MySQL Contract Job Trends in South London

MySQL
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -
Contract jobs citing MySQL 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.94% 1.74% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 7.32% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £538 £447 £316
25th Percentile £543 £447 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £388
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% +22.26% -
75th Percentile - £500 £441
90th Percentile - £500 £469
London median daily rate £481 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% -

All Database & BI Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 68 41 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 21.32% 23.84% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 21 31
10th Percentile £454 £450 £400
25th Percentile £456 £483 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £483
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +19.17% +1.58%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £525
90th Percentile £725 £688 £545
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 - -
75th Percentile £19.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

MySQL job vacancy trend in South London

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Croydon -9 3 £550 +16.09% 2
MySQL
London

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java SE
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Google