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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 142 135
Rank change year-on-year -164 -7 +8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 295 528 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 2.04% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 12.07% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 235 457 1,184
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £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 - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,100 £73,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 4,699 4,375 11,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.91% 16.87% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,692 2,966 8,185
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,526 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.20%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -89 78 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North of England -106 74 £51,000 -2.86% 32
Midlands -68 54 £40,000 -15.79% 17
South West -87 41 £56,250 -2.17% 19
East of England -32 40 £50,000 +17.65% 20
North West -62 39 £55,000 +4.76% 24
East Midlands -62 29 £37,500 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire -70 28 £50,000 +2.04% 4
West Midlands -25 25 £43,750 -10.26% 10
North East -31 7 £51,000 -5.12% 4
Scotland -44 4 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland -35 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -48 1 £45,000 +38.46% 8
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 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.41%) CMS
3 12 (4.07%) nginx
4 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.69%) Apache
6 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.36%) Confluence
6 4 (1.36%) IIS
7 2 (0.68%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Shopify
2 1 (0.34%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 129 (43.73%) AWS
2 70 (23.73%) Azure
3 39 (13.22%) GCP
4 31 (10.51%) SaaS
5 24 (8.14%) GitHub
6 23 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.76%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.73%) Serverless
9 10 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.71%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.69%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.36%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) VPN
2 11 (3.73%) Firewall
3 6 (2.03%) FTP
3 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.69%) DHCP
4 5 (1.69%) DNS
4 5 (1.69%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) HTTP
5 4 (1.36%) MQTT
6 3 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.02%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.02%) RTP
6 3 (1.02%) SAN
6 3 (1.02%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.02%) VLAN
6 3 (1.02%) VoIP
6 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.02%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (23.73%) SQL Server
2 62 (21.02%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (14.58%) MongoDB
4 41 (13.90%) NoSQL
5 32 (10.85%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.76%) Power BI
7 16 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.75%) BusinessObjects
9 12 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.39%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.37%) DynamoDB
13 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.03%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.69%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.69%) MariaDB
15 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 71 (24.07%) Git
2 18 (6.10%) JIRA
3 13 (4.41%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.69%) Vite
6 4 (1.36%) git-flow
6 4 (1.36%) GitLab
7 3 (1.02%) JUnit
7 3 (1.02%) Mockito
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.34%) MSTest
9 1 (0.34%) NUnit
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.34%) Subversion
9 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.17%) Finance
4 16 (5.42%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.73%) Law
5 11 (3.73%) Retail
6 6 (2.03%) Advertising
6 6 (2.03%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.02%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.68%) Automotive
10 2 (0.68%) Games
10 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 169 (57.29%) Developer
2 62 (21.02%) Senior
3 53 (17.97%) PHP Developer
4 42 (14.24%) Senior Developer
5 29 (9.83%) Software Developer
6 27 (9.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.47%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.78%) Backend Developer
9 19 (6.44%) Senior Backend Developer
10 17 (5.76%) Analyst
11 16 (5.42%) C# Developer
12 15 (5.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 14 (4.75%) SQL Developer
14 13 (4.41%) Applications Support
15 12 (4.07%) Azure Developer
15 12 (4.07%) DBA
15 12 (4.07%) Graduate
15 12 (4.07%) Graduate C# Software Developer
15 12 (4.07%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 12 (4.07%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (29.49%) CSS
2 79 (26.78%) HTML
3 66 (22.37%) Laravel
4 53 (17.97%) React
5 40 (13.56%) Vue
6 38 (12.88%) RESTful
7 30 (10.17%) Node.js
8 29 (9.83%) REST
9 24 (8.14%) .NET
9 24 (8.14%) AngularJS
9 24 (8.14%) jQuery
10 18 (6.10%) JSON
11 17 (5.76%) Spring
12 16 (5.42%) Spring Boot
13 15 (5.08%) Symfony
14 14 (4.75%) HTML5
14 14 (4.75%) XML
15 13 (4.41%) CSS3
15 13 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (4.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.12%) Cloud Native
1 21 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.08%) Replication
3 12 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.73%) IoT
4 11 (3.73%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.71%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.36%) Clustering
10 4 (1.36%) EPoS
11 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.02%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.02%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 59 (20.00%) Linux
2 15 (5.08%) Windows
3 10 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.71%) Debian
4 8 (2.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.02%) CentOS
7 3 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.02%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.93%) Agile
2 67 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.63%) Microservices
4 50 (16.95%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (14.24%) TDD
6 37 (12.54%) Mentoring
7 36 (12.20%) OOP
7 36 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 31 (10.51%) Containerisation
9 30 (10.17%) Computer Science
10 29 (9.83%) MVC
11 28 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (9.15%) DevOps
13 26 (8.81%) Data Modelling
13 26 (8.81%) Test Automation
14 25 (8.47%) ETL
14 25 (8.47%) Web Development
15 22 (7.46%) Clean Code
16 21 (7.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.05%) PHP
2 121 (41.02%) SQL
3 105 (35.59%) JavaScript
4 50 (16.95%) Java
5 43 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 40 (13.56%) Python
7 38 (12.88%) C#
8 19 (6.44%) PowerShell
9 18 (6.10%) C++
10 13 (4.41%) Bash
10 13 (4.41%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.37%) Go
12 6 (2.03%) C
12 6 (2.03%) Scala
13 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (13.22%) Degree
2 25 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.36%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.02%) RHCE
7 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.41%) QA
3 12 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.71%) SLA
5 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.69%) GDPR
6 4 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.68%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (14.58%) Docker
2 22 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (1.36%) vSphere
6 3 (1.02%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.68%) iptables
7 2 (0.68%) Samba
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.07%) Terraform
3 8 (2.71%) Ansible
4 4 (1.36%) Argo
5 3 (1.02%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.02%) Grafana
5 3 (1.02%) Plesk
5 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Rancher
5 3 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.68%) Nagios
6 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) systemd
7 1 (0.34%) Graylog
7 1 (0.34%) Podman
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.10%) Oracle
3 12 (4.07%) Google
3 12 (4.07%) SAP
4 10 (3.39%) VMware
5 5 (1.69%) Databricks
5 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.36%) Informatica
6 4 (1.36%) Palantir
6 4 (1.36%) Zend
7 3 (1.02%) Apple
7 3 (1.02%) BT
7 3 (1.02%) Dell
7 3 (1.02%) Mitel
7 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.02%) RedGate
7 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.02%) Talend
8 2 (0.68%) Adobe