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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 199 144
Rank change year-on-year -119 -55 -14
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 312 481 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.65% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.18% 11.16% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 258 386 1,166
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,023 £76,875 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.05%

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 5,049 4,309 11,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.48% 14.75% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,144 2,729 8,109
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £40,855
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £79,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -49 104 £50,000 -4.76% 34
South East -55 87 £55,000 +10.00% 29
Midlands -47 48 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -32 45 £45,000 -5.26% 9
North West -39 45 £55,000 - 20
South West -85 37 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East of England -31 26 £47,500 +11.76% 8
East Midlands -33 26 £36,250 -19.44% 2
West Midlands -43 22 £47,500 -2.56% 11
North East -40 14 £47,500 -3.80% 5
Scotland -9 5 £58,000 +0.87% 2
Wales -47 3 £35,000 -26.32% 4
Northern Ireland -42 2 £62,500 -26.47% 2
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 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.17%) CMS
3 12 (3.85%) nginx
4 8 (2.56%) IIS
4 8 (2.56%) WordPress
5 7 (2.24%) Apache
5 7 (2.24%) Confluence
6 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.64%) Drupal
7 2 (0.64%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.28%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Shopify
2 3 (0.96%) Magento
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (44.23%) AWS
2 73 (23.40%) Azure
3 33 (10.58%) GCP
4 26 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.05%) Power Platform
6 19 (6.09%) SaaS
7 17 (5.45%) GitHub
8 11 (3.53%) Serverless
9 10 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.28%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (1.28%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.45%) Firewall
2 12 (3.85%) VPN
3 8 (2.56%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.56%) SAN
3 8 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.92%) VoIP
5 5 (1.60%) Network Security
6 4 (1.28%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (1.28%) MQTT
7 3 (0.96%) DHCP
7 3 (0.96%) DNS
7 3 (0.96%) HTTP
7 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.96%) LAN
7 3 (0.96%) RTP
7 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.96%) VLAN
7 3 (0.96%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 86 (27.56%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 49 (15.71%) NoSQL
5 36 (11.54%) Relational Database
6 21 (6.73%) Power BI
7 20 (6.41%) MariaDB
8 14 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (3.21%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (2.88%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.28%) Metadata
14 4 (1.28%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 74 (23.72%) Git
2 20 (6.41%) JIRA
3 10 (3.21%) PHPUnit
4 8 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.24%) GitLab
6 5 (1.60%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.28%) Vite
8 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.64%) Selenium
9 1 (0.32%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) Mockito
9 1 (0.32%) MSTest
9 1 (0.32%) NUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.32%) Subversion
9 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.29%) Finance
4 24 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.41%) Law
6 13 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.53%) Retail
8 10 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.24%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.92%) Advertising
11 5 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.28%) Banking
12 4 (1.28%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.28%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Legal
13 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.64%) Games
15 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 147 (47.12%) Developer
2 81 (25.96%) Senior
3 53 (16.99%) PHP Developer
4 44 (14.10%) Senior Developer
5 34 (10.90%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.62%) Software Developer
7 27 (8.65%) DBA
8 21 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (6.73%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 20 (6.41%) Administrator
10 17 (5.45%) C# Developer
11 15 (4.81%) Analyst
12 14 (4.49%) Backend Developer
12 14 (4.49%) Senior Backend Developer
12 14 (4.49%) Senior Software Developer
12 14 (4.49%) SQL DBA
12 14 (4.49%) Web Developer
13 13 (4.17%) Lead
14 12 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
15 11 (3.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (27.56%) CSS
2 76 (24.36%) HTML
3 60 (19.23%) Laravel
4 53 (16.99%) RESTful
5 41 (13.14%) Node.js
5 41 (13.14%) Vue
6 40 (12.82%) React
7 31 (9.94%) REST
8 26 (8.33%) jQuery
9 23 (7.37%) .NET
9 23 (7.37%) AngularJS
10 21 (6.73%) HTML5
11 20 (6.41%) CSS3
12 18 (5.77%) JSON
13 14 (4.49%) Spring
14 11 (3.53%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.53%) Tailwind CSS
15 10 (3.21%) ASP.NET
15 10 (3.21%) LAMP
16 9 (2.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.62%) Replication
2 19 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.88%) IoT
6 8 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.28%) EPoS
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.28%) Smart Home
9 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 87 (27.88%) Linux
2 19 (6.09%) Windows
3 18 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.13%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.85%) Debian
6 9 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.96%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.69%) Agile
2 70 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (18.27%) CI/CD
4 52 (16.67%) Microservices
5 47 (15.06%) Software Engineering
6 43 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (12.50%) TDD
8 38 (12.18%) Mentoring
9 34 (10.90%) Web Development
10 30 (9.62%) Computer Science
10 30 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (9.29%) Clean Code
12 28 (8.97%) DevOps
12 28 (8.97%) OOP
13 26 (8.33%) Open Source
14 25 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (8.01%) High Availability
15 24 (7.69%) Containerisation
15 24 (7.69%) Data Modelling
16 23 (7.37%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 123 (39.42%) JavaScript
1 123 (39.42%) PHP
2 118 (37.82%) SQL
3 57 (18.27%) Java
4 41 (13.14%) Python
5 34 (10.90%) C#
6 25 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.05%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.45%) Bash
9 15 (4.81%) C++
10 12 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.53%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.24%) Go
13 6 (1.92%) C
13 6 (1.92%) Korn
14 4 (1.28%) Scala
15 3 (0.96%) Ruby
15 3 (0.96%) VBA
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (15.06%) Degree
2 22 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.28%) HNC
6 4 (1.28%) HND
6 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.28%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) RHCE
8 2 (0.64%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.77%) Data Quality
1 18 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.49%) QA
3 7 (2.24%) GDPR
3 7 (2.24%) SLA
4 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.32%) HL7
System Software
1 43 (13.78%) Docker
2 25 (8.01%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.92%) vSphere
6 4 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.96%) iptables
7 3 (0.96%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.64%) Samba
8 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 34 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.17%) Ansible
3 10 (3.21%) Terraform
4 8 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.56%) Puppet
5 4 (1.28%) Argo
5 4 (1.28%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.28%) Grafana
5 4 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.96%) Plesk
6 3 (0.96%) Rancher
6 3 (0.96%) systemd
7 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.32%) Graylog
7 1 (0.32%) Nagios
7 1 (0.32%) Podman
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.81%) Oracle
3 12 (3.85%) Google
4 10 (3.21%) VMware
5 9 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.56%) Dell
6 8 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.28%) Adobe
7 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.96%) BT
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco
8 3 (0.96%) Mitel
8 3 (0.96%) SAP
8 3 (0.96%) Splunk
8 3 (0.96%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.64%) D-Link
9 2 (0.64%) Meraki
9 2 (0.64%) New Relic
9 2 (0.64%) Synology
9 2 (0.64%) Veeam