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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 268 136
Rank change year-on-year -72 -132 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 370 313 913
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.90% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.93% 7.81% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 292 250 566
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.78%

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 5,342 4,007 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.18% 11.53% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 2,477 3,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,263
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 £78,750 £80,000
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 7 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 7 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 -19 130 £42,500 -19.05% 46
South East -29 94 £57,500 - 52
North West -18 58 £50,000 -16.67% 23
Yorkshire -15 41 £42,500 +13.33% 17
South West -70 39 £57,500 +27.78% 20
Midlands -38 36 £54,000 +20.00% 26
East of England -46 32 £50,000 +5.26% 45
North East -50 31 £42,500 -10.53% 6
Wales -57 27 £61,000 -9.63% 5
West Midlands -46 19 £55,000 +41.03% 18
East Midlands -27 17 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland +8 11 £40,000 -46.67% 12
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 17
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 26 (7.03%) IIS
2 15 (4.05%) Apache
3 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.97%) WordPress
4 9 (2.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.54%) Drupal
5 2 (0.54%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Elementor
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Shopify
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 192 (51.89%) AWS
2 121 (32.70%) Azure
3 60 (16.22%) GCP
4 29 (7.84%) GitHub
5 21 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (5.14%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.86%) Serverless
8 16 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.97%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.89%) ChatGPT
13 7 (1.89%) SaaS
14 6 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.32%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.97%) Firewall
3 10 (2.70%) DNS
4 9 (2.43%) VPN
5 7 (1.89%) VLAN
6 6 (1.62%) DHCP
6 6 (1.62%) VoIP
6 6 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.35%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.35%) SAN
8 4 (1.08%) HTTP
8 4 (1.08%) Internet
8 4 (1.08%) LAN
8 4 (1.08%) WAN
9 3 (0.81%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.81%) SSH
10 2 (0.54%) 5G
10 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (34.86%) SQL Server
2 120 (32.43%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (19.73%) Relational Database
4 64 (17.30%) MongoDB
5 50 (13.51%) NoSQL
6 24 (6.49%) MariaDB
7 20 (5.41%) Redis
8 16 (4.32%) Power BI
9 15 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.89%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.62%) Metadata
11 6 (1.62%) SQLite
12 5 (1.35%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.08%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (26.76%) Git
2 23 (6.22%) Claude Code
2 23 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.86%) GitLab
4 15 (4.05%) JIRA
5 14 (3.78%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (3.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (3.24%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.62%) Selenium
8 5 (1.35%) RSpec
9 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.08%) JUnit
9 4 (1.08%) minitest
9 4 (1.08%) Postman
9 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.81%) Mocha
10 3 (0.81%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.54%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 72 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (14.05%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.16%) Law
5 25 (6.76%) Finance
6 19 (5.14%) Banking
6 19 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.16%) Retail
8 7 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.08%) Legal
11 4 (1.08%) Marketing
12 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.54%) Aviation
13 2 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 177 (47.84%) Developer
2 103 (27.84%) Senior
3 66 (17.84%) Senior Developer
4 46 (12.43%) PHP Developer
5 42 (11.35%) Software Engineer
6 37 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 32 (8.65%) Lead
8 29 (7.84%) Database Engineer
9 28 (7.57%) DBA
10 25 (6.76%) C# Developer
10 25 (6.76%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.95%) .NET Developer
12 21 (5.68%) Administrator
12 21 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (5.14%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.59%) Backend Developer
15 17 (4.59%) Web Developer
16 16 (4.32%) Support Engineer
17 13 (3.51%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (24.86%) CSS
2 82 (22.16%) HTML
3 62 (16.76%) .NET
4 61 (16.49%) RESTful
5 53 (14.32%) REST
6 48 (12.97%) Laravel
7 45 (12.16%) React
8 39 (10.54%) Node.js
9 37 (10.00%) Spring
10 36 (9.73%) Spring Boot
10 36 (9.73%) Terraform
11 35 (9.46%) Vue
12 32 (8.65%) Kafka
12 32 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (8.38%) jQuery
14 30 (8.11%) ASP.NET
15 28 (7.57%) Hibernate
16 25 (6.76%) ASP.NET Web API
17 24 (6.49%) JPA
18 22 (5.95%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.27%) Replication
1 38 (10.27%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (9.46%) Cloud Native
3 30 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.84%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.86%) Virtual Team
7 16 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.08%) IoT
12 4 (1.08%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.08%) PKI
12 4 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 126 (34.05%) Linux
2 27 (7.30%) Windows
3 22 (5.95%) Ubuntu
4 19 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 18 (4.86%) Debian
6 12 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.81%) Android
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (37.03%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (33.51%) Agile
3 116 (31.35%) CI/CD
4 91 (24.59%) Software Engineering
5 80 (21.62%) DevOps
6 78 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (19.46%) Microservices
8 60 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 51 (13.78%) High Availability
10 50 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 48 (12.97%) OOP
12 47 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 47 (12.70%) Scrum
13 43 (11.62%) AI
14 41 (11.08%) Clean Code
15 40 (10.81%) Event-Driven
16 38 (10.27%) MVC
17 34 (9.19%) Decision-Making
17 34 (9.19%) Web Development
18 33 (8.92%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 138 (37.30%) SQL
2 127 (34.32%) JavaScript
3 98 (26.49%) PHP
4 76 (20.54%) Java
5 63 (17.03%) C#
6 56 (15.14%) Python
7 43 (11.62%) TypeScript
8 34 (9.19%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.59%) VB.NET
10 13 (3.51%) Bash
10 13 (3.51%) C++
11 12 (3.24%) Ruby
12 9 (2.43%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.35%) Korn
14 4 (1.08%) Go
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) Perl
15 2 (0.54%) Scala
15 2 (0.54%) VBA
16 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.81%) Degree
2 25 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.08%) HNC
8 4 (1.08%) 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 43 (11.62%) QA
2 14 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.62%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (25.41%) Docker
2 17 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (1.08%) vSphere
7 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 66 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.22%) Grafana
3 20 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.78%) Ansible
5 6 (1.62%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.62%) Puppet
5 6 (1.62%) WSUS
6 3 (0.81%) Rancher
7 2 (0.54%) Kibana
7 2 (0.54%) Plesk
8 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.27%) Galera Cluster
8 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) systemd
8 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.38%) Oracle
3 19 (5.14%) Google
3 19 (5.14%) Splunk
4 17 (4.59%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.24%) VMware
6 11 (2.97%) Dell
7 9 (2.43%) Veeam
8 8 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.62%) Aruba
9 6 (1.62%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.62%) HP
9 6 (1.62%) NetApp
9 6 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.62%) SonicWALL
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
10 4 (1.08%) Informatica
10 4 (1.08%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.08%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.81%) Cisco