MySQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 145 146
Rank change year-on-year -86 +1 -58
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 475 1,347 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.88% 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.97% 10.96% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 354 1,156 783
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,875 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,480
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.05% +2.69%

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 4,330 12,291 11,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.18% 17.11% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 8,110 6,654
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 May 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
South East -7 128 £50,000 -4.76% 700
North of England -124 121 £52,500 - 663
Midlands -8 87 £47,500 -5.00% 504
North West -110 75 £55,000 +4.76% 333
South West -10 61 £60,000 +33.33% 311
West Midlands +11 48 £50,750 -7.73% 274
East of England -37 44 £47,500 - 417
East Midlands +4 36 £46,250 +2.78% 197
Yorkshire -34 34 £47,500 - 255
Scotland +67 20 £55,000 +22.22% 106
North East -10 12 £49,375 -21.00% 83
Wales +15 11 £32,500 -37.62% 87
Northern Ireland +39 5 £85,000 -19.05% 36
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (13.05%) Confluence
2 24 (5.05%) CMS
3 19 (4.00%) WordPress
4 16 (3.37%) Apache
5 10 (2.11%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.89%) Apache Solr
7 8 (1.68%) nginx
8 6 (1.26%) IIS
9 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.21%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Magento
1 10 (2.11%) Shopify
2 9 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Odoo
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 211 (44.42%) AWS
2 102 (21.47%) Azure
3 77 (16.21%) GCP
4 40 (8.42%) GitHub
5 39 (8.21%) SaaS
6 23 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.84%) Serverless
7 19 (4.00%) PaaS
8 18 (3.79%) IaaS
9 15 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.95%) Azure AI
10 14 (2.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (2.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.95%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.95%) Slack
11 12 (2.53%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.47%) DNS
2 23 (4.84%) Firewall
3 17 (3.58%) VPN
4 16 (3.37%) Internet
5 14 (2.95%) SD-WAN
5 14 (2.95%) WAN
6 12 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.32%) FTP
8 8 (1.68%) HTTPS
9 7 (1.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.63%) SSL
11 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.42%) SAN
12 1 (0.21%) DHCP
12 1 (0.21%) HTTP
12 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.21%) SSH
12 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.79%) SQL Server
2 75 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (14.32%) Relational Database
4 42 (8.84%) MongoDB
5 39 (8.21%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.63%) Power BI
7 14 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.95%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.53%) MariaDB
9 11 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.32%) Couchbase
10 10 (2.11%) Big Data
10 10 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.89%) Redis
12 8 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 182 (38.32%) Git
2 71 (14.95%) JIRA
3 42 (8.84%) Bitbucket
4 18 (3.79%) GitLab
5 17 (3.58%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.53%) webpack
7 8 (1.68%) PHPUnit
8 7 (1.47%) Grunt
8 7 (1.47%) Selenium
9 6 (1.26%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.26%) NUnit
9 6 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.05%) Mocha
11 4 (0.84%) Appium
11 4 (0.84%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.84%) JMeter
11 4 (0.84%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.84%) Postman
12 3 (0.63%) Maven
12 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.79%) Finance
3 38 (8.00%) Games
4 21 (4.42%) Retail
5 19 (4.00%) Marketing
6 17 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (3.16%) Law
9 14 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.89%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
12 7 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (1.47%) Social Housing
13 6 (1.26%) Cantonese Language
13 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.26%) Electronics
13 6 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (47.58%) Developer
2 118 (24.84%) Senior
3 78 (16.42%) PHP Developer
4 57 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 55 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 51 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (5.68%) Graduate
7 27 (5.68%) Graduate Developer
7 27 (5.68%) IT Graduate
7 27 (5.68%) Senior PHP Developer
7 27 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (4.84%) Architect
9 22 (4.63%) Analyst
10 20 (4.21%) Applications Support
10 20 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (3.79%) Junior
11 18 (3.79%) Junior Developer
12 17 (3.58%) IT Engineer
12 17 (3.58%) Lead
13 16 (3.37%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (32.00%) CSS
2 141 (29.68%) HTML
3 103 (21.68%) Laravel
4 94 (19.79%) .NET
5 73 (15.37%) React
6 59 (12.42%) LAMP
6 59 (12.42%) Node.js
7 47 (9.89%) Vue
8 46 (9.68%) RESTful
9 42 (8.84%) Web Services
10 41 (8.63%) jQuery
10 41 (8.63%) REST
11 39 (8.21%) AngularJS
12 38 (8.00%) ASP.NET
13 29 (6.11%) Spring Boot
14 26 (5.47%) Kafka
14 26 (5.47%) XML
15 25 (5.26%) Spring
16 24 (5.05%) Symfony
17 22 (4.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (4.63%) IoT
4 17 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.16%) NHS
6 14 (2.95%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.68%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.47%) Smart Home
10 7 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.26%) LIMS
11 6 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.05%) Replication
13 4 (0.84%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.26%) Linux
2 52 (10.95%) Windows
3 7 (1.47%) CentOS
3 7 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.84%) Android
5 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (36.42%) Agile
2 124 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (23.58%) CI/CD
4 95 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 90 (18.95%) Software Engineering
6 86 (18.11%) OOP
7 82 (17.26%) MVC
8 79 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 60 (12.63%) DevOps
10 59 (12.42%) Web Development
11 56 (11.79%) Computer Science
12 55 (11.58%) User Experience
13 49 (10.32%) Microservices
14 47 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (9.89%) OO
15 45 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
15 45 (9.47%) Coaching
16 39 (8.21%) B2B
17 38 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
18 32 (6.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 213 (44.84%) PHP
2 184 (38.74%) JavaScript
3 140 (29.47%) SQL
4 97 (20.42%) Java
5 93 (19.58%) C#
6 85 (17.89%) Python
7 60 (12.63%) TypeScript
8 34 (7.16%) C++
9 25 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.42%) PL/SQL
11 15 (3.16%) Bash
12 14 (2.95%) Bicep
12 14 (2.95%) Go
13 8 (1.68%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.05%) C
14 5 (1.05%) Scala
15 3 (0.63%) Delphi
15 3 (0.63%) Perl
15 3 (0.63%) R
15 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (12.84%) Degree
2 46 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (3.79%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.79%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.95%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.21%) CCNA
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.21%) HNC
10 1 (0.21%) HND
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.89%) QA
2 8 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.05%) HL7
5 4 (0.84%) GMP
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (16.63%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.84%) vSphere
5 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.63%) LXC
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.21%) HDFS
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) Postfix
6 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (10.53%) Ansible
2 49 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 38 (8.00%) Terraform
4 14 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.47%) Grafana
6 3 (0.63%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) Kubespray
7 2 (0.42%) Nessus
8 1 (0.21%) cPanel
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.21%) Nagios
8 1 (0.21%) Oozie
8 1 (0.21%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (8.00%) Atlassian
1 38 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.74%) Oracle
3 20 (4.21%) Databricks
4 14 (2.95%) Meraki
5 12 (2.53%) WooCommerce
6 11 (2.32%) Adobe
6 11 (2.32%) Google
6 11 (2.32%) Twitter
7 10 (2.11%) SAP
8 9 (1.89%) New Relic
9 7 (1.47%) Rollbar
9 7 (1.47%) VMware
10 6 (1.26%) Informatica
10 6 (1.26%) Talend
11 5 (1.05%) Sybase
12 4 (0.84%) Palantir
13 3 (0.63%) Borland
13 3 (0.63%) Sawtooth Software
13 3 (0.63%) Splunk