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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 230 155
Rank change year-on-year -73 -75 -24
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 413 427 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.23% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.22% 9.47% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 331 350 762
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,991
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -5.31%

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 5,720 4,509 8,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.42% 13.04% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,922 2,844 4,937
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,575 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.99%

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 August 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 11 August 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 -26 138 £47,500 -9.52% 33
South East -25 117 £55,000 - 36
North West -32 57 £52,130 -9.34% 21
Midlands -51 52 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -16 48 £42,500 -12.37% 7
South West -84 38 £53,750 +13.16% 11
East of England -47 37 £47,500 - 11
North East -39 33 £42,500 -10.53% 5
East Midlands -13 29 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -45 23 £51,250 +24.24% 8
Wales -60 19 £70,000 +9.80% 3
Scotland +9 12 £51,000 -9.33% 9
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 18 (4.36%) IIS
2 14 (3.39%) Apache
3 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.91%) WordPress
4 9 (2.18%) Confluence
5 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.21%) CMS
6 3 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.48%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.97%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.48%) Elementor
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Shopify
2 3 (0.73%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 209 (50.61%) AWS
2 118 (28.57%) Azure
3 57 (13.80%) GCP
4 33 (7.99%) GitHub
5 22 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.60%) Serverless
7 18 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (2.66%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.18%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.18%) SaaS
13 7 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.12%) Firewall
2 11 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.42%) VPN
4 8 (1.94%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.94%) SAN
5 6 (1.45%) VoIP
6 5 (1.21%) LAN
6 5 (1.21%) WAN
7 4 (0.97%) DNS
7 4 (0.97%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.97%) MQTT
7 4 (0.97%) Network Security
7 4 (0.97%) VLAN
8 3 (0.73%) DHCP
8 3 (0.73%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.73%) Internet
8 3 (0.73%) SSH
8 3 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (32.45%) SQL Server
2 125 (30.27%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (15.74%) Relational Database
4 64 (15.50%) MongoDB
5 52 (12.59%) NoSQL
6 27 (6.54%) MariaDB
7 19 (4.60%) Power BI
8 17 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.63%) Redis
10 10 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.69%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.45%) Metadata
14 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.45%) SQLite
15 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 99 (23.97%) Git
2 22 (5.33%) JIRA
3 19 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.39%) Claude Code
5 13 (3.15%) GitLab
6 10 (2.42%) PHPUnit
7 9 (2.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.45%) Selenium
11 5 (1.21%) RSpec
12 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.97%) JUnit
12 4 (0.97%) minitest
13 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.73%) Mocha
13 3 (0.73%) NUnit
13 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.48%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (11.14%) Law
3 46 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.20%) Finance
5 16 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.18%) Banking
7 9 (2.18%) Retail
8 6 (1.45%) Tech for Good
9 4 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.97%) Legal
9 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.73%) Advertising
10 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.73%) Marketing
10 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.48%) Aviation
11 2 (0.48%) Billing
11 2 (0.48%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 205 (49.64%) Developer
2 106 (25.67%) Senior
3 66 (15.98%) Senior Developer
4 60 (14.53%) PHP Developer
5 46 (11.14%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.44%) Software Developer
7 30 (7.26%) Lead
8 29 (7.02%) DBA
9 27 (6.54%) Database Engineer
10 26 (6.30%) C# Developer
11 25 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (5.81%) Web Developer
13 23 (5.57%) Administrator
14 21 (5.08%) Backend Developer
14 21 (5.08%) Java Developer
14 21 (5.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 20 (4.84%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (4.36%) .NET Developer
16 18 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (4.12%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (28.09%) CSS
2 102 (24.70%) HTML
3 64 (15.50%) Laravel
4 60 (14.53%) RESTful
5 55 (13.32%) .NET
6 53 (12.83%) REST
7 51 (12.35%) React
8 49 (11.86%) Node.js
9 42 (10.17%) Vue
10 40 (9.69%) jQuery
11 31 (7.51%) Spring
12 30 (7.26%) Spring Boot
13 27 (6.54%) HTML5
14 25 (6.05%) ASP.NET
15 23 (5.57%) AngularJS
16 22 (5.33%) Kafka
17 20 (4.84%) .NET Framework
17 20 (4.84%) Hibernate
18 19 (4.60%) CSS3
19 18 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.90%) Replication
2 32 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.57%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.45%) IoT
13 4 (0.97%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 119 (28.81%) Linux
2 24 (5.81%) Ubuntu
3 22 (5.33%) Windows
4 19 (4.60%) Debian
5 16 (3.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.21%) CentOS
9 3 (0.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (32.93%) Agile
2 127 (30.75%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 80 (19.37%) Software Engineering
5 74 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (17.43%) Microservices
7 63 (15.25%) DevOps
8 58 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 55 (13.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 55 (13.32%) High Availability
10 54 (13.08%) OOP
11 47 (11.38%) Web Development
12 46 (11.14%) TDD
13 42 (10.17%) Clean Code
14 39 (9.44%) Scrum
15 38 (9.20%) MVC
16 37 (8.96%) Computer Science
17 35 (8.47%) AI
18 33 (7.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (7.75%) OO
Programming Languages
1 157 (38.01%) SQL
2 155 (37.53%) JavaScript
3 134 (32.45%) PHP
4 81 (19.61%) Java
5 63 (15.25%) C#
6 47 (11.38%) Python
7 35 (8.47%) TypeScript
8 28 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.87%) Bash
9 16 (3.87%) C++
10 12 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.91%) Ruby
11 10 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.45%) Korn
13 4 (0.97%) Go
13 4 (0.97%) Scala
14 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.73%) VBA
15 2 (0.48%) C
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 59 (14.29%) Degree
2 24 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.97%) HNC
8 4 (0.97%) HND
8 4 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.73%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.73%) RHCE
10 2 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.78%) QA
2 17 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.69%) GDPR
3 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.45%) SLA
5 2 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (20.82%) Docker
2 21 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (1.69%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) iptables
6 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.48%) Samba
8 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (15.01%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.54%) Terraform
3 14 (3.39%) Grafana
4 12 (2.91%) Ansible
4 12 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.45%) Puppet
6 4 (0.97%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (0.97%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.73%) Plesk
7 3 (0.73%) systemd
7 3 (0.73%) WSUS
8 2 (0.48%) Rancher
9 1 (0.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 56 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.81%) Google
3 22 (5.33%) Oracle
4 18 (4.36%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.91%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.91%) VMware
6 11 (2.66%) Dell
7 9 (2.18%) Splunk
8 6 (1.45%) Veeam
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.97%) IBM
9 4 (0.97%) Informatica
9 4 (0.97%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.97%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.73%) Adobe
10 3 (0.73%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.73%) HP
10 3 (0.73%) NetApp
10 3 (0.73%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.73%) SonicWALL