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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 128 128
Rank change year-on-year -151 0 +48
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 248 769 835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 2.14% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.65% 13.64% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 210 502 741
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,313 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £82,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 3,730 5,637 6,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 15.67% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,357 2,933 5,281
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -75 69 £52,500 - 86
South East -101 46 £60,000 +20.00% 140
East of England +3 45 £50,000 -9.09% 88
Midlands -56 42 £44,000 +2.33% 70
South West -59 40 £58,750 +2.17% 66
North West -29 38 £60,000 +14.29% 33
Yorkshire -33 27 £39,750 -26.05% 39
West Midlands -7 25 £39,000 -29.09% 32
East Midlands -58 15 £45,000 +28.57% 38
North East -12 4 £51,000 -7.27% 14
Wales -37 4 £67,500 +107.69% 33
Northern Ireland -13 1 £50,000 -23.08% 14
Scotland -33 1 £50,000 -9.09% 18
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 (4.03%) nginx
2 9 (3.63%) Confluence
3 7 (2.82%) Apache
4 6 (2.42%) IIS
4 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.61%) Apache Solr
7 3 (1.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.81%) WordPress
9 1 (0.40%) Appian
9 1 (0.40%) Camunda
9 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.61%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.73%) AWS
2 75 (30.24%) Azure
3 42 (16.94%) SaaS
4 34 (13.71%) GCP
5 21 (8.47%) GitHub
6 12 (4.84%) Serverless
7 11 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.21%) Firebase
13 3 (1.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.44%) FTP
2 7 (2.82%) VPN
3 5 (2.02%) Broadband
3 5 (2.02%) Firewall
3 5 (2.02%) Internet
3 5 (2.02%) WPA
4 4 (1.61%) DHCP
4 4 (1.61%) DNS
4 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.81%) Network Security
5 2 (0.81%) SSL
5 2 (0.81%) VLAN
5 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.40%) MQTT
6 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (25.40%) SQL Server
2 47 (18.95%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 20 (8.06%) NoSQL
6 18 (7.26%) BusinessObjects
7 16 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.82%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.82%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.42%) Power BI
11 5 (2.02%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.21%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (1.21%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (13.71%) Git
2 17 (6.85%) JIRA
3 5 (2.02%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.02%) git-flow
3 5 (2.02%) GitLab
4 4 (1.61%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.21%) Vite
6 2 (0.81%) JUnit
6 2 (0.81%) Mockito
7 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Ant
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 72 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.90%) Finance
4 11 (4.44%) Law
4 11 (4.44%) Marketing
5 10 (4.03%) Retail
6 6 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.02%) Games
7 5 (2.02%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.81%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.81%) Billing
9 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.40%) Automotive
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 144 (58.06%) Developer
2 56 (22.58%) Senior
3 44 (17.74%) PHP Developer
4 37 (14.92%) Software Developer
5 31 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 23 (9.27%) Lead
7 21 (8.47%) Analyst
8 19 (7.66%) Applications Support
9 18 (7.26%) Backend Developer
10 17 (6.85%) Graduate
10 17 (6.85%) Graduate Developer
11 16 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (6.05%) C# Developer
12 15 (6.05%) Software Engineer
13 13 (5.24%) Senior Backend Developer
13 13 (5.24%) Support Analyst
14 12 (4.84%) DBA
14 12 (4.84%) Report Developer
14 12 (4.84%) SQL Developer
15 11 (4.44%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (27.82%) CSS
2 60 (24.19%) HTML
3 45 (18.15%) React
4 40 (16.13%) Laravel
5 39 (15.73%) .NET
6 28 (11.29%) REST
7 23 (9.27%) jQuery
8 21 (8.47%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.66%) ASP.NET
10 18 (7.26%) RESTful
10 18 (7.26%) Symfony
11 17 (6.85%) Node.js
12 15 (6.05%) Vue
13 13 (5.24%) JSON
13 13 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (5.24%) Web Services
14 12 (4.84%) SOAP
15 11 (4.44%) CodeIgniter
15 11 (4.44%) HTML5
16 10 (4.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.03%) IoT
5 9 (3.63%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.82%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.82%) NHS
7 6 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.02%) Clustering
8 5 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.61%) Replication
10 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.21%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.81%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.74%) Linux
2 23 (9.27%) Windows
3 16 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) VMS
5 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.81%) Android
6 2 (0.81%) Unix
6 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.08%) Agile
2 85 (34.27%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (16.94%) CI/CD
4 39 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (15.32%) Mentoring
6 37 (14.92%) Microservices
6 37 (14.92%) MVC
7 33 (13.31%) OOP
8 31 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (11.69%) Containerisation
10 28 (11.29%) DevOps
10 28 (11.29%) ETL
10 28 (11.29%) OO
10 28 (11.29%) Software Engineering
11 27 (10.89%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.08%) AI
12 25 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (9.27%) TDD
14 22 (8.87%) Data Modelling
14 22 (8.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 104 (41.94%) SQL
2 98 (39.52%) PHP
3 83 (33.47%) JavaScript
4 56 (22.58%) TypeScript
5 48 (19.35%) C#
6 45 (18.15%) Python
7 33 (13.31%) Java
8 17 (6.85%) C++
9 9 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.42%) Bash
10 6 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.02%) Scala
12 3 (1.21%) Go
12 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.81%) Perl
13 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.81%) VB
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (12.10%) Degree
2 26 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.21%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.81%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.44%) QA
2 6 (2.42%) SLA
3 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) HL7
4 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (15.73%) Docker
2 8 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.81%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.03%) Ansible
2 10 (4.03%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Argo
3 2 (0.81%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.81%) Grafana
3 2 (0.81%) Nagios
3 2 (0.81%) Plesk
3 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.81%) Rancher
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.89%) Oracle
3 16 (6.45%) SAP
4 11 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.23%) Databricks
6 7 (2.82%) Google
7 6 (2.42%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.42%) VMware
8 5 (2.02%) Informatica
8 5 (2.02%) Palantir
9 4 (1.61%) RedGate
9 4 (1.61%) Talend
9 4 (1.61%) Zend
10 3 (1.21%) Apple
11 2 (0.81%) Adobe
11 2 (0.81%) Draytek
11 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.81%) Splunk