MySQL Jobs in England

MySQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 154 161
Rank change year-on-year -60 +7 -81
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 651 1,608 2,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.89% 2.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.68% 10.59% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 522 1,436 1,224
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,688 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

All Database and 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 6,722 15,182 19,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.60% 17.82% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,760 11,477 12,554
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in England.

Salary trend for MySQL in England

MySQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 -26 165 £60,000 -14.29% 217
North of England -86 132 £52,500 - 154
South East +2 130 £50,000 -1.96% 119
Midlands +17 99 £47,500 -5.00% 71
North West -82 80 £53,750 +2.38% 96
South West +5 74 £60,000 +26.32% 48
West Midlands +9 52 £51,500 +3.00% 46
East of England -18 49 £41,250 -13.16% 50
East Midlands +27 44 £42,500 -5.56% 19
Yorkshire -14 40 £49,000 +3.16% 38
North East -6 12 £53,750 -14.00% 24
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 68 (10.45%) Confluence
2 32 (4.92%) WordPress
3 24 (3.69%) CMS
4 20 (3.07%) nginx
5 17 (2.61%) Apache
6 15 (2.30%) Apache Solr
7 7 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.92%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.77%) Drupal
9 5 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.77%) SAS
10 4 (0.61%) IIS
11 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.31%) Camunda
11 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Appian
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.77%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.77%) SPSS
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.00%) Shopify
2 10 (1.54%) Magento
3 9 (1.38%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.61%) Relativity
4 4 (0.61%) Ringtail
4 4 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Odoo
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 313 (48.08%) AWS
2 123 (18.89%) Azure
3 116 (17.82%) GCP
4 73 (11.21%) GitHub
5 40 (6.14%) SaaS
6 35 (5.38%) Serverless
7 33 (5.07%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.07%) Slack
13 14 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.00%) Zapier
15 12 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.84%) Power Platform
15 12 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (1.38%) Cloudflare
17 9 (1.38%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.23%) Internet
2 20 (3.07%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.76%) DNS
4 13 (2.00%) HTTPS
5 12 (1.84%) FTP
6 11 (1.69%) IPsec
7 7 (1.08%) VPN
8 6 (0.92%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.77%) MQTT
9 5 (0.77%) SMS
10 4 (0.61%) Firewall
10 4 (0.61%) HTTP
10 4 (0.61%) SSL
11 3 (0.46%) Multicast
11 3 (0.46%) SSH
11 3 (0.46%) VLAN
12 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.15%) LTE
12 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (19.66%) SQL Server
2 112 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (14.13%) Relational Database
4 71 (10.91%) MongoDB
5 62 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.69%) Redis
7 22 (3.38%) DynamoDB
8 21 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.76%) Couchbase
11 15 (2.30%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.69%) Power BI
13 10 (1.54%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.38%) Big Data
14 9 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.38%) SQLite
15 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.92%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 227 (34.87%) Git
2 77 (11.83%) JIRA
3 45 (6.91%) Bitbucket
4 28 (4.30%) GitLab
5 25 (3.84%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.69%) Maven
7 10 (1.54%) Gradle
8 9 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 8 (1.23%) PHPUnit
10 7 (1.08%) Selenium
11 6 (0.92%) Subversion
12 5 (0.77%) JMeter
12 5 (0.77%) Postman
12 5 (0.77%) webpack
13 4 (0.61%) Appium
13 4 (0.61%) Fiddler
13 4 (0.61%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.61%) Mocha
13 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
General
1 145 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 127 (19.51%) Finance
3 57 (8.76%) Games
4 37 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.45%) Marketing
5 29 (4.45%) Retail
6 20 (3.07%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.07%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.84%) Law
9 10 (1.54%) Banking
9 10 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.38%) Electronics
10 9 (1.38%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (1.08%) Advertising
