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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 171 146
Rank change year-on-year -139 -25 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 298 502 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.80% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.06% 11.71% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 240 421 1,178
10th Percentile £32,375 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 4,918 4,288 11,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.45% 15.41% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 2,941 8,161
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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
South East -70 84 £55,000 +10.00% 39
North of England -103 80 £50,000 -4.76% 42
Midlands -63 46 £42,500 -10.53% 14
North West -59 43 £55,000 - 20
South West -76 43 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East of England -27 35 £50,000 +21.21% 10
Yorkshire -71 29 £50,000 +2.04% 18
East Midlands -53 25 £37,500 -6.25% 10
West Midlands -39 21 £46,250 -10.19% 4
North East -35 8 £47,500 -11.63% 4
Scotland -36 5 £58,000 +5.45% 3
Wales -44 3 £35,000 - 3
Northern Ireland -40 2 £62,500 -26.47%
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 18 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.70%) CMS
3 12 (4.03%) nginx
4 6 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.68%) Apache
5 5 (1.68%) Confluence
5 5 (1.68%) IIS
5 5 (1.68%) WordPress
6 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.67%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.34%) Camunda
9 1 (0.34%) JBoss
9 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Shopify
2 3 (1.01%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (43.96%) AWS
2 72 (24.16%) Azure
3 43 (14.43%) GCP
4 28 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (7.05%) SaaS
6 19 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 18 (6.04%) GitHub
8 8 (2.68%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.35%) Serverless
10 6 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.34%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.34%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.37%) Firewall
2 11 (3.69%) VPN
3 8 (2.68%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.68%) SAN
4 5 (1.68%) Network Security
5 4 (1.34%) HTTP
5 4 (1.34%) MQTT
5 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.01%) DHCP
6 3 (1.01%) DNS
6 3 (1.01%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (1.01%) RTP
6 3 (1.01%) SSH
6 3 (1.01%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.01%) VLAN
6 3 (1.01%) VoIP
6 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.01%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.67%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (29.53%) SQL Server
2 69 (23.15%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (14.09%) MongoDB
4 40 (13.42%) NoSQL
5 30 (10.07%) Relational Database
6 19 (6.38%) Power BI
7 13 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (3.02%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.68%) MariaDB
12 7 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.35%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.68%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
15 3 (1.01%) InfluxDB
15 3 (1.01%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 69 (23.15%) Git
2 13 (4.36%) JIRA
3 11 (3.69%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.01%) GitLab
5 5 (1.68%) Vite
6 4 (1.34%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.67%) Gradle
7 2 (0.67%) JUnit
7 2 (0.67%) Maven
7 2 (0.67%) Mockito
7 2 (0.67%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Ant
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) MSTest
8 1 (0.34%) NUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.74%) Finance
4 16 (5.37%) Law
5 15 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.69%) Retail
7 10 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Advertising
8 6 (2.01%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.01%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.34%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Automotive
12 2 (0.67%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
13 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 151 (50.67%) Developer
2 71 (23.83%) Senior
3 53 (17.79%) PHP Developer
4 37 (12.42%) Senior Developer
5 29 (9.73%) Software Developer
6 24 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (6.38%) Backend Developer
8 19 (6.38%) C# Developer
8 19 (6.38%) DBA
8 19 (6.38%) Senior Backend Developer
9 16 (5.37%) Analyst
9 16 (5.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 16 (5.37%) SQL Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Administrator
10 14 (4.70%) Azure Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Graduate C# Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 14 (4.70%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (28.19%) CSS
2 70 (23.49%) HTML
3 60 (20.13%) Laravel
4 46 (15.44%) React
5 40 (13.42%) RESTful
6 36 (12.08%) Vue
7 29 (9.73%) jQuery
8 28 (9.40%) Node.js
9 27 (9.06%) REST
10 24 (8.05%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.38%) .NET
12 17 (5.70%) HTML5
13 16 (5.37%) CSS3
13 16 (5.37%) JSON
14 15 (5.03%) Spring
15 14 (4.70%) Spring Boot
16 12 (4.03%) Tailwind CSS
17 10 (3.36%) Symfony
17 10 (3.36%) XML
18 9 (3.02%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.38%) Replication
2 21 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.69%) IoT
6 10 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.02%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.34%) EPoS
10 4 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Smart Home
11 3 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 79 (26.51%) Linux
2 19 (6.38%) Windows
3 16 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.69%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.02%) Debian
5 9 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.01%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (34.23%) Agile
2 65 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (16.44%) CI/CD
4 48 (16.11%) Microservices
5 41 (13.76%) TDD
6 38 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (12.75%) OOP
7 37 (12.42%) Software Engineering
8 33 (11.07%) Computer Science
9 30 (10.07%) Mentoring
10 29 (9.73%) Containerisation
11 28 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (9.40%) MVC
12 27 (9.06%) Web Development
13 26 (8.72%) Test Automation
14 25 (8.39%) Data Modelling
15 24 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (7.72%) DevOps
17 21 (7.05%) Time Management
18 20 (6.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 124 (41.61%) SQL
2 123 (41.28%) PHP
3 101 (33.89%) JavaScript
4 53 (17.79%) Java
5 44 (14.77%) Python
6 36 (12.08%) C#
7 32 (10.74%) TypeScript
8 21 (7.05%) PowerShell
9 20 (6.71%) C++
10 19 (6.38%) Bash
11 10 (3.36%) T-SQL
12 8 (2.68%) Go
12 8 (2.68%) Scala
13 7 (2.35%) Shell Script
14 6 (2.01%) C
14 6 (2.01%) Korn
15 3 (1.01%) VBA
16 1 (0.34%) Perl
16 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (16.44%) Degree
2 27 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.68%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.68%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.34%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.01%) HNC
6 3 (1.01%) HND
6 3 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.01%) RHCE
7 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.69%) QA
4 7 (2.35%) GDPR
4 7 (2.35%) SLA
5 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (14.43%) Docker
2 26 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 9 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.01%) iptables
6 3 (1.01%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.67%) Samba
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.03%) Ansible
2 12 (4.03%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
3 6 (2.01%) Puppet
4 4 (1.34%) Argo
4 4 (1.34%) Grafana
4 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.34%) Rancher
5 3 (1.01%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.01%) systemd
5 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.67%) Plesk
7 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.34%) Graylog
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Podman
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.70%) Oracle
3 12 (4.03%) Google
4 10 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.02%) VMware
6 8 (2.68%) Dell
6 8 (2.68%) SAP
7 5 (1.68%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.34%) Adobe
8 4 (1.34%) Databricks
8 4 (1.34%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.34%) Palantir
9 3 (1.01%) BT
9 3 (1.01%) Cisco
9 3 (1.01%) Mitel
9 3 (1.01%) Zend
10 2 (0.67%) Apple
10 2 (0.67%) Informatica
10 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.67%) Veeam