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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 132 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +47
Contract jobs citing MySQL 38 50 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 1.08% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.39% 8.08% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 56
10th Percentile £163 - £219
25th Percentile £204 £203 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £268 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.43% -43.68% -3.06%
75th Percentile £286 £438 £624
90th Percentile £460 £487 £700
England median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £48.55
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.13
75th Percentile - - £75.37
90th Percentile - - £76.53
England median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -18.18% +22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 453 619 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.99% 13.39% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 411 520
10th Percentile £205 £263 £320
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £15.81 £30.00 £31.91
Median hourly rate £28.03 £51.59 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% -5.77% +146.07%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £70.47
90th Percentile £42.90 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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
Surrey +6 23 £208 +1.22% 1
Thames Valley +18 12 £412 +9.73% 11
Berkshire +15 7 £449 +19.73% 2
Buckinghamshire +10 5 £324 -41.05% 3
Hampshire -1 3 £447 -0.67% 8
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) SaaS
2 11 (28.95%) Sauce Labs
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
4 6 (15.79%) Azure
5 5 (13.16%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) GitHub
6 4 (10.53%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.63%) Datadog
9 1 (2.63%) dbt
9 1 (2.63%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (73.68%) Relational Database
2 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.79%) MariaDB
4 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.63%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (2.63%) OLAP
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (2.63%) Redis
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Browser DevTools
2 12 (31.58%) Eclipse
3 11 (28.95%) Android Studio
3 11 (28.95%) Xcode
4 6 (15.79%) Firebug
4 6 (15.79%) Git
5 4 (10.53%) GitLab
6 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.63%) Gradle
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Mocha
6 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (65.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (63.16%) Technical Support
2 18 (47.37%) Support Engineer
2 18 (47.37%) Technical Engineer
2 18 (47.37%) Technical Support Engineer
3 12 (31.58%) UX Engineer
4 11 (28.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 10 (26.32%) Developer
6 6 (15.79%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support
8 2 (5.26%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Web Developer
9 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Developer
9 1 (2.63%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.63%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (55.26%) CSS
2 14 (36.84%) AngularJS
2 14 (36.84%) React
3 13 (34.21%) Ajax
3 13 (34.21%) GraphQL
4 9 (23.68%) HTML
5 8 (21.05%) RESTful
6 6 (15.79%) XML
7 4 (10.53%) Node.js
8 3 (7.89%) Django
8 3 (7.89%) FastAPI
8 3 (7.89%) Flask
9 2 (5.26%) .NET
9 2 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (5.26%) Vue
10 1 (2.63%) ADO
10 1 (2.63%) JDBC
10 1 (2.63%) JSP
10 1 (2.63%) Servlets
10 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Clustering
2 1 (2.63%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
1 18 (47.37%) Unix
1 18 (47.37%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) OO
2 12 (31.58%) Mobile Application Development
2 12 (31.58%) User Experience
3 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) OOP
5 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.53%) Asynchronous Programming
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) Microservices
6 4 (10.53%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.89%) ETL
7 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.89%) Multithreading
8 2 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (78.95%) JavaScript
2 23 (60.53%) Python
3 19 (50.00%) Java
4 18 (47.37%) Perl
5 11 (28.95%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.63%) OCP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) GDPR
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (73.68%) Oracle
2 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
3 12 (31.58%) ServiceNow
3 12 (31.58%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) IBM