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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 157 150
Rank change year-on-year -113 -7 +12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 485 1,156 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.78% 2.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 10.78% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 352 760 971
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Database and 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 6,660 10,725 10,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 16.54% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,294 6,183 8,621
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -107 432 £55,000 - 243
UK excluding London -132 280 £52,500 +5.00% 226
Work from Home -52 198 £45,000 -14.29% 175
London +5 165 £57,500 -2.13% 44
North of England -71 77 £52,500 - 52
South East -82 54 £60,000 +14.29% 77
East of England -19 49 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Midlands -29 45 £42,500 -1.73% 41
South West -54 39 £57,500 +12.20% 33
North West -40 38 £60,000 +20.00% 35
Yorkshire -21 30 £37,500 -31.82% 16
West Midlands +17 25 £39,000 -23.90% 26
East Midlands -30 16 £44,000 +17.33% 14
Wales -14 14 £67,500 +107.69% 3
North East +2 9 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Scotland -23 2 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Northern Ireland -3 1 £50,000 +11.11% 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 18 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.89%) Confluence
4 13 (2.68%) Apache Solr
5 12 (2.47%) SharePoint
6 11 (2.27%) Apache
7 9 (1.86%) CMS
8 7 (1.44%) IIS
9 6 (1.24%) nginx
9 6 (1.24%) WordPress
10 5 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.41%) Appian
11 2 (0.41%) SAS
11 2 (0.41%) WildFly
12 1 (0.21%) Camunda
12 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.21%) JBoss
12 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (36.29%) AWS
2 161 (33.20%) Azure
3 56 (11.55%) GCP
4 53 (10.93%) SaaS
5 32 (6.60%) GitHub
6 24 (4.95%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.54%) Serverless
8 17 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.44%) Cloudflare
14 6 (1.24%) npm
15 5 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.71%) Firewall
2 16 (3.30%) VPN
3 13 (2.68%) FTP
4 9 (1.86%) DNS
4 9 (1.86%) iSCSI
4 9 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (1.86%) SAN
4 9 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.65%) Broadband
5 8 (1.65%) DHCP
6 7 (1.44%) VLAN
6 7 (1.44%) WAN
7 5 (1.03%) Internet
7 5 (1.03%) LAN
7 5 (1.03%) VoIP
7 5 (1.03%) WPA
8 3 (0.62%) MQTT
9 2 (0.41%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.41%) RTMP
9 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (37.73%) SQL Server
2 107 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (11.75%) Relational Database
4 55 (11.34%) MongoDB
5 36 (7.42%) NoSQL
6 35 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (4.74%) BusinessObjects
8 22 (4.54%) DynamoDB
9 21 (4.33%) Power BI
10 18 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (2.89%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.68%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (2.47%) Big Data
14 12 (2.47%) MariaDB
15 11 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (2.27%) Tableau
16 10 (2.06%) Hadoop
16 10 (2.06%) Neo4j
17 9 (1.86%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 77 (15.88%) Git
2 31 (6.39%) JIRA
3 11 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.65%) GitLab
5 7 (1.44%) git-flow
6 5 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.62%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.62%) Gradle
8 3 (0.62%) JUnit
8 3 (0.62%) Maven
8 3 (0.62%) Mocha
8 3 (0.62%) Mockito
8 3 (0.62%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.62%) webpack
9 2 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.11%) Finance
3 53 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.63%) Law
5 30 (6.19%) Marketing
6 19 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.89%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.68%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.27%) Retail
10 10 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.86%) Front Office
12 7 (1.44%) Automotive
13 5 (1.03%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.82%) Billing
14 4 (0.82%) Games
15 3 (0.62%) Advertising
15 3 (0.62%) Multimedia
16 2 (0.41%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.41%) Banking
16 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 206 (42.47%) Developer
2 76 (15.67%) Senior
3 52 (10.72%) Consultant
4 47 (9.69%) PHP Developer
