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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 266 142
Rank change year-on-year -88 -124 -8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 368 308 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.90% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 7.76% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 290 247 543
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £69,688 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -5.68%

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 5,356 3,969 6,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.16% 11.54% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,845 2,448 3,291
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,790 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -16 131 £42,500 -19.05% 53
South East -31 90 £57,500 -2.13% 46
North West -19 59 £49,250 -17.92% 26
Yorkshire -18 41 £42,500 +13.33% 17
Midlands -55 37 £54,000 +30.91% 23
South West -65 37 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East of England -37 32 £48,750 +2.63% 30
North East -52 31 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Wales -62 27 £62,000 -8.15% 4
West Midlands -41 19 £55,000 +41.03% 17
East Midlands -33 18 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland +14 12 £40,000 -46.67% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 12
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 27 (7.34%) IIS
2 17 (4.62%) Apache
3 13 (3.53%) WordPress
4 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.17%) Confluence
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Drupal
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Elementor
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Shopify
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 186 (50.54%) AWS
2 121 (32.88%) Azure
3 60 (16.30%) GCP
4 29 (7.88%) GitHub
5 21 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.89%) Serverless
7 16 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.80%) Entra ID
9 13 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.90%) ChatGPT
14 7 (1.90%) SaaS
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.16%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.80%) DNS
3 12 (3.26%) VPN
4 9 (2.45%) VLAN
5 8 (2.17%) DHCP
5 8 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.90%) Firewall
7 6 (1.63%) VoIP
8 4 (1.09%) HTTP
8 4 (1.09%) Internet
8 4 (1.09%) LAN
8 4 (1.09%) WAN
9 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.82%) SSH
10 2 (0.54%) 4G
10 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.54%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.54%) Network Security
10 2 (0.54%) SAN
10 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (34.24%) SQL Server
2 119 (32.34%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (19.84%) Relational Database
4 65 (17.66%) MongoDB
5 51 (13.86%) NoSQL
6 25 (6.79%) MariaDB
7 21 (5.71%) Redis
8 15 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.08%) Power BI
9 7 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.90%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.63%) Metadata
10 6 (1.63%) SQLite
11 5 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.09%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (28.53%) Git
2 23 (6.25%) Claude Code
2 23 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.62%) GitLab
4 15 (4.08%) JIRA
5 14 (3.80%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (3.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.63%) Selenium
8 5 (1.36%) Postman
8 5 (1.36%) RSpec
9 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.09%) JUnit
9 4 (1.09%) minitest
9 4 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.82%) Mocha
10 3 (0.82%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.82%) Vite
11 2 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 68 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.23%) Law
5 24 (6.52%) Finance
6 20 (5.43%) Banking
6 20 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.17%) Retail
8 7 (1.90%) Marketing
9 5 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.09%) Billing
10 4 (1.09%) Legal
11 3 (0.82%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (48.91%) Developer
2 102 (27.72%) Senior
3 69 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 45 (12.23%) PHP Developer
5 41 (11.14%) Software Engineer
6 36 (9.78%) Software Developer
7 34 (9.24%) Lead
8 28 (7.61%) Database Engineer
8 28 (7.61%) DBA
9 26 (7.07%) Java Developer
10 23 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.98%) Administrator
11 22 (5.98%) C# Developer
12 21 (5.71%) .NET Developer
13 19 (5.16%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.89%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.62%) Backend Developer
16 16 (4.35%) Support Engineer
16 16 (4.35%) Web Developer
17 12 (3.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (24.73%) CSS
2 82 (22.28%) HTML
3 61 (16.58%) .NET
3 61 (16.58%) RESTful
4 59 (16.03%) REST
5 51 (13.86%) Laravel
6 47 (12.77%) React
7 39 (10.60%) Node.js
8 37 (10.05%) Spring
9 36 (9.78%) Spring Boot
9 36 (9.78%) Terraform
10 35 (9.51%) Vue
11 33 (8.97%) Kafka
11 33 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (7.88%) ASP.NET
12 29 (7.88%) Hibernate
12 29 (7.88%) jQuery
13 25 (6.79%) ASP.NET Web API
13 25 (6.79%) JPA
14 22 (5.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.60%) Replication
1 39 (10.60%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 31 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (8.15%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (5.43%) Virtual Team
6 17 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.09%) IoT
11 4 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.09%) PKI
11 4 (1.09%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 121 (32.88%) Linux
2 28 (7.61%) Windows
3 23 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 20 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 17 (4.62%) Debian
6 14 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.82%) Android
8 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (37.77%) Problem-Solving
2 122 (33.15%) Agile
3 119 (32.34%) CI/CD
4 90 (24.46%) Software Engineering
5 82 (22.28%) DevOps
6 78 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (19.29%) Microservices
8 63 (17.12%) Mentoring
9 53 (14.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (13.04%) High Availability
10 48 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (12.77%) Scrum
12 45 (12.23%) AI
12 45 (12.23%) OOP
13 42 (11.41%) Clean Code
13 42 (11.41%) Event-Driven
14 36 (9.78%) Decision-Making
14 36 (9.78%) Web Development
15 35 (9.51%) MVC
16 34 (9.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 136 (36.96%) SQL
2 131 (35.60%) JavaScript
3 100 (27.17%) PHP
4 73 (19.84%) Java
5 60 (16.30%) C#
6 56 (15.22%) Python
7 45 (12.23%) TypeScript
8 34 (9.24%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.62%) VB.NET
10 12 (3.26%) Ruby
11 11 (2.99%) Bash
11 11 (2.99%) C++
12 7 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.82%) Go
14 2 (0.54%) C
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (9.51%) Degree
2 24 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.82%) HNC
8 3 (0.82%) HND
9 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.77%) QA
2 14 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.63%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (25.54%) Docker
2 15 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.54%) Firmware
6 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 63 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.52%) Grafana
3 21 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.53%) Ansible
5 8 (2.17%) WSUS
6 6 (1.63%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.82%) Kibana
8 2 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.54%) Plesk
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.27%) systemd
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.97%) Oracle
3 22 (5.98%) Google
4 21 (5.71%) Splunk
5 16 (4.35%) OpenAI
6 14 (3.80%) VMware
7 10 (2.72%) Dell
7 10 (2.72%) Veeam
8 8 (2.17%) Aruba
8 8 (2.17%) CheckPoint
8 8 (2.17%) HP
8 8 (2.17%) NetApp
8 8 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.17%) SonicWALL
8 8 (2.17%) WooCommerce
9 5 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.09%) IBM
10 4 (1.09%) Informatica
10 4 (1.09%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.82%) Xamarin