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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 154 157
Rank change year-on-year -56 +3 -76
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 658 1,602 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.88% 2.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.78% 10.58% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 528 1,432 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 £67,500 £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 6,726 15,136 20,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.57% 17.79% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 11,449 12,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £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 £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,308 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -21 167 £60,000 -14.29% 170
South East +1 132 £50,000 -1.96% 49
North of England -95 132 £52,500 - 118
Midlands +8 100 £47,500 -5.00% 48
North West -84 80 £53,750 +2.38% 74
South West +13 74 £60,000 +26.32% 36
West Midlands +10 52 £51,500 +3.00% 36
East of England -15 50 £41,250 -13.16% 25
East Midlands +26 45 £40,000 -11.11% 10
Yorkshire -15 40 £49,000 +3.16% 28
North East -4 12 £53,750 -14.00% 17
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 (10.33%) Confluence
2 33 (5.02%) WordPress
3 25 (3.80%) CMS
4 21 (3.19%) nginx
5 18 (2.74%) Apache
6 15 (2.28%) Apache Solr
7 7 (1.06%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.91%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.76%) Drupal
9 5 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.76%) SAS
10 3 (0.46%) IIS
11 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.30%) Camunda
11 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Appian
12 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.76%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.76%) SPSS
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.13%) Shopify
2 10 (1.52%) Magento
3 9 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.61%) Relativity
4 4 (0.61%) Ringtail
4 4 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.30%) Odoo
5 2 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 314 (47.72%) AWS
2 123 (18.69%) Azure
3 116 (17.63%) GCP
4 75 (11.40%) GitHub
5 41 (6.23%) SaaS
6 35 (5.32%) Serverless
7 33 (5.02%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.19%) Slack
12 14 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.13%) Zapier
13 12 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (1.82%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (1.37%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 8 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.19%) Internet
2 20 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.74%) DNS
4 13 (1.98%) HTTPS
5 12 (1.82%) FTP
6 11 (1.67%) IPsec
7 7 (1.06%) VPN
8 6 (0.91%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.76%) MQTT
9 5 (0.76%) 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%) LTE
12 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.15%) VSAT
12 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (19.76%) SQL Server
2 114 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (14.13%) Relational Database
4 71 (10.79%) MongoDB
5 62 (9.42%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.65%) Redis
7 22 (3.34%) DynamoDB
8 20 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.74%) Couchbase
10 16 (2.43%) MariaDB
11 11 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.67%) Power BI
12 10 (1.52%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.52%) SQLite
13 9 (1.37%) Big Data
13 9 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.06%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.91%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 230 (34.95%) Git
2 77 (11.70%) JIRA
3 45 (6.84%) Bitbucket
4 28 (4.26%) GitLab
5 26 (3.95%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.67%) Maven
7 10 (1.52%) Gradle
8 9 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 8 (1.22%) PHPUnit
10 7 (1.06%) Selenium
11 6 (0.91%) Subversion
12 5 (0.76%) JMeter
12 5 (0.76%) Postman
12 5 (0.76%) webpack
13 4 (0.61%) Appium
13 4 (0.61%) Fiddler
13 4 (0.61%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.61%) Mocha
14 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 146 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 126 (19.15%) Finance
3 58 (8.81%) Games
4 40 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.41%) Marketing
5 29 (4.41%) Retail
6 21 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.82%) Law
11 10 (1.52%) Banking
11 10 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.52%) Tech for Good
12 9 (1.37%) Electronics
12 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