5 46 (9.48%) Lead
6 45 (9.28%) Software Developer
7 41 (8.45%) Graduate
7 41 (8.45%) Graduate Developer
8 37 (7.63%) Analyst
9 35 (7.22%) Senior Developer
10 31 (6.39%) IT Graduate
10 31 (6.39%) Software Engineer
11 29 (5.98%) Applications Support
11 29 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.57%) Data Engineer
13 26 (5.36%) C# Developer
14 23 (4.74%) Support Analyst
15 21 (4.33%) SQL Developer
16 20 (4.12%) Support Engineer
17 17 (3.51%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (24.33%) CSS
2 93 (19.18%) HTML
3 75 (15.46%) .NET
4 73 (15.05%) React
5 48 (9.90%) jQuery
5 48 (9.90%) REST
6 44 (9.07%) Laravel
7 40 (8.25%) ASP.NET
8 35 (7.22%) RESTful
9 34 (7.01%) Node.js
10 26 (5.36%) AngularJS
10 26 (5.36%) Symfony
11 25 (5.15%) Vue
12 24 (4.95%) JSON
13 20 (4.12%) HTML5
13 20 (4.12%) Kafka
14 18 (3.71%) Web Services
15 17 (3.51%) Django
16 16 (3.30%) SOAP
17 15 (3.09%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.72%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 26 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.09%) NHS
5 15 (3.09%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.06%) IoT
10 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.65%) Social Media
11 7 (1.44%) Legacy Code
11 7 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.24%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.53%) Linux
2 47 (9.69%) Windows
3 29 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.68%) Unix
5 12 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.24%) CentOS
8 4 (0.82%) Android
8 4 (0.82%) VMS
9 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.62%) Rocky
9 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (35.46%) Agile
2 164 (33.81%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (23.51%) OO
4 110 (22.68%) OOP
5 96 (19.79%) CI/CD
6 80 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (15.26%) Software Engineering
8 67 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
9 65 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (12.99%) Mentoring
10 63 (12.99%) MVC
11 61 (12.58%) AI
11 61 (12.58%) Computer Science
12 56 (11.55%) Microservices
13 54 (11.13%) ETL
14 51 (10.52%) Containerisation
15 49 (10.10%) DevOps
16 48 (9.90%) Data Modelling
17 42 (8.66%) Test Automation
17 42 (8.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 210 (43.30%) SQL
2 146 (30.10%) PHP
3 143 (29.48%) JavaScript
4 114 (23.51%) Python
5 89 (18.35%) C#
6 81 (16.70%) Java
7 69 (14.23%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.07%) C++
8 44 (9.07%) Delphi
8 44 (9.07%) Pascal
9 20 (4.12%) Bash
10 14 (2.89%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.47%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.06%) Scala
13 9 (1.86%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.44%) Korn
14 7 (1.44%) R
15 6 (1.24%) Go
15 6 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (17.11%) Degree
2 59 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.62%) MCSE
8 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.41%) CCNA
9 2 (0.41%) CCNP
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.41%) HNC
9 2 (0.41%) HND
9 2 (0.41%) MCSA
10 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.40%) QA
2 14 (2.89%) SLA
3 13 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.06%) HL7
5 8 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.03%) GDPR
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) PSD2
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (18.14%) Docker
2 20 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 7 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.41%) HDFS
6 2 (0.41%) NFS
6 2 (0.41%) pfSense
6 2 (0.41%) Samba
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 66 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.95%) Ansible
3 22 (4.54%) Terraform
4 7 (1.44%) Grafana
5 5 (1.03%) Autotask
5 5 (1.03%) Nagios
5 5 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.82%) Argo
7 3 (0.62%) Kibana
8 2 (0.41%) logstash
8 2 (0.41%) Oozie
8 2 (0.41%) Plesk
8 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.21%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 90 (18.56%) Oracle
2 63 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.92%) SAP
4 16 (3.30%) Informatica
5 14 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.68%) Databricks
6 13 (2.68%) Talend
7 12 (2.47%) Splunk
8 10 (2.06%) Google
8 10 (2.06%) VMware
9 9 (1.86%) Dell
9 9 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.03%) Datto
11 5 (1.03%) Palantir
11 5 (1.03%) RedGate
12 4 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.62%) Apple
13 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.62%) Zend