12 7 (1.08%) Cantonese Language
12 7 (1.08%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 319 (49.00%) Developer
2 159 (24.42%) Senior
3 96 (14.75%) PHP Developer
4 83 (12.75%) Senior Developer
5 79 (12.14%) Software Engineer
6 69 (10.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (7.99%) Lead
8 30 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (4.45%) Senior PHP Developer
10 28 (4.30%) Graduate
10 28 (4.30%) Graduate Developer
10 28 (4.30%) IT Graduate
11 27 (4.15%) Software Developer
12 23 (3.53%) C# Developer
12 23 (3.53%) PHP Software Engineer
13 22 (3.38%) Analyst
14 21 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.07%) Applications Support
15 20 (3.07%) Junior
15 20 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (31.18%) CSS
2 187 (28.73%) HTML
3 152 (23.35%) Laravel
4 146 (22.43%) React
5 128 (19.66%) .NET
6 84 (12.90%) Node.js
7 73 (11.21%) LAMP
8 71 (10.91%) Vue
9 66 (10.14%) jQuery
9 66 (10.14%) RESTful
10 62 (9.52%) AngularJS
11 54 (8.29%) Web Services
12 48 (7.37%) REST
13 43 (6.61%) Kafka
14 40 (6.14%) XML
15 37 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (5.53%) ASP.NET
17 35 (5.38%) Spring
18 28 (4.30%) Django
18 28 (4.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.60%) Mobile App
2 35 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (4.15%) IoT
5 23 (3.53%) NHS
6 17 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.23%) Robotics
9 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.08%) Replication
10 7 (1.08%) Smart Home
11 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.92%) Mobile Games
11 6 (0.92%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 131 (20.12%) Linux
2 61 (9.37%) Windows
3 13 (2.00%) Android
3 13 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.69%) CentOS
5 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.61%) Rocky
6 4 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.31%) AIX
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (33.49%) Agile
2 172 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (23.81%) Software Engineering
4 129 (19.82%) CI/CD
5 121 (18.59%) E-Commerce
6 116 (17.82%) MVC
7 113 (17.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (16.90%) OOP
9 88 (13.52%) Web Development
10 84 (12.90%) DevOps
11 82 (12.60%) Microservices
12 75 (11.52%) Computer Science
13 74 (11.37%) User Experience
14 65 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (8.76%) OO
16 52 (7.99%) Coaching
17 47 (7.22%) Test Automation
18 45 (6.91%) Continuous Integration
19 44 (6.76%) Containerisation
20 42 (6.45%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 295 (45.31%) PHP
2 255 (39.17%) JavaScript
3 158 (24.27%) SQL
4 140 (21.51%) Python
5 118 (18.13%) C#
6 117 (17.97%) Java
7 81 (12.44%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.22%) C++
9 24 (3.69%) Ruby
10 23 (3.53%) Bash
10 23 (3.53%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.92%) Go
12 12 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.38%) R
15 6 (0.92%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.77%) Perl
16 5 (0.77%) Scala
17 4 (0.61%) C
18 3 (0.46%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 89 (13.67%) Degree
2 63 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.69%) Security Cleared
5 22 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.15%) HNC
11 1 (0.15%) HND
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.61%) QA
2 10 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.77%) GDPR
5 4 (0.61%) GMP
5 4 (0.61%) HL7
6 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) NCSC
6 3 (0.46%) WCAG
7 2 (0.31%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (17.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.46%) LXC
2 3 (0.46%) Samba
2 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.31%) KVM
3 2 (0.31%) Postfix
3 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 66 (10.14%) Ansible
3 53 (8.14%) Terraform
4 14 (2.15%) Grafana
5 12 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.38%) Nagios
7 8 (1.23%) Argo
8 7 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.31%) Kubespray
10 2 (0.31%) Nessus
11 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.15%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.15%) cPanel
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) logstash
11 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
11 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.61%) Atlassian
3 40 (6.14%) Oracle
4 31 (4.76%) Google
5 20 (3.07%) Twitter
6 16 (2.46%) New Relic
7 15 (2.30%) WooCommerce
8 12 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.69%) Adobe
10 6 (0.92%) SAP
10 6 (0.92%) Sawtooth Software
11 5 (0.77%) Ahrefs
11 5 (0.77%) Screaming Frog
11 5 (0.77%) Splunk
11 5 (0.77%) Vertica
11 5 (0.77%) VMware
12 4 (0.61%) Nuix
12 4 (0.61%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.61%) Recommind
12 4 (0.61%) Talend