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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 130 115
Rank change year-on-year -107 -15 +59
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 314 902 795
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.90% 2.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.12% 13.93% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 270 577 705
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,375 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,688 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Database and 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 3,865 6,476 6,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.47% 13.64% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 3,385 4,914
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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
North of England -65 79 £52,500 - 38
South East -81 66 £60,000 +18.81% 77
Midlands -11 53 £42,500 -3.41% 38
East of England -13 52 £50,000 - 13
South West -47 42 £56,250 +12.50% 26
North West -39 40 £60,000 +14.29% 25
West Midlands +22 31 £39,000 -15.68% 28
Yorkshire -16 28 £37,500 -31.82% 12
Wales -7 18 £67,500 +107.69% 1
East Midlands -22 18 £45,000 +20.00% 10
North East +7 11 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Scotland -21 4 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland +2 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2
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 14 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.50%) IIS
3 9 (2.87%) Apache Solr
4 8 (2.55%) Apache
4 8 (2.55%) CMS
4 8 (2.55%) Confluence
5 7 (2.23%) WordPress
6 5 (1.59%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.59%) nginx
6 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.64%) SAS
8 1 (0.32%) Appian
8 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.59%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.27%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Magento
2 2 (0.64%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 117 (37.26%) AWS
2 105 (33.44%) Azure
3 39 (12.42%) SaaS
4 31 (9.87%) GCP
5 27 (8.60%) GitHub
6 16 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (4.46%) Cloudflare
8 13 (4.14%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.14%) Serverless
9 10 (3.18%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.59%) Google Analytics
15 4 (1.27%) Firebase
15 4 (1.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.82%) FTP
2 10 (3.18%) Firewall
3 9 (2.87%) SAN
4 8 (2.55%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.91%) Internet
6 5 (1.59%) Broadband
6 5 (1.59%) WPA
7 3 (0.96%) DNS
7 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.64%) DHCP
8 2 (0.64%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
8 2 (0.64%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) IPsec
9 1 (0.32%) MQTT
9 1 (0.32%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (32.48%) SQL Server
2 66 (21.02%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.51%) MongoDB
3 33 (10.51%) Relational Database
4 26 (8.28%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.73%) BusinessObjects
5 18 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.82%) Power BI
8 7 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.23%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.59%) Redis
9 5 (1.59%) Tableau
10 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.96%) Big Data
11 3 (0.96%) DB2
Development Applications
1 67 (21.34%) Git
2 20 (6.37%) JIRA
3 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.59%) git-flow
3 5 (1.59%) NUnit
3 5 (1.59%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.27%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) Jasmine
5 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.64%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.32%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Mocha
7 1 (0.32%) Mockito
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 114 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.20%) Finance
3 43 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.73%) Law
5 17 (5.41%) Marketing
6 11 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.50%) Retail
7 10 (3.18%) Games
8 8 (2.55%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.59%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.27%) Banking
12 3 (0.96%) Advertising
12 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.64%) Automotive
13 2 (0.64%) Billing
13 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 179 (57.01%) Developer
2 64 (20.38%) Senior
3 39 (12.42%) PHP Developer
4 37 (11.78%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.15%) Software Developer
6 32 (10.19%) Lead
7 31 (9.87%) Graduate
7 31 (9.87%) Graduate Developer
8 28 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (8.28%) Analyst
10 23 (7.32%) IT Graduate
11 20 (6.37%) C# Developer
12 19 (6.05%) Applications Support
13 16 (5.10%) Software Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) SQL Developer
14 15 (4.78%) .NET Developer
14 15 (4.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (4.78%) Support Analyst
15 13 (4.14%) Graduate C# Developer
15 13 (4.14%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (35.35%) CSS
2 96 (30.57%) HTML
3 59 (18.79%) .NET
4 54 (17.20%) React
5 47 (14.97%) Laravel
6 36 (11.46%) ASP.NET
6 36 (11.46%) jQuery
7 30 (9.55%) REST
8 29 (9.24%) RESTful
8 29 (9.24%) Vue
9 26 (8.28%) HTML5
10 25 (7.96%) Symfony
11 23 (7.32%) AngularJS
11 23 (7.32%) Node.js
12 17 (5.41%) JSON
13 16 (5.10%) CakePHP
14 15 (4.78%) Web Services
15 14 (4.46%) CSS3
15 14 (4.46%) XML
16 13 (4.14%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.50%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.55%) IoT
5 8 (2.55%) Legacy Code
5 8 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.23%) NHS
7 6 (1.91%) Clustering
7 6 (1.91%) Online Games
8 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.20%) Linux
2 32 (10.19%) Windows
3 17 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.27%) Unix
6 4 (1.27%) VMS
7 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.64%) Android
8 2 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (37.26%) Agile
2 115 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (17.83%) CI/CD
4 56 (17.83%) MVC
5 54 (17.20%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (15.61%) OO
7 47 (14.97%) OOP
8 43 (13.69%) Computer Science
9 40 (12.74%) Microservices
10 37 (11.78%) AI
11 35 (11.15%) Software Engineering
12 33 (10.51%) ETL
13 31 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (9.87%) Containerisation
14 30 (9.55%) DevOps
15 29 (9.24%) User Experience
16 28 (8.92%) E-Commerce
17 26 (8.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 136 (43.31%) SQL
2 128 (40.76%) JavaScript
3 115 (36.62%) PHP
4 68 (21.66%) C#
5 63 (20.06%) TypeScript
6 57 (18.15%) Java
6 57 (18.15%) Python
7 31 (9.87%) C++
8 13 (4.14%) Bash
9 9 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.87%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.55%) Korn
11 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.27%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.96%) Perl
12 3 (0.96%) R
12 3 (0.96%) Scala
12 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.96%) VB
13 2 (0.64%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (16.88%) Degree
2 40 (12.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.27%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.64%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.14%) QA
2 6 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.91%) SLA
3 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) GDPR
4 2 (0.64%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 55 (17.52%) Docker
2 14 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.64%) Firmware
5 2 (0.64%) HDFS
5 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.78%) Terraform
3 8 (2.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.96%) Kibana
5 2 (0.64%) Argo
5 2 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.64%) logstash
5 2 (0.64%) Oozie
5 2 (0.64%) Plesk
5 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.87%) Oracle
3 15 (4.78%) SAP
4 11 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.87%) Databricks
5 9 (2.87%) Dell
5 9 (2.87%) Google
5 9 (2.87%) Informatica
5 9 (2.87%) Splunk
6 8 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.23%) Rollbar
8 6 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.91%) RedGate
8 6 (1.91%) Talend
9 4 (1.27%) Adobe
9 4 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.27%) VMware
9 4 (1.27%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.96%) Apple
10 3 (0.96%) Zend