MySQL Job Trends

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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 166 158
Rank change year-on-year -99 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 525 1,129 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.67% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.64% 10.66% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 379 713 991
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,250 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £67,625 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Database and 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 6,873 10,590 11,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.04% 15.62% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,489 6,028 9,048
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,386 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £114,285 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -97 460 £52,500 -4.55% 397
UK excluding London -111 311 £52,500 +5.00% 285
Work from Home -27 225 £45,000 -10.00% 274
London +6 170 £56,250 -6.25% 134
North of England -53 82 £52,500 - 87
South East -82 65 £60,000 +15.94% 72
East of England -19 49 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Midlands -25 48 £41,250 -8.33% 46
South West -48 43 £45,000 -10.00% 38
North West -38 40 £60,000 +14.29% 55
Yorkshire -12 29 £37,500 -31.82% 25
West Midlands +13 28 £39,000 -13.33% 34
Wales -6 18 £67,500 +107.69% 2
East Midlands -25 16 £45,000 +28.57% 12
North East +6 13 £51,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland -28 6 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Northern Ireland +6 1 £50,000 +11.11% 9

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 17 (3.24%) Confluence
2 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.67%) Apache Solr
5 13 (2.48%) Apache
5 13 (2.48%) IIS
6 12 (2.29%) CMS
6 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.90%) WordPress
8 9 (1.71%) nginx
9 6 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.38%) SAS
10 2 (0.38%) WildFly
11 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.19%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.95%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 185 (35.24%) AWS
2 168 (32.00%) Azure
3 52 (9.90%) GCP
3 52 (9.90%) SaaS
4 40 (7.62%) GitHub
5 27 (5.14%) Serverless
6 25 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.24%) Cloudflare
9 13 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.71%) npm
14 7 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.62%) Firewall
2 16 (3.05%) VPN
3 13 (2.48%) FTP
4 11 (2.10%) SAN
5 10 (1.90%) DNS
5 10 (1.90%) iSCSI
5 10 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.52%) Broadband
6 8 (1.52%) DHCP
7 7 (1.33%) Internet
7 7 (1.33%) VLAN
7 7 (1.33%) WAN
8 5 (0.95%) LAN
8 5 (0.95%) VoIP
8 5 (0.95%) WPA
9 4 (0.76%) MQTT
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.38%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (37.90%) SQL Server
2 123 (23.43%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (13.14%) Relational Database
4 61 (11.62%) MongoDB
5 37 (7.05%) NoSQL
6 30 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (4.57%) BusinessObjects
8 24 (4.57%) DynamoDB
9 21 (4.00%) Power BI
10 17 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (3.05%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.67%) Electronic Patient Records
14 13 (2.48%) MariaDB
15 12 (2.29%) Big Data
16 11 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (2.10%) Tableau
17 10 (1.90%) Redis
17 10 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (18.67%) Git
2 37 (7.05%) JIRA
3 10 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.71%) git-flow
5 8 (1.52%) GitLab
6 7 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.14%) NUnit
7 6 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.95%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.95%) webpack
9 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.76%) Mocha
10 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.57%) Gradle
10 3 (0.57%) Maven
10 3 (0.57%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.38%) JMeter
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 177 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 102 (19.43%) Finance
3 55 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.14%) Law
5 39 (7.43%) Marketing
6 35 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.86%) Health Technology
7 15 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.86%) Retail
8 13 (2.48%) Games
8 13 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.52%) Front Office
10 7 (1.33%) Automotive
10 7 (1.33%) Banking
11 5 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.76%) Billing
12 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 229 (43.62%) Developer
