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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 272 163
Rank change year-on-year -103 -109 +1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 550 514 1,164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.31% 7.33% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 407 359 726
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.78%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.48%

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 8,717 7,015 11,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 14.16% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,939 4,362 6,538
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
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 £87,500
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -82 484 £55,000 - 441
UK excluding London -88 371 £50,000 -9.09% 231
Work from Home -79 171 £65,000 +36.84% 181
London -86 142 £80,000 +39.13% 243
North of England -23 129 £42,500 -19.05% 49
South East -28 95 £57,500 - 57
North West -26 57 £49,250 -17.92% 26
Yorkshire -16 41 £42,500 +13.33% 18
South West -71 40 £56,250 +25.00% 18
Midlands -56 36 £54,000 +20.00% 25
East of England -40 32 £50,000 +5.26% 44
North East -46 31 £42,500 -10.53% 5
Wales -57 27 £61,000 -9.63% 6
West Midlands -34 19 £55,000 +41.03% 19
East Midlands -27 17 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland +1 11 £40,000 -46.67% 12
Northern Ireland -89 1 - - 20

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 (5.45%) IIS
2 24 (4.36%) Apache
3 20 (3.64%) WordPress
4 13 (2.36%) Confluence
5 11 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.82%) CMS
7 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.64%) Drupal
8 5 (0.91%) JBoss
9 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.73%) nginx
10 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.36%) Elementor
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 291 (52.91%) AWS
2 167 (30.36%) Azure
3 83 (15.09%) GCP
4 55 (10.00%) GitHub
5 28 (5.09%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 24 (4.36%) Amazon S3
7 24 (4.36%) SaaS
8 21 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.82%) Serverless
9 17 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (2.73%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.73%) DNS
2 15 (2.73%) Firewall
3 13 (2.36%) Broadband
4 10 (1.82%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) VLAN
5 7 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.09%) DHCP
6 6 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.09%) VoIP
7 5 (0.91%) HTTP
7 5 (0.91%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.91%) SAN
8 4 (0.73%) Internet
8 4 (0.73%) LAN
8 4 (0.73%) SSH
8 4 (0.73%) WAN
9 3 (0.55%) 4G
9 3 (0.55%) 5G
9 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (34.91%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (28.73%) SQL Server
3 116 (21.09%) Relational Database
4 98 (17.82%) MongoDB
5 68 (12.36%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (5.09%) Redis
7 27 (4.91%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.55%) Power BI
9 20 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.64%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.27%) Metadata
11 16 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.00%) Big Data
13 10 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.45%) Tableau
16 7 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 146 (26.55%) Git
2 47 (8.55%) Claude Code
3 42 (7.64%) GitLab
4 27 (4.91%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.55%) JIRA
6 14 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.27%) Selenium
8 5 (0.91%) JUnit
8 5 (0.91%) RSpec
9 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.73%) minitest
9 4 (0.73%) Mocha
9 4 (0.73%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.55%) git-flow
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 126 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 92 (16.73%) Finance
3 90 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.55%) Law
6 33 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.45%) Banking
8 18 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (3.09%) Marketing
10 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.45%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.45%) Retail
12 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.91%) Legal
15 3 (0.55%) Games
15 3 (0.55%) Local Government
15 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 225 (40.91%) Developer
2 160 (29.09%) Senior
3 82 (14.91%) Senior Developer
4 74 (13.45%) Software Engineer
5 58 (10.55%) PHP Developer
6 54 (9.82%) Lead
7 44 (8.00%) Administrator
8 41 (7.45%) DBA
9 40 (7.27%) Software Developer
10 31 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.45%) C# Developer
11 30 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (5.27%) Database Engineer
13 28 (5.09%) .NET Developer
14 26 (4.73%) Java Developer
15 23 (4.18%) Python Engineer
16 22 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.82%) Senior Software Developer
18 17 (3.09%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (22.91%) CSS
2 112 (20.36%) HTML
3 98 (17.82%) React
4 90 (16.36%) .NET
5 84 (15.27%) RESTful
6 65 (11.82%) Laravel
7 62 (11.27%) REST
8 58 (10.55%) Terraform
9 54 (9.82%) Vue
10 52 (9.45%) Kafka
11 50 (9.09%) Node.js
12 46 (8.36%) Spring
12 46 (8.36%) Spring Boot
13 40 (7.27%) ASP.NET
14 38 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (6.73%) jQuery
16 32 (5.82%) HTML5
17 31 (5.64%) AngularJS
18 29 (5.27%) Hibernate
19 26 (4.73%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.64%) Replication
4 25 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 23 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.27%) NHS
12 6 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
12 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.09%) Social Media
13 5 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 165 (30.00%) Linux
2 37 (6.73%) Windows
3 26 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 23 (4.18%) Ubuntu
5 18 (3.27%) Debian
6 13 (2.36%) CentOS
7 12 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.55%) Android
10 3 (0.55%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.27%) Agile
2 175 (31.82%) Software Engineering
3 174 (31.64%) CI/CD
4 170 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (23.27%) DevOps
6 121 (22.00%) Microservices
7 114 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (18.91%) AI
9 87 (15.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 83 (15.09%) Mentoring
11 76 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (13.45%) Clean Code
13 68 (12.36%) Scrum
14 64 (11.64%) Containerisation
15 63 (11.45%) High Availability
16 62 (11.27%) OOP
17 61 (11.09%) Observability
18 58 (10.55%) Web Development
19 50 (9.09%) Code Quality
20 49 (8.91%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.91%) SQL
2 175 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 139 (25.27%) Python
4 126 (22.91%) PHP
5 97 (17.64%) Java
6 87 (15.82%) C#
7 65 (11.82%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.73%) Shell Script
9 30 (5.45%) Bash
10 23 (4.18%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.09%) C++
11 17 (3.09%) Ruby
12 16 (2.91%) Go
13 14 (2.55%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.91%) Korn
14 5 (0.91%) Perl
14 5 (0.91%) Rust
14 5 (0.91%) Scala
15 3 (0.55%) SOQL
15 3 (0.55%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 65 (11.82%) Degree
2 45 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.73%) HNC
8 4 (0.73%) HND
9 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.82%) QA
2 31 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.18%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.64%) GDPR
5 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.27%) WCAG
6 5 (0.91%) HL7
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
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
System Software
1 149 (27.09%) Docker
2 22 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.73%) vSphere
7 2 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.64%) Grafana
3 29 (5.27%) Ansible
4 24 (4.36%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.82%) Nagios
6 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.09%) Puppet
6 6 (1.09%) WSUS
7 4 (0.73%) Kibana
8 3 (0.55%) Plesk
8 3 (0.55%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.73%) Oracle
3 30 (5.45%) Splunk
4 22 (4.00%) Google
5 19 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.09%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.36%) VMware
8 11 (2.00%) Dell
9 9 (1.64%) Rapid7
9 9 (1.64%) Veeam
10 7 (1.27%) HP
11 6 (1.09%) Adobe
11 6 (1.09%) Aruba
11 6 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.09%) Databricks
11 6 (1.09%) NetApp
11 6 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.09%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.73%) TIBCO