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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 147 142
Rank change year-on-year -152 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 294 520 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.95% 2.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.94% 12.18% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 234 441 1,192
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 4,950 4,271 11,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 16.05% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 2,994 8,221
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,606 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £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 £83,575 £83,750 £80,000
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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -84 81 £55,000 +10.00% 39
North of England -113 72 £51,000 -2.86% 28
Midlands -60 49 £42,500 -10.53% 14
East of England -45 41 £50,000 +17.65% 12
South West -91 41 £55,000 -4.35% 16
North West -69 39 £55,000 +2.33% 18
East Midlands -69 27 £37,500 -6.25% 6
Yorkshire -73 26 £50,000 +2.04% 7
West Midlands -41 22 £47,500 -6.40% 8
North East -43 7 £51,000 -5.12% 3
Scotland -39 5 £58,000 +5.45% 11
Northern Ireland -43 3 £62,500 -26.47% 3
Wales -48 2 £40,000 +23.08% 8
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 18 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.42%) CMS
3 12 (4.08%) nginx
4 5 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.70%) Confluence
5 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.36%) IIS
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.36%) WordPress
6 3 (1.02%) Apache
7 2 (0.68%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Shopify
2 3 (1.02%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.56%) AWS
2 74 (25.17%) Azure
3 41 (13.95%) GCP
4 27 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.16%) SaaS
6 21 (7.14%) GitHub
7 20 (6.80%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.06%) Serverless
9 8 (2.72%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.72%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.04%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.36%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.76%) Firewall
2 11 (3.74%) VPN
3 7 (2.38%) iSCSI
3 7 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (2.38%) SAN
4 6 (2.04%) FTP
5 5 (1.70%) Network Security
6 4 (1.36%) HTTP
6 4 (1.36%) MQTT
6 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.02%) DHCP
7 3 (1.02%) DNS
7 3 (1.02%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (1.02%) RTP
7 3 (1.02%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.02%) VLAN
7 3 (1.02%) VoIP
7 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.02%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (26.53%) SQL Server
2 66 (22.45%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (14.97%) MongoDB
4 41 (13.95%) NoSQL
5 28 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.80%) Power BI
7 14 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (4.08%) BusinessObjects
9 11 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.72%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.04%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.70%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.70%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.36%) MariaDB
15 3 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 70 (23.81%) Git
2 16 (5.44%) JIRA
3 11 (3.74%) PHPUnit
4 7 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.70%) GitLab
5 5 (1.70%) Vite
6 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.68%) git-flow
7 2 (0.68%) Gradle
7 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Maven
7 2 (0.68%) Mockito
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Ant
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) MSTest
8 1 (0.34%) NUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (11.22%) Finance
4 16 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.74%) Retail
6 10 (3.40%) Law
7 9 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.04%) Advertising
9 6 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.68%) Automotive
12 2 (0.68%) Games
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
13 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 161 (54.76%) Developer
2 67 (22.79%) Senior
3 53 (18.03%) PHP Developer
4 39 (13.27%) Senior Developer
5 31 (10.54%) Software Developer
6 23 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (7.82%) Software Engineer
7 19 (6.46%) Backend Developer
7 19 (6.46%) C# Developer
7 19 (6.46%) Senior Backend Developer
8 18 (6.12%) Analyst
9 16 (5.44%) SQL Developer
10 15 (5.10%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Azure Developer
11 14 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Graduate C# Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Graduate Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (29.93%) CSS
2 78 (26.53%) HTML
3 61 (20.75%) Laravel
4 47 (15.99%) React
5 40 (13.61%) RESTful
6 35 (11.90%) Vue
7 28 (9.52%) REST
8 27 (9.18%) Node.js
9 26 (8.84%) jQuery
10 24 (8.16%) AngularJS
11 22 (7.48%) .NET
12 19 (6.46%) JSON
13 16 (5.44%) Spring
14 15 (5.10%) Spring Boot
15 14 (4.76%) HTML5
15 14 (4.76%) XML
16 13 (4.42%) CSS3
17 12 (4.08%) Tailwind CSS
18 11 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
18 11 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.10%) Replication
4 12 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.40%) IoT
6 10 (3.40%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.06%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.04%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.36%) Clustering
11 4 (1.36%) EPoS
11 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.02%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.45%) Linux
2 16 (5.44%) Windows
3 11 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.06%) Debian
4 9 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.06%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.02%) CentOS
5 3 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.02%) VMS
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.71%) Agile
2 64 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (16.67%) Microservices
4 47 (15.99%) CI/CD
5 42 (14.29%) TDD
6 40 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (13.27%) OOP
8 35 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 32 (10.88%) Containerisation
10 31 (10.54%) Computer Science
10 31 (10.54%) MVC
11 30 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (9.18%) Test Automation
13 25 (8.50%) Data Modelling
13 25 (8.50%) DevOps
13 25 (8.50%) Web Development
14 24 (8.16%) ETL
15 20 (6.80%) E-Commerce
15 20 (6.80%) OO
Programming Languages
1 126 (42.86%) SQL
2 122 (41.50%) PHP
3 100 (34.01%) JavaScript
4 53 (18.03%) Java
5 42 (14.29%) Python
6 39 (13.27%) C#
7 38 (12.93%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.80%) C++
8 20 (6.80%) PowerShell
9 17 (5.78%) Bash
10 13 (4.42%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.72%) Go
12 7 (2.38%) Scala
13 6 (2.04%) C
14 5 (1.70%) Korn
15 3 (1.02%) VBA
16 2 (0.68%) Perl
16 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (15.31%) Degree
2 26 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.36%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.36%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) RHCE
7 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.34%) HNC
8 1 (0.34%) HND
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.74%) QA
4 7 (2.38%) GDPR
4 7 (2.38%) SLA
5 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (15.31%) Docker
2 25 (8.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.70%) vSphere
5 4 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.02%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.68%) iptables
7 2 (0.68%) Samba
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.42%) Terraform
3 9 (3.06%) Ansible
4 4 (1.36%) Argo
4 4 (1.36%) Rancher
5 3 (1.02%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.02%) Grafana
5 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.68%) Nagios
6 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) systemd
7 1 (0.34%) Graylog
7 1 (0.34%) Plesk
7 1 (0.34%) Podman
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.10%) Oracle
3 12 (4.08%) Google
4 10 (3.40%) SAP
5 9 (3.06%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.06%) VMware
6 7 (2.38%) Dell
7 5 (1.70%) Databricks
8 4 (1.36%) Adobe
8 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.36%) Informatica
8 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.36%) Palantir
8 4 (1.36%) Zend
9 3 (1.02%) Apple
9 3 (1.02%) BT
9 3 (1.02%) Mitel
9 3 (1.02%) RedGate
9 3 (1.02%) Talend
10 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft