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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 242 165
Rank change year-on-year -113 -77 -17
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 491 628 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.39% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.93% 8.47% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 391 491 1,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% -7.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,625 £67,500
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 8,277 7,411 17,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 16.35% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,458 4,803 12,618
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -100 442 £54,000 +2.86% 101
UK excluding London -104 336 £50,000 - 87
Work from Home -60 187 £54,000 +4.65% 45
North of England -43 114 £50,000 -3.61% 35
London -73 111 £80,000 +33.33% 25
South East -56 91 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands -31 52 £42,500 -2.86% 6
North West -31 47 £55,000 - 22
Yorkshire -17 46 £42,500 -10.53% 7
South West -76 35 £55,000 -4.35% 9
East Midlands -26 28 £37,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -35 28 £47,500 +11.76% 12
West Midlands -30 24 £55,000 +33.33% 5
North East -42 21 £47,500 - 6
Scotland -3 7 £51,000 -11.30% 3
Wales -53 7 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Northern Ireland -37 2 £62,500 -

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 (3.87%) Apache
1 19 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.67%) CMS
2 18 (3.67%) WordPress
3 14 (2.85%) Confluence
4 13 (2.65%) IIS
5 12 (2.44%) nginx
6 11 (2.24%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.43%) Drupal
8 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.81%) JBoss
8 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.43%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Elementor
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Shopify
2 3 (0.61%) Magento
3 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (49.49%) AWS
2 138 (28.11%) Azure
3 57 (11.61%) GCP
4 43 (8.76%) SaaS
5 41 (8.35%) GitHub
6 32 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (6.31%) Serverless
8 19 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.89%) Firewall
2 14 (2.85%) VPN
3 13 (2.65%) Broadband
4 12 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.83%) DNS
5 9 (1.83%) Network Security
5 9 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.63%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.63%) SAN
6 8 (1.63%) VoIP
7 7 (1.43%) VLAN
8 6 (1.22%) LAN
8 6 (1.22%) WAN
9 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.81%) DHCP
10 4 (0.81%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.81%) MQTT
11 3 (0.61%) HTTP
11 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (30.96%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (24.85%) SQL Server
3 85 (17.31%) MongoDB
4 74 (15.07%) Relational Database
5 72 (14.66%) NoSQL
6 29 (5.91%) Power BI
7 28 (5.70%) MariaDB
8 25 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.44%) Redis
10 12 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (2.04%) Metadata
12 9 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.83%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.83%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 118 (24.03%) Git
2 31 (6.31%) GitLab
3 30 (6.11%) JIRA
4 21 (4.28%) Claude Code
5 13 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.24%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.83%) PHPUnit
8 5 (1.02%) JUnit
9 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.81%) Selenium
9 4 (0.81%) Vite
10 3 (0.61%) Mocha
10 3 (0.61%) Mockito
10 3 (0.61%) NUnit
10 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.41%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.41%) Maven
11 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 2 (0.41%) YouTrack
General
1 121 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.48%) Finance
3 54 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.50%) Law
6 19 (3.87%) Banking
7 18 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.46%) Health Technology
9 13 (2.65%) Retail
10 12 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.63%) Marketing
13 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.22%) Advertising
14 6 (1.22%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.02%) Legal
16 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (38.70%) Developer
2 118 (24.03%) Senior
3 58 (11.81%) Software Engineer
4 53 (10.79%) Senior Developer
5 51 (10.39%) PHP Developer
6 38 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (7.54%) Lead
8 34 (6.92%) Administrator
9 33 (6.72%) Software Developer
10 32 (6.52%) DBA
11 23 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (4.28%) C# Developer
13 19 (3.87%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (3.87%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.67%) Analyst
15 17 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
16 16 (3.26%) Graduate
16 16 (3.26%) Support Engineer
16 16 (3.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (24.03%) CSS
2 97 (19.76%) HTML
3 83 (16.90%) React
4 81 (16.50%) RESTful
5 70 (14.26%) Laravel
6 66 (13.44%) Node.js
7 62 (12.63%) .NET
8 57 (11.61%) Vue
9 54 (11.00%) REST
10 36 (7.33%) jQuery
11 33 (6.72%) AngularJS
11 33 (6.72%) JSON
12 31 (6.31%) HTML5
12 31 (6.31%) Spring
13 28 (5.70%) Kafka
13 28 (5.70%) Spring Boot
14 27 (5.50%) CSS3
15 22 (4.48%) ASP.NET
16 16 (3.26%) Flask
17 14 (2.85%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.74%) Replication
3 28 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.65%) NHS
6 13 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.63%) IoT
11 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.43%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.02%) PropTech
14 5 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 135 (27.49%) Linux
2 31 (6.31%) Windows
3 26 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.89%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.85%) CentOS
5 14 (2.85%) Debian
6 9 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.81%) Android
10 2 (0.41%) Rocky
11 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (34.42%) Agile
2 127 (25.87%) CI/CD
3 121 (24.64%) Software Engineering
4 108 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (21.18%) Microservices
6 90 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 83 (16.90%) DevOps
8 74 (15.07%) AI
9 67 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (12.22%) Mentoring
11 55 (11.20%) Containerisation
12 53 (10.79%) Data Modelling
13 48 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (9.78%) Clean Code
13 48 (9.78%) Computer Science
14 44 (8.96%) TDD
14 44 (8.96%) Web Development
15 39 (7.94%) High Availability
15 39 (7.94%) Open Source
16 36 (7.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 186 (37.88%) SQL
2 168 (34.22%) JavaScript
3 144 (29.33%) PHP
4 106 (21.59%) Python
5 90 (18.33%) Java
6 71 (14.46%) C#
7 44 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 34 (6.92%) Bash
9 25 (5.09%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.89%) C++
11 19 (3.87%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.44%) Go
13 11 (2.24%) Ruby
13 11 (2.24%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.43%) Korn
15 7 (1.43%) VB.NET
16 6 (1.22%) C
17 4 (0.81%) Perl
17 4 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (15.48%) Degree
2 34 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.43%) HNC
7 7 (1.43%) HND
8 6 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.61%) RHCE
11 2 (0.41%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.35%) QA
2 34 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.44%) GDPR
6 7 (1.43%) HL7
6 7 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.43%) SLA
7 5 (1.02%) WCAG
8 4 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 101 (20.57%) Docker
2 35 (7.13%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.04%) vSphere
5 9 (1.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.61%) iptables
8 3 (0.61%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.41%) Samba
10 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.31%) Terraform
3 27 (5.50%) Ansible
4 21 (4.28%) Grafana
5 11 (2.24%) Nagios
6 10 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.43%) Puppet
8 4 (0.81%) Argo
8 4 (0.81%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.61%) Plesk
9 3 (0.61%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.61%) Rancher
9 3 (0.61%) systemd
10 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.20%) Graylog
11 1 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.91%) Oracle
3 22 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.67%) VMware
5 16 (3.26%) Splunk
6 12 (2.44%) Google
7 11 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.83%) Dell
8 9 (1.83%) Rapid7
8 9 (1.83%) Veeam
9 7 (1.43%) Adobe
9 7 (1.43%) Cisco
10 6 (1.22%) Synology
11 5 (1.02%) Meraki
11 5 (1.02%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.81%) Databricks
12 4 (0.81%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.61%) BT
13 3 (0.61%) Mitel