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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 132 122
Rank change year-on-year -105 -10 +53
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 319 873 796
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.84% 2.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.18% 13.84% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 272 550 703
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,313 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 3,902 6,310 6,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.56% 13.30% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 3,231 4,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,793 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 21 November 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 21 November 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
North of England -59 81 £52,500 - 105
South East -68 65 £60,000 +15.94% 90
Midlands -15 52 £41,250 -8.33% 44
East of England -19 52 £50,000 -9.09% 23
South West -47 45 £45,000 -14.29% 39
North West -41 41 £60,000 +14.29% 71
West Midlands +9 31 £39,000 -13.33% 34
Yorkshire -14 29 £37,500 -31.82% 30
Wales -7 18 £67,500 +107.69% 1
East Midlands -20 17 £44,000 +25.71% 10
North East 0 11 £47,500 +2.70% 4
Scotland -20 6 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Northern Ireland +7 1 £50,000 +11.11% 8
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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.45%) IIS
3 9 (2.82%) Apache Solr
3 9 (2.82%) Confluence
4 8 (2.51%) Apache
4 8 (2.51%) CMS
5 7 (2.19%) WordPress
6 6 (1.88%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.57%) nginx
7 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.63%) SAS
10 1 (0.31%) Appian
10 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.57%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.25%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Magento
2 2 (0.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (37.30%) AWS
2 106 (33.23%) Azure
3 39 (12.23%) SaaS
4 32 (10.03%) GCP
5 28 (8.78%) GitHub
6 17 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (4.39%) Cloudflare
8 13 (4.08%) Serverless
9 12 (3.76%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.57%) Google Analytics
15 4 (1.25%) Firebase
15 4 (1.25%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.76%) FTP
2 10 (3.13%) Firewall
3 9 (2.82%) SAN
4 8 (2.51%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (2.19%) Internet
6 5 (1.57%) Broadband
6 5 (1.57%) WPA
7 3 (0.94%) DNS
7 3 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.63%) DHCP
8 2 (0.63%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) HTTP
9 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.31%) IPsec
9 1 (0.31%) MQTT
9 1 (0.31%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (31.66%) SQL Server
2 68 (21.32%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (11.29%) MongoDB
4 34 (10.66%) Relational Database
5 27 (8.46%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.64%) BusinessObjects
6 18 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.45%) Power BI
9 8 (2.51%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.19%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.19%) Redis
11 6 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.25%) Big Data
13 4 (1.25%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.25%) Tableau
14 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (20.69%) Git
2 21 (6.58%) JIRA
3 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.57%) git-flow
3 5 (1.57%) NUnit
3 5 (1.57%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.25%) GitLab
4 4 (1.25%) Jasmine
5 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.94%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.63%) Selenium
6 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.63%) webpack
7 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
7 1 (0.31%) JUnit
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Xcode
General
1 116 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.18%) Finance
3 41 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.58%) Law
5 18 (5.64%) Marketing
6 12 (3.76%) Retail
7 11 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.13%) Games
8 10 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.88%) Banking
11 5 (1.57%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.94%) Advertising
13 3 (0.94%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.63%) Automotive
14 2 (0.63%) Billing
14 2 (0.63%) Legal
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 174 (54.55%) Developer
2 65 (20.38%) Senior
3 39 (12.23%) PHP Developer
4 35 (10.97%) Senior Developer
5 34 (10.66%) Software Developer
6 31 (9.72%) Graduate
6 31 (9.72%) Graduate Developer
6 31 (9.72%) Lead
7 27 (8.46%) Analyst
7 27 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (7.21%) IT Graduate
9 21 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 20 (6.27%) Applications Support
10 20 (6.27%) C# Developer
11 16 (5.02%) SQL Developer
11 16 (5.02%) Support Analyst
12 15 (4.70%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.08%) Azure Developer
13 13 (4.08%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (35.11%) CSS
2 97 (30.41%) HTML
3 59 (18.50%) .NET
4 57 (17.87%) React
5 46 (14.42%) Laravel
6 36 (11.29%) ASP.NET
6 36 (11.29%) jQuery
7 30 (9.40%) REST
7 30 (9.40%) Vue
8 28 (8.78%) RESTful
9 27 (8.46%) HTML5
10 25 (7.84%) Symfony
11 24 (7.52%) AngularJS
11 24 (7.52%) Node.js
12 17 (5.33%) JSON
13 16 (5.02%) CakePHP
14 15 (4.70%) Web Services
15 14 (4.39%) CSS3
15 14 (4.39%) Kafka
15 14 (4.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.51%) IoT
5 8 (2.51%) Legacy Code
5 8 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.19%) NHS
7 6 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.88%) Clustering
7 6 (1.88%) Online Games
8 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 55 (17.24%) Linux
2 32 (10.03%) Windows
3 17 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.25%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Android
8 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (37.30%) Agile
2 117 (36.68%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (18.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 56 (17.55%) MVC
6 54 (16.93%) Mentoring
7 52 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (15.67%) OO
9 46 (14.42%) OOP
10 43 (13.48%) Computer Science
11 42 (13.17%) Microservices
12 41 (12.85%) AI
13 40 (12.54%) Software Engineering
14 33 (10.34%) ETL
15 31 (9.72%) Containerisation
15 31 (9.72%) DevOps
15 31 (9.72%) User Experience
16 30 (9.40%) E-Commerce
17 29 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
18 26 (8.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (43.89%) SQL
2 131 (41.07%) JavaScript
3 114 (35.74%) PHP
4 69 (21.63%) C#
5 64 (20.06%) TypeScript
6 62 (19.44%) Java
7 59 (18.50%) Python
8 32 (10.03%) C++
9 13 (4.08%) Bash
10 9 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.51%) Korn
12 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.25%) Scala
12 4 (1.25%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.94%) Perl
13 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.94%) VB
14 2 (0.63%) PROC SQL
14 2 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (16.30%) Degree
2 39 (12.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.19%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.25%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.08%) QA
2 6 (1.88%) SLA
3 5 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) HL7
6 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.31%) COBIT
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 57 (17.87%) Docker
2 14 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.63%) Firmware
5 2 (0.63%) HDFS
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (11.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.02%) Terraform
3 8 (2.51%) Ansible
4 3 (0.94%) Grafana
4 3 (0.94%) Kibana
5 2 (0.63%) Argo
5 2 (0.63%) logstash
5 2 (0.63%) Oozie
5 2 (0.63%) Plesk
5 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.97%) Oracle
3 15 (4.70%) SAP
4 11 (3.45%) Databricks
4 11 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.13%) Google
5 10 (3.13%) Splunk
6 9 (2.82%) Dell
7 8 (2.51%) Informatica
7 8 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.19%) Rollbar
9 6 (1.88%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.88%) RedGate
9 6 (1.88%) Talend
10 4 (1.25%) Adobe
10 4 (1.25%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.25%) Palantir
10 4 (1.25%) VMware
10 4 (1.25%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.94%) Apple