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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 195 147
Rank change year-on-year -120 -48 -12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 307 495 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.69% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.12% 11.47% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 254 400 1,166
10th Percentile £34,650 £29,700 £31,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,563
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%

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 5,016 4,314 11,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.53% 14.73% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,002 2,831 8,117
10th Percentile £34,533 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -58 99 £50,000 -4.76% 49
South East -58 85 £55,000 +10.00% 37
North West -29 48 £55,000 - 27
Midlands -52 47 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -48 39 £49,500 +4.21% 19
South West -82 37 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East of England -39 29 £48,750 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -34 26 £37,500 -6.25% 7
West Midlands -30 21 £47,500 -7.77% 6
North East -39 12 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland -19 5 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Wales -44 3 £35,000 -9.68% 3
Northern Ireland -41 2 £62,500 -26.47% 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 17 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.23%) CMS
3 11 (3.58%) nginx
4 8 (2.61%) IIS
5 7 (2.28%) WordPress
6 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.63%) Apache
7 5 (1.63%) Confluence
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.65%) Drupal
8 2 (0.65%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.33%) Camunda
9 1 (0.33%) JBoss
9 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.28%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.93%) Shopify
2 3 (0.98%) Magento
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (43.97%) AWS
2 75 (24.43%) Azure
3 37 (12.05%) GCP
4 27 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 19 (6.19%) SaaS
7 15 (4.89%) GitHub
8 8 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.28%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.95%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.95%) Serverless
11 5 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.30%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (1.30%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.21%) Firewall
2 11 (3.58%) VPN
3 8 (2.61%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.61%) SAN
4 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.63%) Network Security
6 3 (0.98%) DHCP
6 3 (0.98%) DNS
6 3 (0.98%) HTTP
6 3 (0.98%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.98%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.98%) MQTT
6 3 (0.98%) RTP
6 3 (0.98%) SSH
6 3 (0.98%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.98%) VLAN
6 3 (0.98%) VoIP
6 3 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.64%) SQL Server
2 80 (26.06%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (16.29%) MongoDB
4 46 (14.98%) NoSQL
5 35 (11.40%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.51%) Power BI
7 17 (5.54%) MariaDB
8 13 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (3.26%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.28%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.98%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 74 (24.10%) Git
2 13 (4.23%) JIRA
3 10 (3.26%) PHPUnit
4 9 (2.93%) GitLab
5 6 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.30%) Vite
7 2 (0.65%) Gradle
7 2 (0.65%) JUnit
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
7 2 (0.65%) Mockito
7 2 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.33%) Ant
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) MSTest
8 1 (0.33%) NUnit
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.33%) Subversion
8 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.79%) Finance
4 22 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.84%) Law
6 11 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.58%) Retail
7 10 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.28%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.95%) Advertising
9 6 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.30%) Banking
11 4 (1.30%) Social Housing
12 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.65%) Automotive
13 2 (0.65%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (48.21%) Developer
2 73 (23.78%) Senior
3 53 (17.26%) PHP Developer
4 38 (12.38%) Senior Developer
5 34 (11.07%) Software Engineer
6 31 (10.10%) Software Developer
7 25 (8.14%) DBA
8 22 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.51%) Administrator
9 20 (6.51%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 17 (5.54%) C# Developer
11 16 (5.21%) Backend Developer
11 16 (5.21%) Senior Backend Developer
12 15 (4.89%) Analyst
13 14 (4.56%) Lead
13 14 (4.56%) SQL DBA
14 13 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.23%) Web Developer
15 12 (3.91%) C# Software Developer
16 11 (3.58%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (27.69%) CSS
2 76 (24.76%) HTML
3 60 (19.54%) Laravel
4 50 (16.29%) RESTful
5 42 (13.68%) React
6 40 (13.03%) Vue
7 35 (11.40%) Node.js
8 29 (9.45%) REST
9 25 (8.14%) AngularJS
9 25 (8.14%) jQuery
10 23 (7.49%) .NET
11 21 (6.84%) HTML5
12 20 (6.51%) CSS3
13 18 (5.86%) JSON
14 14 (4.56%) Spring
15 12 (3.91%) ASP.NET
15 12 (3.91%) Spring Boot
16 10 (3.26%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (2.93%) XML
18 8 (2.61%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.45%) Replication
2 18 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.91%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.26%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.93%) IoT
5 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.30%) EPoS
9 4 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Smart Home
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (26.38%) Linux
2 18 (5.86%) Windows
3 16 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.58%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.93%) Debian
5 9 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.98%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.27%) Agile
2 67 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (16.61%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.29%) Microservices
5 46 (14.98%) Software Engineering
6 42 (13.68%) TDD
7 39 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (11.07%) Mentoring
9 31 (10.10%) Web Development
10 29 (9.45%) Computer Science
10 29 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (9.45%) OOP
11 27 (8.79%) Clean Code
11 27 (8.79%) Containerisation
11 27 (8.79%) DevOps
12 26 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (8.14%) Open Source
14 24 (7.82%) High Availability
14 24 (7.82%) MVC
15 23 (7.49%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 123 (40.07%) PHP
2 122 (39.74%) SQL
3 116 (37.79%) JavaScript
4 55 (17.92%) Java
5 41 (13.36%) Python
6 35 (11.40%) C#
7 27 (8.79%) TypeScript
8 22 (7.17%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.21%) Bash
10 15 (4.89%) C++
11 12 (3.91%) Shell Script
12 10 (3.26%) T-SQL
13 8 (2.61%) Go
14 6 (1.95%) C
14 6 (1.95%) Korn
14 6 (1.95%) Scala
15 3 (0.98%) VBA
16 1 (0.33%) Perl
16 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (14.66%) Degree
2 23 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.63%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) HNC
6 3 (0.98%) HND
6 3 (0.98%) RHCE
7 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.65%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.23%) QA
4 7 (2.28%) GDPR
4 7 (2.28%) SLA
5 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (13.68%) Docker
2 25 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 9 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.63%) vSphere
5 4 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.98%) iptables
6 3 (0.98%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.65%) Samba
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.91%) Ansible
3 11 (3.58%) Terraform
4 6 (1.95%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.95%) Puppet
5 4 (1.30%) Argo
5 4 (1.30%) Grafana
5 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.30%) Rancher
6 3 (0.98%) Galera Cluster
6 3 (0.98%) Plesk
6 3 (0.98%) systemd
6 3 (0.98%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.33%) Graylog
7 1 (0.33%) Nagios
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
7 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.89%) Oracle
3 11 (3.58%) Google
4 10 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.93%) VMware
6 8 (2.61%) Dell
7 5 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.63%) SAP
8 4 (1.30%) Adobe
8 4 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.98%) BT
9 3 (0.98%) Cisco
9 3 (0.98%) Mitel
9 3 (0.98%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Informatica
10 2 (0.65%) Meraki
10 2 (0.65%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.65%) Palantir
10 2 (0.65%) Synology
10 2 (0.65%) Veeam