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 citing MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 272 134
Rank change year-on-year -102 -138 -10
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 366 315 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.92% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.77% 7.93% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 281 253 543
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £69,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills 5,405 3,973 6,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.02% 11.56% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 2,487 3,184
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -35 126 £42,500 -19.05% 14
South East -54 88 £57,500 - 10
North West -41 54 £49,250 -17.92% 7
Yorkshire -22 40 £42,500 +13.33% 3
East of England -48 36 £47,500 -5.00% 5
South West -74 36 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Midlands -83 35 £54,500 +36.25% 11
North East -47 32 £42,500 -10.53% 4
Wales -56 28 £62,000 -8.15% 1
West Midlands -56 18 £55,000 +41.03% 7
East Midlands -38 17 £47,000 +4.44% 4
Scotland +11 13 £40,000 -46.67%
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
MySQL
UK

MySQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1PostgreSQL32.5%119
2SQL Server31.1%114
3Relational Database21.0%77
4MongoDB18.6%68
5NoSQL14.2%52
6MariaDB6.8%25
6Redis6.8%25
8Amazon RDS3.8%14
9Power BI3.6%13
10Amazon Aurora1.9%7
11Azure SQL Database1.6%6
11Data Warehouse1.6%6
11Elasticsearch1.6%6
11Metadata1.6%6
11SQLite1.6%6
16RDBMS1.4%5
17Ataccama1.1%4
17Db21.1%4
17DynamoDB1.1%4
17IBM InfoSphere1.1%4