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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 258 141
Rank change year-on-year -79 -117 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 387 324 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.94% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.05% 8.05% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 304 257 584
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,325
25th Percentile £39,563 £36,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £69,063 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £72,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.64%

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 5,488 4,026 6,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.35% 11.70% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,908 2,505 3,528
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 30 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 30 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 -27 134 £42,500 -19.05% 57
South East -37 99 £57,500 - 39
North West -27 60 £48,500 -15.65% 31
Midlands -52 44 £47,500 +5.56% 26
Yorkshire -19 42 £42,500 +9.68% 21
South West -73 40 £56,250 +25.00% 17
East of England -46 32 £50,000 +5.26% 32
North East -47 32 £42,500 -10.53% 6
Wales -66 26 £60,000 -11.11% 5
East Midlands -31 23 £37,500 -16.67% 8
West Midlands -44 21 £55,000 +41.03% 18
Scotland +20 11 £40,000 -46.67% 12
Northern Ireland -91 1 - - 19
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 26 (6.72%) IIS
2 15 (3.88%) Apache
3 12 (3.10%) WordPress
4 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.33%) Confluence
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Drupal
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.78%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.52%) Elementor
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Shopify
2 3 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 196 (50.65%) AWS
2 119 (30.75%) Azure
3 63 (16.28%) GCP
4 30 (7.75%) GitHub
5 20 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.65%) Serverless
7 17 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.10%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.84%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.81%) ChatGPT
11 7 (1.81%) SaaS
12 6 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.13%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.10%) Firewall
3 10 (2.58%) DNS
3 10 (2.58%) VPN
4 7 (1.81%) VLAN
5 6 (1.55%) DHCP
5 6 (1.55%) VoIP
5 6 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.29%) iSCSI
6 5 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (1.29%) SAN
6 5 (1.29%) SSH
7 4 (1.03%) HTTP
7 4 (1.03%) Internet
7 4 (1.03%) LAN
7 4 (1.03%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.52%) 5G
9 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.52%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (33.07%) SQL Server
2 120 (31.01%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (18.60%) Relational Database
4 63 (16.28%) MongoDB
5 50 (12.92%) NoSQL
6 25 (6.46%) MariaDB
7 19 (4.91%) Redis
8 17 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (4.39%) Power BI
9 7 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.81%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.55%) Metadata
10 6 (1.55%) SQLite
11 5 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.29%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.03%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (26.61%) Git
2 23 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.68%) Claude Code
4 18 (4.65%) GitLab
5 16 (4.13%) JIRA
6 13 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (3.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.81%) Selenium
9 5 (1.29%) RSpec
10 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.03%) JUnit
10 4 (1.03%) minitest
10 4 (1.03%) Postman
10 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.78%) Mocha
11 3 (0.78%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.52%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 74 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 48 (12.40%) Law
5 29 (7.49%) Finance
6 18 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.39%) Banking
8 8 (2.07%) Retail
9 7 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.55%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
13 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.52%) Aviation
14 2 (0.52%) Billing
14 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 187 (48.32%) Developer
2 107 (27.65%) Senior
3 69 (17.83%) Senior Developer
4 50 (12.92%) PHP Developer
5 42 (10.85%) Software Engineer
6 37 (9.56%) Software Developer
7 31 (8.01%) Lead
8 29 (7.49%) Database Engineer
9 27 (6.98%) DBA
10 25 (6.46%) C# Developer
10 25 (6.46%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.68%) .NET Developer
11 22 (5.68%) Administrator
11 22 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.17%) Web Developer
13 19 (4.91%) Backend Developer
13 19 (4.91%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.39%) Support Engineer
16 15 (3.88%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (25.32%) CSS
2 89 (23.00%) HTML
3 63 (16.28%) RESTful
4 62 (16.02%) .NET
5 52 (13.44%) Laravel
5 52 (13.44%) REST
6 47 (12.14%) React
7 40 (10.34%) Node.js
8 38 (9.82%) Vue
9 37 (9.56%) Spring
9 37 (9.56%) Terraform
10 36 (9.30%) Spring Boot
11 35 (9.04%) jQuery
12 31 (8.01%) Kafka
12 31 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
13 30 (7.75%) ASP.NET
14 27 (6.98%) Hibernate
15 25 (6.46%) HTML5
16 24 (6.20%) ASP.NET Web API
17 23 (5.94%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.59%) Replication
2 38 (9.82%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (8.79%) Cloud Native
4 29 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (7.24%) Product Ownership
6 22 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (4.39%) Virtual Team
8 15 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.07%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.29%) IoT
12 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 133 (34.37%) Linux
2 28 (7.24%) Windows
3 25 (6.46%) Ubuntu
4 20 (5.17%) Debian
4 20 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.78%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (35.66%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (33.07%) Agile
3 116 (29.97%) CI/CD
4 90 (23.26%) Software Engineering
5 79 (20.41%) DevOps
6 78 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (18.35%) Microservices
8 58 (14.99%) Mentoring
9 52 (13.44%) High Availability
10 51 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 51 (13.18%) OOP
11 48 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (12.40%) Scrum
12 43 (11.11%) AI
13 42 (10.85%) Clean Code
14 39 (10.08%) Event-Driven
15 38 (9.82%) Web Development
16 37 (9.56%) MVC
17 36 (9.30%) TDD
18 34 (8.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 143 (36.95%) SQL
2 133 (34.37%) JavaScript
3 109 (28.17%) PHP
4 76 (19.64%) Java
5 63 (16.28%) C#
6 57 (14.73%) Python
7 42 (10.85%) TypeScript
8 34 (8.79%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.13%) VB.NET
10 15 (3.88%) Bash
11 13 (3.36%) C++
12 12 (3.10%) Ruby
13 9 (2.33%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.29%) Korn
15 4 (1.03%) Go
16 3 (0.78%) Scala
16 3 (0.78%) VBA
17 2 (0.52%) C
17 2 (0.52%) Perl
18 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (10.85%) Degree
2 25 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.03%) HNC
8 4 (1.03%) HND
9 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.85%) QA
2 15 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.81%) GDPR
4 7 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (25.06%) Docker
2 18 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (1.29%) vSphere
6 3 (0.78%) iptables
6 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.52%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.20%) Grafana
3 21 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.62%) Ansible
5 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.55%) Puppet
5 6 (1.55%) WSUS
6 3 (0.78%) Plesk
6 3 (0.78%) Rancher
6 3 (0.78%) systemd
7 2 (0.52%) Galera Cluster
7 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.49%) Oracle
3 20 (5.17%) Google
4 18 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 18 (4.65%) Splunk
5 13 (3.36%) VMware
6 11 (2.84%) Dell
7 9 (2.33%) Veeam
8 8 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.55%) Aruba
9 6 (1.55%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.55%) HP
9 6 (1.55%) NetApp
9 6 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.55%) SonicWALL
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) Informatica
10 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.03%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.78%) Cisco