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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 250 148
Rank change year-on-year -76 -102 +5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 390 345 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.00% 1.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.02% 8.29% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 305 270 624
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,625 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,125 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.08%

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 5,555 4,160 7,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.64% 12.11% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,916 2,584 3,824
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -39 131 £42,500 -19.05% 75
South East -37 99 £55,000 -4.35% 53
North West -19 59 £49,250 -14.35% 39
Midlands -17 51 £42,500 -5.56% 29
South West -69 41 £57,500 +27.78% 28
Yorkshire -22 40 £42,500 +9.68% 24
East of England -50 33 £50,000 +5.26% 21
North East -45 32 £42,500 -10.53% 13
East Midlands -17 30 £37,500 -16.67% 7
Wales -70 25 £60,000 -11.11% 1
West Midlands -36 21 £55,000 +39.24% 22
Scotland +6 9 £41,750 -44.33% 21
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 18
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 25 (6.41%) IIS
2 15 (3.85%) Apache
3 12 (3.08%) WordPress
4 11 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.31%) Confluence
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) CMS
6 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) Drupal
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.51%) Elementor
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Shopify
2 3 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 193 (49.49%) AWS
2 113 (28.97%) Azure
3 60 (15.38%) GCP
4 30 (7.69%) GitHub
5 20 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (4.62%) Serverless
8 17 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.79%) SaaS
13 6 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.36%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.33%) Firewall
3 11 (2.82%) VPN
4 10 (2.56%) DNS
5 7 (1.79%) VLAN
6 6 (1.54%) DHCP
6 6 (1.54%) VoIP
6 6 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.28%) iSCSI
7 5 (1.28%) LAN
7 5 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.28%) SAN
7 5 (1.28%) SSH
7 5 (1.28%) WAN
8 4 (1.03%) HTTP
8 4 (1.03%) Internet
9 3 (0.77%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.77%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (0.77%) MQTT
10 2 (0.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 118 (30.26%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (17.44%) Relational Database
4 61 (15.64%) MongoDB
5 47 (12.05%) NoSQL
6 25 (6.41%) MariaDB
7 19 (4.87%) Redis
8 17 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (4.36%) Power BI
9 8 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.54%) Metadata
10 6 (1.54%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.54%) SQLite
11 5 (1.28%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.03%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (26.15%) Git
2 22 (5.64%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.62%) Claude Code
3 18 (4.62%) GitLab
4 17 (4.36%) JIRA
5 11 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.82%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (2.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.79%) Selenium
7 5 (1.28%) RSpec
8 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.03%) JUnit
8 4 (1.03%) minitest
8 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.77%) Mocha
9 3 (0.77%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.77%) Postman
10 2 (0.51%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.56%) Law
4 48 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.69%) Finance
6 17 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.10%) Banking
8 8 (2.05%) Retail
9 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.54%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Aviation
14 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 193 (49.49%) Developer
2 102 (26.15%) Senior
3 66 (16.92%) Senior Developer
4 56 (14.36%) PHP Developer
5 40 (10.26%) Software Engineer
6 36 (9.23%) Software Developer
7 30 (7.69%) Lead
8 29 (7.44%) Database Engineer
9 27 (6.92%) DBA
10 25 (6.41%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.64%) Administrator
11 22 (5.64%) C# Developer
11 22 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.64%) Web Developer
12 20 (5.13%) .NET Developer
12 20 (5.13%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (4.87%) Backend Developer
13 19 (4.87%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.67%) CSS
2 95 (24.36%) HTML
3 61 (15.64%) RESTful
4 60 (15.38%) Laravel
5 56 (14.36%) .NET
6 50 (12.82%) REST
7 47 (12.05%) React
8 42 (10.77%) Node.js
9 38 (9.74%) jQuery
9 38 (9.74%) Vue
10 37 (9.49%) Spring
11 36 (9.23%) Spring Boot
11 36 (9.23%) Terraform
12 30 (7.69%) Kafka
13 29 (7.44%) HTML5
13 29 (7.44%) RabbitMQ
14 28 (7.18%) ASP.NET
15 26 (6.67%) Hibernate
16 22 (5.64%) .NET Framework
16 22 (5.64%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.77%) Replication
2 37 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 28 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (6.92%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 14 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.54%) IoT
12 5 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 134 (34.36%) Linux
2 26 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 26 (6.67%) Windows
3 22 (5.64%) Debian
4 20 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.77%) Android
7 3 (0.77%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (35.13%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (32.56%) Agile
3 113 (28.97%) CI/CD
4 86 (22.05%) Software Engineering
5 78 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (19.49%) DevOps
7 68 (17.44%) Microservices
8 56 (14.36%) Mentoring
9 53 (13.59%) High Availability
10 52 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 50 (12.82%) OOP
12 48 (12.31%) Scrum
13 45 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (10.77%) Clean Code
15 40 (10.26%) Web Development
16 37 (9.49%) MVC
17 36 (9.23%) AI
17 36 (9.23%) Event-Driven
18 34 (8.72%) TDD
19 33 (8.46%) OO
Programming Languages
1 140 (35.90%) SQL
2 139 (35.64%) JavaScript
3 117 (30.00%) PHP
4 74 (18.97%) Java
5 56 (14.36%) C#
6 51 (13.08%) Python
7 40 (10.26%) TypeScript
8 33 (8.46%) Shell Script
9 15 (3.85%) Bash
10 14 (3.59%) VB.NET
11 12 (3.08%) C++
11 12 (3.08%) Ruby
12 9 (2.31%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.28%) Korn
14 4 (1.03%) Go
15 3 (0.77%) Scala
15 3 (0.77%) VBA
16 2 (0.51%) Perl
17 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (10.77%) Degree
2 25 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.03%) HNC
8 4 (1.03%) HND
9 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.51%) QA
2 15 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.79%) GDPR
5 6 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (23.85%) Docker
2 19 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 6 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.54%) vSphere
5 3 (0.77%) iptables
5 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.90%) Grafana
3 20 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.59%) Ansible
5 6 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.54%) Puppet
5 6 (1.54%) WSUS
6 3 (0.77%) Galera Cluster
6 3 (0.77%) Plesk
6 3 (0.77%) Rancher
6 3 (0.77%) systemd
6 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.92%) Oracle
3 19 (4.87%) Google
4 17 (4.36%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.36%) Splunk
5 15 (3.85%) VMware
6 11 (2.82%) Dell
7 9 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.31%) Veeam
8 6 (1.54%) Aruba
8 6 (1.54%) CheckPoint
8 6 (1.54%) HP
8 6 (1.54%) NetApp
8 6 (1.54%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.54%) SonicWALL
9 4 (1.03%) Cisco
9 4 (1.03%) IBM
9 4 (1.03%) Informatica
9 4 (1.03%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.03%) WooCommerce