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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 135 129
Rank change year-on-year -154 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 261 618 1,322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 2.18% 2.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.43% 12.84% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 216 480 1,157
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £61,397 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,875 £72,650 £73,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%

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 4,061 4,812 10,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.87% 17.01% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 2,927 7,978
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%

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 9 March 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 March 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
South East -96 70 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North of England -89 69 £52,130 -0.70% 41
Midlands -65 42 £40,000 - 30
East of England -5 40 £50,000 +25.00% 25
North West -53 38 £55,000 +4.76% 26
South West -76 34 £60,000 - 28
West Midlands -14 27 £39,000 -22.00% 23
Yorkshire -58 27 £50,000 +2.04% 8
East Midlands -59 15 £40,000 +14.29% 7
North East -29 4 £51,565 -6.25% 7
Northern Ireland -28 3 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Scotland -41 3 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 (6.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.60%) nginx
3 11 (4.21%) CMS
4 9 (3.45%) Apache
5 6 (2.30%) Confluence
5 6 (2.30%) IIS
5 6 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.77%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.38%) Camunda
9 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.92%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (45.98%) AWS
2 69 (26.44%) Azure
3 37 (14.18%) SaaS
4 35 (13.41%) GCP
5 25 (9.58%) GitHub
6 23 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.75%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.21%) Serverless
9 9 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.07%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.53%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.53%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.15%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.83%) VPN
2 8 (3.07%) Firewall
3 6 (2.30%) FTP
4 5 (1.92%) DHCP
4 5 (1.92%) DNS
4 5 (1.92%) Network Security
4 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.53%) HTTP
6 3 (1.15%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.15%) RTP
6 3 (1.15%) SAN
6 3 (1.15%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.15%) VLAN
6 3 (1.15%) VoIP
6 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.15%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.77%) PBX
8 1 (0.38%) Broadband
8 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (26.05%) SQL Server
2 53 (20.31%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (16.48%) MongoDB
4 37 (14.18%) NoSQL
5 30 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 18 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.13%) BusinessObjects
8 15 (5.75%) Power BI
9 12 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (4.21%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (3.07%) DynamoDB
12 8 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.30%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (22.22%) Git
2 18 (6.90%) JIRA
3 11 (4.21%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.92%) git-flow
5 5 (1.92%) Vite
6 4 (1.53%) GitLab
6 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.77%) JUnit
7 2 (0.77%) Mockito
8 1 (0.38%) Ant
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.38%) Gradle
8 1 (0.38%) Maven
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.43%) Finance
4 15 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.83%) Retail
6 7 (2.68%) Law
7 4 (1.53%) Advertising
7 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.53%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.15%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.77%) Automotive
9 2 (0.77%) Billing
9 2 (0.77%) Games
9 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (53.64%) Developer
2 58 (22.22%) Senior
3 41 (15.71%) PHP Developer
4 37 (14.18%) Senior Developer
5 30 (11.49%) Software Developer
6 24 (9.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (8.81%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.90%) Analyst
8 18 (6.90%) Applications Support
9 17 (6.51%) Backend Developer
10 15 (5.75%) C# Developer
11 14 (5.36%) Senior Backend Developer
11 14 (5.36%) SQL Developer
12 13 (4.98%) DBA
13 12 (4.60%) C# Software Developer
13 12 (4.60%) Graduate
13 12 (4.60%) Graduate C# Developer
13 12 (4.60%) Graduate Developer
13 12 (4.60%) Graduate Software Developer
13 12 (4.60%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (25.29%) CSS
2 57 (21.84%) HTML
3 53 (20.31%) Laravel
4 48 (18.39%) React
5 33 (12.64%) Vue
6 30 (11.49%) Node.js
7 28 (10.73%) REST
7 28 (10.73%) RESTful
8 25 (9.58%) .NET
9 19 (7.28%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.51%) JSON
11 16 (6.13%) jQuery
11 16 (6.13%) Symfony
12 14 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (5.36%) XML
13 13 (4.98%) Spring
14 12 (4.60%) Next.js
14 12 (4.60%) Spring Boot
15 11 (4.21%) Tailwind CSS
15 11 (4.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.60%) Replication
4 10 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.45%) IoT
6 7 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.53%) Clustering
9 4 (1.53%) EPoS
9 4 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.53%) NHS
10 3 (1.15%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.84%) Linux
2 16 (6.13%) Windows
3 11 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.53%) Debian
5 4 (1.53%) VMS
5 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.77%) CentOS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (37.93%) Agile
2 64 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (19.54%) Microservices
4 48 (18.39%) CI/CD
5 45 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (14.18%) Software Engineering
7 35 (13.41%) TDD
8 34 (13.03%) Mentoring
9 32 (12.26%) Containerisation
10 31 (11.88%) OOP
11 29 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 29 (11.11%) DevOps
12 28 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.34%) Computer Science
13 27 (10.34%) Test Automation
14 26 (9.96%) ETL
14 26 (9.96%) MVC
15 21 (8.05%) User Experience
16 20 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (7.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 113 (43.30%) SQL
2 106 (40.61%) PHP
3 90 (34.48%) JavaScript
4 47 (18.01%) TypeScript
5 43 (16.48%) Java
6 40 (15.33%) Python
7 37 (14.18%) C#
8 20 (7.66%) PowerShell
9 18 (6.90%) C++
10 13 (4.98%) T-SQL
11 11 (4.21%) Bash
12 6 (2.30%) C
12 6 (2.30%) Go
13 5 (1.92%) Scala
14 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.77%) Perl
15 2 (0.77%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.38%) Korn
16 1 (0.38%) R
16 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (13.79%) Degree
2 23 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (1.92%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.15%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.77%) RHCE
6 2 (0.77%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (5.36%) QA
2 11 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.07%) SLA
4 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.53%) GDPR
4 4 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.15%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (15.33%) Docker
2 19 (7.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (1.15%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.77%) Samba
5 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.77%) vSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.98%) Terraform
3 11 (4.21%) Ansible
4 6 (2.30%) Argo
5 3 (1.15%) Grafana
5 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.15%) Rancher
6 2 (0.77%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.77%) Nagios
6 2 (0.77%) Plesk
6 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.77%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Graylog
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.66%) Oracle
3 14 (5.36%) SAP
4 11 (4.21%) Google
5 7 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.68%) VMware
6 5 (1.92%) Databricks
7 4 (1.53%) Informatica
7 4 (1.53%) Palantir
7 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.53%) Zend
8 3 (1.15%) Apple
8 3 (1.15%) BT
8 3 (1.15%) Dell
8 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.15%) Mitel
8 3 (1.15%) RedGate
8 3 (1.15%) Talend
9 2 (0.77%) Draytek
9 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft