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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 166 160
Rank change year-on-year -88 -6 -75
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 610 1,641 1,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.71% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.74% 10.37% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 460 1,388 1,109
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +2.73%

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 6,983 15,828 17,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.18% 16.47% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,450 11,561 11,427
10th Percentile £36,221 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,970 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £83,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,743 £57,500 £64,015
% change year-on-year +5.64% -10.18% +6.69%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -5 158 £60,000 -11.11% 346
North of England -113 129 £52,500 - 156
South East -14 127 £50,000 -4.76% 187
Midlands -15 89 £45,000 -10.00% 56
North West -99 79 £55,000 - 119
South West -8 56 £57,500 +27.78% 43
West Midlands +7 53 £42,500 -15.00% 22
East of England -28 52 £37,500 -14.77% 36
East Midlands +14 33 £45,000 - 32
Yorkshire -41 33 £47,500 +1.06% 22
North East +1 17 £47,500 -24.00% 15
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 58 (9.51%) Confluence
2 29 (4.75%) WordPress
3 21 (3.44%) CMS
4 15 (2.46%) Apache
4 15 (2.46%) nginx
5 12 (1.97%) Apache Solr
6 11 (1.80%) IIS
7 9 (1.48%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.31%) SAS
9 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.66%) Drupal
11 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.33%) Appian
12 2 (0.33%) Camunda
13 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.16%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.31%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.82%) SPSS
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.97%) Magento
2 8 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (1.31%) Shopify
3 6 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.66%) Relativity
4 4 (0.66%) Ringtail
4 4 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Odoo
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 303 (49.67%) AWS
2 143 (23.44%) Azure
3 88 (14.43%) GCP
4 49 (8.03%) GitHub
5 47 (7.70%) SaaS
6 35 (5.74%) Serverless
7 30 (4.92%) Power Platform
8 25 (4.10%) Cloudflare
9 23 (3.77%) PaaS
10 22 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.44%) IaaS
12 18 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.79%) Amazon S3
13 17 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.79%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.10%) DNS
2 22 (3.61%) Firewall
3 21 (3.44%) VPN
4 16 (2.62%) Internet
5 15 (2.46%) SD-WAN
5 15 (2.46%) WAN
6 10 (1.64%) FTP
7 7 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.82%) IPsec
8 5 (0.82%) SAN
9 4 (0.66%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.66%) MQTT
9 4 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.66%) SMS
10 3 (0.49%) Multicast
10 3 (0.49%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.49%) VLAN
11 2 (0.33%) HTTP
11 2 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 118 (19.34%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (16.39%) Relational Database
4 64 (10.49%) MongoDB
5 56 (9.18%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (4.59%) Power BI
7 28 (4.59%) Redis
8 25 (4.10%) DynamoDB
9 22 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.46%) Data Lake
12 13 (2.13%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.80%) Big Data
13 11 (1.80%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.64%) MariaDB
15 9 (1.48%) Apache Hive
15 9 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (34.92%) Git
2 71 (11.64%) JIRA
3 43 (7.05%) Bitbucket
4 17 (2.79%) GitLab
5 13 (2.13%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.80%) NUnit
6 11 (1.80%) PHPUnit
6 11 (1.80%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.64%) Jasmine
8 8 (1.31%) Selenium
9 7 (1.15%) Maven
9 7 (1.15%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.98%) git-flow
10 6 (0.98%) Gradle
11 5 (0.82%) JMeter
11 5 (0.82%) Mocha
11 5 (0.82%) Postman
12 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.66%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 151 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 135 (22.13%) Finance
3 44 (7.21%) Games
3 44 (7.21%) Marketing
4 35 (5.74%) Law
5 34 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.44%) Retail
9 14 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.13%) Banking
11 10 (1.64%) Advertising
11 10 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.31%) Mandarin Language
