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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 277 161
Rank change year-on-year -92 -116 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 560 526 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.06% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.33% 7.37% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 411 372 774
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -4.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.39%

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 8,848 7,136 11,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.55% 14.45% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,049 4,489 6,950
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 September 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 September 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 -78 493 £55,000 +4.76% 425
UK excluding London -96 387 £50,000 -4.76% 234
Work from Home -73 183 £65,000 +36.84% 177
London -70 133 £85,000 +45.30% 232
North of England -33 132 £42,500 -19.05% 68
South East -35 99 £56,250 -2.17% 49
North West -29 59 £49,250 -14.35% 39
Midlands -36 45 £47,500 +5.56% 25
Yorkshire -20 41 £42,500 +9.68% 24
South West -71 41 £57,500 +27.78% 22
East of England -34 33 £50,000 +5.26% 32
North East -52 32 £42,500 -10.53% 6
Wales -62 25 £60,000 -11.11% 5
East Midlands -24 24 £37,500 -16.67% 10
West Midlands -42 21 £55,000 +41.03% 15
Scotland +11 11 £40,000 -46.67% 13
Northern Ireland -92 1 - - 22

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 30 (5.36%) IIS
2 24 (4.29%) Apache
3 19 (3.39%) WordPress
4 15 (2.68%) Confluence
5 14 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.79%) CMS
8 9 (1.61%) Apache Spark
9 7 (1.25%) Drupal
10 5 (0.89%) JBoss
11 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.71%) nginx
12 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.18%) Moodle
14 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 295 (52.68%) AWS
2 166 (29.64%) Azure
3 82 (14.64%) GCP
4 55 (9.82%) GitHub
5 27 (4.82%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.64%) SaaS
7 25 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 24 (4.29%) Serverless
9 22 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.04%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.86%) Firewall
3 13 (2.32%) Broadband
3 13 (2.32%) DNS
4 11 (1.96%) VPN
5 7 (1.25%) VLAN
5 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 6 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.07%) SSH
6 6 (1.07%) VoIP
7 5 (0.89%) HTTP
7 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.89%) SAN
8 4 (0.71%) Internet
8 4 (0.71%) LAN
8 4 (0.71%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) 4G
9 3 (0.54%) 5G
9 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (32.50%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (27.68%) SQL Server
3 112 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 92 (16.43%) MongoDB
5 67 (11.96%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.00%) MariaDB
7 24 (4.29%) Power BI
8 23 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (4.11%) Redis
9 20 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.21%) Metadata
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.96%) Big Data
14 9 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 143 (25.54%) Git
2 45 (8.04%) Claude Code
3 40 (7.14%) GitLab
4 27 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.82%) JIRA
5 14 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.89%) JUnit
8 5 (0.89%) RSpec
9 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.71%) minitest
9 4 (0.71%) Mocha
9 4 (0.71%) Postman
9 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.54%) git-flow
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.54%) PHPUnit
General
1 123 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 91 (16.25%) Finance
3 87 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 61 (10.89%) Law
6 31 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.00%) Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.68%) Marketing
10 11 (1.96%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.43%) Retail
13 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.89%) Legal
16 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.54%) Games
17 3 (0.54%) Local Government
17 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 237 (42.32%) Developer
2 154 (27.50%) Senior
3 82 (14.64%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.86%) Software Engineer
5 63 (11.25%) PHP Developer
6 54 (9.64%) Lead
7 40 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 36 (6.43%) Administrator
9 33 (5.89%) DBA
9 33 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (5.18%) C# Developer
11 29 (5.18%) Database Engineer
12 27 (4.82%) .NET Developer
13 24 (4.29%) Java Developer
14 23 (4.11%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
17 20 (3.57%) Support Engineer
17 20 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (23.57%) CSS
2 119 (21.25%) HTML
3 103 (18.39%) React
4 89 (15.89%) .NET
5 85 (15.18%) RESTful
6 73 (13.04%) Laravel
7 62 (11.07%) REST
8 59 (10.54%) Vue
9 55 (9.82%) Terraform
10 54 (9.64%) Node.js
11 52 (9.29%) Kafka
12 46 (8.21%) Spring Boot
13 45 (8.04%) Spring
14 39 (6.96%) ASP.NET
14 39 (6.96%) jQuery
15 36 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (6.07%) AngularJS
17 33 (5.89%) HTML5
18 26 (4.64%) .NET Framework
18 26 (4.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.04%) Replication
3 41 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 23 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.79%) NHS
11 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.25%) Social Media
13 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 168 (30.00%) Linux
2 41 (7.32%) Windows
3 29 (5.18%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 20 (3.57%) Debian
6 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.96%) CentOS
8 7 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Android
10 3 (0.54%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (34.82%) Agile
2 171 (30.54%) CI/CD
2 171 (30.54%) Software Engineering
3 167 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (22.68%) DevOps
5 117 (20.89%) Microservices
6 109 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (18.39%) AI
8 91 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (13.93%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.39%) Clean Code
11 73 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (11.79%) Scrum
13 62 (11.07%) OOP
14 61 (10.89%) Containerisation
15 60 (10.71%) Web Development
16 57 (10.18%) High Availability
17 54 (9.64%) Observability
18 49 (8.75%) Code Quality
18 49 (8.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 194 (34.64%) SQL
2 182 (32.50%) JavaScript
3 137 (24.46%) PHP
4 135 (24.11%) Python
5 95 (16.96%) Java
6 86 (15.36%) C#
7 65 (11.61%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.61%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.18%) Bash
10 21 (3.75%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.04%) C++
11 17 (3.04%) Go
11 17 (3.04%) Ruby
12 13 (2.32%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.07%) Scala
14 5 (0.89%) Korn
14 5 (0.89%) Perl
14 5 (0.89%) Rust
15 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (12.32%) Degree
2 43 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) HNC
7 6 (1.07%) HND
7 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.71%) QA
2 30 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.79%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) HL7
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.89%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 147 (26.25%) Docker
2 25 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.25%) vSphere
5 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.54%) iptables
8 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 37 (6.61%) Grafana
3 26 (4.64%) Ansible
4 23 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.79%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) WSUS
7 4 (0.71%) Kibana
8 3 (0.54%) Plesk
8 3 (0.54%) Rancher
8 3 (0.54%) systemd
9 2 (0.36%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.00%) Oracle
3 28 (5.00%) Splunk
4 22 (3.93%) Google
5 18 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.86%) VMware
8 11 (1.96%) Dell
8 11 (1.96%) Veeam
9 9 (1.61%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.25%) Adobe
11 6 (1.07%) Aruba
11 6 (1.07%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.07%) Databricks
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) NetApp
11 6 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.07%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.89%) Cisco
12 5 (0.89%) Synology