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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 234 162
Rank change year-on-year -118 -72 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 466 649 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.45% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.79% 8.77% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 378 510 1,512
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,438 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 8,045 7,399 17,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.54% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,245 4,783 12,717
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,726 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,000 £98,750
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 June 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 18 June 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 -122 424 £55,000 +4.76% 103
UK excluding London -112 319 £50,000 - 99
Work from Home -63 180 £53,250 +1.43% 53
London -70 107 £77,500 +29.17% 23
North of England -58 104 £50,000 -4.76% 39
South East -45 89 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands -41 51 £42,500 -5.56% 9
Yorkshire -26 44 £42,500 -10.53% 11
North West -26 41 £55,000 - 21
South West -80 34 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands -22 28 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -38 28 £47,500 +26.67% 10
West Midlands -32 23 £51,250 +20.59% 7
North East -45 19 £47,500 - 7
Wales -53 6 £40,000 -21.95% 1
Scotland -1 5 £58,000 +5.45% 4
Northern Ireland -35 2 £62,500 -26.47% 7

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 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.86%) CMS
1 18 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.65%) Apache
2 17 (3.65%) WordPress
3 14 (3.00%) Confluence
4 13 (2.79%) nginx
5 11 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.36%) IIS
6 7 (1.50%) Drupal
7 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.64%) JBoss
8 3 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Moodle
10 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.50%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.36%) Shopify
2 3 (0.64%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 229 (49.14%) AWS
2 131 (28.11%) Azure
3 52 (11.16%) GCP
4 42 (9.01%) SaaS
5 37 (7.94%) GitHub
6 32 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.65%) Serverless
8 30 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (3.22%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.15%) Firewall
2 14 (3.00%) VPN
3 12 (2.58%) Broadband
4 10 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.93%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.72%) DNS
6 8 (1.72%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.72%) Network Security
6 8 (1.72%) SAN
7 7 (1.50%) VoIP
8 6 (1.29%) VLAN
9 5 (1.07%) LAN
9 5 (1.07%) WAN
10 4 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.86%) MQTT
10 4 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.64%) RTP
11 3 (0.64%) SSH
11 3 (0.64%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.90%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (24.46%) SQL Server
3 80 (17.17%) MongoDB
4 71 (15.24%) NoSQL
5 65 (13.95%) Relational Database
6 29 (6.22%) Power BI
7 27 (5.79%) MariaDB
8 23 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.58%) Redis
11 12 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.72%) Metadata
14 7 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.50%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (1.50%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (23.61%) Git
2 28 (6.01%) GitLab
2 28 (6.01%) JIRA
3 12 (2.58%) Claude Code
4 11 (2.36%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.93%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.07%) JUnit
7 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.86%) Selenium
7 4 (0.86%) Vite
8 3 (0.64%) Mocha
8 3 (0.64%) Mockito
8 3 (0.64%) NUnit
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
9 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.21%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 114 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.67%) Finance
3 51 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.94%) Law
6 18 (3.86%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.65%) Banking
8 13 (2.79%) Retail
9 11 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.50%) Marketing
11 6 (1.29%) Advertising
11 6 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.29%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.07%) Legal
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.64%) Local Government
14 3 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 183 (39.27%) Developer
2 110 (23.61%) Senior
3 55 (11.80%) Software Engineer
4 52 (11.16%) Senior Developer
5 50 (10.73%) PHP Developer
6 37 (7.94%) Lead
7 33 (7.08%) Administrator
7 33 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (7.08%) Software Developer
8 31 (6.65%) DBA
9 21 (4.51%) C# Developer
9 21 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 18 (3.86%) Analyst
12 16 (3.43%) Graduate
12 16 (3.43%) Linux Engineer
12 16 (3.43%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.43%) Web Developer
13 15 (3.22%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (24.68%) CSS
2 94 (20.17%) HTML
3 76 (16.31%) React
3 76 (16.31%) RESTful
4 69 (14.81%) Laravel
5 63 (13.52%) Node.js
6 60 (12.88%) .NET
7 57 (12.23%) Vue
8 49 (10.52%) REST
9 35 (7.51%) jQuery
10 32 (6.87%) JSON
11 30 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 30 (6.44%) HTML5
12 27 (5.79%) CSS3
12 27 (5.79%) Spring
13 26 (5.58%) Kafka
14 24 (5.15%) Spring Boot
15 19 (4.08%) ASP.NET
16 15 (3.22%) .NET Core
17 12 (2.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.52%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.08%) Replication
3 25 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.79%) NHS
5 13 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.72%) IoT
8 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.50%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.07%) PropTech
10 5 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 126 (27.04%) Linux
2 29 (6.22%) Windows
3 24 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.79%) CentOS
5 13 (2.79%) Debian
6 9 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.86%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (33.91%) Agile
2 117 (25.11%) CI/CD
3 106 (22.75%) Software Engineering
4 98 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (20.82%) Microservices
6 81 (17.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 77 (16.52%) DevOps
8 64 (13.73%) AI
9 60 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 52 (11.16%) Containerisation
12 49 (10.52%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (10.09%) Computer Science
14 45 (9.66%) Web Development
15 44 (9.44%) Data Modelling
16 43 (9.23%) TDD
17 42 (9.01%) Clean Code
18 35 (7.51%) Open Source
19 34 (7.30%) High Availability
19 34 (7.30%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 179 (38.41%) SQL
2 162 (34.76%) JavaScript
3 141 (30.26%) PHP
4 94 (20.17%) Python
5 85 (18.24%) Java
6 69 (14.81%) C#
7 39 (8.37%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.87%) Bash
9 25 (5.36%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.15%) C++
11 15 (3.22%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.36%) Go
12 11 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.15%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.15%) Ruby
14 7 (1.50%) Korn
15 6 (1.29%) C
16 5 (1.07%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.86%) Perl
17 4 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (15.88%) Degree
2 34 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.50%) HNC
6 7 (1.50%) HND
7 6 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.64%) RHCE
10 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.15%) QA
2 31 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.58%) GDPR
6 7 (1.50%) HL7
6 7 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.50%) SLA
7 5 (1.07%) WCAG
8 4 (0.86%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 90 (19.31%) Docker
2 33 (7.08%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.15%) vSphere
5 9 (1.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.64%) iptables
8 3 (0.64%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.79%) Terraform
3 24 (5.15%) Ansible
4 18 (3.86%) Grafana
5 10 (2.15%) Nagios
6 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.50%) Puppet
8 4 (0.86%) Argo
8 4 (0.86%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.64%) Plesk
9 3 (0.64%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.64%) systemd
10 2 (0.43%) Rancher
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.21%) Graylog
11 1 (0.21%) Podman
11 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.36%) Oracle
3 21 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.65%) VMware
5 14 (3.00%) Splunk
6 13 (2.79%) Google
7 10 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.72%) Dell
8 8 (1.72%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.72%) Veeam
9 7 (1.50%) Cisco
10 6 (1.29%) Adobe
10 6 (1.29%) Synology
10 6 (1.29%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.07%) Meraki
12 4 (0.86%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.64%) BT
13 3 (0.64%) Mitel
13 3 (0.64%) SAP