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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 129 125
Rank change year-on-year -122 -4 +55
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 283 871 762
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.98% 2.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.47% 13.79% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 241 565 672
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £65,000 £61,250 £69,063
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 3,789 6,317 6,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.93% 14.39% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 3,334 4,746
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,633 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,524
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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -58 79 £52,500 - 47
South East -92 54 £60,000 +20.00% 76
East of England -20 50 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Midlands -29 44 £42,500 - 33
North West -33 40 £58,750 +17.50% 30
South West -58 40 £55,000 +7.32% 33
Yorkshire -19 30 £37,500 -31.82% 14
West Midlands +9 25 £39,000 -23.90% 21
East Midlands -37 15 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Wales -16 14 £67,500 +107.69% 2
North East +4 9 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Scotland -10 2 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Northern Ireland -2 1 £50,000 +11.11% 4
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 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.83%) Apache Solr
3 7 (2.47%) Apache
3 7 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.12%) Confluence
4 6 (2.12%) IIS
5 5 (1.77%) CMS
5 5 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 3 (1.06%) WordPress
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) SAS
8 1 (0.35%) Appian
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.75%) AWS
2 103 (36.40%) Azure
3 41 (14.49%) SaaS
4 29 (10.25%) GCP
5 25 (8.83%) GitHub
6 14 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.89%) Serverless
9 9 (3.18%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.77%) Cloudflare
13 4 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.06%) Firebase
15 2 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.24%) FTP
2 9 (3.18%) Firewall
3 7 (2.47%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.47%) SAN
4 5 (1.77%) Broadband
4 5 (1.77%) Internet
4 5 (1.77%) WPA
5 2 (0.71%) DHCP
5 2 (0.71%) DNS
5 2 (0.71%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.71%) SSL
5 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.35%) MQTT
6 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (31.45%) SQL Server
2 57 (20.14%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.66%) MongoDB
4 26 (9.19%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.42%) NoSQL
6 18 (6.36%) BusinessObjects
7 13 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.89%) Power BI
10 7 (2.47%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.77%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.77%) Tableau
13 4 (1.41%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.06%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 47 (16.61%) Git
2 15 (5.30%) JIRA
3 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.77%) git-flow
4 4 (1.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.06%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.71%) Gradle
6 2 (0.71%) JUnit
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) Mockito
6 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Vite
7 1 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 98 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.25%) Finance
3 38 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.65%) Law
5 14 (4.95%) Marketing
6 9 (3.18%) Retail
7 8 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.06%) Games
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Advertising
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (54.06%) Developer
2 53 (18.73%) Senior
3 38 (13.43%) PHP Developer
3 38 (13.43%) Software Developer
4 31 (10.95%) Lead
5 28 (9.89%) Graduate
5 28 (9.89%) Graduate Developer
6 27 (9.54%) Senior Developer
7 25 (8.83%) Analyst
8 21 (7.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (7.42%) IT Graduate
9 19 (6.71%) Applications Support
10 18 (6.36%) C# Developer
11 17 (6.01%) Software Engineer
12 15 (5.30%) SQL Developer
12 15 (5.30%) Support Analyst
13 13 (4.59%) Azure Developer
13 13 (4.59%) Graduate C# Developer
13 13 (4.59%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 13 (4.59%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (32.16%) CSS
2 75 (26.50%) HTML
3 50 (17.67%) .NET
4 49 (17.31%) React
5 40 (14.13%) Laravel
6 34 (12.01%) jQuery
7 30 (10.60%) ASP.NET
8 28 (9.89%) REST
9 22 (7.77%) RESTful
9 22 (7.77%) Symfony
10 19 (6.71%) AngularJS
10 19 (6.71%) Vue
11 18 (6.36%) HTML5
11 18 (6.36%) Node.js
12 17 (6.01%) JSON
13 15 (5.30%) CakePHP
14 14 (4.95%) CodeIgniter
14 14 (4.95%) Django
14 14 (4.95%) XML
15 13 (4.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.13%) Cloud Native
1 23 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.18%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.83%) IoT
4 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.83%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.47%) NHS
6 6 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.77%) Clustering
7 5 (1.77%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.31%) Linux
2 30 (10.60%) Windows
3 17 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.41%) Unix
6 4 (1.41%) VMS
7 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Android
8 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.16%) Agile
2 103 (36.40%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (17.31%) MVC
4 47 (16.61%) CI/CD
5 46 (16.25%) Mentoring
6 45 (15.90%) OO
7 43 (15.19%) OOP
8 41 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.13%) Microservices
10 38 (13.43%) Computer Science
11 35 (12.37%) AI
12 33 (11.66%) Containerisation
12 33 (11.66%) Software Engineering
13 31 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (10.60%) ETL
15 29 (10.25%) DevOps
16 26 (9.19%) User Experience
17 24 (8.48%) Data Modelling
18 22 (7.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (43.11%) SQL
2 103 (36.40%) PHP
3 102 (36.04%) JavaScript
4 61 (21.55%) C#
5 57 (20.14%) Python
6 55 (19.43%) TypeScript
7 49 (17.31%) Java
8 29 (10.25%) C++
9 12 (4.24%) Bash
10 8 (2.83%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.47%) Korn
11 7 (2.47%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.77%) Scala
13 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 3 (1.06%) R
14 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.06%) VB
14 3 (1.06%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (16.61%) Degree
2 36 (12.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.24%) QA
2 6 (2.12%) SLA
3 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) COBIT
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (17.31%) Docker
2 12 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.71%) HDFS
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.71%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.18%) Ansible
2 9 (3.18%) Terraform
3 3 (1.06%) Kibana
4 2 (0.71%) Argo
4 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 2 (0.71%) logstash
4 2 (0.71%) Oozie
4 2 (0.71%) Plesk
4 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.35%) Nagios
5 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.95%) Oracle
3 15 (5.30%) SAP
4 11 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.53%) Databricks
6 8 (2.83%) Informatica
6 8 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.83%) Splunk
7 7 (2.47%) Dell
8 6 (2.12%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.77%) Palantir
9 5 (1.77%) RedGate
9 5 (1.77%) Talend
10 4 (1.41%) VMware
11 3 (1.06%) Apple
11 3 (1.06%) Google
11 3 (1.06%) Zend
12 2 (0.71%) Draytek
12 2 (0.71%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.71%) Sage