7.69%) AWS Developer
9 3 (7.69%) SQL DBA
10 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Lead
10 2 (5.13%) PHP Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Senior
11 1 (2.56%) Applications Support
11 1 (2.56%) Applications Support Engineer
11 1 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
11 1 (2.56%) Senior DBA
11 1 (2.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) React
2 14 (35.90%) CSS
3 13 (33.33%) GraphQL
4 8 (20.51%) Ajax
4 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.38%) HTML
6 5 (12.82%) OAuth
7 4 (10.26%) REST
7 4 (10.26%) RESTful
7 4 (10.26%) Spring
7 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.69%) Node.js
8 3 (7.69%) SOAP
8 3 (7.69%) Vitest
9 2 (5.13%) .NET
9 2 (5.13%) J2EE
9 2 (5.13%) Laravel
10 1 (2.56%) CSS3
10 1 (2.56%) HTML5
10 1 (2.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.69%) Replication
3 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (58.97%) Linux
2 21 (53.85%) Windows
3 18 (46.15%) Unix
4 8 (20.51%) Android
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) OO
2 11 (28.21%) User Experience
3 10 (25.64%) OOP
3 10 (25.64%) Process Improvement
4 9 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 8 (20.51%) Mobile Application Development
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.82%) Agile
7 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.26%) Customer Service
8 4 (10.26%) Microservices
8 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.69%) API Development
9 3 (7.69%) API Integration
9 3 (7.69%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 3 (7.69%) DevOps
9 3 (7.69%) Front End Development
9 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (7.69%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Java
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 25 (64.10%) JavaScript
3 19 (48.72%) Perl
4 17 (43.59%) SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) PHP
5 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Oracle
2 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (20.51%) Splunk
4 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Dell
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat