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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 210 146
Rank change year-on-year -102 -64 -17
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 317 463 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.56% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.26% 10.59% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 262 373 1,165
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,350 £31,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,084
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 £75,068 £76,250 £71,991
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.06%

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 5,065 4,373 11,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.55% 14.69% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 2,747 8,146
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 £82,751 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 16 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 16 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 -49 105 £50,000 -4.76% 133
South East -46 89 £55,000 +10.00% 124
Midlands -28 50 £42,500 -5.56% 63
Yorkshire -26 44 £42,500 -10.53% 46
North West -29 43 £55,000 - 61
South West -78 33 £55,000 -4.35% 49
East Midlands -21 27 £37,500 -16.67% 33
East of England -41 27 £46,250 +23.33% 76
West Midlands -35 23 £47,500 +11.76% 30
North East -43 18 £47,500 - 26
Wales -52 6 £40,000 -21.95% 34
Scotland -12 5 £58,000 +0.87% 53
Northern Ireland -35 2 £62,500 -26.47% 38
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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.10%) CMS
3 9 (2.84%) nginx
3 9 (2.84%) WordPress
4 8 (2.52%) Confluence
4 8 (2.52%) IIS
5 6 (1.89%) Apache
5 6 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.63%) Drupal
6 2 (0.63%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.21%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.95%) Magento
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (47.63%) AWS
2 82 (25.87%) Azure
3 30 (9.46%) GCP
4 27 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 22 (6.94%) GitHub
7 16 (5.05%) SaaS
8 14 (4.42%) Serverless
9 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.52%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 4 (1.26%) DigitalOcean
14 4 (1.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.99%) Firewall
2 10 (3.15%) VPN
3 9 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.52%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.52%) SAN
5 7 (2.21%) VoIP
6 6 (1.89%) Network Security
7 4 (1.26%) DNS
7 4 (1.26%) LAN
7 4 (1.26%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (1.26%) MQTT
7 4 (1.26%) VLAN
7 4 (1.26%) WAN
8 3 (0.95%) DHCP
8 3 (0.95%) HTTP
8 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.95%) RTP
8 3 (0.95%) SSH
8 3 (0.95%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (30.60%) SQL Server
2 95 (29.97%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (17.98%) MongoDB
4 52 (16.40%) NoSQL
5 36 (11.36%) Relational Database
6 23 (7.26%) Power BI
7 20 (6.31%) MariaDB
8 11 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.52%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.21%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.21%) Redis
12 6 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.89%) Metadata
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.26%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.26%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 80 (25.24%) Git
2 21 (6.62%) JIRA
3 9 (2.84%) GitLab
3 9 (2.84%) PHPUnit
4 8 (2.52%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.58%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.26%) Selenium
7 4 (1.26%) Vite
8 3 (0.95%) Mocha
9 2 (0.63%) JUnit
10 1 (0.32%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.32%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) Mockito
10 1 (0.32%) MSTest
10 1 (0.32%) NUnit
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.32%) Subversion
10 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.09%) Finance
4 28 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.94%) Law
6 14 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.47%) Retail
8 10 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.89%) Advertising
10 6 (1.89%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.58%) Banking
12 4 (1.26%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.26%) Legal
13 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.95%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
15 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 144 (45.43%) Developer
2 78 (24.61%) Senior
3 45 (14.20%) PHP Developer
4 42 (13.25%) Senior Developer
5 37 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 29 (9.15%) Software Developer
7 27 (8.52%) DBA
8 21 (6.62%) Administrator
9 20 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (5.99%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 17 (5.36%) C# Developer
12 15 (4.73%) Lead
12 15 (4.73%) Web Developer
13 14 (4.42%) Analyst
13 14 (4.42%) Senior Software Developer
13 14 (4.42%) SQL DBA
14 12 (3.79%) C# Software Developer
14 12 (3.79%) Graduate
15 11 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (29.02%) CSS
2 78 (24.61%) HTML
3 55 (17.35%) Laravel
4 52 (16.40%) RESTful
5 50 (15.77%) Node.js
6 42 (13.25%) React
7 41 (12.93%) Vue
8 36 (11.36%) REST
9 28 (8.83%) jQuery
10 27 (8.52%) .NET
11 23 (7.26%) HTML5
12 20 (6.31%) AngularJS
13 19 (5.99%) CSS3
14 18 (5.68%) JSON
14 18 (5.68%) Spring
15 16 (5.05%) Spring Boot
16 10 (3.15%) ASP.NET
16 10 (3.15%) LAMP
16 10 (3.15%) Tailwind CSS
17 8 (2.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.46%) Replication
2 22 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.10%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.21%) IoT
7 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.26%) EPoS
9 4 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.26%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 89 (28.08%) Linux
2 19 (5.99%) Ubuntu
2 19 (5.99%) Windows
3 16 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.10%) Debian
5 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.95%) CentOS
8 2 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (34.38%) Agile
2 75 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (21.14%) CI/CD
4 55 (17.35%) Microservices
5 51 (16.09%) Software Engineering
6 47 (14.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (12.30%) Mentoring
8 36 (11.36%) TDD
9 35 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (10.73%) Computer Science
11 33 (10.41%) DevOps
11 33 (10.41%) Web Development
12 29 (9.15%) Clean Code
12 29 (9.15%) High Availability
12 29 (9.15%) OOP
13 28 (8.83%) Open Source
14 26 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (8.20%) Containerisation
15 25 (7.89%) AI
15 25 (7.89%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 126 (39.75%) SQL
2 125 (39.43%) JavaScript
3 116 (36.59%) PHP
4 66 (20.82%) Java
5 44 (13.88%) Python
6 41 (12.93%) C#
7 22 (6.94%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.31%) C++
9 18 (5.68%) Bash
10 12 (3.79%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.47%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.89%) C
12 6 (1.89%) Go
12 6 (1.89%) Korn
13 5 (1.58%) Ruby
14 4 (1.26%) Scala
15 3 (0.95%) VBA
16 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (16.72%) Degree
2 25 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.89%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.26%) HNC
7 4 (1.26%) HND
8 3 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.95%) RHCE
9 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.99%) Data Quality
1 19 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.36%) QA
3 8 (2.52%) GDPR
4 7 (2.21%) SLA
5 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.32%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (16.40%) Docker
2 26 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (2.21%) vSphere
6 4 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.95%) iptables
7 3 (0.95%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.63%) Samba
9 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.47%) Ansible
3 10 (3.15%) Terraform
4 7 (2.21%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.21%) Puppet
5 5 (1.58%) Grafana
5 5 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.26%) Argo
6 4 (1.26%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.95%) Plesk
7 3 (0.95%) systemd
8 2 (0.63%) Rancher
9 1 (0.32%) Graylog
9 1 (0.32%) Podman
9 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.42%) Oracle
3 11 (3.47%) Google
3 11 (3.47%) VMware
4 10 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.52%) Dell
7 4 (1.26%) Cisco
7 4 (1.26%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.26%) Splunk
7 4 (1.26%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.95%) Adobe
8 3 (0.95%) BT
8 3 (0.95%) Mitel
8 3 (0.95%) Synology
8 3 (0.95%) Veeam
9 2 (0.63%) Meraki
9 2 (0.63%) New Relic
9 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.63%) Xamarin