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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 170 153
Rank change year-on-year -166 -17 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 430 750 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.83% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 9.96% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 337 647 1,552
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,450 £80,000 £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 7,446 7,532 16,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 18.42% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,420 5,138 12,426
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,498 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 2 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 2 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 -149 391 £55,000 - 144
UK excluding London -154 286 £50,000 - 126
Work from Home -73 174 £52,130 -0.70% 84
London -78 104 £75,000 +25.00% 33
South East -89 73 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North of England -109 72 £51,565 -1.78% 32
Midlands -66 53 £40,000 -15.79% 17
East of England -31 40 £50,000 +21.21% 20
South West -74 40 £57,500 - 19
North West -52 39 £55,000 +4.76% 24
East Midlands -61 29 £37,500 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire -64 27 £50,000 +2.04% 4
West Midlands -33 24 £42,500 -12.82% 10
North East -31 6 £51,000 -5.12% 4
Scotland -46 4 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland -38 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -45 1 £45,000 +38.46% 8

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 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.26%) nginx
4 13 (3.02%) CMS
5 10 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.09%) Apache
7 8 (1.86%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.40%) Confluence
9 4 (0.93%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.70%) IIS
11 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.47%) WordPress
12 1 (0.23%) Camunda
12 1 (0.23%) JBoss
12 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.16%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Shopify
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (45.35%) AWS
2 118 (27.44%) Azure
3 66 (15.35%) GCP
4 51 (11.86%) SaaS
5 30 (6.98%) GitHub
5 30 (6.98%) Serverless
6 25 (5.81%) Power Platform
7 24 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.26%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.86%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.35%) VPN
2 13 (3.02%) Firewall
3 7 (1.63%) DNS
3 7 (1.63%) Network Security
3 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.40%) FTP
5 5 (1.16%) DHCP
5 5 (1.16%) VLAN
6 4 (0.93%) HTTP
6 4 (0.93%) MQTT
7 3 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.70%) RTP
7 3 (0.70%) SAN
7 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.70%) VoIP
7 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (25.12%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (21.63%) SQL Server
3 60 (13.95%) NoSQL
4 58 (13.49%) Relational Database
5 57 (13.26%) MongoDB
6 28 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.35%) Power BI
8 19 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (4.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (3.95%) BusinessObjects
11 16 (3.72%) DynamoDB
11 16 (3.72%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.79%) Electronic Patient Records
12 12 (2.79%) MariaDB
12 12 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (2.09%) Big Data
13 9 (2.09%) Tableau
14 8 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.86%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 94 (21.86%) Git
2 20 (4.65%) JIRA
3 12 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.79%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.33%) GitLab
6 5 (1.16%) JUnit
6 5 (1.16%) Vite
7 4 (0.93%) git-flow
7 4 (0.93%) Gradle
7 4 (0.93%) Maven
7 4 (0.93%) Mockito
7 4 (0.93%) NUnit
7 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.70%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.70%) JMeter
8 3 (0.70%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.70%) Subversion
9 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.49%) Finance
3 54 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.88%) Health Technology
6 17 (3.95%) Law
7 15 (3.49%) Retail
8 9 (2.09%) Banking
8 9 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.63%) Advertising
10 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.40%) Marketing
11 5 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.70%) Front Office
13 3 (0.70%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.47%) Automotive
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 201 (46.74%) Developer
2 85 (19.77%) Senior
3 58 (13.49%) PHP Developer
4 47 (10.93%) Senior Developer
5 37 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (8.37%) Software Developer
7 32 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 30 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.74%) Lead
10 23 (5.35%) Backend Developer
11 21 (4.88%) C# Developer
12 19 (4.42%) Applications Support
13 18 (4.19%) Analyst
13 18 (4.19%) Graduate
13 18 (4.19%) Graduate Developer
13 18 (4.19%) Graduate Software Developer
13 18 (4.19%) SQL Developer
14 17 (3.95%) Senior Backend Developer
14 17 (3.95%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.72%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (22.79%) CSS
2 88 (20.47%) HTML
3 73 (16.98%) Laravel
3 73 (16.98%) React
4 55 (12.79%) RESTful
5 46 (10.70%) Node.js
6 45 (10.47%) Vue
7 43 (10.00%) .NET
7 43 (10.00%) REST
8 31 (7.21%) JSON
9 29 (6.74%) jQuery
10 27 (6.28%) AngularJS
11 24 (5.58%) Spring
12 21 (4.88%) Kafka
12 21 (4.88%) Spring Boot
13 19 (4.42%) Symfony
14 17 (3.95%) .NET Core
14 17 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.72%) Web Services
16 15 (3.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.72%) NHS
5 15 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.49%) Replication
6 13 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.79%) IoT
8 11 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.86%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (22.09%) Linux
2 24 (5.58%) Windows
3 16 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.02%) CentOS
5 12 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.63%) Debian
7 6 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.16%) Rocky
9 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.70%) Android
10 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.70%) VMS
11 2 (0.47%) Unix
11 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (32.79%) Agile
2 100 (23.26%) CI/CD
3 96 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (17.44%) Microservices
5 74 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 71 (16.51%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 63 (14.65%) DevOps
9 54 (12.56%) Containerisation
10 53 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 48 (11.16%) Data Modelling
12 45 (10.47%) ETL
12 45 (10.47%) OOP
12 45 (10.47%) TDD
13 44 (10.23%) Test Automation
14 40 (9.30%) AI
15 39 (9.07%) Computer Science
15 39 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (8.60%) Data Engineering
16 37 (8.60%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 191 (44.42%) SQL
2 151 (35.12%) PHP
3 137 (31.86%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.77%) Python
5 75 (17.44%) Java
6 61 (14.19%) C#
7 60 (13.95%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.58%) C++
8 24 (5.58%) PowerShell
9 23 (5.35%) Bash
10 14 (3.26%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.02%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.33%) Go
13 9 (2.09%) Scala
14 7 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.40%) C
16 3 (0.70%) Perl
17 2 (0.47%) Korn
17 2 (0.47%) Ruby
17 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (12.56%) Degree
2 35 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.70%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.47%) HNC
9 2 (0.47%) HND
9 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.81%) QA
2 20 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.02%) HL7
5 9 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.86%) GDPR
6 8 (1.86%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (17.21%) Docker
2 24 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.40%) vSphere
5 4 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.47%) Samba
7 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) iptables
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.74%) Terraform
3 28 (6.51%) Ansible
4 13 (3.02%) Grafana
5 12 (2.79%) Nagios
6 5 (1.16%) Argo
6 5 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
7 3 (0.70%) Puppet
7 3 (0.70%) Rancher
7 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.47%) Plesk
8 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.23%) Graylog
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.21%) Oracle
3 15 (3.49%) SAP
4 14 (3.26%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.26%) VMware
5 13 (3.02%) Google
6 9 (2.09%) Informatica
7 8 (1.86%) Databricks
7 8 (1.86%) Splunk
7 8 (1.86%) Talend
8 6 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.16%) Palantir
9 5 (1.16%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.93%) Apple
10 4 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.93%) Veeam
10 4 (0.93%) Zend
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco
11 3 (0.70%) Dell
11 3 (0.70%) Mitel