MySQL Jobs in London

MySQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 244 205
Rank change year-on-year -16 -39 -118
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 158 325 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.23% 1.30% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.69% 5.93% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 113 282 353
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £97,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,690
% change year-on-year - -5.73% +1.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,775 5,481 7,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.61% 22.00% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,798 4,003 5,453
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,281 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for MySQL in London

MySQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in London

MySQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London -11 26 £66,250 -0.38% 72
West London +25 5 £63,500 +8.09% 27
East London -24 1 £92,500 +32.14% 20
North London - 1 £75,000 -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (6.33%) WordPress
2 8 (5.06%) nginx
3 5 (3.16%) CMS
4 4 (2.53%) Apache
4 4 (2.53%) Confluence
4 4 (2.53%) SAS
5 3 (1.90%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.90%) Drupal
5 3 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.27%) Appian
6 2 (1.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.53%) SPSS
4 3 (1.90%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Relativity
1 4 (2.53%) Ringtail
1 4 (2.53%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 105 (66.46%) AWS
2 32 (20.25%) Azure
3 25 (15.82%) GCP
4 16 (10.13%) GitHub
5 14 (8.86%) Serverless
6 12 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.33%) SaaS
9 9 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (5.06%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.16%) Google Analytics
12 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.53%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) Internet
1 5 (3.16%) VPN
2 4 (2.53%) DNS
2 4 (2.53%) MQTT
2 4 (2.53%) SMS
3 3 (1.90%) Multicast
3 3 (1.90%) VLAN
4 2 (1.27%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.63%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.63%) RFID
5 1 (0.63%) RTP
5 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.63%) SSH
5 1 (0.63%) VoIP
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
5 1 (0.63%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (26.58%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (20.89%) Relational Database
3 27 (17.09%) MongoDB
4 21 (13.29%) NoSQL
5 16 (10.13%) Redis
5 16 (10.13%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.86%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (5.06%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.16%) Power BI
11 4 (2.53%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.53%) EDRMS
11 4 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (2.53%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.27%) Big Data
12 2 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 44 (27.85%) Git
2 7 (4.43%) Maven
3 6 (3.80%) Gradle
3 6 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.16%) GitLab
4 5 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.16%) JIRA
5 4 (2.53%) git-flow
6 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.90%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.27%) Subversion
8 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.63%) Gatling
8 1 (0.63%) JMeter
8 1 (0.63%) PhpStorm
8 1 (0.63%) RSpec
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 52 (32.91%) Finance
2 47 (29.75%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (15.82%) Marketing
5 18 (11.39%) Law
6 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.96%) Games
7 7 (4.43%) Banking
8 6 (3.80%) Advertising
8 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.16%) Turkish Language
10 4 (2.53%) Local Government
11 3 (1.90%) Back Office
11 3 (1.90%) French Language
11 3 (1.90%) German Language
11 3 (1.90%) Greek Language
11 3 (1.90%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.90%) Romanian Language
11 3 (1.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (43.04%) Developer
2 36 (22.78%) Senior
3 30 (18.99%) Software Engineer
4 28 (17.72%) Lead
5 21 (13.29%) Senior Developer
6 17 (10.76%) PHP Developer
7 16 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Database Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.80%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Web Developer
11 5 (3.16%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Java Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) React Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (3.16%) SEO Manager
11 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (36.71%) React
2 31 (19.62%) HTML
3 30 (18.99%) CSS
4 23 (14.56%) REST
5 21 (13.29%) Laravel
5 21 (13.29%) Node.js
6 18 (11.39%) jQuery
7 17 (10.76%) RESTful
7 17 (10.76%) Ruby on Rails
8 15 (9.49%) Kafka
9 14 (8.86%) .NET
10 13 (8.23%) OAuth
10 13 (8.23%) Vue
11 12 (7.59%) OpenID
11 12 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (7.59%) Spring
12 10 (6.33%) CSS3
12 10 (6.33%) HTML5
13 9 (5.70%) Spring Boot
14 8 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.76%) NHS
2 14 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.86%) Mobile App
2 14 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.86%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.06%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.06%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.16%) Blog
5 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.53%) Mobile Games
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.56%) Linux
2 11 (6.96%) Unix
3 7 (4.43%) Windows
4 4 (2.53%) CentOS
5 3 (1.90%) Rocky
6 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.04%) Agile
2 57 (36.08%) Software Engineering
3 40 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (23.42%) CI/CD
5 35 (22.15%) Microservices
6 28 (17.72%) Test Automation
7 24 (15.19%) Analytics
8 23 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (14.56%) Roadmaps
9 22 (13.92%) DevOps
9 22 (13.92%) OOP
10 21 (13.29%) Fintech
10 21 (13.29%) MVC
11 20 (12.66%) Data Science
11 20 (12.66%) Web Development
12 19 (12.03%) TDD
13 18 (11.39%) OO
13 18 (11.39%) Product Roadmap
14 17 (10.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (10.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.71%) JavaScript
2 51 (32.28%) Python
2 51 (32.28%) SQL
3 43 (27.22%) PHP
4 30 (18.99%) TypeScript
5 28 (17.72%) Java
6 17 (10.76%) Ruby
7 12 (7.59%) C#
8 9 (5.70%) Bash
8 9 (5.70%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.06%) R
10 7 (4.43%) Rust
11 5 (3.16%) Go
11 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.53%) MATLAB
12 4 (2.53%) Scala
13 3 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.90%) SOQL
13 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (15.19%) Degree
2 11 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.90%) WCAG
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (27.85%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.90%) KVM
3 3 (1.90%) Samba
4 2 (1.27%) Xen
5 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.63%) Corosync
5 1 (0.63%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.86%) Ansible
3 11 (6.96%) Terraform
4 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.16%) Argo
6 5 (3.16%) Grafana
7 4 (2.53%) Nagios
8 3 (1.90%) Puppet
8 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.27%) CFEngine
9 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.63%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.63%) Icinga
10 1 (0.63%) Kibana
10 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.63%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.63%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 24 (15.19%) Google
2 14 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.33%) Oracle
4 6 (3.80%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.16%) Ahrefs
5 5 (3.16%) New Relic
5 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.16%) Screaming Frog
5 5 (3.16%) VMware
6 4 (2.53%) Nuix
6 4 (2.53%) Recommind
6 4 (2.53%) Vertica
7 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.90%) Twitter
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.27%) Databricks
8 2 (1.27%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Okta
9 1 (0.63%) Revolut