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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 120 160
Rank change year-on-year -43 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing MySQL 42 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.73% 1.10% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.13% 8.07% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 26
10th Percentile £204 £243 -
25th Percentile £204 £312 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £389 £425
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% -8.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £408 £465 £487
90th Percentile £527 £552 £538
England median daily rate £425 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -8.41% -7.20% -3.85%
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 £69.44 £28.45 £68.75
% change year-on-year +144.08% -58.62% +57.81%

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 685 409 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.94% 13.67% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 285 385
10th Percentile £297 £325 £313
25th Percentile £393 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -6.34%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £649 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 31
10th Percentile £13.48 £23.24 £18.20
25th Percentile £25.95 £24.40 £21.55
Median hourly rate £36.86 £32.05 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +14.99% -45.59% +1.48%
75th Percentile £53.46 £49.38 £71.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -32.54%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -33 28 £395 -14.69% 18
Berkshire -25 18 £208 -57.74% 2
Surrey -6 10 £207 -40.79% 10
Buckinghamshire -22 10 £411 +43.74% 10
Hampshire -38 2 £398 +2.25% 2
East Sussex - 1 £150 - 1
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 (4.76%) Appian
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 8 (19.05%) SaaS
4 7 (16.67%) GitHub
5 6 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
6 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Wireless
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (59.52%) Relational Database
2 15 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Browser DevTools
2 6 (14.29%) Android Studio
2 6 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 6 (14.29%) Xcode
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Storybook
4 2 (4.76%) Firebug
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Electronics
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Technical Support
2 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Support Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Technical Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Technical Support Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) DBA
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 6 (14.29%) UX Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
8 1 (2.38%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.38%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server DBA
8 1 (2.38%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) CSS
1 13 (30.95%) React
2 11 (26.19%) GraphQL
3 7 (16.67%) HTML
4 6 (14.29%) Ajax
4 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 5 (11.90%) OAuth
6 4 (9.52%) REST
6 4 (9.52%) RESTful
6 4 (9.52%) Spring
6 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js
7 3 (7.14%) SOAP
7 3 (7.14%) Vitest
8 2 (4.76%) .NET
8 2 (4.76%) J2EE
8 2 (4.76%) XML
9 1 (2.38%) HTML5
9 1 (2.38%) LAMP
9 1 (2.38%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.38%) Life Science
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (54.76%) Linux
2 19 (45.24%) Windows
3 17 (40.48%) Unix
4 6 (14.29%) Android
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) OO
2 12 (28.57%) OOP
3 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
3 11 (26.19%) Process Improvement
4 9 (21.43%) User Experience
5 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Agile
7 5 (11.90%) Customer Service
7 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
8 4 (9.52%) High Availability
8 4 (9.52%) Microservices
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.14%) AI
9 3 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (7.14%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (7.14%) Performance Testing
9 3 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 25 (59.52%) Java
2 25 (59.52%) JavaScript
3 21 (50.00%) SQL
4 18 (42.86%) Perl
5 6 (14.29%) Bash
5 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 6 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.14%) PHP
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) Korn
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Degree
2 11 (26.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Grafana
1 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Oracle
2 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat