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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 224 167
Rank change year-on-year -131 -57 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 457 665 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.50% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 9.01% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 369 524 1,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £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 7,962 7,379 17,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 16.69% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,063 4,749 12,601
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,197 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,960 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 -117 419 £55,000 - 122
UK excluding London -107 314 £50,000 - 99
Work from Home -68 174 £52,500 - 71
North of England -46 106 £50,000 -4.76% 36
London -56 106 £76,250 +27.08% 31
South East -49 89 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Midlands -33 49 £42,500 -8.11% 12
North West -26 44 £55,000 - 23
Yorkshire -34 44 £42,500 -10.53% 8
South West -77 32 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East Midlands -24 27 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -37 26 £45,000 +20.00% 13
West Midlands -34 22 £47,500 - 10
North East -38 18 £47,500 - 5
Scotland +1 5 £58,000 +0.87% 1
Wales -52 5 £35,000 -26.32% 4
Northern Ireland -35 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.94%) CMS
1 18 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.72%) Apache
2 17 (3.72%) WordPress
3 15 (3.28%) Confluence
4 13 (2.84%) nginx
5 11 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.41%) IIS
6 7 (1.53%) Drupal
7 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.66%) JBoss
8 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.53%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.41%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (48.14%) AWS
2 124 (27.13%) Azure
3 50 (10.94%) GCP
4 40 (8.75%) SaaS
5 36 (7.88%) GitHub
6 31 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.78%) Serverless
7 30 (6.56%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (1.75%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.03%) Firewall
2 15 (3.28%) VPN
3 10 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.97%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.75%) Broadband
5 8 (1.75%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.75%) Network Security
5 8 (1.75%) SAN
6 7 (1.53%) DNS
6 7 (1.53%) VoIP
7 6 (1.31%) VLAN
8 5 (1.09%) LAN
8 5 (1.09%) WAN
9 4 (0.88%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.88%) MQTT
9 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.66%) RTP
10 3 (0.66%) SSH
10 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (30.20%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (24.29%) SQL Server
3 80 (17.51%) MongoDB
4 71 (15.54%) NoSQL
5 63 (13.79%) Relational Database
6 27 (5.91%) MariaDB
6 27 (5.91%) Power BI
7 24 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 12 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.19%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.97%) Redis
12 8 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.75%) Metadata
13 7 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (1.53%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.53%) Tableau
14 6 (1.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (22.98%) Git
2 26 (5.69%) JIRA
3 25 (5.47%) GitLab
4 12 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.97%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.97%) PHPUnit
6 8 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.88%) JUnit
7 4 (0.88%) NUnit
7 4 (0.88%) Selenium
7 4 (0.88%) Vite
8 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.66%) Mocha
8 3 (0.66%) Mockito
8 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.44%) Gradle
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.22%) YouTrack
General
1 112 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.19%) Finance
3 45 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.03%) Law
6 19 (4.16%) Health Technology
7 18 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.50%) Banking
9 14 (3.06%) Retail
10 11 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.53%) Advertising
11 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.31%) Marketing
13 5 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.09%) Legal
13 5 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 181 (39.61%) Developer
2 105 (22.98%) Senior
3 53 (11.60%) Senior Developer
4 51 (11.16%) PHP Developer
5 49 (10.72%) Software Engineer
6 36 (7.88%) Lead
7 34 (7.44%) Software Developer
8 32 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.13%) Administrator
10 27 (5.91%) DBA
11 20 (4.38%) C# Developer
11 20 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.16%) Analyst
12 19 (4.16%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 16 (3.50%) Graduate
13 16 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.50%) Web Developer
14 15 (3.28%) C# Software Developer
14 15 (3.28%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (25.16%) CSS
2 95 (20.79%) HTML
3 73 (15.97%) React
3 73 (15.97%) RESTful
4 70 (15.32%) Laravel
5 61 (13.35%) Node.js
6 57 (12.47%) .NET
6 57 (12.47%) Vue
7 48 (10.50%) REST
8 34 (7.44%) jQuery
9 33 (7.22%) JSON
10 32 (7.00%) AngularJS
11 31 (6.78%) HTML5
12 28 (6.13%) CSS3
13 26 (5.69%) Spring
14 24 (5.25%) Kafka
15 22 (4.81%) Spring Boot
16 17 (3.72%) .NET Core
17 15 (3.28%) ASP.NET
18 13 (2.84%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.78%) Replication
3 20 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.84%) NHS
5 13 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.75%) IoT
11 7 (1.53%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.09%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (26.91%) Linux
2 28 (6.13%) Windows
3 24 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.84%) CentOS
5 13 (2.84%) Debian
6 9 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.88%) Android
9 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (33.48%) Agile
2 106 (23.19%) CI/CD
3 96 (21.01%) Microservices
4 95 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (20.79%) Software Engineering
5 77 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (15.10%) DevOps
7 57 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (12.25%) Mentoring
9 55 (12.04%) AI
10 53 (11.60%) Containerisation
11 48 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (9.85%) Computer Science
12 45 (9.85%) Web Development
13 44 (9.63%) TDD
14 43 (9.41%) Data Modelling
15 39 (8.53%) Clean Code
16 37 (8.10%) OOP
17 34 (7.44%) Open Source
18 32 (7.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 177 (38.73%) SQL
2 160 (35.01%) JavaScript
3 144 (31.51%) PHP
4 88 (19.26%) Python
5 84 (18.38%) Java
6 66 (14.44%) C#
7 35 (7.66%) TypeScript
8 31 (6.78%) Bash
9 26 (5.69%) PowerShell
10 23 (5.03%) C++
11 15 (3.28%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.41%) Go
12 11 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 11 (2.41%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.97%) Ruby
14 7 (1.53%) Korn
15 6 (1.31%) C
16 5 (1.09%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.88%) Perl
17 4 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (15.75%) Degree
2 35 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.53%) HNC
6 7 (1.53%) HND
7 6 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.66%) RHCE
10 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.88%) QA
2 31 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.19%) GDPR
6 8 (1.75%) HL7
7 7 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.53%) SLA
8 5 (1.09%) WCAG
9 4 (0.88%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 80 (17.51%) Docker
2 33 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.19%) vSphere
5 9 (1.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.66%) iptables
8 3 (0.66%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.44%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.69%) Terraform
3 25 (5.47%) Ansible
4 18 (3.94%) Grafana
5 10 (2.19%) Nagios
6 7 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.53%) Puppet
7 4 (0.88%) Argo
7 4 (0.88%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.88%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.66%) Plesk
8 3 (0.66%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.66%) Rancher
8 3 (0.66%) systemd
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.22%) Graylog
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.47%) Oracle
3 21 (4.60%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.72%) VMware
5 13 (2.84%) Splunk
6 12 (2.63%) Google
7 9 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.75%) Dell
8 8 (1.75%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.75%) Veeam
9 7 (1.53%) Cisco
10 6 (1.31%) Adobe
10 6 (1.31%) Synology
10 6 (1.31%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.09%) Meraki
12 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.88%) SAP
13 3 (0.66%) BT
13 3 (0.66%) Mitel