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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 215 147
Rank change year-on-year -95 -68 -19
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 346 446 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.42% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.46% 10.15% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 285 357 1,152
10th Percentile £34,100 £26,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £71,991
UK median annual salary £54,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +0.95% -7.05%

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 5,354 4,392 11,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.71% 13.95% 14.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,591 2,773 7,880
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 June 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 June 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 -52 121 £50,000 -2.44% 27
South East -49 91 £55,000 +10.00% 22
Midlands -43 53 £43,750 - 9
Yorkshire -15 49 £42,500 - 4
North West -28 48 £55,000 - 17
South West -78 36 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -20 29 £37,500 -16.67% 3
East of England -40 28 £47,500 +11.76% 10
West Midlands -34 24 £55,000 +37.50% 6
North East -41 24 £47,500 - 6
Scotland +5 8 £51,000 -11.30% 3
Wales -58 7 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Northern Ireland -32 2 £62,500 -
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 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.47%) CMS
3 11 (3.18%) WordPress
4 9 (2.60%) IIS
5 8 (2.31%) Apache
6 7 (2.02%) Confluence
6 7 (2.02%) nginx
7 6 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.58%) Drupal
8 2 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.58%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Shopify
2 3 (0.87%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (48.55%) AWS
2 94 (27.17%) Azure
3 34 (9.83%) GCP
4 27 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (7.51%) GitHub
5 26 (7.51%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.91%) SaaS
6 17 (4.91%) Serverless
7 13 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.49%) Firewall
2 11 (3.18%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.18%) VPN
3 8 (2.31%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.31%) SAN
3 8 (2.31%) VoIP
4 7 (2.02%) Network Security
5 5 (1.45%) DNS
5 5 (1.45%) LAN
5 5 (1.45%) VLAN
5 5 (1.45%) WAN
6 4 (1.16%) DHCP
6 4 (1.16%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (1.16%) MQTT
6 4 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.87%) HTTP
7 3 (0.87%) Internet
7 3 (0.87%) RTP
7 3 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (31.50%) SQL Server
2 104 (30.06%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (18.79%) MongoDB
4 53 (15.32%) NoSQL
5 41 (11.85%) Relational Database
6 25 (7.23%) Power BI
7 21 (6.07%) MariaDB
8 14 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (2.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.31%) Redis
12 7 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.02%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.02%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.73%) Metadata
14 5 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 88 (25.43%) Git
2 21 (6.07%) JIRA
3 11 (3.18%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.89%) GitLab
4 10 (2.89%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.60%) PHPUnit
6 7 (2.02%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.87%) Mocha
8 3 (0.87%) Vite
9 2 (0.58%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.58%) JUnit
9 2 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.58%) YouTrack
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 80 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.25%) Finance
5 28 (8.09%) Law
6 14 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.18%) Retail
8 10 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.73%) Banking
10 6 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.45%) Advertising
11 5 (1.45%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.16%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.16%) Legal
13 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.87%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.58%) Marketing
14 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (44.51%) Developer
2 85 (24.57%) Senior
3 47 (13.58%) PHP Developer
4 45 (13.01%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.72%) Senior Developer
6 31 (8.96%) DBA
7 29 (8.38%) Software Developer
8 28 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (6.94%) Administrator
10 20 (5.78%) Lead
11 19 (5.49%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 18 (5.20%) C# Developer
13 16 (4.62%) Database Engineer
13 16 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (4.34%) Web Developer
15 14 (4.05%) Senior Software Developer
15 14 (4.05%) SQL DBA
16 13 (3.76%) Analyst
16 13 (3.76%) Java Developer
16 13 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (27.17%) CSS
2 79 (22.83%) HTML
3 57 (16.47%) Node.js
4 56 (16.18%) Laravel
4 56 (16.18%) RESTful
5 46 (13.29%) React
6 44 (12.72%) REST
7 42 (12.14%) Vue
8 32 (9.25%) .NET
9 31 (8.96%) jQuery
10 24 (6.94%) HTML5
11 23 (6.65%) AngularJS
12 21 (6.07%) Spring
13 19 (5.49%) CSS3
13 19 (5.49%) Spring Boot
14 18 (5.20%) JSON
15 13 (3.76%) ASP.NET
16 11 (3.18%) LAMP
17 10 (2.89%) .NET Framework
17 10 (2.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.98%) Replication
2 25 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.89%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.02%) Driving Licence
10 7 (2.02%) IoT
10 7 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.16%) EPoS
12 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.16%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (28.61%) Linux
2 21 (6.07%) Ubuntu
3 20 (5.78%) Windows
4 17 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.05%) Debian
6 8 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.87%) Android
8 3 (0.87%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.24%) Agile
2 89 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (23.12%) CI/CD
4 63 (18.21%) Microservices
4 63 (18.21%) Software Engineering
5 59 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (13.01%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.43%) DevOps
9 41 (11.85%) TDD
10 38 (10.98%) High Availability
11 33 (9.54%) Computer Science
12 32 (9.25%) Web Development
13 31 (8.96%) Clean Code
14 30 (8.67%) AI
15 29 (8.38%) Containerisation
15 29 (8.38%) OOP
15 29 (8.38%) Open Source
16 28 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
17 27 (7.80%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 137 (39.60%) SQL
2 132 (38.15%) JavaScript
3 120 (34.68%) PHP
4 75 (21.68%) Java
5 50 (14.45%) Python
6 47 (13.58%) C#
7 26 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.07%) C++
8 21 (6.07%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.20%) Bash
9 18 (5.20%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.18%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.02%) Go
12 6 (1.73%) C
12 6 (1.73%) Korn
13 5 (1.45%) Ruby
14 4 (1.16%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.87%) VBA
16 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (15.03%) Degree
2 24 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.34%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.73%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.16%) HNC
7 4 (1.16%) HND
8 3 (0.87%) RHCE
9 2 (0.58%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.78%) Data Quality
1 20 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (5.49%) QA
3 10 (2.89%) GDPR
4 8 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.02%) SLA
6 4 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 59 (17.05%) Docker
2 27 (7.80%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (2.02%) vSphere
6 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.87%) iptables
7 3 (0.87%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.58%) Samba
9 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.34%) Terraform
3 14 (4.05%) Ansible
4 7 (2.02%) Grafana
4 7 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.02%) Puppet
5 4 (1.16%) Argo
5 4 (1.16%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.16%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.87%) Plesk
6 3 (0.87%) Rancher
6 3 (0.87%) systemd
7 1 (0.29%) Graylog
7 1 (0.29%) Podman
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.34%) Oracle
3 12 (3.47%) VMware
4 11 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.89%) Google
6 9 (2.60%) Dell
6 9 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.45%) Splunk
8 4 (1.16%) Cisco
8 4 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.16%) Veeam
8 4 (1.16%) WooCommerce
9 3 (0.87%) Adobe
9 3 (0.87%) BT
9 3 (0.87%) Mitel
9 3 (0.87%) Synology
9 3 (0.87%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.58%) Meraki
10 2 (0.58%) New Relic
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce