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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 117
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +48
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 10 50 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.44% 1.88% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.65% 7.44% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6 37 47
10th Percentile - £47,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,875 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,875 £88,500 £93,750
Central London median annual salary £71,875 £55,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +30.68% -20.00% +7.84%

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 377 672 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 16.76% 25.27% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 321 441 564
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,310 £57,500 £57,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -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 10 January 2026.

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 10 January 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
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 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Mocha
1 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Front Office
1 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Support
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Support Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (30.00%) LAMP
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) D3.js
5 1 (10.00%) Redux
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Social Media
3 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) CentOS
2 3 (30.00%) Rocky
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) B2B
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) API Design
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Business Case
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Storytelling
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce