MySQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

MySQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 155 136
Rank change year-on-year -99 -19 -27
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 470 1,340 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.78% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 11.80% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 371 1,094 775
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,392
Median % change year-on-year - -4.57% +4.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £74,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £56,480
% change year-on-year - -7.05% +2.69%

All Database and 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 11,357 10,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.90% 15.08% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,926 7,264 6,540
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,970
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MySQL in the UK excluding London

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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 -124 132 £52,500 - 135
South East -40 122 £50,000 -1.96% 132
North West -98 79 £55,000 - 80
Midlands -30 69 £45,000 -10.00% 67
East of England -37 57 £42,500 -7.61% 50
South West -8 53 £57,500 +21.05% 54
West Midlands +1 43 £37,500 -25.00% 41
Yorkshire -59 35 £43,750 -7.89% 40
East Midlands -15 21 £46,250 +8.82% 26
Scotland +46 18 £57,500 +21.05% 26
Wales +17 18 £60,000 +20.00% 19
North East +1 18 £47,500 -26.92% 15
Northern Ireland +38 4 - - 19
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 1
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.45%) Confluence
2 17 (3.62%) CMS
2 17 (3.62%) WordPress
3 16 (3.40%) Apache
4 12 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.34%) IIS
6 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.70%) Apache Solr
8 5 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.85%) nginx
10 3 (0.64%) SAS
10 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.21%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.21%) Drupal
11 1 (0.21%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.06%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.64%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.91%) Magento
2 5 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.85%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.43%) Odoo
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 208 (44.26%) AWS
2 138 (29.36%) Azure
3 68 (14.47%) GCP
4 34 (7.23%) SaaS
5 29 (6.17%) GitHub
5 29 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 24 (5.11%) Cloudflare
7 21 (4.47%) Serverless
8 19 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (4.04%) PaaS
9 18 (3.83%) IaaS
10 15 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (3.19%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.98%) Azure AI
11 14 (2.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.96%) Firewall
2 19 (4.04%) DNS
3 17 (3.62%) VPN
4 14 (2.98%) SD-WAN
4 14 (2.98%) WAN
5 12 (2.55%) FTP
6 10 (2.13%) SAN
7 8 (1.70%) Internet
7 8 (1.70%) iSCSI
7 8 (1.70%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.64%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.43%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.43%) IPsec
10 2 (0.43%) SSL
11 1 (0.21%) DHCP
11 1 (0.21%) NAS
11 1 (0.21%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (27.02%) SQL Server
2 88 (18.72%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (12.13%) Relational Database
4 43 (9.15%) MongoDB
5 39 (8.30%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (5.74%) Power BI
8 17 (3.62%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.98%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.77%) Big Data
10 13 (2.77%) Redis
11 12 (2.55%) MariaDB
12 10 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
13 9 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.70%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.49%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 158 (33.62%) Git
2 46 (9.79%) JIRA
3 21 (4.47%) Bitbucket
4 14 (2.98%) GitLab
5 11 (2.34%) NUnit
5 11 (2.34%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.13%) Jasmine
7 9 (1.91%) Jenkins
8 8 (1.70%) Selenium
9 7 (1.49%) PHPUnit
10 5 (1.06%) webpack
11 4 (0.85%) Appium
11 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.85%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.85%) Gradle
11 4 (0.85%) JMeter
11 4 (0.85%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.85%) Maven
11 4 (0.85%) Mocha
11 4 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 124 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.28%) Finance
3 35 (7.45%) Games
4 25 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.89%) Law
6 20 (4.26%) Marketing
6 20 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.83%) Retail
8 11 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (1.28%) Banking
