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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 206 161
Rank change year-on-year -137 -45 -8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 440 702 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.61% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 9.35% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 353 573 1,550
10th Percentile £34,600 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 7,919 7,507 17,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.76% 17.17% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 5,051 12,530
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
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 12 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 12 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 -123 406 £54,500 -0.91% 145
UK excluding London -122 306 £50,000 - 123
Work from Home -63 159 £52,130 -0.70% 72
London -66 99 £75,000 +25.00% 32
North of England -75 89 £49,500 -5.71% 43
South East -41 88 £55,000 +10.00% 43
North West -41 46 £53,565 -2.61% 23
Midlands -60 46 £42,500 -10.53% 13
South West -70 42 £56,250 -6.25% 10
Yorkshire -58 33 £45,750 -3.68% 17
East of England -34 31 £48,750 +14.71% 11
East Midlands -42 25 £37,500 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -41 21 £46,250 -13.15% 5
North East -38 10 £47,500 -11.63% 3
Scotland -19 5 £58,000 +5.45% 2
Wales -40 3 £35,000 -6.67% 2
Northern Ireland -38 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 19 (4.32%) CMS
1 19 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.64%) nginx
4 15 (3.41%) Apache
5 13 (2.95%) WordPress
6 10 (2.27%) Confluence
7 9 (2.05%) IIS
8 7 (1.59%) Drupal
9 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.68%) JBoss
10 3 (0.68%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.23%) Camunda
12 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.82%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.73%) Shopify
2 3 (0.68%) Magento
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 204 (46.36%) AWS
2 111 (25.23%) Azure
3 65 (14.77%) GCP
4 44 (10.00%) SaaS
5 31 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.14%) GitHub
7 25 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.68%) Serverless
8 17 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (3.18%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.77%) Firewall
2 18 (4.09%) VPN
3 9 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.82%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.82%) SAN
5 7 (1.59%) Broadband
5 7 (1.59%) DNS
5 7 (1.59%) Network Security
5 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.14%) VLAN
7 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.68%) DHCP
8 3 (0.68%) HTTP
8 3 (0.68%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.68%) MQTT
8 3 (0.68%) RTP
8 3 (0.68%) SSH
8 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.68%) VoIP
8 3 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (26.14%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (24.77%) SQL Server
3 66 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 62 (14.09%) MongoDB
4 62 (14.09%) NoSQL
5 23 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (5.23%) Power BI
6 22 (5.00%) MariaDB
7 20 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 16 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.41%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.95%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (2.05%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (1.82%) Big Data
14 8 (1.82%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.59%) Oracle Database
16 6 (1.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 99 (22.50%) Git
2 22 (5.00%) GitLab
3 17 (3.86%) JIRA
4 11 (2.50%) PHPUnit
5 9 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.14%) JUnit
7 5 (1.14%) Vite
8 4 (0.91%) Mockito
8 4 (0.91%) NUnit
9 3 (0.68%) Gradle
9 3 (0.68%) Maven
10 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.45%) Selenium
10 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.45%) Subversion
11 1 (0.23%) Ant
11 1 (0.23%) git-flow
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 99 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.86%) Finance
3 48 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.91%) Law
5 20 (4.55%) Health Technology
6 19 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.18%) Retail
8 13 (2.95%) Banking
8 13 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.59%) Advertising
10 7 (1.59%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.14%) Marketing
13 4 (0.91%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Front Office
15 2 (0.45%) Automotive
15 2 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 185 (42.05%) Developer
2 103 (23.41%) Senior
3 59 (13.41%) PHP Developer
4 52 (11.82%) Senior Developer
5 35 (7.95%) Software Developer
6 34 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 31 (7.05%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.82%) Lead
9 27 (6.14%) Administrator
10 26 (5.91%) DBA
11 24 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.77%) C# Developer
13 20 (4.55%) Analyst
13 20 (4.55%) Backend Developer
14 19 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
15 18 (4.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 18 (4.09%) Support Engineer
16 16 (3.64%) C# Software Developer
16 16 (3.64%) SQL Developer
17 14 (3.18%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (24.09%) CSS
2 94 (21.36%) HTML
3 77 (17.50%) Laravel
4 70 (15.91%) React
5 57 (12.95%) RESTful
6 51 (11.59%) Vue
7 44 (10.00%) .NET
8 42 (9.55%) Node.js
9 41 (9.32%) REST
10 34 (7.73%) JSON
11 33 (7.50%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.82%) jQuery
13 27 (6.14%) HTML5
14 26 (5.91%) CSS3
15 23 (5.23%) Kafka
16 21 (4.77%) Spring
17 18 (4.09%) Spring Boot
18 17 (3.86%) .NET Core
19 15 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
19 15 (3.41%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.59%) Replication
3 25 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.18%) NHS
7 13 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.50%) IoT
10 10 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.14%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 116 (26.36%) Linux
2 26 (5.91%) Windows
3 23 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.18%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.73%) CentOS
6 10 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.05%) Debian
8 6 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.68%) Android
9 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.45%) Rocky
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (30.23%) Agile
2 98 (22.27%) CI/CD
3 85 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (18.18%) Microservices
5 74 (16.82%) Software Engineering
6 70 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (14.77%) DevOps
8 58 (13.18%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (11.14%) Containerisation
10 48 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (10.23%) TDD
11 45 (10.23%) Web Development
12 43 (9.77%) Data Modelling
12 43 (9.77%) Mentoring
13 39 (8.86%) AI
13 39 (8.86%) OOP
14 38 (8.64%) Computer Science
15 35 (7.95%) Analytics
16 34 (7.73%) Test Automation
17 31 (7.05%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 170 (38.64%) SQL
2 156 (35.45%) PHP
3 139 (31.59%) JavaScript
4 82 (18.64%) Python
5 69 (15.68%) Java
6 57 (12.95%) C#
7 46 (10.45%) TypeScript
8 30 (6.82%) Bash
9 24 (5.45%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.55%) C++
11 14 (3.18%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.18%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.73%) Go
13 10 (2.27%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.82%) Scala
15 7 (1.59%) Korn
16 6 (1.36%) C
17 3 (0.68%) VBA
18 2 (0.45%) Perl
18 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (13.64%) Degree
2 32 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.05%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.36%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.36%) HNC
5 6 (1.36%) HND
5 6 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.68%) RHCE
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.50%) QA
2 27 (6.14%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.27%) HL7
6 9 (2.05%) GDPR
7 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.59%) SLA
8 5 (1.14%) WCAG
9 4 (0.91%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (17.05%) Docker
2 31 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.82%) vSphere
6 5 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.68%) iptables
8 3 (0.68%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.45%) Samba
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.36%) Terraform
3 24 (5.45%) Ansible
4 17 (3.86%) Grafana
5 10 (2.27%) Nagios
6 7 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.36%) Puppet
8 5 (1.14%) Argo
9 4 (0.91%) Rancher
10 3 (0.68%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.68%) Plesk
10 3 (0.68%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.68%) systemd
10 3 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Graylog
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.14%) Oracle
3 21 (4.77%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.41%) VMware
5 13 (2.95%) Google
6 10 (2.27%) Splunk
7 8 (1.82%) Dell
8 7 (1.59%) Informatica
8 7 (1.59%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.59%) SAP
8 7 (1.59%) Veeam
9 6 (1.36%) Adobe
9 6 (1.36%) Cisco
9 6 (1.36%) Talend
10 5 (1.14%) Meraki
10 5 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.14%) Synology
11 4 (0.91%) Databricks
11 4 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.91%) WooCommerce