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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 213 171
Rank change year-on-year -27 -42 -85
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 167 346 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.47% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.06% 6.86% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 137 318 417
10th Percentile £46,676 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%

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 2,755 5,045 8,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.67% 21.37% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,932 3,800 6,056
10th Percentile £48,775 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -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 3 May 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 3 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
Central London -12 34 £66,250 -1.85% 33
West London +52 6 £66,000 +5.60% 7
East London -3 1 £92,500 +32.14% 5
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 (5.99%) WordPress
2 7 (4.19%) nginx
3 5 (2.99%) SAS
4 4 (2.40%) CMS
4 4 (2.40%) Drupal
5 3 (1.80%) Confluence
5 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.20%) Apache
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) Camunda
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.60%) Appian
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.99%) SPSS
4 3 (1.80%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Relativity
1 4 (2.40%) Ringtail
1 4 (2.40%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 105 (62.87%) AWS
2 32 (19.16%) GCP
3 28 (16.77%) Azure
4 16 (9.58%) GitHub
5 14 (8.38%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.59%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (5.39%) SaaS
9 8 (4.79%) Serverless
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.59%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (2.99%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.99%) Twilio
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) Internet
2 5 (2.99%) MQTT
2 5 (2.99%) SMS
2 5 (2.99%) VPN
3 3 (1.80%) DNS
3 3 (1.80%) Multicast
3 3 (1.80%) VLAN
4 2 (1.20%) HTTP
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
5 1 (0.60%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.60%) SSH
5 1 (0.60%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (21.56%) MongoDB
3 25 (14.97%) NoSQL
4 22 (13.17%) Relational Database
5 19 (11.38%) SQL Server
6 18 (10.78%) Redis
7 11 (6.59%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.59%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.59%) Power BI
10 5 (2.99%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.99%) Tableau
11 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.40%) EDRMS
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.20%) Big Data
13 2 (1.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 48 (28.74%) Git
2 8 (4.79%) GitLab
2 8 (4.79%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.79%) Maven
3 7 (4.19%) Gradle
4 6 (3.59%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.40%) JIRA
6 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.20%) JUnit
7 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) JMeter
8 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.60%) RSpec
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) Subversion
8 1 (0.60%) TestNG
8 1 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 51 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.95%) Finance
3 17 (10.18%) Games
4 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Banking
5 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Turkish Language
7 6 (3.59%) Advertising
7 6 (3.59%) Marketing
8 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.40%) Local Government
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) French Language
10 3 (1.80%) German Language
10 3 (1.80%) Greek Language
10 3 (1.80%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.80%) Romanian Language
10 3 (1.80%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 77 (46.11%) Developer
2 38 (22.75%) Senior
3 29 (17.37%) Lead
4 27 (16.17%) Senior Developer
5 18 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (9.58%) PHP Developer
7 8 (4.79%) Software Developer
8 7 (4.19%) C# Developer
8 7 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (3.59%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.59%) React Developer
10 5 (2.99%) .NET Developer
10 5 (2.99%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (2.99%) PHP Software Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Python Developer
10 5 (2.99%) SEO Manager
10 5 (2.99%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.33%) React
2 31 (18.56%) CSS
2 31 (18.56%) HTML
3 26 (15.57%) jQuery
4 24 (14.37%) RESTful
5 23 (13.77%) Ruby on Rails
6 22 (13.17%) Laravel
7 20 (11.98%) Node.js
8 18 (10.78%) Kafka
9 17 (10.18%) .NET
10 16 (9.58%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (8.38%) Spring
12 13 (7.78%) Vue
13 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (5.99%) CSS3
14 10 (5.99%) HTML5
15 9 (5.39%) Django
16 8 (4.79%) .NET Framework
16 8 (4.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.17%) NHS
2 21 (12.57%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.98%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.79%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.59%) Mobile Games
7 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.99%) Blog
8 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.80%) IoT
10 2 (1.20%) Clustering
10 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.20%) Derivative
10 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.20%) Online Games
10 2 (1.20%) Replication
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.37%) Linux
2 7 (4.19%) CentOS
3 5 (2.99%) Windows
4 4 (2.40%) Rocky
5 1 (0.60%) Debian
5 1 (0.60%) Fedora
5 1 (0.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.13%) Agile
2 54 (32.34%) Software Engineering
3 41 (24.55%) CI/CD
4 34 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (19.76%) Microservices
6 31 (18.56%) DevOps
7 27 (16.17%) MVC
7 27 (16.17%) Roadmaps
8 25 (14.97%) Product Roadmap
9 23 (13.77%) Computer Science
9 23 (13.77%) Fintech
10 22 (13.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (11.98%) Containerisation
11 20 (11.98%) Web Development
12 19 (11.38%) OO
12 19 (11.38%) OOP
13 18 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (10.78%) Design Patterns
13 18 (10.78%) Mentoring
13 18 (10.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.73%) JavaScript
2 48 (28.74%) Python
3 47 (28.14%) SQL
4 46 (27.54%) PHP
5 29 (17.37%) Java
6 24 (14.37%) Ruby
7 20 (11.98%) TypeScript
8 18 (10.78%) C#
9 11 (6.59%) Bash
10 7 (4.19%) R
11 5 (2.99%) Go
11 5 (2.99%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.80%) C++
12 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.80%) Rust
12 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (1.20%) VBA
14 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.60%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.96%) Degree
2 17 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.99%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.80%) WCAG
3 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.20%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (27.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Samba
2 3 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Terraform
3 10 (5.99%) Ansible
4 9 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.79%) Argo
6 7 (4.19%) Grafana
6 7 (4.19%) Nagios
7 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.60%) Istio
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
8 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.60%) Puppet
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.98%) Google
2 15 (8.98%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.39%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (4.19%) New Relic
6 5 (2.99%) Ahrefs
6 5 (2.99%) Screaming Frog
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
6 5 (2.99%) Vertica
7 4 (2.40%) Nuix
7 4 (2.40%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.40%) Recommind
8 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.80%) Twitter
8 3 (1.80%) VMware
9 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.60%) Okta
10 1 (0.60%) Revolut
10 1 (0.60%) YouTube