2 91 (17.33%) Senior
3 51 (9.71%) Consultant
4 46 (8.76%) PHP Developer
5 44 (8.38%) Senior Developer
5 44 (8.38%) Software Engineer
6 43 (8.19%) Graduate
6 43 (8.19%) Graduate Developer
6 43 (8.19%) Lead
7 40 (7.62%) Analyst
8 37 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (7.05%) IT Graduate
9 36 (6.86%) Software Developer
10 29 (5.52%) Applications Support
11 25 (4.76%) C# Developer
12 24 (4.57%) Data Engineer
12 24 (4.57%) Support Analyst
13 19 (3.62%) SQL Developer
13 19 (3.62%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.24%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (26.86%) CSS
2 116 (22.10%) HTML
3 89 (16.95%) .NET
4 88 (16.76%) React
5 56 (10.67%) REST
6 53 (10.10%) ASP.NET
7 49 (9.33%) jQuery
8 47 (8.95%) Laravel
9 44 (8.38%) RESTful
10 38 (7.24%) Node.js
11 37 (7.05%) Vue
12 34 (6.48%) AngularJS
13 32 (6.10%) HTML5
14 27 (5.14%) Symfony
15 26 (4.95%) Kafka
16 24 (4.57%) JSON
17 21 (4.00%) Spring Boot
18 20 (3.81%) Web Services
19 19 (3.62%) Spring
20 18 (3.43%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.90%) Legacy Systems
2 40 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.90%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 18 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.24%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.67%) NHS
10 13 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.90%) IoT
12 10 (1.90%) Legacy Code
13 9 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (1.52%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.76%) Linux
2 49 (9.33%) Windows
3 30 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.24%) Unix
5 13 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.14%) CentOS
8 4 (0.76%) Android
8 4 (0.76%) VMS
9 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.57%) Rocky
9 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (36.57%) Agile
2 183 (34.86%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (23.62%) OO
4 113 (21.52%) OOP
5 102 (19.43%) CI/CD
6 89 (16.95%) Software Engineering
7 87 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 72 (13.71%) MVC
10 68 (12.95%) Mentoring
11 67 (12.76%) AI
11 67 (12.76%) Computer Science
12 63 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
13 62 (11.81%) Microservices
14 58 (11.05%) ETL
15 53 (10.10%) DevOps
16 49 (9.33%) Containerisation
16 49 (9.33%) User Experience
17 46 (8.76%) Data Modelling
17 46 (8.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 226 (43.05%) SQL
2 178 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 154 (29.33%) PHP
4 117 (22.29%) Python
5 97 (18.48%) C#
5 97 (18.48%) Java
6 80 (15.24%) TypeScript
7 46 (8.76%) C++
8 44 (8.38%) Delphi
8 44 (8.38%) Pascal
9 20 (3.81%) Bash
10 16 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 16 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.90%) Scala
13 8 (1.52%) Korn
14 7 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.33%) R
15 5 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (17.14%) Degree
2 63 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.24%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.29%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.57%) MCSE
9 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.38%) CCNA
10 2 (0.38%) CCNP
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.38%) HNC
10 2 (0.38%) HND
10 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.95%) QA
2 14 (2.67%) SLA
3 12 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.71%) GDPR
4 9 (1.71%) HL7
5 6 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) COBIT
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 96 (18.29%) Docker
2 21 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) HDFS
6 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 2 (0.38%) pfSense
6 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.38%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 71 (13.52%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.52%) Terraform
3 28 (5.33%) Ansible
4 8 (1.52%) Grafana
5 5 (0.95%) Autotask
5 5 (0.95%) Nagios
5 5 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.76%) Argo
6 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.57%) Kibana
8 2 (0.38%) logstash
8 2 (0.38%) Oozie
8 2 (0.38%) Plesk
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (17.71%) Oracle
2 71 (13.52%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.81%) Google
4 19 (3.62%) SAP
5 16 (3.05%) Informatica
5 16 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.67%) Splunk
6 14 (2.67%) Talend
7 13 (2.48%) Databricks
8 11 (2.10%) Dell
9 10 (1.90%) VMware
10 9 (1.71%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.52%) RedGate
11 8 (1.52%) Rollbar
12 6 (1.14%) Adobe
12 6 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.95%) Datto
14 4 (0.76%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.76%) WooCommerce