MySQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 242 168
Rank change year-on-year -91 -74 -19
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 550 632 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.29% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 8.31% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 428 499 1,375
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,641 7,603 16,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 15.47% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,730 4,905 11,589
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

MySQL job vacancy trend in the UK

MySQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England -78 489 £55,000 +4.76% 242
UK excluding London -83 379 £50,000 - 273
Work from Home -62 209 £53,250 +6.50% 246
North of England -29 130 £50,000 -4.76% 71
London -57 124 £85,000 +36.00% 37
South East -39 98 £55,000 +10.00% 59
North West -30 56 £52,500 -4.55% 37
Midlands -36 53 £42,500 -5.56% 41
Yorkshire -18 48 £42,500 -2.86% 21
South West -75 41 £52,500 -8.70% 18
East of England -46 31 £47,500 +11.76% 25
East Midlands -14 29 £37,500 -18.92% 20
North East -49 26 £47,500 - 13
West Midlands -39 24 £47,500 +26.67% 21
Wales -58 13 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Scotland +10 11 £51,000 -11.30% 34
Northern Ireland -59 2 £62,500 - 11

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 23 (4.18%) Apache
2 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.45%) WordPress
4 18 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.91%) IIS
6 15 (2.73%) CMS
6 15 (2.73%) Confluence
7 12 (2.18%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.64%) nginx
9 7 (1.27%) Drupal
10 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.73%) JBoss
10 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Shopify
2 3 (0.55%) Magento
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 292 (53.09%) AWS
2 164 (29.82%) Azure
3 69 (12.55%) GCP
4 45 (8.18%) GitHub
5 43 (7.82%) SaaS
6 34 (6.18%) Power Platform
7 31 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (5.64%) Serverless
8 27 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.00%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.00%) Firewall
2 13 (2.36%) Broadband
3 12 (2.18%) VPN
4 11 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.64%) DNS
5 9 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.45%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.45%) SAN
6 8 (1.45%) VoIP
7 7 (1.27%) Network Security
7 7 (1.27%) VLAN
8 5 (0.91%) LAN
8 5 (0.91%) WAN
8 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.73%) DHCP
9 4 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.73%) MQTT
10 3 (0.55%) Internet
10 3 (0.55%) RTP
10 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (32.36%) PostgreSQL
2 140 (25.45%) SQL Server
3 98 (17.82%) MongoDB
4 93 (16.91%) Relational Database
5 79 (14.36%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.64%) Power BI
7 30 (5.45%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (3.09%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (2.91%) Metadata
13 14 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.55%) Redis
14 13 (2.36%) Big Data
14 13 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.64%) RDBMS
17 7 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 125 (22.73%) Git
2 33 (6.00%) GitLab
3 31 (5.64%) JIRA
4 28 (5.09%) Claude Code
5 16 (2.91%) Jenkins
6 14 (2.55%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.64%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.91%) JUnit
9 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.73%) Selenium
10 3 (0.55%) Mocha
10 3 (0.55%) Mockito
10 3 (0.55%) NUnit
10 3 (0.55%) RSpec
10 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.36%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.36%) Maven
11 2 (0.36%) Subversion
11 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 85 (15.45%) Finance
3 61 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.82%) Law
6 21 (3.82%) Banking
7 17 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.73%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.00%) Retail
10 9 (1.64%) Marketing
11 6 (1.09%) Advertising
11 6 (1.09%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.55%) Local Government
13 3 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 224 (40.73%) Developer
2 133 (24.18%) Senior
3 65 (11.82%) Software Engineer
4 62 (11.27%) PHP Developer
5 60 (10.91%) Senior Developer
6 49 (8.91%) Lead
7 43 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.36%) Administrator
8 35 (6.36%) Software Developer
9 32 (5.82%) DBA
10 25 (4.55%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (3.82%) C# Developer
12 21 (3.82%) Web Developer
13 20 (3.64%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.64%) Java Developer
14 19 (3.45%) Analyst
14 19 (3.45%) Database Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 18 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (23.27%) CSS
2 107 (19.45%) HTML
3 94 (17.09%) React
4 91 (16.55%) RESTful
5 80 (14.55%) Laravel
6 72 (13.09%) Node.js
7 67 (12.18%) .NET
8 62 (11.27%) REST
9 61 (11.09%) Vue
10 38 (6.91%) jQuery
10 38 (6.91%) Kafka
10 38 (6.91%) Spring
11 36 (6.55%) Spring Boot
12 33 (6.00%) AngularJS
12 33 (6.00%) JSON
13 31 (5.64%) HTML5
14 27 (4.91%) CSS3
15 24 (4.36%) ASP.NET
16 22 (4.00%) Flask
17 17 (3.09%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.09%) Replication
3 35 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.91%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.36%) NHS
10 11 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.82%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.45%) IoT
14 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 143 (26.00%) Linux
2 32 (5.82%) Windows
3 28 (5.09%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.73%) Debian
6 14 (2.55%) CentOS
7 10 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.55%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (34.00%) Agile
2 149 (27.09%) CI/CD
3 142 (25.82%) Software Engineering
4 124 (22.55%) Microservices
5 123 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (18.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 97 (17.64%) DevOps
8 92 (16.73%) AI
9 77 (14.00%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (11.64%) Data Modelling
12 60 (10.91%) Containerisation
13 55 (10.00%) Clean Code
14 54 (9.82%) Web Development
15 51 (9.27%) TDD
16 48 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (8.73%) Computer Science
16 48 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (8.55%) Analytics
18 44 (8.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.91%) SQL
2 187 (34.00%) JavaScript
3 156 (28.36%) PHP
4 122 (22.18%) Python
5 102 (18.55%) Java
6 74 (13.45%) C#
7 48 (8.73%) TypeScript
8 31 (5.64%) Bash
9 25 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.36%) C++
11 20 (3.64%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.73%) Ruby
13 13 (2.36%) Go
14 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.45%) VB.NET
16 6 (1.09%) C
16 6 (1.09%) Korn
17 5 (0.91%) Scala
18 4 (0.73%) Perl
18 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (14.00%) Degree
2 35 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.36%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.27%) HNC
7 7 (1.27%) HND
8 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.55%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.64%) QA
2 41 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.18%) GDPR
6 7 (1.27%) HL7
6 7 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.27%) SLA
7 5 (0.91%) WCAG
8 4 (0.73%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 120 (21.82%) Docker
2 35 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.82%) vSphere
5 9 (1.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.55%) iptables
7 3 (0.55%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.64%) Terraform
3 28 (5.09%) Ansible
4 25 (4.55%) Grafana
5 13 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.00%) Nagios
7 7 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.27%) Puppet
8 4 (0.73%) Argo
8 4 (0.73%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.55%) Plesk
9 3 (0.55%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.55%) Rancher
9 3 (0.55%) systemd
9 3 (0.55%) WSUS
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) Graylog
11 1 (0.18%) Podman
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.36%) Oracle
3 21 (3.82%) Red Hat
4 19 (3.45%) Splunk
5 18 (3.27%) Google
5 18 (3.27%) VMware
6 15 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.00%) Dell
7 11 (2.00%) Veeam
8 9 (1.64%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.27%) Adobe
9 7 (1.27%) Cisco
10 6 (1.09%) Synology
11 5 (0.91%) Databricks
11 5 (0.91%) Meraki
12 4 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.73%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.55%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.55%) Mitel