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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 126 124
Rank change year-on-year -135 -2 +57
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 285 832 756
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 2.09% 2.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.41% 13.75% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 243 557 669
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £82,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 3,847 6,050 6,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.30% 15.22% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,228 4,662
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,555 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -69 78 £52,500 - 110
South East -83 57 £60,000 +20.00% 118
East of England -14 50 £50,000 - 54
South West -61 44 £58,750 +11.90% 58
Midlands -46 43 £42,750 +0.59% 85
North West -38 42 £56,250 +12.50% 60
Yorkshire -20 31 £39,750 -27.73% 46
West Midlands -5 24 £39,000 -26.76% 46
East Midlands -52 15 £45,000 +28.57% 35
Wales -27 11 £67,500 +107.69% 12
North East -14 5 £51,000 -7.27% 5
Northern Ireland -5 1 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Scotland -21 1 £50,000 -9.09% 17
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 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.81%) Apache
2 8 (2.81%) Confluence
3 7 (2.46%) nginx
4 6 (2.11%) Apache Solr
4 6 (2.11%) IIS
5 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) CMS
6 3 (1.05%) WordPress
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.70%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.89%) AWS
2 94 (32.98%) Azure
3 43 (15.09%) SaaS
4 34 (11.93%) GCP
5 24 (8.42%) GitHub
6 13 (4.56%) Serverless
7 12 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.51%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.05%) Cloudflare
14 3 (1.05%) Firebase
14 3 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.56%) FTP
2 7 (2.46%) Firewall
3 5 (1.75%) Broadband
3 5 (1.75%) Internet
3 5 (1.75%) iSCSI
3 5 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (1.75%) SAN
3 5 (1.75%) VPN
3 5 (1.75%) WPA
4 2 (0.70%) DHCP
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) MQTT
5 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (27.72%) SQL Server
2 53 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (11.93%) MongoDB
4 27 (9.47%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.37%) NoSQL
6 18 (6.32%) BusinessObjects
7 15 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.16%) Power BI
11 8 (2.81%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.46%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.75%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
16 3 (1.05%) MariaDB
16 3 (1.05%) Redis
16 3 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (15.79%) Git
2 17 (5.96%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.75%) git-flow
4 5 (1.75%) GitLab
5 4 (1.40%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.70%) Gradle
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) Maven
7 2 (0.70%) Mockito
7 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 89 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.63%) Finance
4 15 (5.26%) Law
5 13 (4.56%) Marketing
6 9 (3.16%) Retail
7 6 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.11%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.40%) Games
8 4 (1.40%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.70%) Advertising
9 2 (0.70%) Billing
9 2 (0.70%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.35%) Automotive
10 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 160 (56.14%) Developer
2 59 (20.70%) Senior
3 44 (15.44%) PHP Developer
4 40 (14.04%) Software Developer
5 32 (11.23%) Senior Developer
6 30 (10.53%) Lead
7 26 (9.12%) Analyst
8 22 (7.72%) Graduate
8 22 (7.72%) Graduate Developer
9 21 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (7.02%) Applications Support
11 17 (5.96%) Software Engineer
12 16 (5.61%) Backend Developer
13 15 (5.26%) C# Developer
13 15 (5.26%) IT Graduate
13 15 (5.26%) Support Analyst
14 13 (4.56%) DBA
15 12 (4.21%) Report Developer
15 12 (4.21%) SQL Developer
16 11 (3.86%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (30.18%) CSS
2 76 (26.67%) HTML
3 50 (17.54%) React
4 46 (16.14%) Laravel
5 44 (15.44%) .NET
6 31 (10.88%) REST
7 28 (9.82%) jQuery
8 25 (8.77%) Symfony
9 24 (8.42%) ASP.NET
10 23 (8.07%) RESTful
11 21 (7.37%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.32%) JSON
12 18 (6.32%) Node.js
12 18 (6.32%) Vue
13 17 (5.96%) HTML5
14 16 (5.61%) CakePHP
15 15 (5.26%) CodeIgniter
15 15 (5.26%) XML
16 14 (4.91%) SOAP
16 14 (4.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.86%) IoT
5 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.81%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (2.46%) NHS
8 6 (2.11%) Clustering
8 6 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.40%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.40%) Replication
11 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.19%) Linux
2 27 (9.47%) Windows
3 16 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.40%) VMS
7 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.70%) Android
8 2 (0.70%) Unix
8 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.79%) Agile
2 99 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (16.14%) MVC
5 45 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 43 (15.09%) Mentoring
7 42 (14.74%) Microservices
8 40 (14.04%) OOP
9 38 (13.33%) OO
10 34 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (11.23%) Containerisation
11 32 (11.23%) DevOps
12 31 (10.88%) AI
12 31 (10.88%) Computer Science
12 31 (10.88%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
13 30 (10.53%) ETL
14 24 (8.42%) Clean Code
14 24 (8.42%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.40%) SQL
2 110 (38.60%) PHP
3 101 (35.44%) JavaScript
4 62 (21.75%) TypeScript
5 55 (19.30%) C#
6 54 (18.95%) Python
7 40 (14.04%) Java
8 23 (8.07%) C++
9 8 (2.81%) Bash
9 8 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.75%) Korn
11 5 (1.75%) Scala
12 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.05%) Go
13 3 (1.05%) Perl
13 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.05%) VB
13 3 (1.05%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (13.68%) Degree
2 30 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (1.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.51%) QA
2 6 (2.11%) SLA
3 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) HL7
5 1 (0.35%) COBIT
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (15.79%) Docker
2 10 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.51%) Ansible
2 10 (3.51%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Argo
3 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
3 2 (0.70%) Nagios
3 2 (0.70%) Plesk
3 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.70%) Rancher
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.88%) Oracle
3 15 (5.26%) SAP
4 11 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.81%) Databricks
6 6 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (2.11%) Informatica
6 6 (2.11%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.11%) Splunk
7 5 (1.75%) Dell
7 5 (1.75%) Palantir
7 5 (1.75%) RedGate
7 5 (1.75%) Talend
8 4 (1.40%) VMware
8 4 (1.40%) Zend
9 3 (1.05%) Apple
10 2 (0.70%) Adobe
10 2 (0.70%) Draytek
10 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow