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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 234 150
Rank change year-on-year -83 -84 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 397 401 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.16% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.10% 9.31% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 314 320 715
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,625 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile £69,688 £67,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -3.08%

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 5,590 4,305 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.94% 12.41% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,924 2,731 4,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -27 131 £42,500 -19.05% 59
South East -32 103 £55,000 - 43
North West -29 56 £50,000 -14.53% 37
Midlands -38 53 £42,500 -10.53% 14
South West -76 45 £55,000 +15.79% 18
Yorkshire -40 43 £42,500 -12.82% 9
North East -41 32 £42,500 -10.53% 14
East of England -54 32 £50,000 +5.26% 10
East Midlands -8 31 £37,500 -18.92% 4
West Midlands -35 22 £47,500 +15.15% 10
Wales -60 22 £60,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland +10 11 £49,750 -11.56% 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 23 (5.79%) IIS
2 13 (3.27%) Apache
3 12 (3.02%) WordPress
4 9 (2.27%) Confluence
4 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) Drupal
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.50%) Elementor
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Shopify
2 3 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 190 (47.86%) AWS
2 110 (27.71%) Azure
3 58 (14.61%) GCP
4 31 (7.81%) GitHub
5 21 (5.29%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.53%) Serverless
7 17 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.27%) SaaS
14 6 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.51%) ChatGPT
14 6 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.53%) Firewall
2 13 (3.27%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.27%) VPN
4 6 (1.51%) DNS
4 6 (1.51%) VoIP
5 5 (1.26%) iSCSI
5 5 (1.26%) LAN
5 5 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (1.26%) SAN
5 5 (1.26%) VLAN
5 5 (1.26%) WAN
6 4 (1.01%) DHCP
6 4 (1.01%) Internet
6 4 (1.01%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (1.01%) MQTT
6 4 (1.01%) SSH
6 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.76%) HTTP
7 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (31.23%) SQL Server
2 116 (29.22%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (17.63%) Relational Database
4 59 (14.86%) MongoDB
5 45 (11.34%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.80%) MariaDB
7 18 (4.53%) Power BI
8 17 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (4.28%) Redis
9 8 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.51%) Metadata
10 6 (1.51%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.51%) SQLite
11 5 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.26%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (25.44%) Git
2 22 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.53%) Claude Code
4 17 (4.28%) JIRA
5 15 (3.78%) GitLab
6 12 (3.02%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (2.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.76%) PHPUnit
9 7 (1.76%) Selenium
10 5 (1.26%) RSpec
11 4 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.01%) JUnit
11 4 (1.01%) minitest
12 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.76%) Maven
12 3 (0.76%) Mocha
12 3 (0.76%) NUnit
12 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.50%) Jasmine
General
1 74 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.59%) Law
4 45 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.06%) Finance
6 17 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.02%) Banking
8 9 (2.27%) Retail
9 8 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.51%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.01%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.01%) Legal
11 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Marketing
12 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Aviation
13 2 (0.50%) Billing
13 2 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 198 (49.87%) Developer
2 104 (26.20%) Senior
3 68 (17.13%) Senior Developer
4 58 (14.61%) PHP Developer
5 40 (10.08%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.56%) Software Developer
7 30 (7.56%) Lead
8 29 (7.30%) Database Engineer
8 29 (7.30%) DBA
9 24 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (6.05%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.79%) Administrator
11 22 (5.54%) Backend Developer
11 22 (5.54%) C# Developer
11 22 (5.54%) Web Developer
12 21 (5.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 20 (5.04%) .NET Developer
14 19 (4.79%) Senior Software Developer
15 18 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
16 17 (4.28%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (27.20%) CSS
2 100 (25.19%) HTML
3 61 (15.37%) Laravel
4 57 (14.36%) RESTful
5 56 (14.11%) .NET
6 49 (12.34%) React
6 49 (12.34%) REST
7 41 (10.33%) Node.js
8 39 (9.82%) jQuery
9 38 (9.57%) Vue
10 35 (8.82%) Spring
11 34 (8.56%) Spring Boot
12 32 (8.06%) Terraform
13 29 (7.30%) ASP.NET
14 28 (7.05%) HTML5
15 27 (6.80%) Kafka
16 25 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (6.05%) Hibernate
18 22 (5.54%) .NET Framework
18 22 (5.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.34%) Replication
2 33 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (7.05%) Cloud Native
4 24 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.02%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.76%) IoT
9 7 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 128 (32.24%) Linux
2 25 (6.30%) Ubuntu
3 23 (5.79%) Windows
4 22 (5.54%) Debian
5 17 (4.28%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.76%) Android
8 3 (0.76%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (31.23%) Agile
3 108 (27.20%) CI/CD
4 79 (19.90%) Software Engineering
5 78 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (17.13%) DevOps
7 66 (16.62%) Microservices
8 55 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (13.85%) High Availability
9 53 (13.35%) Mentoring
10 50 (12.59%) OOP
11 42 (10.58%) Clean Code
11 42 (10.58%) Scrum
12 41 (10.33%) Web Development
13 39 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (9.82%) MVC
14 38 (9.57%) TDD
15 35 (8.82%) AI
16 33 (8.31%) OO
17 31 (7.81%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 146 (36.78%) JavaScript
2 142 (35.77%) SQL
3 126 (31.74%) PHP
4 74 (18.64%) Java
5 56 (14.11%) C#
6 49 (12.34%) Python
7 39 (9.82%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.06%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.53%) VB.NET
10 13 (3.27%) Bash
11 12 (3.02%) C++
11 12 (3.02%) Ruby
12 8 (2.02%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.26%) Korn
14 4 (1.01%) Go
15 3 (0.76%) Scala
15 3 (0.76%) VBA
16 2 (0.50%) Perl
17 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (11.08%) Degree
2 24 (6.05%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.76%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.01%) HNC
7 4 (1.01%) HND
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.31%) QA
2 15 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.51%) GDPR
4 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 90 (22.67%) Docker
2 18 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.76%) vSphere
5 6 (1.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.76%) iptables
7 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (16.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.53%) Grafana
3 16 (4.03%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.27%) Ansible
5 6 (1.51%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.51%) Puppet
6 4 (1.01%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.01%) WSUS
7 3 (0.76%) Plesk
7 3 (0.76%) systemd
8 2 (0.50%) Rancher
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Graylog
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.80%) Oracle
3 22 (5.54%) Google
4 17 (4.28%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.27%) VMware
6 12 (3.02%) Splunk
7 9 (2.27%) Dell
7 9 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.76%) Veeam
9 4 (1.01%) Aruba
9 4 (1.01%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.01%) Cisco
9 4 (1.01%) HP
9 4 (1.01%) IBM
9 4 (1.01%) Informatica
9 4 (1.01%) NetApp
9 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.01%) SonicWALL
9 4 (1.01%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.01%) WooCommerce