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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 126 124
Rank change year-on-year -180 -2 +12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 240 723 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 2.25% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 13.65% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 195 482 1,062
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%

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 4,035 5,298 9,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.26% 16.52% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,400 2,814 7,333
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,289 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -91 69 £52,130 -0.70% 69
South East -114 53 £58,750 +17.50% 81
Midlands -69 41 £40,000 - 46
East of England -11 38 £50,000 - 34
North West -50 38 £55,000 +4.76% 37
South West -88 35 £60,000 +4.35% 37
West Midlands -14 27 £39,000 -24.27% 29
Yorkshire -61 26 £49,000 +0.51% 22
East Midlands -63 14 £40,000 +14.29% 17
North East -27 5 £52,130 -5.22% 10
Northern Ireland -23 3 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Scotland -46 1 - - 20
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 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (5.83%) nginx
2 10 (4.17%) CMS
3 7 (2.92%) Apache
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
4 6 (2.50%) IIS
4 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.83%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.42%) Camunda
8 1 (0.42%) JBoss
8 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.08%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Shopify
2 1 (0.42%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.00%) AWS
2 64 (26.67%) Azure
3 38 (15.83%) SaaS
4 30 (12.50%) GCP
5 24 (10.00%) GitHub
6 21 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.58%) Serverless
9 9 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.67%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) VPN
2 7 (2.92%) FTP
3 6 (2.50%) Firewall
4 5 (2.08%) DHCP
4 5 (2.08%) DNS
4 5 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.67%) Broadband
5 4 (1.67%) HTTP
5 4 (1.67%) Internet
5 4 (1.67%) WPA
6 3 (1.25%) Network Security
6 3 (1.25%) RTP
6 3 (1.25%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.25%) VLAN
6 3 (1.25%) VoIP
6 3 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.25%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.42%) MQTT
7 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 48 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 32 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 28 (11.67%) Relational Database
6 17 (7.08%) BusinessObjects
7 15 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (6.25%) Power BI
8 12 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.50%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.25%) Tableau
13 2 (0.83%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 50 (20.83%) Git
2 16 (6.67%) JIRA
3 7 (2.92%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.50%) PHPUnit
5 5 (2.08%) git-flow
5 5 (2.08%) Vite
6 4 (1.67%) GitLab
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.83%) JUnit
7 2 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.42%) Ant
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.42%) Gradle
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.42%) Subversion
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.92%) Finance
4 15 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.75%) Retail
6 7 (2.92%) Law
7 4 (1.67%) Advertising
7 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.67%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.25%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.83%) Automotive
9 2 (0.83%) Billing
9 2 (0.83%) Games
9 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (52.92%) Developer
2 55 (22.92%) Senior
3 42 (17.50%) PHP Developer
4 33 (13.75%) Senior Developer
5 29 (12.08%) Software Developer
6 23 (9.58%) Software Engineer
7 22 (9.17%) Analyst
8 21 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.67%) Backend Developer
10 15 (6.25%) Applications Support
11 13 (5.42%) C# Developer
11 13 (5.42%) DBA
11 13 (5.42%) Senior Backend Developer
12 11 (4.58%) C# Software Developer
12 11 (4.58%) Report Developer
13 10 (4.17%) Graduate C# Developer
13 10 (4.17%) Graduate Developer
13 10 (4.17%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 10 (4.17%) Graduate Software Developer
13 10 (4.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.92%) CSS
2 50 (20.83%) Laravel
3 48 (20.00%) HTML
4 46 (19.17%) React
5 26 (10.83%) REST
5 26 (10.83%) RESTful
5 26 (10.83%) Vue
6 24 (10.00%) Node.js
7 21 (8.75%) .NET
8 18 (7.50%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.08%) JSON
10 16 (6.67%) jQuery
10 16 (6.67%) Symfony
11 14 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (5.83%) XML
12 12 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 11 (4.58%) Web Services
14 10 (4.17%) Spring
15 9 (3.75%) Next.js
15 9 (3.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.75%) IoT
4 9 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.92%) Replication
6 6 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.50%) NHS
7 5 (2.08%) Clustering
7 5 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.67%) EPoS
8 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.25%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.25%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.92%) Linux
2 17 (7.08%) Windows
3 12 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.67%) Debian
4 4 (1.67%) VMS
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.92%) Agile
2 60 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (18.33%) Microservices
4 43 (17.92%) CI/CD
4 43 (17.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (15.42%) Software Engineering
6 33 (13.75%) Mentoring
7 32 (13.33%) TDD
8 30 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 30 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 29 (12.08%) OOP
10 28 (11.67%) DevOps
11 24 (10.00%) ETL
11 24 (10.00%) MVC
11 24 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 21 (8.75%) User Experience
13 20 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 19 (7.92%) Decision-Making
15 17 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.33%) SQL
2 100 (41.67%) PHP
3 75 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 37 (15.42%) Java
5 37 (15.42%) Python
6 30 (12.50%) C#
7 18 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.67%) C++
9 14 (5.83%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.75%) Bash
11 6 (2.50%) Go
12 5 (2.08%) Scala
13 4 (1.67%) C
14 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.83%) Perl
15 2 (0.83%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.42%) Korn
16 1 (0.42%) R
16 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (10.00%) Degree
2 19 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.00%) QA
3 11 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.67%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.25%) HL7
5 3 (1.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (16.25%) Docker
2 17 (7.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.25%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.00%) Terraform
3 11 (4.58%) Ansible
4 5 (2.08%) Argo
5 3 (1.25%) Rancher
6 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.83%) Grafana
6 2 (0.83%) Nagios
6 2 (0.83%) Plesk
6 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) Podman
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.75%) Oracle
3 15 (6.25%) SAP
4 10 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.92%) VMware
6 6 (2.50%) Google
7 5 (2.08%) Databricks
7 5 (2.08%) Informatica
7 5 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.67%) Palantir
8 4 (1.67%) RedGate
8 4 (1.67%) Talend
8 4 (1.67%) Zend
9 3 (1.25%) Apple
9 3 (1.25%) BT
9 3 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.25%) Mitel
10 2 (0.83%) Draytek
10 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.42%) Advent