MySQL Job Trends in London

MySQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 262 261
Rank change year-on-year -42 -1 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 124 145 268
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 1.15% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.80% 5.30% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 79 100 227
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,350
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £63,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% -5.97% -7.59%
75th Percentile £104,375 £77,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,250 £98,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Database & 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 2,585 2,738 5,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.60% 21.79% 22.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 1,811 3,772
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in London

MySQL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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
Central London -2 17 £95,000 +31.03% 15
West London -16 2 - - 13
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.87%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.26%) Apache
4 8 (6.45%) WordPress
5 5 (4.03%) CMS
5 5 (4.03%) Drupal
6 3 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (2.42%) Confluence
6 3 (2.42%) IIS
6 3 (2.42%) JBoss
6 3 (2.42%) nginx
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.81%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (66.94%) AWS
2 32 (25.81%) Azure
3 21 (16.94%) SaaS
4 20 (16.13%) GCP
5 11 (8.87%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.26%) Serverless
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 7 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub
9 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.03%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Broadband
2 3 (2.42%) DNS
3 2 (1.61%) Multicast
3 2 (1.61%) Network Security
3 2 (1.61%) VLAN
4 1 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (33.87%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (29.03%) Relational Database
3 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
4 16 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 15 (12.10%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (10.48%) SQL Server
7 11 (8.87%) DynamoDB
8 10 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (8.06%) Metadata
9 9 (7.26%) Big Data
10 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
12 6 (4.84%) Power BI
13 5 (4.03%) MariaDB
14 4 (3.23%) Redis
15 3 (2.42%) Tableau
16 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
16 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
16 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) Claude Code
2 18 (14.52%) Git
3 11 (8.87%) GitLab
4 4 (3.23%) JIRA
5 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.42%) JUnit
6 2 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.61%) Mockito
7 1 (0.81%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.81%) Gradle
7 1 (0.81%) JMeter
7 1 (0.81%) Maven
7 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 42 (33.87%) Finance
2 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.10%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Back Office
8 2 (1.61%) Front Office
8 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.61%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) French Language
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (27.42%) Developer
2 32 (25.81%) Senior
3 25 (20.16%) Python Engineer
4 23 (18.55%) Lead
5 12 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.06%) Lead Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Administrator
7 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
8 8 (6.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 8 (6.45%) Python Data Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.65%) AWS Consultant
9 7 (5.65%) Data Consultant
9 7 (5.65%) Lead PHP Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.87%) React
2 23 (18.55%) .NET
3 19 (15.32%) Kafka
4 18 (14.52%) CSS
4 18 (14.52%) RESTful
5 16 (12.90%) Flask
5 16 (12.90%) HTML
5 16 (12.90%) Laravel
5 16 (12.90%) Vue
6 12 (9.68%) SQLAlchemy
7 10 (8.06%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.26%) Spring
9 8 (6.45%) Node.js
9 8 (6.45%) Spring Boot
10 7 (5.65%) CodeIgniter
10 7 (5.65%) CSS3
10 7 (5.65%) REST
10 7 (5.65%) Symfony
11 6 (4.84%) Ajax
11 6 (4.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.65%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.03%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) PropTech
7 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) Social Media
9 1 (0.81%) CCTV
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
9 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) CentOS
3 6 (4.84%) Windows
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.61%) Rocky
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.13%) Software Engineering
2 48 (38.71%) AI
3 41 (33.06%) Agile
4 39 (31.45%) CI/CD
5 36 (29.03%) Microservices
6 35 (28.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (26.61%) Data Modelling
8 30 (24.19%) DevOps
9 23 (18.55%) API Design
10 22 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (15.32%) Mentoring
12 18 (14.52%) Clean Code
12 18 (14.52%) Containerisation
12 18 (14.52%) Observability
13 16 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
15 14 (11.29%) Analytics
15 14 (11.29%) Migration
16 13 (10.48%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.35%) Python
2 31 (25.00%) SQL
3 28 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 18 (14.52%) PHP
5 17 (13.71%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.68%) C#
6 12 (9.68%) Java
7 11 (8.87%) Bash
8 7 (5.65%) Go
9 5 (4.03%) Ruby
10 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.81%) Scala
11 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.68%) Degree
3 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.29%) QA
3 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.03%) WCAG
5 2 (1.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (27.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.29%) Terraform
3 12 (9.68%) Ansible
4 9 (7.26%) Grafana
5 8 (6.45%) Nagios
6 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.42%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Oracle
2 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Red Hat
2 9 (7.26%) Splunk
3 6 (4.84%) Rapid7
4 3 (2.42%) Adobe
4 3 (2.42%) VMware
5 2 (1.61%) Google
5 2 (1.61%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.61%) PayPal
5 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.61%) Veeam
6 1 (0.81%) Apple
6 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.81%) Databricks
6 1 (0.81%) Informatica
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) Sybase
6 1 (0.81%) Talend