11 6 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
11 6 (1.28%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.06%) Automotive
12 5 (1.06%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 237 (50.43%) Developer
2 109 (23.19%) Senior
3 65 (13.83%) PHP Developer
4 59 (12.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (11.28%) Software Engineer
6 50 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 40 (8.51%) Graduate
7 40 (8.51%) Graduate Developer
8 39 (8.30%) IT Graduate
9 27 (5.74%) Analyst
10 25 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (5.11%) Lead
12 21 (4.47%) Web Developer
13 19 (4.04%) C# Developer
13 19 (4.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.83%) Architect
14 18 (3.83%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.83%) Junior
14 18 (3.83%) Junior Developer
15 17 (3.62%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (35.53%) CSS
2 146 (31.06%) HTML
3 87 (18.51%) .NET
4 85 (18.09%) Laravel
5 81 (17.23%) React
6 56 (11.91%) ASP.NET
7 55 (11.70%) Node.js
8 53 (11.28%) Vue
9 52 (11.06%) jQuery
10 51 (10.85%) RESTful
11 46 (9.79%) LAMP
12 43 (9.15%) REST
13 42 (8.94%) AngularJS
14 37 (7.87%) Web Services
15 32 (6.81%) HTML5
16 31 (6.60%) Spring Boot
17 27 (5.74%) Spring
18 26 (5.53%) Kafka
19 25 (5.32%) Symfony
20 24 (5.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 18 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.62%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.19%) NHS
6 14 (2.98%) IoT
6 14 (2.98%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.77%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.13%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.91%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.91%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.49%) Online Games
11 7 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.28%) Clustering
12 6 (1.28%) LIMS
12 6 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 86 (18.30%) Linux
2 40 (8.51%) Windows
3 12 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.06%) CentOS
7 4 (0.85%) Android
7 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.85%) Unix
8 1 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (38.30%) Agile
2 141 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (21.28%) CI/CD
4 90 (19.15%) OOP
5 89 (18.94%) MVC
6 88 (18.72%) Software Engineering
7 87 (18.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 71 (15.11%) E-Commerce
9 63 (13.40%) Computer Science
10 61 (12.98%) OO
11 60 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence
12 55 (11.70%) Web Development
13 52 (11.06%) DevOps
14 48 (10.21%) User Experience
15 45 (9.57%) Microservices
16 40 (8.51%) Mentoring
17 37 (7.87%) Analytics
18 33 (7.02%) ETL
18 33 (7.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 199 (42.34%) JavaScript
2 194 (41.28%) PHP
3 168 (35.74%) SQL
4 112 (23.83%) Java
5 90 (19.15%) Python
6 89 (18.94%) C#
7 66 (14.04%) TypeScript
8 45 (9.57%) C++
9 28 (5.96%) PowerShell
10 23 (4.89%) Bash
11 18 (3.83%) PL/SQL
12 14 (2.98%) Bicep
13 11 (2.34%) Go
13 11 (2.34%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.70%) Korn
15 5 (1.06%) Scala
16 4 (0.85%) C
17 3 (0.64%) Perl
17 3 (0.64%) PROC SQL
17 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (15.53%) Degree
2 52 (11.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.83%) DBS Check
5 15 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.77%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) CCNA
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.81%) QA
2 8 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.06%) HL7
5 4 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.43%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) GMP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (15.53%) Docker
2 15 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.85%) vSphere
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.64%) HDFS
7 3 (0.64%) LXC
8 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.21%) Firmware
9 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.23%) Terraform
3 23 (4.89%) Ansible
4 14 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.06%) Grafana
6 4 (0.85%) Kibana
7 3 (0.64%) logstash
7 3 (0.64%) Oozie
7 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) Kubespray
9 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.21%) Nessus
9 1 (0.21%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.87%) Oracle
3 23 (4.89%) Databricks
4 16 (3.40%) Google
5 14 (2.98%) Meraki
5 14 (2.98%) Rollbar
6 13 (2.77%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.55%) SAP
8 10 (2.13%) Informatica
8 10 (2.13%) Splunk
9 9 (1.91%) Adobe
9 9 (1.91%) Dell
9 9 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.91%) WooCommerce
10 8 (1.70%) Talend
10 8 (1.70%) Twitter
11 7 (1.49%) VMware
12 5 (1.06%) HubSpot
12 5 (1.06%) Sage
12 5 (1.06%) Sybase