MySQL Contract Job Trends in the South West

MySQL
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 110 125
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 +36
Contract jobs citing MySQL 9 11 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.39% 0.50% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% 3.57% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 25
10th Percentile £420 £325 £263
25th Percentile £431 £331 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £461 £797 £600
90th Percentile £468 £913 £698
England median daily rate £424 £447 £500
% change year-on-year -5.04% -10.70% -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 237 308 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.34% 13.91% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 208 284
10th Percentile £317 £371 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -7.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £729
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 20
10th Percentile £34.47 £23.63 £14.36
25th Percentile £62.38 £25.26 £20.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £49.34
Median % change year-on-year +127.57% -42.11% -13.23%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £40.35 £82.71
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 West

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the South West

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol +1 4 £438 +9.38% 13
Somerset -3 2 - - 9
Wiltshire -16 2 £465 -46.86% 6
Dorset +6 1 - - 8
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) ClickHouse
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Tech for Good
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Database Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Django Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python/Django Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (22.22%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Analytics
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) API Integration
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (22.22%) Load Testing
2 2 (22.22%) PLM
2 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Runbook
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Database Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) PTC