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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 254 180
Rank change year-on-year -76 -74 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 603 610 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.22% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 8.13% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 458 469 978
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -6.14%
75th Percentile £74,996 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,750 £79,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.48%

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 8,996 7,502 12,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.44% 15.04% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6,020 4,790 8,553
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £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 15 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 15 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 -65 536 £55,000 +4.76% 266
UK excluding London -74 411 £50,000 - 131
Work from Home -68 208 £57,500 +21.05% 113
London -58 145 £85,000 +33.86% 166
North of England -23 134 £42,500 -19.05% 35
South East -14 115 £55,000 - 38
North West -25 56 £50,000 -14.53% 23
Midlands -33 52 £42,500 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire -14 46 £42,500 -12.82% 6
South West -82 41 £55,000 +15.79% 10
East of England -36 37 £47,500 - 14
North East -43 32 £42,500 -5.56% 6
East Midlands -13 29 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -35 23 £51,250 +28.13% 6
Wales -57 20 £65,000 +1.96% 3
Scotland +3 12 £51,000 -9.33% 12

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 (4.31%) Apache
2 22 (3.65%) IIS
3 20 (3.32%) WordPress
4 17 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.65%) Confluence
6 13 (2.16%) Apache Spark
6 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.82%) CMS
8 7 (1.16%) Drupal
8 7 (1.16%) nginx
9 5 (0.83%) JBoss
10 4 (0.66%) 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 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) 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
1 314 (52.07%) AWS
2 168 (27.86%) Azure
3 86 (14.26%) GCP
4 56 (9.29%) GitHub
5 32 (5.31%) SaaS
6 30 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.64%) Serverless
8 26 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.16%) OpenShift
17 12 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.65%) Firewall
2 13 (2.16%) Broadband
3 11 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.82%) VPN
4 9 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.33%) DNS
5 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.33%) 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 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.66%) MQTT
8 4 (0.66%) 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
1 189 (31.34%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (28.03%) SQL Server
3 115 (19.07%) Relational Database
4 85 (14.10%) MongoDB
5 68 (11.28%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.64%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.31%) Power BI
8 20 (3.32%) DynamoDB
9 19 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.99%) Metadata
10 18 (2.99%) Redis
11 17 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.16%) Big Data
14 12 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.49%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (1.49%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 145 (24.05%) Git
2 37 (6.14%) GitLab
3 36 (5.97%) Claude Code
4 31 (5.14%) JIRA
5 24 (3.98%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.66%) PHPUnit
8 8 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.00%) JUnit
10 6 (1.00%) Selenium
11 5 (0.83%) RSpec
12 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.66%) minitest
12 4 (0.66%) Mocha
13 3 (0.50%) git-flow
13 3 (0.50%) Mockito
13 3 (0.50%) NUnit
13 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.91%) Finance
3 83 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.61%) Law
5 55 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.15%) Banking
8 18 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.49%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.49%) Marketing
10 12 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.82%) Retail
12 7 (1.16%) 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 (0.66%) Advertising
16 3 (0.50%) Local Government
16 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 259 (42.95%) Developer
2 157 (26.04%) Senior
3 80 (13.27%) Senior Developer
4 73 (12.11%) PHP Developer
5 72 (11.94%) Software Engineer
6 61 (10.12%) Lead
7 44 (7.30%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.14%) Administrator
9 36 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (5.64%) C# Developer
11 33 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (5.14%) DBA
13 30 (4.98%) Database Engineer
14 25 (4.15%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.15%) Web Developer
15 24 (3.98%) .NET Developer
16 23 (3.81%) Java Developer
17 22 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
18 21 (3.48%) Backend Developer
18 21 (3.48%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (25.21%) CSS
2 133 (22.06%) HTML
3 107 (17.74%) React
4 90 (14.93%) .NET
5 83 (13.76%) Laravel
6 79 (13.10%) RESTful
7 65 (10.78%) REST
8 64 (10.61%) Node.js
9 63 (10.45%) Vue
10 50 (8.29%) Kafka
11 46 (7.63%) jQuery
12 43 (7.13%) Spring Boot
13 42 (6.97%) Spring
14 38 (6.30%) AngularJS
15 36 (5.97%) HTML5
16 35 (5.80%) ASP.NET
17 29 (4.81%) CSS3
18 27 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
19 25 (4.15%) .NET Framework
19 25 (4.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.29%) Replication
3 37 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.15%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.49%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.32%) NHS
11 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.99%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.16%) IoT
14 7 (1.16%) Social Media
15 6 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
15 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 162 (26.87%) Linux
2 34 (5.64%) Windows
3 27 (4.48%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.15%) Debian
6 18 (2.99%) CentOS
7 10 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.49%) 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
1 200 (33.17%) Agile
2 171 (28.36%) CI/CD
3 162 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (26.87%) Software Engineering
4 117 (19.40%) DevOps
5 116 (19.24%) Microservices
6 111 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (16.25%) AI
7 98 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 76 (12.60%) Clean Code
8 76 (12.60%) Mentoring
9 71 (11.77%) Web Development
10 69 (11.44%) OOP
11 62 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 61 (10.12%) High Availability
13 60 (9.95%) Containerisation
14 56 (9.29%) Scrum
15 52 (8.62%) Computer Science
16 51 (8.46%) Data Modelling
17 49 (8.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 214 (35.49%) SQL
2 209 (34.66%) JavaScript
3 164 (27.20%) PHP
4 134 (22.22%) Python
5 102 (16.92%) Java
6 94 (15.59%) C#
7 58 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.47%) Bash
8 33 (5.47%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.81%) C++
10 17 (2.82%) Ruby
11 16 (2.65%) VB.NET
12 15 (2.49%) Go
12 15 (2.49%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.00%) Korn
13 6 (1.00%) Scala
14 5 (0.83%) Perl
15 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (14.76%) Degree
2 44 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 34 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.16%) HNC
6 7 (1.16%) HND
7 5 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.66%) 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 52 (8.62%) QA
2 34 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.66%) GDPR
5 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.16%) HL7
6 7 (1.16%) SLA
7 5 (0.83%) WCAG
8 4 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 140 (23.22%) Docker
2 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.66%) vSphere
5 9 (1.49%) 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
1 106 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 52 (8.62%) Terraform
3 30 (4.98%) Grafana
4 29 (4.81%) Ansible
5 17 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.32%) Nagios
7 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.00%) Puppet
8 4 (0.66%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.50%) Plesk
9 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) systemd
9 3 (0.50%) WSUS
10 2 (0.33%) kaniko
10 2 (0.33%) Rancher
10 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Graylog
11 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 72 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.96%) Oracle
3 27 (4.48%) Google
4 25 (4.15%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.81%) Splunk
6 18 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.99%) VMware
7 11 (1.82%) Dell
7 11 (1.82%) Rapid7
7 11 (1.82%) Veeam
8 7 (1.16%) Adobe
8 7 (1.16%) Cisco
9 6 (1.00%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.00%) Synology
10 5 (0.83%) Informatica
10 5 (0.83%) Meraki
11 4 (0.66%) IBM
11 4 (0.66%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.66%) WooCommerce