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 21 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	121	121	122
Rank change year-on-year	0	+1	+4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL	6	5	48
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London	0.25%	0.31%	1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	2.46%	1.30%	6.69%
Number of salaries quoted	4	4	32
10^th Percentile	£69,250	£46,750	-
25^th Percentile	£79,375	£62,500	£52,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£100,000	£72,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+37.93%	+31.82%	-26.67%
75^th Percentile	£115,000	£83,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	-	£101,750	£86,250
Central London median annual salary	£100,000	£72,500	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+37.93%	+31.82%	-25.42%

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	244	385	717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London	10.02%	24.11%	26.02%
Number of salaries quoted	179	330	449
10^th Percentile	£57,375	£52,500	£50,000
25^th Percentile	£70,000	£63,000	£56,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£82,500	£76,000	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.55%	+1.33%	+3.45%
75^th Percentile	£98,750	£97,500	£95,000
90^th Percentile	£115,000	£120,000	£115,000
Central London median annual salary	£80,000	£77,000	£72,500
% change year-on-year	+3.90%	+6.21%	-

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 Salary Trend in the City of London

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 21 October 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the City of London

MySQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, job vacancies citing MySQL also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for MySQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Elasticsearch	83.3%	5
2	AI	50.0%	3
2	Amazon OpenSearch	50.0%	3
2	Apache	50.0%	3
2	Apache Airflow	50.0%	3
2	Apache Spark	50.0%	3
2	Data Engineering	50.0%	3
2	Data Ingestion	50.0%	3
2	Data Pipeline	50.0%	3
2	Data Quality	50.0%	3
2	Kafka	50.0%	3
2	NoSQL	50.0%	3
2	Observability	50.0%	3
2	PostgreSQL	50.0%	3
2	Python	50.0%	3
2	Relational Database	50.0%	3
2	SaaS	50.0%	3
18	Accessibility	33.3%	2
18	AWS	33.3%	2
18	Clean Code	33.3%	2
18	CSS	33.3%	2
18	CSS3	33.3%	2
18	DevOps	33.3%	2
18	End-to-End Testing	33.3%	2
18	HTML	33.3%	2
18	HTML5	33.3%	2
18	JavaScript	33.3%	2
18	Line Management	33.3%	2
18	Next.js	33.3%	2
18	Playwright	33.3%	2

MySQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Elasticsearch	83.3%	5
2	NoSQL	50.0%	3
2	PostgreSQL	50.0%	3
2	Relational Database	50.0%	3
5	SQL Server	16.7%	1