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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 134 133
Rank change year-on-year -158 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 265 609 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 2.18% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 12.80% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 219 478 1,143
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,765 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,300 £73,100
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 4,219 4,756 10,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.96% 16.99% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,922 7,951
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £31,579
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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
South East -85 71 £55,000 +10.00% 30
North of England -108 68 £52,130 -0.70% 26
East of England +2 40 £50,000 +25.00% 19
Midlands -77 40 £40,000 - 23
South West -78 39 £57,500 -4.17% 22
North West -51 36 £55,000 +4.76% 18
Yorkshire -58 27 £50,000 +2.04% 3
West Midlands -18 26 £40,750 -16.41% 18
East Midlands -66 14 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -32 5 £51,000 -7.27% 5
Northern Ireland -27 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Scotland -38 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Wales -35 1 £45,000 +38.46% 7
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 16 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.53%) nginx
3 11 (4.15%) CMS
4 8 (3.02%) Apache
5 6 (2.26%) Confluence
5 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.89%) IIS
7 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
8 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.75%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.38%) Camunda
10 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.89%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.04%) AWS
2 71 (26.79%) Azure
3 38 (14.34%) SaaS
4 37 (13.96%) GCP
5 25 (9.43%) GitHub
6 22 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.15%) Serverless
9 9 (3.40%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.02%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.51%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.51%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.13%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.77%) VPN
2 8 (3.02%) Firewall
3 6 (2.26%) FTP
4 5 (1.89%) DHCP
4 5 (1.89%) DNS
4 5 (1.89%) Network Security
4 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.51%) HTTP
6 3 (1.13%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.13%) RTP
6 3 (1.13%) SAN
6 3 (1.13%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.13%) VLAN
6 3 (1.13%) VoIP
6 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.13%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.75%) PBX
8 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (26.42%) SQL Server
2 58 (21.89%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (16.98%) MongoDB
4 39 (14.72%) NoSQL
5 30 (11.32%) Relational Database
6 18 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.04%) BusinessObjects
8 15 (5.66%) Power BI
9 12 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.77%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.89%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.13%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (23.77%) Git
2 18 (6.79%) JIRA
3 12 (4.53%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.89%) git-flow
5 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.89%) Vite
6 4 (1.51%) GitLab
7 3 (1.13%) JUnit
7 3 (1.13%) Mockito
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) Maven
9 1 (0.38%) Ant
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.38%) MSTest
9 1 (0.38%) NUnit
9 1 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) Subversion
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.30%) Finance
4 16 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.15%) Retail
6 7 (2.64%) Law
7 4 (1.51%) Advertising
7 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.51%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.13%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Games
9 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 146 (55.09%) Developer
2 61 (23.02%) Senior
3 41 (15.47%) PHP Developer
4 40 (15.09%) Senior Developer
5 30 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 25 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (9.06%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.17%) Backend Developer
9 17 (6.42%) Applications Support
10 16 (6.04%) Analyst
10 16 (6.04%) Senior Backend Developer
11 15 (5.66%) C# Developer
12 14 (5.28%) SQL Developer
13 13 (4.91%) DBA
14 12 (4.53%) C# Software Developer
14 12 (4.53%) Graduate
14 12 (4.53%) Graduate C# Developer
14 12 (4.53%) Graduate Developer
14 12 (4.53%) Graduate Software Developer
14 12 (4.53%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (25.66%) CSS
2 59 (22.26%) HTML
3 51 (19.25%) Laravel
3 51 (19.25%) React
4 34 (12.83%) Vue
5 31 (11.70%) RESTful
6 30 (11.32%) Node.js
7 27 (10.19%) REST
8 26 (9.81%) .NET
9 20 (7.55%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.42%) JSON
11 16 (6.04%) Symfony
12 15 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (5.66%) Spring
13 14 (5.28%) jQuery
13 14 (5.28%) Spring Boot
13 14 (5.28%) XML
14 12 (4.53%) Next.js
15 11 (4.15%) Tailwind CSS
15 11 (4.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 23 (8.68%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.53%) Replication
4 10 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.40%) IoT
6 8 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.89%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.51%) Clustering
9 4 (1.51%) EPoS
9 4 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.13%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.13%) NHS
10 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.13%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.13%) Linux
2 16 (6.04%) Windows
3 11 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.51%) Debian
5 4 (1.51%) VMS
5 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.75%) CentOS
7 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.87%) Agile
2 63 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (20.00%) Microservices
4 50 (18.87%) CI/CD
5 48 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (14.34%) Software Engineering
6 38 (14.34%) TDD
7 35 (13.21%) Mentoring
8 34 (12.83%) Containerisation
9 33 (12.45%) OOP
10 31 (11.70%) DevOps
11 29 (10.94%) Data Modelling
12 28 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (10.57%) MVC
12 28 (10.57%) Test Automation
13 27 (10.19%) Computer Science
14 26 (9.81%) ETL
15 20 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.55%) Decision-Making
15 20 (7.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.64%) SQL
2 108 (40.75%) PHP
3 90 (33.96%) JavaScript
4 47 (17.74%) Java
4 47 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 41 (15.47%) Python
6 39 (14.72%) C#
7 19 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.79%) C++
9 13 (4.91%) T-SQL
10 11 (4.15%) Bash
11 7 (2.64%) Go
12 6 (2.26%) C
13 5 (1.89%) Scala
14 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.75%) Perl
15 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.38%) Korn
16 1 (0.38%) R
16 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (13.96%) Degree
2 23 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (1.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) RHCE
6 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.66%) QA
2 14 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.02%) SLA
5 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.51%) GDPR
5 4 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (16.23%) Docker
2 19 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (1.13%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.75%) Samba
5 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.91%) Terraform
3 11 (4.15%) Ansible
4 6 (2.26%) Argo
5 3 (1.13%) Grafana
5 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.13%) Rancher
6 2 (0.75%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.75%) Nagios
6 2 (0.75%) Plesk
6 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Graylog
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.55%) Oracle
3 14 (5.28%) SAP
4 12 (4.53%) Google
5 7 (2.64%) VMware
6 5 (1.89%) Databricks
6 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.51%) Informatica
7 4 (1.51%) Palantir
7 4 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.51%) Zend
8 3 (1.13%) Apple
8 3 (1.13%) BT
8 3 (1.13%) Dell
8 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.13%) Mitel
8 3 (1.13%) RedGate
8 3 (1.13%) Talend
9 2 (0.75%) D-Link
9 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft