MySQL Contracts in the South East

MySQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 154 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing MySQL 30 44 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.77% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.90% 6.78% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 37
10th Percentile £171 £203 £348
25th Percentile £286 £294 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £419 £438 £550
90th Percentile £471 £538 £619
England median daily rate £463 £463 £490
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £66.50 £28.23
25th Percentile £20.85 £68.75 £37.33
Median hourly rate £21.90 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.80% +36.36% +155.81%
75th Percentile £22.95 £78.75 £60.63
90th Percentile - £79.50 £62.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% +16.67%

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 435 649 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.49% 11.36% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 402 549
10th Percentile £287 £313 £338
25th Percentile £375 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -8.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £682
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £22.18 £21.58 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.66% -33.04% +155.56%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £73.71
90th Percentile £36.25 £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the South East

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 3 July 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
Thames Valley +28 14 £413 +10.00% 40
Hampshire +26 10 £413 +17.86% 16
Berkshire +25 8 £439 +9.69% 14
Surrey +21 6 £208 -3.49% 16
Buckinghamshire - 5 £286 - 10
Oxfordshire +1 1 - - 16
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 7 (23.33%) Apache
2 5 (16.67%) Confluence
3 4 (13.33%) CMS
3 4 (13.33%) Drupal
3 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 4 (13.33%) WordPress
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) GCP
2 5 (16.67%) GitHub
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) dbt
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Miro
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Internet
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Relational Database
2 14 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) OLAP
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 3 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (10.00%) Eclipse
5 2 (6.67%) Firebug
5 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (3.33%) Android Studio
6 1 (3.33%) Codeception
6 1 (3.33%) DBeaver
6 1 (3.33%) Gradle
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Korean Language
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Modeller
5 2 (6.67%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) CSS
2 9 (30.00%) HTML
3 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 8 (26.67%) React
3 8 (26.67%) RESTful
4 7 (23.33%) Web Services
5 6 (20.00%) Ajax
5 6 (20.00%) LAMP
5 6 (20.00%) SOAP
6 5 (16.67%) jQuery
6 5 (16.67%) Node.js
6 5 (16.67%) REST
7 4 (13.33%) .NET
7 4 (13.33%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (13.33%) FastAPI
7 4 (13.33%) XML
8 3 (10.00%) Django
8 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (10.00%) Laravel
8 3 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) OO
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) MVC
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Microservices
4 6 (20.00%) Scrum
5 5 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 5 (16.67%) ETL
5 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (16.67%) Kanban
5 5 (16.67%) TDD
6 4 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 4 (13.33%) OOP
6 4 (13.33%) Secure Coding
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) API Development
7 3 (10.00%) API Integration
7 3 (10.00%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (36.67%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) PHP
3 9 (30.00%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Rust
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) OCP
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Zend
3 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk