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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 139 133
Rank change year-on-year -174 -6 +11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 272 547 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 2.08% 2.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 12.33% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 221 467 1,163
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,100 £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 4,349 4,438 11,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 16.90% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 2,916 8,128
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,699
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

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 March 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 24 March 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 -94 71 £55,000 +10.00% 25
North of England -91 68 £52,130 -0.70% 34
Midlands -73 45 £41,250 -2.94% 16
East of England -19 40 £50,000 +17.65% 20
South West -72 40 £57,500 -4.17% 23
North West -51 36 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Yorkshire -58 27 £50,000 +2.04% 4
West Midlands -19 26 £42,500 -10.53% 10
East Midlands -67 19 £40,000 +6.67% 6
North East -29 5 £51,000 -7.27% 3
Scotland -43 4 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland -32 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -40 1 £45,000 +38.46% 8
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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.41%) nginx
3 11 (4.04%) CMS
4 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.84%) Confluence
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.10%) IIS
8 2 (0.74%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.74%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.37%) Camunda
9 1 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.84%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (45.22%) AWS
2 71 (26.10%) Azure
3 37 (13.60%) GCP
4 35 (12.87%) SaaS
5 25 (9.19%) GitHub
6 22 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.04%) Serverless
9 9 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.94%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.84%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.47%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.10%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.41%) VPN
2 10 (3.68%) Firewall
3 6 (2.21%) FTP
3 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.84%) DHCP
4 5 (1.84%) DNS
4 5 (1.84%) Network Security
5 4 (1.47%) HTTP
6 3 (1.10%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.10%) MQTT
6 3 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.10%) RTP
6 3 (1.10%) SAN
6 3 (1.10%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.10%) VLAN
6 3 (1.10%) VoIP
6 3 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.10%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.74%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.74%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (25.74%) SQL Server
2 59 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (16.18%) MongoDB
4 39 (14.34%) NoSQL
5 32 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.88%) Power BI
8 15 (5.51%) BusinessObjects
9 12 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.68%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.94%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.21%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.84%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.47%) MariaDB
16 3 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
16 3 (1.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 64 (23.53%) Git
2 17 (6.25%) JIRA
3 12 (4.41%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.84%) git-flow
5 5 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.84%) Vite
6 4 (1.47%) GitLab
7 3 (1.10%) JUnit
7 3 (1.10%) Mockito
8 2 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.37%) MSTest
9 1 (0.37%) NUnit
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.37%) Subversion
9 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.82%) Finance
4 16 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.04%) Retail
6 8 (2.94%) Law
7 5 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.84%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.47%) Advertising
8 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.10%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Games
10 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 150 (55.15%) Developer
2 61 (22.43%) Senior
3 42 (15.44%) PHP Developer
4 40 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 30 (11.03%) Software Developer
6 25 (9.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (8.82%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.99%) Backend Developer
9 16 (5.88%) Analyst
9 16 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
10 15 (5.51%) Applications Support
10 15 (5.51%) C# Developer
11 14 (5.15%) DBA
11 14 (5.15%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Azure Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Graduate
12 12 (4.41%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Graduate Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.74%) CSS
2 61 (22.43%) HTML
3 52 (19.12%) Laravel
4 51 (18.75%) React
5 34 (12.50%) Vue
6 31 (11.40%) Node.js
6 31 (11.40%) RESTful
7 28 (10.29%) REST
8 25 (9.19%) .NET
9 20 (7.35%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.25%) JSON
11 15 (5.51%) jQuery
11 15 (5.51%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (5.51%) Spring
11 15 (5.51%) Symfony
12 14 (5.15%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.15%) XML
13 12 (4.41%) Next.js
14 11 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
14 11 (4.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.46%) Cloud Native
1 23 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.15%) Replication
3 12 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.04%) IoT
5 10 (3.68%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.57%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.57%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.47%) Clustering
11 4 (1.47%) EPoS
12 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.10%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.10%) NHS
12 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.10%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.69%) Linux
2 16 (5.88%) Windows
3 11 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.21%) Debian
5 5 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.47%) VMS
6 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.10%) CentOS
7 3 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.76%) Agile
2 66 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (19.49%) Microservices
4 51 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 48 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (13.97%) TDD
7 37 (13.60%) Mentoring
7 37 (13.60%) Software Engineering
8 34 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 33 (12.13%) OOP
10 30 (11.03%) DevOps
11 29 (10.66%) MVC
12 28 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (10.29%) Test Automation
13 27 (9.93%) Computer Science
13 27 (9.93%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.19%) ETL
15 21 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.72%) Web Development
16 20 (7.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 110 (40.44%) PHP
1 110 (40.44%) SQL
2 93 (34.19%) JavaScript
3 48 (17.65%) Java
4 46 (16.91%) TypeScript
5 41 (15.07%) Python
6 38 (13.97%) C#
7 19 (6.99%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.62%) C++
9 13 (4.78%) T-SQL
10 11 (4.04%) Bash
11 7 (2.57%) Go
12 6 (2.21%) C
13 5 (1.84%) Scala
14 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.74%) Perl
15 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.37%) Korn
16 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (13.24%) Degree
2 23 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.47%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.10%) RHCE
7 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.74%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (5.15%) QA
2 11 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.94%) SLA
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (15.81%) Docker
2 21 (7.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.21%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (1.47%) vSphere
5 3 (1.10%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.74%) Samba
6 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 32 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.15%) Terraform
3 12 (4.41%) Ansible
4 6 (2.21%) Argo
5 3 (1.10%) Grafana
5 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.10%) Rancher
6 2 (0.74%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.74%) Galera Cluster
6 2 (0.74%) Nagios
6 2 (0.74%) Plesk
6 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
6 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) Graylog
7 1 (0.37%) Podman
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.99%) Oracle
3 13 (4.78%) SAP
4 12 (4.41%) Google
5 10 (3.68%) VMware
6 5 (1.84%) Databricks
6 5 (1.84%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.47%) Informatica
7 4 (1.47%) Palantir
7 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.47%) Zend
8 3 (1.10%) Apple
8 3 (1.10%) BT
8 3 (1.10%) Dell
8 3 (1.10%) Mitel
8 3 (1.10%) RedGate
8 3 (1.10%) Talend
9 2 (0.74%) Draytek
9 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft