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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 133 115
Rank change year-on-year -122 -18 +55
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 307 854 809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.80% 2.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.09% 14.04% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 259 534 710
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68,125 £60,250 £69,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.62%

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 3,797 6,081 6,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.50% 12.83% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 3,086 5,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £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 11 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 11 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 83 £52,500 - 87
South East -78 67 £58,750 +15.20% 73
East of England -24 47 £50,000 -9.09% 20
Midlands -25 47 £40,000 -10.11% 51
North West -58 40 £60,000 +14.29% 59
South West -52 39 £45,000 -10.00% 38
Yorkshire -21 29 £37,500 -28.57% 20
West Midlands +1 27 £39,000 -13.33% 40
Wales -9 18 £67,500 +107.69% 2
East Midlands -23 16 £45,000 +16.88% 11
North East +4 14 £49,250 +15.88% 8
Scotland -23 6 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 £50,000 +11.11% 16
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 13 (4.23%) IIS
1 13 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.91%) Confluence
3 9 (2.93%) Apache Solr
4 8 (2.61%) Apache
5 7 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.28%) CMS
5 7 (2.28%) WordPress
6 4 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.98%) SAS
7 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.33%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.30%) Adobe XD
1 4 (1.30%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (35.83%) AWS
2 105 (34.20%) Azure
3 37 (12.05%) SaaS
4 29 (9.45%) GCP
5 27 (8.79%) GitHub
6 17 (5.54%) Cloudflare
7 16 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (4.23%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.91%) Serverless
10 9 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.61%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.63%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.63%) npm
14 4 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.30%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.91%) FTP
2 11 (3.58%) Firewall
3 10 (3.26%) SAN
4 9 (2.93%) iSCSI
4 9 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (2.28%) Internet
6 5 (1.63%) Broadband
6 5 (1.63%) WPA
7 3 (0.98%) DNS
7 3 (0.98%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.65%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) IPsec
9 1 (0.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (34.20%) SQL Server
2 70 (22.80%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (12.38%) MongoDB
4 34 (11.07%) Relational Database
5 24 (7.82%) NoSQL
6 21 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (6.19%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.91%) Power BI
10 10 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.93%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (2.28%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.28%) Redis
14 5 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.63%) Big Data
14 5 (1.63%) Tableau
15 4 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.30%) CockroachDB
15 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (21.82%) Git
2 24 (7.82%) JIRA
3 8 (2.61%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.28%) NUnit
4 7 (2.28%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.95%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.30%) git-flow
6 4 (1.30%) GitLab
7 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.65%) Mocha
8 2 (0.65%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.65%) Selenium
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.65%) webpack
9 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.33%) Gradle
9 1 (0.33%) JUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Maven
9 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 114 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.89%) Finance
3 37 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.19%) Law
5 18 (5.86%) Marketing
6 12 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.91%) Retail
7 11 (3.58%) Games
8 10 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.95%) Banking
10 5 (1.63%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.30%) Advertising
11 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.98%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.65%) Legal
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 161 (52.44%) Developer
2 66 (21.50%) Senior
3 34 (11.07%) PHP Developer
4 32 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 29 (9.45%) Graduate
5 29 (9.45%) Graduate Developer
6 28 (9.12%) Software Developer
7 27 (8.79%) Analyst
7 27 (8.79%) Lead
8 26 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (8.14%) IT Graduate
10 20 (6.51%) Applications Support
10 20 (6.51%) Software Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) C# Developer
12 16 (5.21%) .NET Developer
12 16 (5.21%) Support Analyst
13 15 (4.89%) DBA
13 15 (4.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (4.56%) Data Engineer
14 14 (4.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (34.85%) CSS
2 95 (30.94%) HTML
3 60 (19.54%) .NET
4 56 (18.24%) React
5 42 (13.68%) Laravel
6 40 (13.03%) ASP.NET
7 34 (11.07%) jQuery
8 32 (10.42%) Vue
9 29 (9.45%) HTML5
10 28 (9.12%) REST
10 28 (9.12%) RESTful
11 24 (7.82%) AngularJS
12 22 (7.17%) Node.js
12 22 (7.17%) Symfony
13 17 (5.54%) JSON
14 16 (5.21%) CSS3
15 15 (4.89%) CakePHP
15 15 (4.89%) Spring
15 15 (4.89%) Spring Boot
16 14 (4.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.58%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.61%) Legacy Code
5 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.61%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.28%) Clustering
6 7 (2.28%) NHS
6 7 (2.28%) Online Games
7 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.95%) IoT
8 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.98%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.94%) Linux
2 31 (10.10%) Windows
3 17 (5.54%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.63%) Unix
7 4 (1.30%) VMS
8 2 (0.65%) Android
8 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (36.81%) Agile
2 111 (36.16%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (17.92%) MVC
5 51 (16.61%) CI/CD
5 51 (16.61%) Mentoring
5 51 (16.61%) OO
6 49 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (14.33%) AI
8 40 (13.03%) Computer Science
9 39 (12.70%) Software Engineering
10 38 (12.38%) OOP
11 37 (12.05%) Microservices
12 35 (11.40%) ETL
13 30 (9.77%) DevOps
14 29 (9.45%) User Experience
15 28 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (9.12%) E-Commerce
16 27 (8.79%) Scrum
17 26 (8.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 131 (42.67%) SQL
2 127 (41.37%) JavaScript
3 102 (33.22%) PHP
4 66 (21.50%) C#
5 63 (20.52%) Java
6 61 (19.87%) TypeScript
7 59 (19.22%) Python
8 30 (9.77%) C++
9 12 (3.91%) Bash
10 11 (3.58%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.93%) Korn
11 9 (2.93%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.30%) Scala
12 4 (1.30%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.98%) Perl
13 3 (0.98%) PROC SQL
13 3 (0.98%) R
13 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (16.29%) Degree
2 36 (11.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.61%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.98%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.23%) QA
2 6 (1.95%) SLA
3 5 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) COBIT
6 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (16.94%) Docker
2 13 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.98%) HDFS
4 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.54%) Terraform
3 8 (2.61%) Ansible
4 4 (1.30%) Kibana
5 3 (0.98%) Grafana
5 3 (0.98%) logstash
5 3 (0.98%) Oozie
6 2 (0.65%) Argo
6 2 (0.65%) Plesk
6 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 54 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.75%) Oracle
3 16 (5.21%) SAP
4 12 (3.91%) Databricks
5 11 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.58%) Splunk
6 10 (3.26%) Dell
6 10 (3.26%) Informatica
6 10 (3.26%) Rollbar
7 9 (2.93%) Google
7 9 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.61%) RedGate
9 7 (2.28%) Talend
10 5 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.30%) Adobe
11 4 (1.30%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.30%) Palantir
11 4 (1.30%) Sage
11 4 (1.30%) VMware
11 4 (1.30%) WooCommerce