MySQL Contract Job Trends in Surrey

MySQL
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey 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 21 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +48
Contract jobs citing MySQL 32 29 65
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 7.96% 6.33% 9.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 50.00% 34.12% 49.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 49
10th Percentile £163 £171 £215
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £393
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -47.77% -1.88%
75th Percentile £211 £208 £580
90th Percentile - £234 £680
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £485
% change year-on-year +1.22% -57.73% -5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.54
25th Percentile - - £58.57
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +245.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 64 85 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 15.92% 18.56% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 98
10th Percentile £163 - £257
25th Percentile £204 £203 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year -44.67% -31.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £456 £500 £600
90th Percentile £538 £589 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £42.71
25th Percentile £77.55 - £45.84
Median hourly rate £83.82 - £52.25
75th Percentile £90.09 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Surrey

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Surrey 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
Staines -2 12 £175 -14.63%
Weybridge - 1 £207 - 1
Woking - 1 £223 - 4
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 20 (62.50%) SaaS
2 19 (59.38%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (21.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (84.38%) Browser DevTools
2 19 (59.38%) Android Studio
2 19 (59.38%) Eclipse
2 19 (59.38%) Xcode
3 7 (21.88%) Firebug
General
1 28 (87.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (100.00%) Technical Support
2 27 (84.38%) Support Engineer
2 27 (84.38%) Technical Engineer
2 27 (84.38%) Technical Support Engineer
3 20 (62.50%) UX Engineer
4 18 (56.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 7 (21.88%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) IT Support
6 1 (3.13%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (84.38%) CSS
2 20 (62.50%) Ajax
2 20 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 20 (62.50%) GraphQL
2 20 (62.50%) React
3 7 (21.88%) HTML
3 7 (21.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (62.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Linux
1 25 (78.13%) Unix
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) OO
2 20 (62.50%) Mobile Application Development
2 20 (62.50%) User Experience
3 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (15.63%) OOP
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (3.13%) Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) Backlog Management
7 1 (3.13%) Case Management
7 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 25 (78.13%) Java
2 25 (78.13%) Perl
2 25 (78.13%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (59.38%) ServiceNow
3 19 (59.38%) Splunk