MySQL Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

MySQL
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk 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 17 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MySQL 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.67% - 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.33% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £479 £300 £483
% change year-on-year +59.58% -37.82% +20.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 8.00% 24.55% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 12
10th Percentile £503 £300 £379
25th Percentile £506 £300 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% -18.60%
75th Percentile £556 £388 £625
90th Percentile £568 £408 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.16% -20.10% -4.67%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Suffolk

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MySQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MySQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 2 - - 4
MySQL
East of England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Consul