14 7 (1.15%) Cantonese Language
14 7 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 289 (47.38%) Developer
2 142 (23.28%) Senior
3 89 (14.59%) PHP Developer
4 78 (12.79%) Software Engineer
5 71 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (11.48%) Senior Developer
7 46 (7.54%) Lead
8 37 (6.07%) Graduate
8 37 (6.07%) Graduate Developer
9 36 (5.90%) IT Graduate
10 35 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (4.10%) C# Developer
12 24 (3.93%) Architect
12 24 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.93%) Junior
12 24 (3.93%) Junior Developer
12 24 (3.93%) Senior PHP Developer
13 21 (3.44%) Analyst
14 20 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
15 19 (3.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (31.15%) CSS
2 164 (26.89%) HTML
3 130 (21.31%) React
4 119 (19.51%) .NET
5 110 (18.03%) Laravel
6 80 (13.11%) Node.js
7 68 (11.15%) jQuery
8 64 (10.49%) REST
9 63 (10.33%) RESTful
10 59 (9.67%) Vue
11 56 (9.18%) LAMP
12 53 (8.69%) ASP.NET
13 49 (8.03%) AngularJS
14 42 (6.89%) Web Services
15 36 (5.90%) Kafka
16 34 (5.57%) Spring Boot
17 33 (5.41%) HTML5
18 32 (5.25%) Spring
19 29 (4.75%) CSS3
20 25 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.54%) Mobile App
2 33 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 32 (5.25%) NHS
4 22 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.46%) IoT
6 15 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.48%) Online Games
11 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.02%) Linux
2 61 (10.00%) Windows
3 15 (2.46%) Unix
4 8 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.82%) CentOS
6 4 (0.66%) Android
6 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.49%) Rocky
8 2 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (39.51%) Agile
2 167 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
3 151 (24.75%) CI/CD
4 139 (22.79%) Software Engineering
5 105 (17.21%) MVC
6 102 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 102 (16.72%) OOP
7 94 (15.41%) E-Commerce
8 79 (12.95%) Microservices
9 76 (12.46%) Computer Science
10 75 (12.30%) DevOps
11 68 (11.15%) Web Development
12 65 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
12 65 (10.66%) OO
13 64 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (10.49%) User Experience
14 60 (9.84%) Analytics
15 56 (9.18%) Test Automation
16 50 (8.20%) Roadmaps
17 48 (7.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 241 (39.51%) JavaScript
1 241 (39.51%) PHP
2 197 (32.30%) SQL
3 129 (21.15%) Python
4 128 (20.98%) Java
5 113 (18.52%) C#
6 94 (15.41%) TypeScript
7 40 (6.56%) C++
8 31 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 28 (4.59%) Bash
10 19 (3.11%) PL/SQL
11 17 (2.79%) Ruby
12 16 (2.62%) Go
13 15 (2.46%) Bicep
14 13 (2.13%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.97%) R
15 12 (1.97%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.48%) Scala
17 7 (1.15%) Rust
18 5 (0.82%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 87 (14.26%) Degree
2 63 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 19 (3.11%) DBS Check
7 14 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.05%) QA
2 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.98%) GDPR
4 5 (0.82%) HL7
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.49%) NCSC
6 3 (0.49%) WCAG
7 2 (0.33%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) GMP
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
8 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (17.87%) Docker
2 15 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.49%) HDFS
6 3 (0.49%) KVM
6 3 (0.49%) LXC
6 3 (0.49%) Samba
6 3 (0.49%) Xen
7 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.16%) Corosync
7 1 (0.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 63 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 59 (9.67%) Ansible
3 52 (8.52%) Terraform
4 20 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.48%) Grafana
7 5 (0.82%) Argo
8 4 (0.66%) Kibana
8 4 (0.66%) logstash
8 4 (0.66%) Nagios
9 3 (0.49%) Oozie
9 3 (0.49%) Puppet
9 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.33%) CFEngine
10 2 (0.33%) Kubespray
10 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.16%) Istio
11 1 (0.16%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 59 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.89%) Oracle
3 39 (6.39%) Google
4 35 (5.74%) Atlassian
5 24 (3.93%) Databricks
6 15 (2.46%) Meraki
6 15 (2.46%) Twitter
7 14 (2.30%) Rollbar
8 13 (2.13%) SAP
9 12 (1.97%) Adobe
10 11 (1.80%) New Relic
10 11 (1.80%) WooCommerce
11 10 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.48%) Informatica
13 7 (1.15%) Talend
13 7 (1.15%) VMware
14 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.98%) Splunk
15 5 (0.82%) Ahrefs