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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 130 116
Rank change year-on-year -99 -14 +59
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 317 899 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.91% 2.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.17% 13.93% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 273 575 699
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 £67,250 £61,250 £68,750
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 3,878 6,455 6,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.46% 13.69% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,596 3,366 4,892
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -59 81 £52,500 - 38
South East -75 66 £60,000 +18.81% 86
East of England -21 53 £50,000 - 16
Midlands -24 53 £42,500 -3.41% 39
North West -33 42 £60,000 +14.29% 25
South West -46 42 £56,250 +12.50% 24
West Midlands +17 31 £39,000 -15.68% 28
Yorkshire -11 28 £37,500 -31.82% 12
Wales -7 18 £67,500 +107.69% 1
East Midlands -22 18 £45,000 +20.00% 11
North East +9 11 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Scotland -23 4 £75,000 +36.36% 5
Northern Ireland +2 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
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 14 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.47%) IIS
3 9 (2.84%) Apache Solr
4 8 (2.52%) Apache
4 8 (2.52%) CMS
4 8 (2.52%) Confluence
5 7 (2.21%) WordPress
6 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.58%) nginx
6 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) SAS
8 1 (0.32%) Appian
8 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.58%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Magento
2 2 (0.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 118 (37.22%) AWS
2 106 (33.44%) Azure
3 40 (12.62%) SaaS
4 31 (9.78%) GCP
5 27 (8.52%) GitHub
6 16 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (4.42%) Cloudflare
8 13 (4.10%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.10%) Serverless
9 10 (3.15%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.58%) Google Analytics
15 4 (1.26%) Firebase
15 4 (1.26%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.79%) FTP
2 10 (3.15%) Firewall
3 9 (2.84%) SAN
4 8 (2.52%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.89%) Internet
6 5 (1.58%) Broadband
6 5 (1.58%) WPA
7 3 (0.95%) DNS
7 3 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.63%) DHCP
8 2 (0.63%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.32%) IPsec
9 1 (0.32%) MQTT
9 1 (0.32%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (32.49%) SQL Server
2 66 (20.82%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.41%) MongoDB
3 33 (10.41%) Relational Database
4 26 (8.20%) NoSQL
5 19 (5.99%) BusinessObjects
6 18 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.79%) Power BI
9 7 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.21%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.58%) Redis
10 5 (1.58%) Tableau
11 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.95%) Big Data
12 3 (0.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 68 (21.45%) Git
2 20 (6.31%) JIRA
3 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.58%) git-flow
3 5 (1.58%) GitLab
3 5 (1.58%) NUnit
3 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.26%) Jasmine
5 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.95%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.63%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) Sinon.JS
7 1 (0.32%) Vite
7 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 115 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.03%) Finance
3 44 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.68%) Law
5 17 (5.36%) Marketing
6 11 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.47%) Retail
7 10 (3.15%) Games
8 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.58%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.26%) Banking
11 4 (1.26%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.95%) Advertising
12 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.63%) Automotive
13 2 (0.63%) Billing
13 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 181 (57.10%) Developer
2 64 (20.19%) Senior
3 40 (12.62%) PHP Developer
4 37 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.04%) Software Developer
6 32 (10.09%) Lead
7 31 (9.78%) Graduate
7 31 (9.78%) Graduate Developer
8 28 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (8.20%) Analyst
10 23 (7.26%) IT Graduate
11 20 (6.31%) C# Developer
12 19 (5.99%) Applications Support
13 17 (5.36%) Software Engineer
14 16 (5.05%) SQL Developer
15 15 (4.73%) .NET Developer
15 15 (4.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.73%) Support Analyst
16 13 (4.10%) DBA
16 13 (4.10%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (35.02%) CSS
2 96 (30.28%) HTML
3 60 (18.93%) .NET
4 54 (17.03%) React
5 47 (14.83%) Laravel
6 37 (11.67%) ASP.NET
7 36 (11.36%) jQuery
8 31 (9.78%) REST
9 29 (9.15%) RESTful
9 29 (9.15%) Vue
10 26 (8.20%) HTML5
11 25 (7.89%) Symfony
12 24 (7.57%) AngularJS
13 23 (7.26%) Node.js
14 17 (5.36%) JSON
15 16 (5.05%) CakePHP
16 15 (4.73%) Web Services
17 14 (4.42%) CSS3
17 14 (4.42%) Django
17 14 (4.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.47%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.84%) IoT
6 8 (2.52%) Legacy Code
6 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.21%) NHS
8 6 (1.89%) Clustering
8 6 (1.89%) Online Games
9 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.03%) Linux
2 32 (10.09%) Windows
3 17 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.26%) Unix
6 4 (1.26%) VMS
7 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Android
8 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (37.22%) Agile
2 115 (36.28%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (18.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 57 (17.98%) CI/CD
4 57 (17.98%) MVC
5 54 (17.03%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (15.46%) OO
7 47 (14.83%) OOP
8 43 (13.56%) Computer Science
9 40 (12.62%) Microservices
10 37 (11.67%) AI
11 36 (11.36%) Software Engineering
12 34 (10.73%) ETL
13 32 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (9.78%) Containerisation
15 30 (9.46%) DevOps
16 29 (9.15%) User Experience
17 28 (8.83%) E-Commerce
18 26 (8.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (43.22%) SQL
2 128 (40.38%) JavaScript
3 116 (36.59%) PHP
4 69 (21.77%) C#
5 64 (20.19%) TypeScript
6 58 (18.30%) Python
7 57 (17.98%) Java
8 31 (9.78%) C++
9 13 (4.10%) Bash
10 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.84%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.52%) Korn
12 4 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.26%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.95%) Perl
13 3 (0.95%) R
13 3 (0.95%) Scala
13 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.95%) VB
14 2 (0.63%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (16.72%) Degree
2 40 (12.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.26%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.10%) QA
2 6 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.89%) SLA
3 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.63%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 55 (17.35%) Docker
2 14 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.63%) Firmware
5 2 (0.63%) HDFS
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.73%) Terraform
3 8 (2.52%) Ansible
4 3 (0.95%) Kibana
5 2 (0.63%) Argo
5 2 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.63%) logstash
5 2 (0.63%) Oozie
5 2 (0.63%) Plesk
5 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 54 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.78%) Oracle
3 16 (5.05%) SAP
4 11 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.84%) Databricks
5 9 (2.84%) Dell
5 9 (2.84%) Google
5 9 (2.84%) Informatica
5 9 (2.84%) Splunk
6 8 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.21%) Rollbar
8 6 (1.89%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.89%) RedGate
8 6 (1.89%) Talend
9 4 (1.26%) Adobe
9 4 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.26%) VMware
9 4 (1.26%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.95%) Apple
10 3 (0.95%) Palantir