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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 254 180
Rank change year-on-year -79 -74 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 599 618 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.24% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 8.16% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 454 478 987
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - -5.31%
75th Percentile £74,985 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,875 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%

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 8,945 7,578 13,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.42% 15.17% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,995 4,818 8,602
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -83 533 £55,000 +4.76% 194
UK excluding London -75 409 £50,000 - 112
Work from Home -62 209 £55,000 +10.00% 82
London -66 143 £85,000 +34.92% 100
North of England -32 134 £45,000 -14.29% 33
South East -9 114 £55,000 - 36
North West -20 56 £51,065 -11.19% 22
Midlands -38 52 £42,500 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire -9 46 £42,500 -12.82% 6
South West -66 41 £55,000 +15.79% 10
East of England -40 37 £47,500 - 12
North East -40 32 £42,500 -5.56% 5
East Midlands -16 29 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -35 23 £51,250 +28.13% 6
Wales -63 19 £70,000 +9.80% 3
Scotland +14 12 £51,000 -9.33% 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 26 (4.34%) Apache
2 22 (3.67%) IIS
3 20 (3.34%) WordPress
4 17 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.67%) Confluence
6 13 (2.17%) Apache Spark
6 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.84%) CMS
8 7 (1.17%) Drupal
8 7 (1.17%) nginx
9 5 (0.83%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.33%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 315 (52.59%) AWS
2 169 (28.21%) Azure
3 83 (13.86%) GCP
4 54 (9.02%) GitHub
5 32 (5.34%) SaaS
6 30 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.67%) Serverless
8 26 (4.34%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.84%) GitHub Copilot
10 21 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
16 12 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (2.00%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.67%) Firewall
2 13 (2.17%) Broadband
3 11 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.84%) VPN
4 9 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.34%) DNS
5 8 (1.34%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.34%) SAN
6 6 (1.00%) VLAN
6 6 (1.00%) VoIP
7 5 (0.83%) LAN
7 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 5 (0.83%) WAN
8 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) DHCP
9 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.50%) Internet
9 3 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (31.72%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (27.38%) SQL Server
3 113 (18.86%) Relational Database
4 87 (14.52%) MongoDB
5 71 (11.85%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.68%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.34%) Power BI
8 25 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.34%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.01%) Metadata
11 18 (3.01%) Redis
12 17 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.17%) Big Data
15 12 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.50%) Electronic Patient Records
16 9 (1.50%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 142 (23.71%) Git
2 36 (6.01%) Claude Code
2 36 (6.01%) GitLab
3 31 (5.18%) JIRA
4 23 (3.84%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.67%) PHPUnit
7 8 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.00%) JUnit
9 6 (1.00%) Selenium
10 5 (0.83%) RSpec
11 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) minitest
11 4 (0.67%) Mocha
12 3 (0.50%) git-flow
12 3 (0.50%) Mockito
12 3 (0.50%) NUnit
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 106 (17.70%) Finance
3 81 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.02%) Law
5 57 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.84%) Banking
8 18 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.50%) Marketing
10 12 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.84%) Retail
12 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.00%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.83%) Legal
15 4 (0.67%) Advertising
16 3 (0.50%) Local Government
16 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 257 (42.90%) Developer
2 156 (26.04%) Senior
3 79 (13.19%) Senior Developer
4 75 (12.52%) Software Engineer
5 73 (12.19%) PHP Developer
6 61 (10.18%) Lead
7 44 (7.35%) Software Developer
8 36 (6.01%) Administrator
8 36 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.51%) C# Developer
9 33 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (5.18%) DBA
11 27 (4.51%) Database Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) Web Developer
13 24 (4.01%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.67%) Java Developer
14 22 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.51%) Backend Developer
15 21 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (25.04%) CSS
2 131 (21.87%) HTML
3 105 (17.53%) React
4 89 (14.86%) .NET
5 83 (13.86%) Laravel
6 82 (13.69%) RESTful
7 65 (10.85%) REST
8 64 (10.68%) Node.js
9 63 (10.52%) Vue
10 49 (8.18%) Kafka
11 46 (7.68%) jQuery
12 41 (6.84%) Spring Boot
13 40 (6.68%) Spring
14 37 (6.18%) AngularJS
15 36 (6.01%) HTML5
16 35 (5.84%) ASP.NET
17 29 (4.84%) CSS3
18 26 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
19 25 (4.17%) JSON
20 24 (4.01%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.85%) Replication
3 36 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (3.01%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.34%) NHS
11 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.00%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.17%) IoT
14 7 (1.17%) Social Media
15 6 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
15 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 157 (26.21%) Linux
2 34 (5.68%) Windows
3 27 (4.51%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.17%) Debian
6 17 (2.84%) CentOS
7 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (33.56%) Agile
2 168 (28.05%) CI/CD
3 162 (27.05%) Software Engineering
4 156 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (19.87%) Microservices
6 113 (18.86%) DevOps
7 107 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (16.36%) AI
9 97 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 79 (13.19%) Mentoring
11 75 (12.52%) Clean Code
12 70 (11.69%) Web Development
13 68 (11.35%) OOP
14 60 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 58 (9.68%) Containerisation
15 58 (9.68%) High Availability
16 54 (9.02%) Scrum
17 52 (8.68%) Computer Science
18 51 (8.51%) Data Modelling
19 48 (8.01%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 215 (35.89%) SQL
2 207 (34.56%) JavaScript
3 164 (27.38%) PHP
4 131 (21.87%) Python
5 103 (17.20%) Java
6 92 (15.36%) C#
7 57 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.34%) Bash
9 30 (5.01%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.84%) C++
11 17 (2.84%) Ruby
12 16 (2.67%) VB.NET
13 15 (2.50%) PowerShell
14 14 (2.34%) Go
15 6 (1.00%) Korn
15 6 (1.00%) Scala
16 5 (0.83%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.50%) SOQL
18 3 (0.50%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 88 (14.69%) Degree
2 42 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 34 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.17%) HNC
6 7 (1.17%) HND
7 5 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.50%) RHCE
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.35%) QA
2 34 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.67%) GDPR
5 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.17%) HL7
6 7 (1.17%) SLA
7 5 (0.83%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 137 (22.87%) Docker
2 28 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.67%) vSphere
5 9 (1.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.33%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 104 (17.36%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.35%) Terraform
3 28 (4.67%) Ansible
3 28 (4.67%) Grafana
4 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.17%) Nagios
6 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.00%) Puppet
7 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.50%) Plesk
8 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.50%) systemd
8 3 (0.50%) WSUS
9 2 (0.33%) kaniko
9 2 (0.33%) Rancher
9 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 72 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.85%) Oracle
3 27 (4.51%) Google
4 24 (4.01%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.51%) Splunk
6 18 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 18 (3.01%) VMware
7 11 (1.84%) Dell
7 11 (1.84%) Veeam
8 10 (1.67%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.17%) Adobe
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco
10 6 (1.00%) Databricks
10 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.00%) Synology
11 5 (0.83%) Informatica
11 5 (0.83%) Meraki
12 4 (0.67%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce