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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 232 148
Rank change year-on-year -79 -84 +12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 405 412 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.19% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.21% 9.40% 12.66%
Number of salaries quoted 323 332 755
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,625 £63,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,991
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.93% -5.52%

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 5,621 4,382 7,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.08% 12.61% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,917 2,780 4,772
10th Percentile £34,900 £30,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,612 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -37 133 £42,500 -19.05% 40
South East -31 108 £55,000 - 25
North West -32 56 £50,000 -14.53% 26
Midlands -31 52 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Yorkshire -30 45 £42,500 -12.82% 6
South West -73 44 £55,000 +15.79% 13
East of England -39 36 £47,500 - 8
North East -37 32 £42,500 -10.53% 9
East Midlands -13 30 £37,500 -21.05% 2
West Midlands -43 22 £47,500 +18.75% 6
Wales -68 20 £65,000 +1.96% 3
Scotland +3 12 £51,000 -9.33% 7
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 20 (4.94%) IIS
2 13 (3.21%) Apache
3 12 (2.96%) WordPress
4 9 (2.22%) Confluence
4 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.49%) Drupal
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.49%) Elementor
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 194 (47.90%) AWS
2 113 (27.90%) Azure
3 59 (14.57%) GCP
4 33 (8.15%) GitHub
5 21 (5.19%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.44%) Serverless
7 17 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 12 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.72%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.22%) SaaS
13 8 (1.98%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.70%) Firewall
2 11 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.22%) VPN
4 6 (1.48%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.48%) SAN
4 6 (1.48%) VoIP
5 5 (1.23%) LAN
5 5 (1.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.99%) DNS
6 4 (0.99%) Internet
6 4 (0.99%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (0.99%) MQTT
6 4 (0.99%) VLAN
7 3 (0.74%) DHCP
7 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.74%) Network Security
7 3 (0.74%) SSH
7 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 117 (28.89%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (17.28%) Relational Database
4 58 (14.32%) MongoDB
5 45 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.67%) MariaDB
7 18 (4.44%) Power BI
8 17 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.70%) Redis
10 10 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.48%) Metadata
13 6 (1.48%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.48%) SQLite
14 5 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.99%) Ataccama
15 4 (0.99%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 103 (25.43%) Git
2 21 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.94%) JIRA
4 16 (3.95%) Claude Code
5 13 (3.21%) GitLab
6 10 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (2.22%) PHPUnit
7 9 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.48%) Selenium
9 5 (1.23%) RSpec
10 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.99%) JUnit
10 4 (0.99%) minitest
11 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.74%) Mocha
11 3 (0.74%) NUnit
11 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.49%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 77 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.35%) Law
4 42 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.14%) Finance
6 17 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.47%) Banking
7 10 (2.47%) Retail
8 9 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.48%) Tech for Good
10 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.99%) Legal
10 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.74%) Advertising
11 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 203 (50.12%) Developer
2 104 (25.68%) Senior
3 67 (16.54%) Senior Developer
4 60 (14.81%) PHP Developer
5 40 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 30 (7.41%) Lead
8 29 (7.16%) Database Engineer
8 29 (7.16%) DBA
9 26 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (5.68%) Administrator
10 23 (5.68%) C# Developer
10 23 (5.68%) Web Developer
11 22 (5.43%) Backend Developer
11 22 (5.43%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.19%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (4.69%) .NET Developer
13 19 (4.69%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.20%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (28.15%) CSS
2 104 (25.68%) HTML
3 63 (15.56%) Laravel
4 57 (14.07%) .NET
5 55 (13.58%) RESTful
6 52 (12.84%) React
7 49 (12.10%) REST
8 45 (11.11%) Node.js
9 42 (10.37%) Vue
10 39 (9.63%) jQuery
11 34 (8.40%) Spring
12 33 (8.15%) Spring Boot
13 30 (7.41%) Terraform
14 29 (7.16%) HTML5
15 28 (6.91%) ASP.NET
16 24 (5.93%) AngularJS
16 24 (5.93%) Kafka
17 22 (5.43%) .NET Framework
17 22 (5.43%) Hibernate
18 21 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.60%) Replication
2 28 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.22%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.73%) IoT
10 7 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 125 (30.86%) Linux
2 24 (5.93%) Ubuntu
3 22 (5.43%) Windows
4 21 (5.19%) Debian
5 16 (3.95%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.99%) CentOS
10 3 (0.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (31.60%) Agile
3 108 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 78 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (18.77%) Software Engineering
6 67 (16.54%) DevOps
6 67 (16.54%) Microservices
7 56 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 56 (13.83%) High Availability
8 52 (12.84%) OOP
9 51 (12.59%) Mentoring
10 46 (11.36%) Web Development
11 44 (10.86%) Clean Code
12 40 (9.88%) Scrum
13 39 (9.63%) MVC
13 39 (9.63%) TDD
14 35 (8.64%) AI
14 35 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (8.15%) OO
16 31 (7.65%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 152 (37.53%) JavaScript
2 148 (36.54%) SQL
3 130 (32.10%) PHP
4 76 (18.77%) Java
5 60 (14.81%) C#
6 50 (12.35%) Python
7 39 (9.63%) TypeScript
8 31 (7.65%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.46%) C++
10 13 (3.21%) Bash
11 12 (2.96%) Ruby
11 12 (2.96%) VB.NET
12 9 (2.22%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.23%) Korn
14 4 (0.99%) Go
15 3 (0.74%) Scala
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
16 2 (0.49%) Perl
17 1 (0.25%) C
17 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (13.09%) Degree
2 24 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.73%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) HNC
8 4 (0.99%) HND
9 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.49%) RHCE
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.65%) QA
2 15 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.48%) GDPR
4 6 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 88 (21.73%) Docker
2 18 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 7 (1.73%) vSphere
5 3 (0.74%) iptables
5 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.70%) Grafana
3 13 (3.21%) Ansible
3 13 (3.21%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.48%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.48%) Puppet
5 4 (0.99%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.74%) Plesk
6 3 (0.74%) systemd
6 3 (0.74%) WSUS
7 2 (0.49%) Rancher
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 56 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.17%) Google
3 24 (5.93%) Oracle
4 18 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.96%) VMware
6 10 (2.47%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.47%) Splunk
7 9 (2.22%) Dell
8 6 (1.48%) Veeam
9 4 (0.99%) Cisco
9 4 (0.99%) IBM
9 4 (0.99%) Informatica
9 4 (0.99%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.99%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) Aruba
10 3 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.74%) HP
10 3 (0.74%) NetApp
10 3 (0.74%) Palo Alto