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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 178 154
Rank change year-on-year -180 -24 -2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 434 739 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.78% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.62% 10.01% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 339 627 1,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,075
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £67,500 £69,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 7,721 7,382 17,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.01% 17.80% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 5,180 12,618
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £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% -10.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -151 394 £55,000 - 126
UK excluding London -150 296 £50,000 - 116
Work from Home -85 169 £50,000 -4.76% 59
London -71 99 £75,000 +25.00% 32
South East -81 81 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North of England -106 73 £51,000 -2.86% 30
Midlands -71 50 £42,500 -10.53% 14
East of England -38 41 £50,000 +5.26% 12
South West -95 41 £55,000 -4.35% 15
North West -60 39 £55,000 - 18
East Midlands -65 28 £37,500 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -66 27 £50,000 +2.04% 10
West Midlands -28 22 £47,500 -6.40% 5
North East -38 7 £51,000 -5.12% 2
Scotland -41 5 £58,000 +5.45% 10
Northern Ireland -41 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -49 2 £40,000 +23.08% 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 20 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.23%) CMS
3 14 (3.23%) nginx
4 12 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.07%) Apache
5 9 (2.07%) Confluence
6 7 (1.61%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.15%) WordPress
8 4 (0.92%) IIS
9 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.46%) JBoss
9 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Camunda
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.61%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.30%) Shopify
2 2 (0.46%) Magento
2 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (45.39%) AWS
2 115 (26.50%) Azure
3 65 (14.98%) GCP
4 49 (11.29%) SaaS
5 30 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (6.68%) GitHub
7 28 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.45%) Serverless
8 15 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.07%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.84%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.61%) VPN
2 17 (3.92%) Firewall
3 7 (1.61%) Network Security
4 6 (1.38%) DNS
4 6 (1.38%) FTP
4 6 (1.38%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.38%) SAN
4 6 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.15%) VLAN
6 4 (0.92%) DHCP
6 4 (0.92%) HTTP
6 4 (0.92%) MQTT
7 3 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.69%) RTP
7 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.69%) VoIP
7 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.69%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.46%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (22.35%) SQL Server
3 60 (13.82%) NoSQL
4 56 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 55 (12.67%) Relational Database
6 27 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (5.99%) Power BI
8 18 (4.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.69%) DynamoDB
10 15 (3.46%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
12 13 (3.00%) MariaDB
13 12 (2.76%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.07%) Big Data
14 9 (2.07%) Tableau
15 8 (1.84%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 91 (20.97%) Git
2 19 (4.38%) JIRA
3 12 (2.76%) Bitbucket
3 12 (2.76%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.53%) GitLab
4 11 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.15%) Vite
6 4 (0.92%) Gradle
6 4 (0.92%) JUnit
6 4 (0.92%) Maven
6 4 (0.92%) NUnit
6 4 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.69%) git-flow
7 3 (0.69%) JMeter
7 3 (0.69%) Mockito
7 3 (0.69%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.69%) Subversion
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.06%) Finance
3 52 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.84%) Health Technology
4 21 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.92%) Law
6 14 (3.23%) Retail
7 9 (2.07%) Banking
7 9 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.61%) Advertising
9 6 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.38%) Marketing
10 5 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Front Office
12 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 194 (44.70%) Developer
2 90 (20.74%) Senior
3 61 (14.06%) PHP Developer
4 46 (10.60%) Senior Developer
5 37 (8.53%) Software Developer
6 34 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (7.60%) Data Engineer
7 33 (7.60%) Lead
8 30 (6.91%) Software Engineer
9 24 (5.53%) C# Developer
10 20 (4.61%) Backend Developer
10 20 (4.61%) SQL Developer
10 20 (4.61%) Support Engineer
11 19 (4.38%) Analyst
11 19 (4.38%) Graduate
11 19 (4.38%) Graduate Developer
11 19 (4.38%) Graduate Software Developer
11 19 (4.38%) Senior Backend Developer
12 18 (4.15%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 18 (4.15%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (24.19%) CSS
2 94 (21.66%) HTML
3 75 (17.28%) Laravel
4 71 (16.36%) React
5 56 (12.90%) RESTful
6 46 (10.60%) Vue
7 43 (9.91%) .NET
8 42 (9.68%) REST
9 41 (9.45%) Node.js
10 33 (7.60%) JSON
11 32 (7.37%) jQuery
12 29 (6.68%) AngularJS
13 23 (5.30%) Spring
14 22 (5.07%) Kafka
15 20 (4.61%) Spring Boot
16 18 (4.15%) Symfony
17 17 (3.92%) XML
18 16 (3.69%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
19 15 (3.46%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.69%) NHS
4 16 (3.69%) Replication
5 15 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.53%) IoT
9 10 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.61%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 99 (22.81%) Linux
2 24 (5.53%) Windows
3 16 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.46%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.00%) CentOS
6 9 (2.07%) Debian
6 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.15%) Rocky
8 3 (0.69%) Android
8 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.69%) VMS
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (33.41%) Agile
2 91 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 86 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
5 71 (16.36%) Microservices
6 69 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (14.29%) DevOps
8 61 (14.06%) Software Engineering
9 50 (11.52%) Containerisation
9 50 (11.52%) Mentoring
10 48 (11.06%) OOP
11 45 (10.37%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.37%) TDD
12 42 (9.68%) ETL
13 41 (9.45%) AI
13 41 (9.45%) Computer Science
14 39 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (8.76%) Data Engineering
15 38 (8.76%) MVC
16 37 (8.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 197 (45.39%) SQL
2 150 (34.56%) PHP
3 133 (30.65%) JavaScript
4 81 (18.66%) Python
5 75 (17.28%) Java
6 63 (14.52%) C#
7 57 (13.13%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.22%) Bash
9 26 (5.99%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.76%) C++
11 14 (3.23%) PL/SQL
12 13 (3.00%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.76%) Go
14 9 (2.07%) Scala
15 6 (1.38%) C
15 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 5 (1.15%) Korn
17 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.46%) Perl
18 2 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (14.06%) Degree
2 36 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.92%) HNC
7 4 (0.92%) HND
8 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.69%) RHCE
9 2 (0.46%) 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 24 (5.53%) QA
2 22 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.00%) HL7
5 8 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.84%) GDPR
5 8 (1.84%) SLA
6 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.92%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (16.36%) Docker
2 29 (6.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.84%) vSphere
5 7 (1.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.69%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.46%) iptables
9 2 (0.46%) Samba
10 1 (0.23%) Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.14%) Terraform
3 25 (5.76%) Ansible
4 14 (3.23%) Grafana
5 12 (2.76%) Nagios
6 6 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.15%) Argo
8 4 (0.92%) Rancher
9 3 (0.69%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.69%) Puppet
9 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.46%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.46%) Plesk
10 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.46%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.46%) systemd
11 1 (0.23%) Graylog
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.45%) Oracle
3 17 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.46%) VMware
5 13 (3.00%) Google
6 12 (2.76%) SAP
7 9 (2.07%) Informatica
8 8 (1.84%) Databricks
8 8 (1.84%) Splunk
8 8 (1.84%) Talend
9 6 (1.38%) Dell
9 6 (1.38%) Veeam
10 5 (1.15%) Cisco
10 5 (1.15%) Palantir
10 5 (1.15%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.92%) Adobe
11 4 (0.92%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.92%) Meraki
11 4 (0.92%) Synology
11 4 (0.92%) Zend