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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 118 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +59
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 7 53 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.38% 1.86% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 7.17% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 36 40
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,875 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -26.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £107,500 £72,188 £89,063
90th Percentile £111,875 £86,250 £95,750
Central London median annual salary £71,875 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +30.68% -26.67% +15.38%

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 395 739 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.55% 25.98% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 330 485 583
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,063 £55,000 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.08% +1.72% -3.33%

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the City of London

MySQL
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the City of London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £112,500 -
MySQL
Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) npm
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Mocha
1 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Front Office
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Support
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) LAMP
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) D3.js
3 1 (14.29%) Redux
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (14.29%) Social Media
3 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Rocky
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) API Design
3 1 (14.29%) ArchiMate
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce