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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 194 148
Rank change year-on-year -118 -46 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 322 472 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.60% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.40% 10.79% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 264 380 1,164
10th Percentile £33,950 £26,700 £31,325
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,688
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 £75,053 £77,500 £71,991
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%

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 5,034 4,375 11,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.62% 14.85% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,169 2,737 8,116
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £32,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
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 £82,751 £78,750
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 9 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 9 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 -48 109 £50,000 -4.76% 36
South East -49 92 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Midlands -42 48 £42,500 -10.53% 12
North West -25 47 £55,000 - 23
Yorkshire -32 45 £42,500 -10.53% 8
South West -70 33 £55,000 -6.38% 11
East of England -30 28 £47,500 +26.67% 13
East Midlands -26 26 £36,250 -19.44% 2
West Midlands -37 22 £47,500 -2.56% 10
North East -41 17 £47,500 - 5
Scotland -6 5 £58,000 +0.87% 1
Wales -49 5 £35,000 -26.32% 4
Northern Ireland -40 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1
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 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.04%) CMS
2 13 (4.04%) nginx
3 10 (3.11%) Confluence
4 9 (2.80%) WordPress
5 8 (2.48%) IIS
6 7 (2.17%) Apache
7 6 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.62%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.62%) Drupal
8 2 (0.62%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.80%) Shopify
2 3 (0.93%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (46.27%) AWS
2 80 (24.84%) Azure
3 33 (10.25%) GCP
4 27 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 20 (6.21%) GitHub
7 17 (5.28%) SaaS
8 14 (4.35%) Serverless
9 10 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.48%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.24%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 4 (1.24%) DigitalOcean
14 4 (1.24%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.59%) Firewall
2 13 (4.04%) VPN
3 9 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.48%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.48%) SAN
5 7 (2.17%) VoIP
6 6 (1.86%) Network Security
7 4 (1.24%) LAN
7 4 (1.24%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (1.24%) MQTT
7 4 (1.24%) VLAN
7 4 (1.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.93%) DHCP
8 3 (0.93%) DNS
8 3 (0.93%) HTTP
8 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.93%) RTP
8 3 (0.93%) SSH
8 3 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (29.81%) SQL Server
2 93 (28.88%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (17.70%) MongoDB
4 54 (16.77%) NoSQL
5 36 (11.18%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.83%) Power BI
7 20 (6.21%) MariaDB
8 14 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (2.80%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (2.48%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.86%) Metadata
14 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.55%) Redis
15 4 (1.24%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.24%) Neo4j
15 4 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (24.84%) Git
2 23 (7.14%) JIRA
3 10 (3.11%) PHPUnit
4 9 (2.80%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.80%) GitLab
5 5 (1.55%) Claude Code
5 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.24%) Selenium
6 4 (1.24%) Vite
7 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.93%) Mocha
8 1 (0.31%) Gradle
8 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.31%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
8 1 (0.31%) MSTest
8 1 (0.31%) RSpec
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) YouTrack
General
1 78 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (9.94%) Finance
4 26 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.83%) Law
6 14 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.42%) Retail
8 10 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.86%) Advertising
11 5 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.24%) Banking
12 4 (1.24%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.24%) Legal
13 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.62%) Games
14 2 (0.62%) Marketing
14 2 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 149 (46.27%) Developer
2 82 (25.47%) Senior
3 53 (16.46%) PHP Developer
4 46 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 35 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 31 (9.63%) Software Developer
7 26 (8.07%) DBA
8 21 (6.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 20 (6.21%) Administrator
9 20 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.97%) C# Developer
11 15 (4.66%) Analyst
11 15 (4.66%) Web Developer
12 14 (4.35%) Backend Developer
12 14 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
12 14 (4.35%) SQL DBA
13 13 (4.04%) Lead
13 13 (4.04%) Senior Backend Developer
14 12 (3.73%) C# Software Developer
14 12 (3.73%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (28.88%) CSS
2 80 (24.84%) HTML
3 59 (18.32%) Laravel
4 53 (16.46%) RESTful
5 48 (14.91%) Node.js
6 41 (12.73%) React
6 41 (12.73%) Vue
7 35 (10.87%) REST
8 29 (9.01%) jQuery
9 25 (7.76%) .NET
10 24 (7.45%) HTML5
11 22 (6.83%) AngularJS
12 20 (6.21%) CSS3
13 19 (5.90%) JSON
14 16 (4.97%) Spring
15 13 (4.04%) Spring Boot
16 11 (3.42%) LAMP
16 11 (3.42%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (2.80%) ASP.NET
17 9 (2.80%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.32%) Replication
2 20 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.73%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.17%) IoT
8 6 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.24%) EPoS
9 4 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.24%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (28.57%) Linux
2 19 (5.90%) Windows
3 18 (5.59%) Ubuntu
4 17 (5.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.04%) Debian
6 9 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.93%) CentOS
9 2 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.54%) Agile
2 74 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (18.94%) CI/CD
4 56 (17.39%) Microservices
5 48 (14.91%) Software Engineering
6 44 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (12.11%) Mentoring
7 39 (12.11%) TDD
8 38 (11.80%) Web Development
9 34 (10.56%) Computer Science
10 32 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (9.94%) OOP
11 31 (9.63%) DevOps
12 29 (9.01%) Clean Code
13 28 (8.70%) High Availability
14 27 (8.39%) Open Source
15 26 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (8.07%) Containerisation
16 25 (7.76%) Data Modelling
17 24 (7.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 127 (39.44%) SQL
2 126 (39.13%) PHP
3 125 (38.82%) JavaScript
4 64 (19.88%) Java
5 46 (14.29%) Python
6 39 (12.11%) C#
7 22 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 19 (5.90%) C++
10 17 (5.28%) Bash
11 12 (3.73%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.42%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.17%) Go
14 6 (1.86%) C
14 6 (1.86%) Korn
15 4 (1.24%) Ruby
15 4 (1.24%) Scala
16 3 (0.93%) VBA
17 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (16.46%) Degree
2 25 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.86%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.24%) HNC
6 4 (1.24%) HND
7 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) RHCE
8 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.66%) QA
4 7 (2.17%) GDPR
4 7 (2.17%) SLA
5 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
System Software
1 47 (14.60%) Docker
2 26 (8.07%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (2.17%) vSphere
6 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.93%) iptables
7 3 (0.93%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.73%) Ansible
3 9 (2.80%) Terraform
4 7 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.17%) Puppet
5 4 (1.24%) Argo
5 4 (1.24%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.24%) Grafana
5 4 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.24%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.93%) Plesk
6 3 (0.93%) Rancher
6 3 (0.93%) systemd
7 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.31%) Graylog
7 1 (0.31%) Nagios
7 1 (0.31%) Podman
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.66%) Oracle
3 13 (4.04%) Google
4 11 (3.42%) VMware
5 9 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.48%) Dell
7 4 (1.24%) Adobe
7 4 (1.24%) Cisco
7 4 (1.24%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.24%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.93%) BT
8 3 (0.93%) Mitel
8 3 (0.93%) SAP
8 3 (0.93%) Splunk
8 3 (0.93%) Synology
8 3 (0.93%) Veeam
9 2 (0.62%) Meraki
9 2 (0.62%) New Relic
9 2 (0.62%) Xamarin