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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 134 124
Rank change year-on-year -138 -10 +35
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 315 869 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.92% 1.81% 2.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.93% 14.06% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 253 543 714
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £69,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 3,973 6,182 6,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.57% 12.89% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,487 3,184 5,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -0.83%

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 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 28 October 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 -71 86 £52,500 - 113
South East -67 78 £57,500 +9.52% 114
Midlands -49 48 £40,000 -10.11% 51
North West -64 47 £60,000 +14.29% 66
East of England -41 42 £50,000 -9.09% 31
South West -38 38 £45,000 -10.00% 33
West Midlands -11 28 £39,000 -22.00% 33
Yorkshire -17 27 £37,500 -28.57% 37
Wales -6 18 £67,500 +107.69% 7
East Midlands -35 16 £45,000 +9.76% 17
North East +4 12 £47,500 +11.76% 10
Scotland -33 6 £75,000 +36.36% 10
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 15 (4.76%) IIS
2 13 (4.13%) Confluence
3 12 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (3.17%) Apache
5 9 (2.86%) Apache Solr
6 7 (2.22%) CMS
6 7 (2.22%) WordPress
7 5 (1.59%) Apache Spark
8 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (1.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.95%) SAS
10 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.32%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.27%) Adobe XD
1 4 (1.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (39.37%) AWS
2 112 (35.56%) Azure
3 52 (16.51%) SaaS
4 26 (8.25%) GCP
5 25 (7.94%) GitHub
5 25 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 20 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.03%) Cloudflare
8 18 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 14 (4.44%) Azure AI
11 14 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.44%) IaaS
11 14 (4.44%) PaaS
12 12 (3.81%) Serverless
13 8 (2.54%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.94%) Firewall
2 17 (5.40%) DNS
3 16 (5.08%) VPN
4 14 (4.44%) SD-WAN
4 14 (4.44%) WAN
5 10 (3.17%) FTP
5 10 (3.17%) SAN
6 9 (2.86%) iSCSI
6 9 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (2.22%) Internet
8 5 (1.59%) Broadband
8 5 (1.59%) WPA
9 3 (0.95%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.95%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.63%) DHCP
10 2 (0.63%) SSL
11 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.32%) IPsec
11 1 (0.32%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 69 (21.90%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (11.43%) MongoDB
4 35 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 26 (8.25%) NoSQL
6 24 (7.62%) Power BI
7 23 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (5.71%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (4.44%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.17%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.54%) Redis
13 7 (2.22%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.59%) Big Data
15 5 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (1.27%) CockroachDB
16 4 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (26.03%) Git
2 24 (7.62%) JIRA
3 9 (2.86%) NUnit
3 9 (2.86%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.54%) Jasmine
5 6 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.27%) git-flow
6 4 (1.27%) GitLab
6 4 (1.27%) PHPUnit
7 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.63%) Mocha
8 2 (0.63%) Selenium
8 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.63%) webpack
9 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.32%) Xcode
General
1 111 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.05%) Finance
3 34 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.71%) Marketing
5 17 (5.40%) Law
6 13 (4.13%) Games
7 12 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.81%) Retail
8 11 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.90%) Banking
11 5 (1.59%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.27%) Advertising
12 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.63%) Legal
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (49.52%) Developer
2 69 (21.90%) Senior
3 33 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (9.84%) Senior Developer
5 29 (9.21%) PHP Developer
6 27 (8.57%) Lead
7 26 (8.25%) Analyst
7 26 (8.25%) Graduate
7 26 (8.25%) Graduate Developer
8 25 (7.94%) IT Graduate
9 22 (6.98%) Software Developer
9 22 (6.98%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) Applications Support
11 17 (5.40%) .NET Developer
11 17 (5.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (5.08%) C# Developer
12 16 (5.08%) Support Analyst
13 14 (4.44%) Architect
13 14 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.44%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (33.65%) CSS
2 95 (30.16%) HTML
3 61 (19.37%) .NET
3 61 (19.37%) React
4 43 (13.65%) Laravel
5 42 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 35 (11.11%) Vue
7 33 (10.48%) jQuery
8 32 (10.16%) RESTful
9 31 (9.84%) HTML5
10 29 (9.21%) REST
11 27 (8.57%) AngularJS
12 25 (7.94%) Node.js
13 21 (6.67%) Symfony
14 18 (5.71%) CSS3
15 16 (5.08%) JSON
16 14 (4.44%) Kafka
16 14 (4.44%) LAMP
17 13 (4.13%) Spring
17 13 (4.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.67%) NHS
3 15 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.54%) Legacy Code
8 8 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.54%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (2.22%) Online Games
10 6 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.90%) IoT
11 5 (1.59%) Clustering
11 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.51%) Linux
2 30 (9.52%) Windows
3 17 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.59%) Unix
7 2 (0.63%) Android
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
7 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (38.41%) Agile
2 105 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (21.27%) CI/CD
4 63 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (19.37%) AI
6 51 (16.19%) Mentoring
7 50 (15.87%) MVC
8 49 (15.56%) OO
9 46 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (13.97%) DevOps
11 41 (13.02%) Software Engineering
12 38 (12.06%) Analytics
12 38 (12.06%) Microservices
13 37 (11.75%) Computer Science
13 37 (11.75%) OOP
14 32 (10.16%) ETL
15 30 (9.52%) Roadmaps
16 29 (9.21%) User Experience
17 28 (8.89%) E-Commerce
17 28 (8.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (42.54%) SQL
2 129 (40.95%) JavaScript
3 98 (31.11%) PHP
4 64 (20.32%) C#
5 62 (19.68%) TypeScript
6 61 (19.37%) Java
7 60 (19.05%) Python
8 27 (8.57%) C++
9 24 (7.62%) PowerShell
10 14 (4.44%) Bicep
11 12 (3.81%) Bash
12 9 (2.86%) Korn
13 8 (2.54%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.27%) Perl
14 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.95%) PROC SQL
15 3 (0.95%) R
15 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.95%) VB
15 3 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (14.60%) Degree
2 33 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.35%) DBS Check
4 17 (5.40%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.13%) QA
2 6 (1.90%) SLA
3 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
4 3 (0.95%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 54 (17.14%) Docker
2 14 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.81%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (0.95%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.95%) HDFS
5 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.63%) vSphere
7 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.03%) Terraform
3 14 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.54%) Ansible
5 4 (1.27%) Kibana
6 3 (0.95%) Grafana
6 3 (0.95%) logstash
6 3 (0.95%) Oozie
7 2 (0.63%) Argo
7 2 (0.63%) Plesk
7 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.52%) Oracle
3 23 (7.30%) Databricks
4 16 (5.08%) SAP
5 14 (4.44%) Meraki
6 12 (3.81%) Rollbar
7 11 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.49%) Splunk
8 10 (3.17%) Dell
9 9 (2.86%) Google
9 9 (2.86%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.54%) Informatica
11 5 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.59%) RedGate
11 5 (1.59%) Sage
11 5 (1.59%) Talend
12 4 (1.27%) Adobe
12 4 (1.27%) HubSpot
12 4 (1.27%) VMware
12 4 (1.27%) WooCommerce