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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 116 171
Rank change year-on-year -52 +55 -12
Contract jobs citing MySQL 40 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.34% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.03% 9.73% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 25
10th Percentile £204 £200 -
25th Percentile £204 £338 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £384 £425
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% -9.76% -15.84%
75th Percentile £406 £465 £538
90th Percentile £528 £517 £556
England median daily rate £425 £462 £500
% change year-on-year -7.91% -7.70% -4.76%
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 663 411 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.77% 13.74% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 288 389
10th Percentile £305 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -4.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 32
10th Percentile £13.48 £23.24 £18.20
25th Percentile £27.25 £24.40 £22.08
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -45.59% +7.10%
75th Percentile £53.17 £49.38 £69.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -28.19%

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 9 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 9 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 -41 27 £366 -14.43% 13
Berkshire -27 18 £208 -49.70% 3
Surrey -8 9 £208 -25.23% 2
Buckinghamshire -16 9 £405 -12.53% 8
Hampshire -45 2 £398 -1.24% 4
East Sussex - 1 £150 -
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 (5.00%) Appian
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) SaaS
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub
4 7 (17.50%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (32.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (17.50%) Android Studio
2 7 (17.50%) Eclipse
2 7 (17.50%) Xcode
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
3 3 (7.50%) Storybook
4 1 (2.50%) Firebug
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Electronics
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Technical Support
2 10 (25.00%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Support Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) DBA
5 7 (17.50%) UX Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (12.50%) SQL DBA
8 4 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Developer
9 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared DBA
10 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Lead
10 2 (5.00%) Senior
11 1 (2.50%) Applications Support Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
11 1 (2.50%) PHP Developer
11 1 (2.50%) Senior DBA
11 1 (2.50%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) React
2 13 (32.50%) CSS
3 12 (30.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (17.50%) Ajax
4 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.00%) HTML
6 5 (12.50%) OAuth
7 4 (10.00%) REST
7 4 (10.00%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) Spring
7 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.50%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) SOAP
8 3 (7.50%) Vitest
9 2 (5.00%) .NET
9 2 (5.00%) J2EE
10 1 (2.50%) CSS3
10 1 (2.50%) LAMP
10 1 (2.50%) Laravel
10 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Linux
2 20 (50.00%) Windows
3 17 (42.50%) Unix
4 7 (17.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) OO
2 10 (25.00%) OOP
2 10 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 10 (25.00%) User Experience
3 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.50%) Mobile Application Development
5 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.50%) Agile
6 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (10.00%) Microservices
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.50%) API Development
8 3 (7.50%) API Integration
8 3 (7.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 3 (7.50%) DevOps
8 3 (7.50%) Front End Development
8 3 (7.50%) Secure Coding
8 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Python
2 25 (62.50%) Java
3 24 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (47.50%) SQL
5 18 (45.00%) Perl
6 5 (12.50%) Bash
6 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.50%) PHP
7 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (22.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Grafana
1 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Oracle
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) Splunk
4 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.50%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat