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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 129 156
Rank change year-on-year -60 +27 0
Contract jobs citing MySQL 33 37 44
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.50% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.36% 7.84% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 31
10th Percentile - £163 -
25th Percentile £204 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £286 £350
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% -18.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £447 £419 £438
90th Percentile £472 £473 £488
England median daily rate £449 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.91% +1.67% -7.69%
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% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £22.95 £78.75
90th Percentile - - £79.50
England median hourly rate £25.09 £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -68.64% +18.52% +28.57%

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 757 472 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.56% 13.87% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 327 403
10th Percentile £310 £263 £313
25th Percentile £402 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.45% -8.19%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £606
90th Percentile £648 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 11 28
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £26.63 £22.18 £28.10
Median hourly rate £36.71 £24.00 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +52.96% -50.19% -12.40%
75th Percentile £53.75 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £66.57
England median hourly rate £41.36 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.61% -13.56% -29.76%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -47 13 £403 -3.65% 7
Surrey -20 11 £208 - 4
Buckinghamshire -30 7 £403 +40.73% 3
Berkshire -35 6 £338 -20.21% 2
West Sussex - 5 £459 - 1
Hampshire -46 4 £363 -12.12% 6
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 4 (12.12%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) IIS
2 3 (9.09%) nginx
2 3 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.03%) Appian
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) SaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.09%) Cloudflare
5 3 (9.09%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) Dialogflow
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) BIG-IP
3 2 (6.06%) SAN
4 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.03%) NAS
4 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) Relational Database
1 13 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (12.12%) Couchbase
3 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
4 3 (9.09%) MariaDB
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.06%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.06%) Vitess
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
6 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) JUnit
4 3 (9.09%) Android Studio
4 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
4 3 (9.09%) Xcode
5 2 (6.06%) Firebug
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Banking
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) DBA
1 8 (24.24%) Support Engineer
1 8 (24.24%) Technical Support
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) Technical Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared DBA
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) UX Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) CSS
2 8 (24.24%) HTML
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
4 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
4 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
4 4 (12.12%) JPA
4 4 (12.12%) jQuery
4 4 (12.12%) LAMP
4 4 (12.12%) React
4 4 (12.12%) Spring MVC
5 3 (9.09%) .NET
5 3 (9.09%) Ajax
5 3 (9.09%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) XML
5 3 (9.09%) YAML
6 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Life Science
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Unix
3 10 (30.30%) Windows
4 3 (9.09%) Android
4 3 (9.09%) CentOS
4 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) OO
2 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
3 7 (21.21%) OOP
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) AI
5 5 (15.15%) Microservices
5 5 (15.15%) MVC
6 4 (12.12%) Analytics
6 4 (12.12%) AOP
6 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) Digital Banking
6 4 (12.12%) High Availability
6 4 (12.12%) Inversion of Control
6 4 (12.12%) Multithreading
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) System Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 16 (48.48%) JavaScript
2 16 (48.48%) SQL
3 13 (39.39%) Java
4 9 (27.27%) Bash
4 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 8 (24.24%) Perl
6 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 6 (18.18%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
8 2 (6.06%) PHP
9 1 (3.03%) C#
9 1 (3.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 7 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Dovecot
2 3 (9.09%) Postfix
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
1 3 (9.09%) HAProxy
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Oracle
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) F5
4 3 (9.09%) Juniper
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Dell
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Talend