MySQL Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

MySQL
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring MySQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MySQL 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.32% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - -
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £467 - -
South East median daily rate £338 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -30.00%

All Database & BI Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 41 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 23.68% 23.03% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 35 27
10th Percentile £280 £220 £351
25th Percentile £306 £281 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -29.52%
75th Percentile £500 £522 £481
90th Percentile £663 £550 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.75 £18.20
Median hourly rate £37.12 £34.50 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +78.06% -13.72%
75th Percentile - £36.25 £25.47
90th Percentile - - £34.34
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £24.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year +52.96% -44.62% -22.95%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in West Sussex

MySQL
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing MySQL

MySQL
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing MySQL

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 7 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
Burgess Hill - 3 £438 -
Worthing - 1 £459 - 2
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) JPA
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (80.00%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) AOP
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) Digital Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) System Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Talend