MySQL Job Trends in England

MySQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 214 155
Rank change year-on-year -111 -59 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 407 633 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.62% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 9.35% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 323 517 1,425
10th Percentile £34,500 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £40,749 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -8.70%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,049 6,772 14,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 17.38% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,406 4,653 11,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in England

MySQL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in England

MySQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -73 102 £75,000 +19.52% 37
North of England -99 87 £50,000 -4.76% 46
South East -54 86 £55,000 +10.00% 44
North West -53 46 £53,565 -2.61% 21
Midlands -67 46 £42,500 -10.53% 10
South West -73 43 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -25 32 £50,000 +17.65% 11
Yorkshire -58 31 £49,500 +4.21% 22
East Midlands -36 25 £37,500 -11.76% 6
West Midlands -49 21 £46,250 -13.15% 4
North East -47 10 £47,500 -11.63% 3
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 20 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.67%) CMS
3 16 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.93%) nginx
4 15 (3.69%) Apache
5 13 (3.19%) WordPress
6 8 (1.97%) IIS
7 6 (1.47%) Drupal
8 5 (1.23%) Confluence
8 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.74%) JBoss
9 3 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.25%) Camunda
11 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.95%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) Magento
3 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 192 (47.17%) AWS
2 99 (24.32%) Azure
3 62 (15.23%) GCP
4 45 (11.06%) SaaS
5 27 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (6.14%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.41%) GitHub
7 22 (5.41%) Serverless
8 12 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.97%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.42%) VPN
2 16 (3.93%) Firewall
3 9 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.97%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.97%) SAN
5 7 (1.72%) Broadband
5 7 (1.72%) DNS
5 7 (1.72%) Network Security
6 6 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.23%) VLAN
8 4 (0.98%) HTTP
8 4 (0.98%) MQTT
8 4 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.74%) DHCP
9 3 (0.74%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (0.74%) RTP
9 3 (0.74%) SSH
9 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) VoIP
9 3 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (26.78%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (23.10%) SQL Server
3 60 (14.74%) NoSQL
4 59 (14.50%) Relational Database
5 58 (14.25%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.65%) Power BI
7 20 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 19 (4.67%) MariaDB
9 16 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (3.69%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.44%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (1.97%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.72%) Big Data
15 7 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (1.72%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (22.60%) Git
2 18 (4.42%) GitLab
3 17 (4.18%) JIRA
4 11 (2.70%) PHPUnit
5 9 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.23%) JUnit
7 5 (1.23%) Vite
8 4 (0.98%) Mockito
9 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.49%) Gradle
9 2 (0.49%) JMeter
9 2 (0.49%) Maven
9 2 (0.49%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.49%) Selenium
9 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.25%) git-flow
10 1 (0.25%) NUnit
10 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 94 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.78%) Finance
3 47 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.39%) Law
5 15 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.19%) Health Technology
6 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.19%) Retail
7 10 (2.46%) Banking
8 9 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.72%) Advertising
10 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.47%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.23%) Marketing
12 4 (0.98%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Front Office
14 2 (0.49%) Back Office
14 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 171 (42.01%) Developer
2 95 (23.34%) Senior
3 54 (13.27%) PHP Developer
4 49 (12.04%) Senior Developer
5 32 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (7.86%) Lead
6 30 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 28 (6.88%) Software Developer
8 26 (6.39%) Data Engineer
9 25 (6.14%) Administrator
10 24 (5.90%) DBA
11 21 (5.16%) Analyst
12 20 (4.91%) Backend Developer
13 19 (4.67%) Senior Backend Developer
14 17 (4.18%) C# Developer
14 17 (4.18%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 14 (3.44%) Technical Support
15 14 (3.44%) Web Developer
16 13 (3.19%) SQL Developer
16 13 (3.19%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (23.83%) CSS
2 89 (21.87%) HTML
3 76 (18.67%) Laravel
4 66 (16.22%) React
5 55 (13.51%) RESTful
6 47 (11.55%) Vue
7 40 (9.83%) Node.js
8 38 (9.34%) .NET
9 35 (8.60%) REST
10 30 (7.37%) JSON
11 29 (7.13%) AngularJS
12 27 (6.63%) jQuery
13 24 (5.90%) HTML5
14 23 (5.65%) CSS3
15 22 (5.41%) Kafka
16 17 (4.18%) Spring
17 15 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (3.69%) Symfony
18 14 (3.44%) Spring Boot
19 13 (3.19%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.88%) Replication
3 26 (6.39%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.95%) IoT
7 12 (2.95%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.72%) NHS
12 6 (1.47%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 108 (26.54%) Linux
2 23 (5.65%) Windows
3 18 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.46%) CentOS
4 10 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.21%) Debian
5 9 (2.21%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.74%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (31.45%) Agile
2 92 (22.60%) CI/CD
3 84 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (18.18%) Microservices
5 67 (16.46%) Software Engineering
6 63 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 59 (14.50%) DevOps
8 46 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (11.06%) Mentoring
9 45 (11.06%) TDD
10 44 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (10.57%) Web Development
12 42 (10.32%) Containerisation
13 39 (9.58%) Data Modelling
14 37 (9.09%) AI
14 37 (9.09%) OOP
15 36 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (8.60%) Computer Science
17 34 (8.35%) Test Automation
18 32 (7.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 155 (38.08%) SQL
2 148 (36.36%) PHP
3 129 (31.70%) JavaScript
4 76 (18.67%) Python
5 60 (14.74%) Java
6 49 (12.04%) C#
7 48 (11.79%) TypeScript
8 30 (7.37%) Bash
9 25 (6.14%) PowerShell
10 16 (3.93%) C++
11 14 (3.44%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.70%) Go
13 10 (2.46%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.46%) T-SQL
14 9 (2.21%) Scala
15 7 (1.72%) Korn
16 5 (1.23%) C
17 3 (0.74%) VBA
18 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
19 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (12.78%) Degree
2 29 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.74%) RHCE
10 2 (0.49%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) HND
11 1 (0.25%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.63%) QA
3 19 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.21%) GDPR
6 7 (1.72%) HL7
6 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.72%) SLA
7 5 (1.23%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (16.71%) Docker
2 27 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.74%) iptables
6 3 (0.74%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.74%) vSphere
7 2 (0.49%) Samba
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.90%) Terraform
3 22 (5.41%) Ansible
4 11 (2.70%) Grafana
5 8 (1.97%) Nagios
6 6 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.47%) Puppet
7 5 (1.23%) Argo
8 4 (0.98%) Rancher
9 3 (0.74%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.74%) Plesk
9 3 (0.74%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.74%) systemd
9 3 (0.74%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.25%) Graylog
11 1 (0.25%) Podman
11 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.39%) Oracle
3 19 (4.67%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.95%) Google
5 10 (2.46%) VMware
6 8 (1.97%) Dell
6 8 (1.97%) SAP
6 8 (1.97%) Splunk
7 7 (1.72%) Informatica
8 6 (1.47%) Adobe
8 6 (1.47%) Talend
9 5 (1.23%) Databricks
9 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.23%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.98%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.74%) Apple
11 3 (0.74%) Mitel
11 3 (0.74%) Palantir
11 3 (0.74%) Zend