14 7 (1.06%) Cantonese Language
14 7 (1.06%) Social Housing
14 7 (1.06%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 324 (49.24%) Developer
2 160 (24.32%) Senior
3 96 (14.59%) PHP Developer
4 84 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 79 (12.01%) Software Engineer
6 70 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (8.05%) Lead
8 30 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (4.41%) Senior PHP Developer
10 28 (4.26%) Graduate
10 28 (4.26%) Graduate Developer
10 28 (4.26%) IT Graduate
10 28 (4.26%) Software Developer
11 23 (3.50%) C# Developer
11 23 (3.50%) PHP Software Engineer
12 22 (3.34%) Analyst
13 21 (3.19%) Applications Support
13 21 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.04%) Junior
14 20 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (31.31%) CSS
2 190 (28.88%) HTML
3 154 (23.40%) Laravel
4 147 (22.34%) React
5 129 (19.60%) .NET
6 85 (12.92%) Node.js
7 73 (11.09%) LAMP
8 71 (10.79%) Vue
9 67 (10.18%) jQuery
10 66 (10.03%) RESTful
11 62 (9.42%) AngularJS
12 54 (8.21%) Web Services
13 49 (7.45%) REST
14 43 (6.53%) Kafka
15 40 (6.08%) XML
16 37 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
17 35 (5.32%) ASP.NET
17 35 (5.32%) Spring
18 30 (4.56%) Django
19 28 (4.26%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.51%) Mobile App
2 35 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (4.10%) IoT
5 24 (3.65%) NHS
6 17 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.22%) Robotics
10 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.06%) Replication
10 7 (1.06%) Smart Home
11 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.91%) Mobile Games
11 6 (0.91%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 132 (20.06%) Linux
2 61 (9.27%) Windows
3 14 (2.13%) Android
3 14 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.67%) CentOS
5 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.61%) Rocky
6 4 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.30%) AIX
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (33.13%) Agile
2 176 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (24.01%) Software Engineering
4 129 (19.60%) CI/CD
5 124 (18.84%) E-Commerce
6 115 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 115 (17.48%) MVC
7 111 (16.87%) OOP
8 91 (13.83%) Web Development
9 84 (12.77%) DevOps
10 82 (12.46%) Microservices
11 77 (11.70%) Computer Science
12 76 (11.55%) User Experience
13 66 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (8.81%) OO
15 52 (7.90%) Coaching
16 47 (7.14%) Test Automation
17 45 (6.84%) Continuous Integration
18 44 (6.69%) Containerisation
19 43 (6.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 298 (45.29%) PHP
2 257 (39.06%) JavaScript
3 160 (24.32%) SQL
4 143 (21.73%) Python
5 119 (18.09%) C#
6 118 (17.93%) Java
7 80 (12.16%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.17%) C++
9 25 (3.80%) Ruby
10 23 (3.50%) Bash
10 23 (3.50%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.89%) Go
12 12 (1.82%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.67%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.37%) R
15 6 (0.91%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.76%) Perl
16 5 (0.76%) Scala
17 4 (0.61%) C
18 3 (0.46%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (13.98%) Degree
2 64 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.80%) Security Cleared
5 23 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.15%) HNC
12 1 (0.15%) HND
12 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.53%) QA
2 10 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.76%) 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 (0.30%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (16.87%) 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 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) Postfix
3 2 (0.30%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 66 (10.03%) Ansible
3 52 (7.90%) Terraform
4 14 (2.13%) Grafana
5 12 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.37%) Nagios
7 8 (1.22%) Argo
8 7 (1.06%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.30%) Kubespray
10 2 (0.30%) Nessus
11 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) logstash
11 1 (0.15%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
11 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.53%) Atlassian
3 40 (6.08%) Oracle
4 31 (4.71%) Google
5 20 (3.04%) Twitter
6 16 (2.43%) New Relic
6 16 (2.43%) WooCommerce
7 12 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.67%) Adobe
9 6 (0.91%) SAP
9 6 (0.91%) Sawtooth Software
10 5 (0.76%) Ahrefs
10 5 (0.76%) Screaming Frog
10 5 (0.76%) Splunk
10 5 (0.76%) Vertica
10 5 (0.76%) VMware
11 4 (0.61%) Nuix
11 4 (0.61%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.61%) Recommind
11 4 (0.61%) Talend