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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 224 163
Rank change year-on-year -134 -61 -10
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 459 639 1,734
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.49% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.70% 9.02% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 370 509 1,516
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,957 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,563
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 8,056 7,083 17,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 16.52% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,027 4,626 12,507
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -113 424 £55,000 - 105
UK excluding London -116 314 £50,000 - 80
Work from Home -52 173 £52,500 - 47
London -59 109 £70,000 +14.29% 33
North of England -60 105 £50,000 -4.76% 34
South East -59 87 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Midlands -49 48 £42,500 -10.53% 11
North West -33 46 £55,000 - 18
Yorkshire -44 45 £45,000 -5.26% 11
South West -77 37 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -40 27 £47,500 +11.76% 6
East Midlands -38 26 £36,250 -21.62% 2
West Midlands -47 22 £47,500 - 9
North East -35 14 £47,500 -7.32% 5
Scotland -19 5 £58,000 +5.45% 2
Wales -43 3 £35,000 -26.32% 2
Northern Ireland -41 2 £62,500 -26.47%

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 18 (3.92%) Apache
1 18 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.92%) CMS
1 18 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.49%) nginx
2 16 (3.49%) WordPress
3 15 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.83%) Confluence
5 11 (2.40%) IIS
6 7 (1.53%) Drupal
7 4 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.65%) JBoss
8 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.53%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.61%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (46.62%) AWS
2 118 (25.71%) Azure
3 56 (12.20%) GCP
4 44 (9.59%) SaaS
5 31 (6.75%) GitHub
6 30 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (6.32%) Power Platform
8 28 (6.10%) Serverless
9 17 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.05%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.74%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.79%) Firewall
2 18 (3.92%) VPN
3 9 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
3 9 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.74%) Broadband
4 8 (1.74%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.74%) SAN
5 7 (1.53%) DNS
5 7 (1.53%) Network Security
6 6 (1.31%) VoIP
7 5 (1.09%) VLAN
8 4 (0.87%) LAN
8 4 (0.87%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.87%) MQTT
8 4 (0.87%) WAN
8 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.65%) DHCP
9 3 (0.65%) HTTP
9 3 (0.65%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (28.76%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 77 (16.78%) MongoDB
4 72 (15.69%) NoSQL
5 66 (14.38%) Relational Database
6 27 (5.88%) MariaDB
7 26 (5.66%) Power BI
8 25 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 14 (3.05%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.96%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.74%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.74%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.74%) Neo4j
16 6 (1.31%) Big Data
16 6 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (21.79%) Git
2 24 (5.23%) JIRA
3 22 (4.79%) GitLab
4 11 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.18%) PHPUnit
6 8 (1.74%) Claude Code
6 8 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.87%) JUnit
7 4 (0.87%) NUnit
7 4 (0.87%) Vite
8 3 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.44%) Gradle
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) Selenium
9 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.22%) MSTest
10 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 108 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.03%) Finance
3 48 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.23%) Law
6 21 (4.58%) Health Technology
7 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.27%) Banking
9 14 (3.05%) Retail
10 11 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.53%) Advertising
11 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.53%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.09%) Marketing
13 4 (0.87%) Legal
13 4 (0.87%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.65%) Games
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
14 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 186 (40.52%) Developer
2 109 (23.75%) Senior
3 59 (12.85%) PHP Developer
4 54 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 46 (10.02%) Software Engineer
6 35 (7.63%) Software Developer
7 34 (7.41%) Lead
8 33 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.10%) DBA
10 27 (5.88%) Administrator
11 21 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.58%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 20 (4.36%) Analyst
12 20 (4.36%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.70%) Support Engineer
14 15 (3.27%) Backend Developer
14 15 (3.27%) C# Software Developer
14 15 (3.27%) Web Developer
15 14 (3.05%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (23.75%) CSS
2 94 (20.48%) HTML
3 74 (16.12%) Laravel
4 73 (15.90%) RESTful
5 71 (15.47%) React
6 56 (12.20%) Vue
7 54 (11.76%) .NET
8 53 (11.55%) Node.js
9 45 (9.80%) REST
10 34 (7.41%) JSON
11 33 (7.19%) AngularJS
12 31 (6.75%) jQuery
13 28 (6.10%) CSS3
13 28 (6.10%) HTML5
14 24 (5.23%) Kafka
15 23 (5.01%) Spring
16 19 (4.14%) Spring Boot
17 17 (3.70%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.49%) ASP.NET
19 13 (2.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.75%) Replication
3 19 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.05%) NHS
7 14 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.18%) IoT
10 10 (2.18%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (26.36%) Linux
2 28 (6.10%) Windows
3 26 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.14%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.61%) CentOS
5 12 (2.61%) Debian
6 10 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.87%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (31.81%) Agile
2 101 (22.00%) CI/CD
3 93 (20.26%) Software Engineering
4 92 (20.04%) Microservices
5 89 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (16.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (14.60%) DevOps
8 55 (11.98%) Mentoring
9 53 (11.55%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (10.89%) AI
10 50 (10.89%) Containerisation
11 46 (10.02%) Web Development
12 45 (9.80%) TDD
13 44 (9.59%) Data Modelling
14 40 (8.71%) Computer Science
15 37 (8.06%) Clean Code
16 34 (7.41%) Analytics
17 33 (7.19%) OOP
17 33 (7.19%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 172 (37.47%) SQL
2 162 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 149 (32.46%) PHP
4 88 (19.17%) Python
5 79 (17.21%) Java
6 59 (12.85%) C#
7 41 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 30 (6.54%) Bash
9 26 (5.66%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.92%) C++
11 14 (3.05%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.83%) PL/SQL
13 12 (2.61%) Go
14 11 (2.40%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.53%) Korn
16 6 (1.31%) C
16 6 (1.31%) Ruby
17 5 (1.09%) Scala
18 4 (0.87%) Perl
18 4 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (14.16%) Degree
2 31 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.14%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.96%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) HNC
5 7 (1.53%) HND
5 7 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.31%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.41%) QA
2 30 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.18%) GDPR
5 9 (1.96%) HL7
6 7 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.53%) SLA
7 5 (1.09%) WCAG
8 4 (0.87%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 76 (16.56%) Docker
2 32 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 9 (1.96%) vSphere
5 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.65%) iptables
7 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.44%) Samba
9 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (14.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.66%) Ansible
2 26 (5.66%) Terraform
3 18 (3.92%) Grafana
4 10 (2.18%) Nagios
5 8 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.74%) Puppet
6 5 (1.09%) Argo
7 4 (0.87%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.65%) Plesk
8 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.65%) Rancher
8 3 (0.65%) systemd
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.22%) Graylog
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.88%) Oracle
3 20 (4.36%) Red Hat
4 16 (3.49%) VMware
5 14 (3.05%) Google
6 12 (2.61%) Splunk
7 8 (1.74%) Dell
7 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.53%) Adobe
8 7 (1.53%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.53%) Veeam
9 6 (1.31%) Cisco
9 6 (1.31%) WooCommerce
10 5 (1.09%) Meraki
10 5 (1.09%) Synology
11 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.87%) Informatica
11 4 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.87%) SAP
11 4 (0.87%) Talend