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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 227 159
Rank change year-on-year -72 -68 -34
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 404 437 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.27% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.11% 9.64% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 324 360 773
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £77,625 £71,991
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.06%

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 5,685 4,531 8,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.57% 13.17% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,886 2,871 5,039
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,999
25th Percentile £41,528 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -25 134 £47,500 -9.52% 34
South East -18 115 £55,000 +2.33% 39
North West -29 55 £52,130 -9.34% 22
Midlands -42 53 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -17 48 £42,500 -12.37% 7
South West -75 37 £52,500 +1.74% 13
East of England -46 35 £47,500 - 9
North East -37 31 £43,750 -2.78% 5
East Midlands -8 30 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -41 23 £51,250 +24.24% 10
Wales -54 18 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +5 12 £51,000 -15.00% 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 17 (4.21%) IIS
2 14 (3.47%) Apache
2 14 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.97%) WordPress
4 9 (2.23%) Confluence
5 6 (1.49%) CMS
6 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.74%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.50%) Drupal
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.99%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.50%) Elementor
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 205 (50.74%) AWS
2 118 (29.21%) Azure
3 56 (13.86%) GCP
4 32 (7.92%) GitHub
5 23 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.70%) Serverless
8 17 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.72%) SaaS
11 10 (2.48%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.21%) Firewall
2 11 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.48%) VPN
4 8 (1.98%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.98%) SAN
5 6 (1.49%) VoIP
6 5 (1.24%) LAN
6 5 (1.24%) WAN
7 4 (0.99%) DNS
7 4 (0.99%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.99%) MQTT
7 4 (0.99%) Network Security
7 4 (0.99%) VLAN
8 3 (0.74%) DHCP
8 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.74%) Internet
8 3 (0.74%) SSH
8 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (32.18%) SQL Server
2 125 (30.94%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (15.84%) MongoDB
4 63 (15.59%) Relational Database
5 52 (12.87%) NoSQL
6 26 (6.44%) MariaDB
7 20 (4.95%) Power BI
8 17 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.47%) Redis
10 10 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.49%) Metadata
14 6 (1.49%) Oracle Database
15 5 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 98 (24.26%) Git
2 22 (5.45%) JIRA
3 19 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.22%) Claude Code
4 13 (3.22%) GitLab
5 10 (2.48%) PHPUnit
6 9 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.49%) Selenium
8 6 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.24%) RSpec
10 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.99%) JUnit
10 4 (0.99%) minitest
11 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.74%) Mocha
11 3 (0.74%) NUnit
11 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.50%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 42 (10.40%) Law
5 38 (9.41%) Finance
6 16 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.98%) Banking
8 8 (1.98%) Retail
9 6 (1.49%) Tech for Good
10 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.99%) Legal
10 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.74%) Advertising
11 3 (0.74%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.50%) Aviation
12 2 (0.50%) Billing
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 200 (49.50%) Developer
2 104 (25.74%) Senior
3 64 (15.84%) Senior Developer
4 58 (14.36%) PHP Developer
5 47 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.41%) Software Developer
7 29 (7.18%) DBA
7 29 (7.18%) Lead
8 25 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (5.94%) C# Developer
9 24 (5.94%) Database Engineer
9 24 (5.94%) Web Developer
10 23 (5.69%) Administrator
11 21 (5.20%) Backend Developer
12 20 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.95%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (4.70%) Senior Software Developer
14 18 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (4.21%) Senior Backend Developer
16 16 (3.96%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (28.22%) CSS
2 100 (24.75%) HTML
3 63 (15.59%) Laravel
4 61 (15.10%) RESTful
5 53 (13.12%) REST
6 50 (12.38%) .NET
6 50 (12.38%) React
7 49 (12.13%) Node.js
8 42 (10.40%) Vue
9 39 (9.65%) jQuery
10 30 (7.43%) Spring
11 29 (7.18%) Spring Boot
12 27 (6.68%) HTML5
13 23 (5.69%) ASP.NET
14 22 (5.45%) AngularJS
15 21 (5.20%) Kafka
16 19 (4.70%) CSS3
16 19 (4.70%) Hibernate
17 18 (4.46%) .NET Framework
18 17 (4.21%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.40%) Replication
2 32 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.49%) IoT
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.99%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (28.47%) Linux
2 24 (5.94%) Ubuntu
3 22 (5.45%) Windows
4 18 (4.46%) Debian
5 16 (3.96%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.24%) CentOS
9 3 (0.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (33.66%) Agile
2 120 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (25.25%) CI/CD
4 78 (19.31%) Software Engineering
5 72 (17.82%) Microservices
6 68 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (15.10%) DevOps
8 58 (14.36%) Mentoring
9 55 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 52 (12.87%) OOP
11 51 (12.62%) High Availability
12 47 (11.63%) TDD
13 45 (11.14%) Web Development
14 40 (9.90%) Clean Code
15 37 (9.16%) Scrum
16 36 (8.91%) Computer Science
16 36 (8.91%) MVC
17 34 (8.42%) AI
18 31 (7.67%) Coaching
18 31 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.12%) SQL
2 153 (37.87%) JavaScript
3 133 (32.92%) PHP
4 81 (20.05%) Java
5 60 (14.85%) C#
6 49 (12.13%) Python
7 34 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 25 (6.19%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.96%) Bash
9 16 (3.96%) C++
10 14 (3.47%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.97%) Ruby
12 9 (2.23%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.49%) Korn
14 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.99%) Go
15 4 (0.99%) Scala
16 3 (0.74%) VBA
17 2 (0.50%) C
17 2 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (14.11%) Degree
2 24 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.20%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.73%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) HNC
8 4 (0.99%) HND
8 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.74%) RHCE
10 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.50%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.68%) QA
2 19 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.73%) GDPR
5 6 (1.49%) SLA
6 2 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (20.79%) Docker
2 23 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (1.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.74%) iptables
6 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.50%) Samba
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.44%) Terraform
3 13 (3.22%) Grafana
4 12 (2.97%) Ansible
5 11 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.49%) Puppet
7 4 (0.99%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.74%) Plesk
8 3 (0.74%) systemd
8 3 (0.74%) WSUS
9 2 (0.50%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 54 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.69%) Google
3 21 (5.20%) Oracle
4 17 (4.21%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.97%) VMware
6 11 (2.72%) Dell
6 11 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.98%) Splunk
8 6 (1.49%) Veeam
9 4 (0.99%) Cisco
9 4 (0.99%) IBM
9 4 (0.99%) Informatica
9 4 (0.99%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.99%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.74%) HP
10 3 (0.74%) NetApp
10 3 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.74%) SonicWALL