MySQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 207 148
Rank change year-on-year -113 -59 -20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 327 451 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.49% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 10.31% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 271 360 1,170
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,700 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,125 £71,991
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.05%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,209 4,373 11,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.64% 14.41% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,459 2,758 8,131
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
North of England -45 109 £50,000 -4.76% 39
South East -54 89 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands -46 52 £42,500 -2.86% 6
Yorkshire -20 46 £42,500 -10.53% 8
North West -25 42 £55,000 - 24
South West -76 35 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -18 28 £37,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -39 28 £47,500 +11.76% 11
West Midlands -34 24 £55,000 +33.33% 5
North East -47 21 £47,500 - 7
Wales -50 7 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Scotland +1 5 £58,000 +0.87% 3
Northern Ireland -38 2 £62,500 - 4
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.98%) CMS
3 9 (2.75%) WordPress
4 8 (2.45%) IIS
4 8 (2.45%) nginx
5 7 (2.14%) Apache
5 7 (2.14%) Confluence
6 6 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.61%) Drupal
7 2 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Shopify
2 3 (0.92%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (48.01%) AWS
2 87 (26.61%) Azure
3 31 (9.48%) GCP
4 26 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (7.65%) Power Platform
6 24 (7.34%) GitHub
7 17 (5.20%) SaaS
8 16 (4.89%) Serverless
9 12 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (2.45%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.22%) DigitalOcean
16 4 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.81%) Firewall
2 10 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.06%) VPN
3 8 (2.45%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.45%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.45%) SAN
3 8 (2.45%) VoIP
4 7 (2.14%) Network Security
5 5 (1.53%) LAN
5 5 (1.53%) WAN
6 4 (1.22%) DNS
6 4 (1.22%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (1.22%) MQTT
6 4 (1.22%) VLAN
7 3 (0.92%) Internet
7 3 (0.92%) RTP
7 3 (0.92%) SSH
7 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (31.19%) SQL Server
2 99 (30.28%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (18.04%) MongoDB
4 52 (15.90%) NoSQL
5 36 (11.01%) Relational Database
6 24 (7.34%) Power BI
7 21 (6.42%) MariaDB
8 13 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.45%) Redis
12 7 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.14%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.14%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.83%) Metadata
14 5 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.22%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 86 (26.30%) Git
2 21 (6.42%) JIRA
3 10 (3.06%) Bitbucket
3 10 (3.06%) GitLab
4 9 (2.75%) PHPUnit
5 6 (1.83%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.22%) Selenium
6 4 (1.22%) Vite
7 3 (0.92%) Mocha
8 2 (0.61%) JUnit
8 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.31%) Maven
9 1 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.31%) NUnit
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.31%) RSpec
9 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 80 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (9.48%) Finance
4 29 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.65%) Law
6 14 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.36%) Retail
8 10 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.83%) Banking
10 6 (1.83%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.53%) Advertising
11 5 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.22%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.22%) Legal
13 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.61%) Marketing
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 147 (44.95%) Developer
2 79 (24.16%) Senior
3 44 (13.46%) PHP Developer
4 42 (12.84%) Senior Developer
5 39 (11.93%) Software Engineer
6 29 (8.87%) DBA
6 29 (8.87%) Software Developer
7 23 (7.03%) Administrator
7 23 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (5.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 18 (5.50%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.89%) Lead
11 15 (4.59%) Web Developer
12 14 (4.28%) Senior Software Developer
12 14 (4.28%) SQL DBA
13 13 (3.98%) Analyst
13 13 (3.98%) Database Engineer
14 12 (3.67%) C# Software Developer
14 12 (3.67%) Graduate
14 12 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (28.13%) CSS
2 77 (23.55%) HTML
3 56 (17.13%) Laravel
4 55 (16.82%) RESTful
5 53 (16.21%) Node.js
6 45 (13.76%) React
7 43 (13.15%) Vue
8 41 (12.54%) REST
9 31 (9.48%) .NET
10 29 (8.87%) jQuery
11 24 (7.34%) HTML5
12 22 (6.73%) AngularJS
13 19 (5.81%) CSS3
14 18 (5.50%) JSON
14 18 (5.50%) Spring
15 16 (4.89%) Spring Boot
16 12 (3.67%) ASP.NET
17 11 (3.36%) LAMP
18 10 (3.06%) Tailwind CSS
19 9 (2.75%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.40%) Replication
2 25 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.28%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.75%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.14%) IoT
9 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.22%) EPoS
11 4 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.22%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (28.75%) Linux
2 20 (6.12%) Ubuntu
3 19 (5.81%) Windows
4 16 (4.89%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.28%) Debian
6 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.92%) Android
8 3 (0.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (34.56%) Agile
2 83 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (22.32%) CI/CD
4 57 (17.43%) Microservices
4 57 (17.43%) Software Engineering
5 52 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (11.93%) DevOps
7 39 (11.93%) Mentoring
8 36 (11.01%) TDD
9 33 (10.09%) Computer Science
9 33 (10.09%) High Availability
10 32 (9.79%) Web Development
11 30 (9.17%) Clean Code
12 28 (8.56%) Containerisation
12 28 (8.56%) OOP
12 28 (8.56%) Open Source
13 27 (8.26%) AI
13 27 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (7.95%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 131 (40.06%) SQL
2 126 (38.53%) JavaScript
3 117 (35.78%) PHP
4 68 (20.80%) Java
5 46 (14.07%) Python
6 45 (13.76%) C#
7 24 (7.34%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 20 (6.12%) C++
10 18 (5.50%) Bash
11 15 (4.59%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.36%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.14%) Go
14 6 (1.83%) C
14 6 (1.83%) Korn
15 5 (1.53%) Ruby
16 4 (1.22%) Scala
17 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.92%) VBA
18 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (15.90%) Degree
2 24 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.83%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.22%) HNC
7 4 (1.22%) HND
8 3 (0.92%) RHCE
9 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.12%) Data Quality
1 20 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (6.12%) QA
2 9 (2.75%) GDPR
3 7 (2.14%) SLA
4 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 54 (16.51%) Docker
2 26 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (2.14%) vSphere
6 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.92%) iptables
7 3 (0.92%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.61%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.98%) Terraform
3 12 (3.67%) Ansible
4 7 (2.14%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.14%) Puppet
5 6 (1.83%) Grafana
5 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.22%) Argo
6 4 (1.22%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.92%) Plesk
7 3 (0.92%) Rancher
7 3 (0.92%) systemd
8 1 (0.31%) Graylog
8 1 (0.31%) Podman
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.28%) Oracle
3 11 (3.36%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.36%) VMware
4 10 (3.06%) Google
5 9 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.45%) Dell
7 5 (1.53%) Splunk
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) WooCommerce
9 3 (0.92%) Adobe
9 3 (0.92%) BT
9 3 (0.92%) Mitel
9 3 (0.92%) Synology
9 3 (0.92%) Veeam
9 3 (0.92%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.61%) Meraki
10 2 (0.61%) New Relic
10 2 (0.61%) Salesforce