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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 123 124
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +62
Contract jobs citing MySQL 50 52 89
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.18% 1.31% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.58% 8.98% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 65
10th Percentile £163 £200 £219
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -57.73% -5.37%
75th Percentile £224 £419 £575
90th Percentile £461 £468 £675
England median daily rate £424 £447 £500
% change year-on-year -5.04% -10.70% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.54
25th Percentile - - £58.57
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £36.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +102.76% -44.23% +49.20%

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 522 579 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.31% 14.62% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 381 525
10th Percentile £205 £258 £305
25th Percentile £350 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £630
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 37
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.09 £21.00
25th Percentile - £41.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%
75th Percentile £52.58 £63.53 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.09 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +3 32 £208 +1.22% 8
Thames Valley +4 17 £418 +8.93% 49
Berkshire +5 12 £413 +8.77% 18
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £563 +2.27% 16
Oxfordshire -12 1 £275 +5.77% 15
Hampshire -14 1 £447 -0.67% 17
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 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) SaaS
2 19 (38.00%) Sauce Labs
3 9 (18.00%) AWS
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) Azure
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.00%) Serverless
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.00%) Datadog
9 1 (2.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (84.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.00%) MariaDB
4 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (54.00%) Browser DevTools
2 20 (40.00%) Eclipse
3 19 (38.00%) Android Studio
3 19 (38.00%) Xcode
4 7 (14.00%) Firebug
5 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) JUnit
5 3 (6.00%) Storybook
6 2 (4.00%) Git
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) GitLab
7 1 (2.00%) Gradle
7 1 (2.00%) Maven
7 1 (2.00%) Mocha
7 1 (2.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.00%) Electronics
4 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.00%) Marketing
4 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 36 (72.00%) Technical Support
2 27 (54.00%) Support Engineer
2 27 (54.00%) Technical Engineer
2 27 (54.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 20 (40.00%) UX Engineer
4 18 (36.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 11 (22.00%) Developer
6 7 (14.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Database Specialist
9 2 (4.00%) IT Support
9 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.00%) PHP Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
10 1 (2.00%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.00%) HTML Developer
10 1 (2.00%) JSP Developer
10 1 (2.00%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (64.00%) CSS
2 26 (52.00%) React
3 24 (48.00%) GraphQL
4 21 (42.00%) Ajax
5 20 (40.00%) AngularJS
6 12 (24.00%) HTML
7 7 (14.00%) XML
8 6 (12.00%) RESTful
9 4 (8.00%) Node.js
9 4 (8.00%) OAuth
10 3 (6.00%) REST
10 3 (6.00%) SOAP
10 3 (6.00%) Spring
10 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 3 (6.00%) Vitest
11 1 (2.00%) Fastify
11 1 (2.00%) Jest
11 1 (2.00%) OpenAPI
11 1 (2.00%) Swagger
11 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.00%) Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
1 29 (58.00%) Unix
1 29 (58.00%) Windows
2 19 (38.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) OO
2 23 (46.00%) User Experience
3 20 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 9 (18.00%) OOP
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) Customer Service
5 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (14.00%) Process Improvement
7 6 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (10.00%) DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) Agile
9 4 (8.00%) API Integration
9 4 (8.00%) Microservices
10 3 (6.00%) AI
10 3 (6.00%) High Availability
10 3 (6.00%) Programme Management
10 3 (6.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 36 (72.00%) Java
3 35 (70.00%) Python
4 29 (58.00%) Perl
5 17 (34.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) Bash
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.00%) OCP
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Grafana
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Puppet
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (80.00%) Oracle
2 23 (46.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (40.00%) Splunk
4 19 (38.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Google