MySQL Job Trends in the City of London

MySQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 118 106
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +40
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 21 29 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.57% 1.38% 2.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.63% 5.84% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 65
10th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £51,600
25th Percentile £74,688 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,313 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £86,250 £93,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £66,250 £67,000
% change year-on-year +28.30% -1.12% -0.74%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 373 497 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 10.10% 23.60% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 280 380 610
10th Percentile £51,700 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,250 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

MySQL
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the City of London

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) SaaS
2 9 (42.86%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (9.52%) Azure
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (14.29%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 1 (4.76%) Advertising
1 1 (4.76%) Banking
1 1 (4.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Lead
2 7 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Python Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Linux Support
6 3 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior
6 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Server Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) React
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 5 (23.81%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) LAMP
4 3 (14.29%) Laravel
4 3 (14.29%) Vue
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.76%) CSS
6 1 (4.76%) Django
6 1 (4.76%) Flask
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (4.76%) NumPy
6 1 (4.76%) Pandas
6 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.76%) Spring
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 3 (14.29%) PropTech
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) CentOS
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Rocky
1 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (33.33%) B2B
3 6 (28.57%) AI
4 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (23.81%) Observability
5 4 (19.05%) API Design
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) Microservices
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (4.76%) Generative AI
8 1 (4.76%) LLM
8 1 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.76%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 1 (4.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Nagios