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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 217 152
Rank change year-on-year -79 -65 -32
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 384 451 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.33% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.98% 9.97% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 314 371 955
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,750 £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 - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £71,991
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -6.25%

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 5,504 4,524 9,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.59% 13.33% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,763 2,862 6,357
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,250
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 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.76%

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 July 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 July 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 -20 128 £50,000 -4.76% 30
South East -41 101 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North West -28 54 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Midlands -37 54 £42,500 -10.53% 12
Yorkshire -23 47 £42,500 -10.53% 6
South West -72 41 £52,500 -8.70% 7
East of England -33 34 £47,500 - 7
East Midlands -10 30 £37,500 -18.92% 3
North East -38 27 £46,250 -2.63% 8
West Midlands -30 24 £47,500 +18.75% 9
Wales -59 16 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Scotland +8 10 £51,000 -15.00% 5
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 19 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.39%) Apache
2 13 (3.39%) IIS
3 11 (2.86%) WordPress
4 10 (2.60%) CMS
5 9 (2.34%) Confluence
6 6 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.52%) Drupal
8 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.04%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.52%) Elementor
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Shopify
2 3 (0.78%) Magento
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (51.30%) AWS
2 111 (28.91%) Azure
3 49 (12.76%) GCP
4 30 (7.81%) GitHub
5 26 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.43%) SaaS
6 17 (4.43%) Serverless
7 15 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.43%) Firewall
2 11 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.60%) VPN
4 8 (2.08%) iSCSI
4 8 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (2.08%) SAN
4 8 (2.08%) VoIP
5 5 (1.30%) LAN
5 5 (1.30%) WAN
6 4 (1.04%) DNS
6 4 (1.04%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (1.04%) MQTT
6 4 (1.04%) Network Security
6 4 (1.04%) VLAN
7 3 (0.78%) DHCP
7 3 (0.78%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.78%) Internet
7 3 (0.78%) SSH
7 3 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.99%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (30.73%) SQL Server
3 70 (18.23%) MongoDB
4 56 (14.58%) NoSQL
5 53 (13.80%) Relational Database
6 25 (6.51%) Power BI
7 24 (6.25%) MariaDB
8 16 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.39%) Redis
9 13 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.56%) Metadata
13 6 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 93 (24.22%) Git
2 23 (5.99%) JIRA
3 14 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.39%) GitLab
5 10 (2.60%) PHPUnit
6 9 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.34%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.30%) RSpec
7 5 (1.30%) Selenium
8 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.04%) minitest
9 3 (0.78%) Mocha
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.52%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) YouTrack
11 1 (0.26%) MSTest
General
1 82 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.85%) Finance
5 31 (8.07%) Law
6 13 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.34%) Retail
9 8 (2.08%) Banking
10 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.30%) Advertising
12 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.78%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 185 (48.18%) Developer
2 96 (25.00%) Senior
3 56 (14.58%) Senior Developer
4 53 (13.80%) PHP Developer
5 46 (11.98%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.59%) Software Developer
7 31 (8.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (7.81%) DBA
9 24 (6.25%) Administrator
9 24 (6.25%) Lead
10 21 (5.47%) Web Developer
11 20 (5.21%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 19 (4.95%) C# Developer
12 19 (4.95%) Database Engineer
13 18 (4.69%) Backend Developer
13 18 (4.69%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
15 14 (3.65%) Analyst
15 14 (3.65%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (26.30%) CSS
2 87 (22.66%) HTML
3 63 (16.41%) Laravel
4 62 (16.15%) RESTful
5 56 (14.58%) Node.js
6 52 (13.54%) React
7 51 (13.28%) REST
8 46 (11.98%) Vue
9 37 (9.64%) .NET
10 34 (8.85%) jQuery
11 27 (7.03%) Spring
12 26 (6.77%) Spring Boot
13 24 (6.25%) HTML5
14 21 (5.47%) AngularJS
15 19 (4.95%) CSS3
15 19 (4.95%) Kafka
16 18 (4.69%) JSON
17 16 (4.17%) ASP.NET
18 15 (3.91%) Hibernate
18 15 (3.91%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.64%) Replication
2 29 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.65%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.82%) IoT
10 7 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.04%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 110 (28.65%) Linux
2 26 (6.77%) Ubuntu
3 21 (5.47%) Windows
4 17 (4.43%) Debian
5 16 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.04%) CentOS
10 3 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (33.33%) Agile
2 106 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 72 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 70 (18.23%) Microservices
6 63 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (14.32%) Mentoring
8 53 (13.80%) DevOps
9 50 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (11.72%) TDD
11 42 (10.94%) High Availability
11 42 (10.94%) OOP
12 38 (9.90%) Web Development
13 36 (9.38%) AI
14 34 (8.85%) Computer Science
15 31 (8.07%) Clean Code
16 30 (7.81%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.81%) Scrum
17 28 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (7.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 148 (38.54%) SQL
2 145 (37.76%) JavaScript
3 130 (33.85%) PHP
4 78 (20.31%) Java
5 52 (13.54%) Python
6 50 (13.02%) C#
7 30 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 19 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.69%) C++
9 18 (4.69%) Shell Script
10 17 (4.43%) Bash
11 12 (3.13%) Ruby
12 11 (2.86%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.56%) Korn
14 5 (1.30%) Go
14 5 (1.30%) VB.NET
15 4 (1.04%) C
15 4 (1.04%) Scala
16 3 (0.78%) VBA
17 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (13.80%) Degree
2 24 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.34%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.04%) HNC
7 4 (1.04%) HND
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.78%) RHCE
9 2 (0.52%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.99%) Data Quality
1 23 (5.99%) QA
2 16 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.82%) GDPR
4 7 (1.82%) SLA
5 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 76 (19.79%) Docker
2 26 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (1.82%) vSphere
6 3 (0.78%) iptables
6 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.52%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.52%) Samba
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.73%) Terraform
3 11 (2.86%) Ansible
4 10 (2.60%) Grafana
5 9 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.56%) Puppet
7 4 (1.04%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.78%) Argo
8 3 (0.78%) Plesk
8 3 (0.78%) systemd
8 3 (0.78%) WSUS
9 2 (0.52%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Graylog
10 1 (0.26%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.21%) Google
3 16 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.91%) Oracle
5 12 (3.13%) VMware
6 11 (2.86%) Dell
7 9 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.82%) Splunk
9 6 (1.56%) Veeam
10 4 (1.04%) Cisco
10 4 (1.04%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.78%) Adobe
11 3 (0.78%) Aruba
11 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.78%) HP
11 3 (0.78%) IBM
11 3 (0.78%) Informatica
11 3 (0.78%) NetApp
11 3 (0.78%) SonicWALL