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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 246 169
Rank change year-on-year -95 -77 -22
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 549 637 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.30% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.36% 8.41% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 430 503 1,309
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

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 8,633 7,573 15,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 15.44% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 4,892 11,118
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,875 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +3.18% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 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 18 July 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 -96 490 £55,000 +4.76% 97
UK excluding London -89 378 £50,000 - 82
Work from Home -57 207 £52,500 +5.00% 42
North of England -48 128 £50,000 -4.76% 27
London -38 124 £85,000 +36.00% 29
South East -36 100 £55,000 +10.00% 26
North West -26 54 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Midlands -38 54 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Yorkshire -20 47 £42,500 -10.53% 4
South West -70 40 £52,500 -8.70% 6
East of England -36 32 £47,500 - 8
East Midlands -4 30 £37,500 -18.92% 1
North East -44 27 £46,250 -2.63% 8
West Midlands -32 24 £47,500 +18.75% 7
Wales -58 14 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland +6 10 £51,000 -15.00% 4

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 24 (4.37%) Apache
2 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.46%) WordPress
4 18 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.91%) Confluence
5 16 (2.91%) IIS
6 15 (2.73%) CMS
7 12 (2.19%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.64%) nginx
9 7 (1.28%) Drupal
10 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.73%) JBoss
10 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Shopify
2 3 (0.55%) Magento
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 293 (53.37%) AWS
2 166 (30.24%) Azure
3 72 (13.11%) GCP
4 43 (7.83%) GitHub
5 42 (7.65%) SaaS
6 34 (6.19%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (5.28%) Serverless
9 27 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.01%) Firewall
2 13 (2.37%) Broadband
3 11 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.00%) VPN
4 9 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.46%) DNS
5 8 (1.46%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.46%) SAN
5 8 (1.46%) VoIP
6 6 (1.09%) Network Security
6 6 (1.09%) VLAN
7 5 (0.91%) LAN
7 5 (0.91%) WAN
8 4 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.73%) MQTT
8 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.55%) DHCP
9 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.55%) Internet
9 3 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (32.60%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (25.68%) SQL Server
3 94 (17.12%) MongoDB
4 92 (16.76%) Relational Database
5 79 (14.39%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.65%) Power BI
7 30 (5.46%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (3.10%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.91%) Metadata
13 15 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.55%) Redis
15 13 (2.37%) Big Data
15 13 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
17 9 (1.64%) RDBMS
18 7 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 125 (22.77%) Git
2 35 (6.38%) GitLab
3 33 (6.01%) JIRA
4 28 (5.10%) Claude Code
5 15 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.82%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.91%) JUnit
8 5 (0.91%) Selenium
9 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.55%) Mocha
10 3 (0.55%) Mockito
10 3 (0.55%) RSpec
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.36%) Gradle
11 2 (0.36%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.36%) NUnit
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.03%) Finance
3 62 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.83%) Law
6 23 (4.19%) Banking
7 17 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.73%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.82%) Retail
11 9 (1.64%) Marketing
12 6 (1.09%) Advertising
12 6 (1.09%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Legal
13 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.55%) Local Government
14 3 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 227 (41.35%) Developer
2 134 (24.41%) Senior
3 66 (12.02%) Software Engineer
4 63 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 62 (11.29%) PHP Developer
6 50 (9.11%) Lead
7 42 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (6.74%) Administrator
9 36 (6.56%) Software Developer
10 32 (5.83%) DBA
11 25 (4.55%) Python Engineer
11 25 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (4.01%) C# Developer
13 21 (3.83%) Web Developer
14 20 (3.64%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.64%) Java Developer
15 19 (3.46%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.46%) Database Engineer
15 19 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
15 19 (3.46%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (23.32%) CSS
2 108 (19.67%) HTML
3 93 (16.94%) React
4 89 (16.21%) RESTful
5 79 (14.39%) Laravel
6 70 (12.75%) Node.js
7 67 (12.20%) .NET
8 61 (11.11%) REST
9 60 (10.93%) Vue
10 39 (7.10%) jQuery
11 38 (6.92%) Kafka
11 38 (6.92%) Spring
12 36 (6.56%) Spring Boot
13 33 (6.01%) JSON
14 31 (5.65%) AngularJS
14 31 (5.65%) HTML5
15 27 (4.92%) CSS3
16 25 (4.55%) ASP.NET
17 21 (3.83%) Flask
18 17 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.92%) Replication
3 35 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.91%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.37%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.37%) NHS
10 11 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.82%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.46%) IoT
13 5 (0.91%) PropTech
13 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 143 (26.05%) Linux
2 32 (5.83%) Windows
3 28 (5.10%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.10%) CentOS
6 16 (2.91%) Debian
7 10 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.55%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (34.06%) Agile
2 150 (27.32%) CI/CD
3 142 (25.87%) Software Engineering
4 121 (22.04%) Microservices
5 120 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 97 (17.67%) DevOps
8 92 (16.76%) AI
9 78 (14.21%) Mentoring
10 74 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (11.11%) Data Modelling
12 57 (10.38%) Containerisation
13 55 (10.02%) Clean Code
14 54 (9.84%) Web Development
15 53 (9.65%) TDD
16 49 (8.93%) Computer Science
17 48 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
18 46 (8.38%) Analytics
18 46 (8.38%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 204 (37.16%) SQL
2 187 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 157 (28.60%) PHP
4 123 (22.40%) Python
5 99 (18.03%) Java
6 74 (13.48%) C#
7 46 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 33 (6.01%) Bash
9 23 (4.19%) C++
9 23 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.64%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.73%) Ruby
12 11 (2.00%) Go
12 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.64%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.09%) Korn
15 5 (0.91%) Scala
16 4 (0.73%) C
16 4 (0.73%) Perl
16 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (14.21%) Degree
2 34 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 34 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.55%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.28%) HNC
5 7 (1.28%) HND
6 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.55%) RHCE
9 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.83%) QA
2 42 (7.65%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.00%) GDPR
6 7 (1.28%) HL7
6 7 (1.28%) SLA
7 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.91%) WCAG
9 4 (0.73%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 120 (21.86%) Docker
2 34 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.82%) vSphere
5 9 (1.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.55%) iptables
7 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.36%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.83%) Terraform
3 27 (4.92%) Ansible
4 26 (4.74%) Grafana
5 13 (2.37%) Nagios
5 13 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.28%) Puppet
7 4 (0.73%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.55%) Argo
8 3 (0.55%) Plesk
8 3 (0.55%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.55%) systemd
8 3 (0.55%) WSUS
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.83%) Oracle
3 23 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 20 (3.64%) Splunk
5 19 (3.46%) Google
6 18 (3.28%) VMware
7 15 (2.73%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.00%) Dell
8 11 (2.00%) Rapid7
8 11 (2.00%) Veeam
9 7 (1.28%) Adobe
9 7 (1.28%) Cisco
10 6 (1.09%) Synology
11 5 (0.91%) Databricks
11 5 (0.91%) Meraki
12 4 (0.73%) Informatica
12 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.73%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.55%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.55%) TIBCO