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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 129 134
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +54
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 5 43 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 1.49% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 5.76% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 30 53
10th Percentile £44,500 £51,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,938 £87,500
90th Percentile - £76,250 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +31.82% -22.81% +9.62%

All Database and 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 384 747 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.42% 25.89% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 311 480 693
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,498 £49,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,625 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,750 £94,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the City of London

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (60.00%) Global Marketing
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) GitOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) R
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Istio