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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 275 168
Rank change year-on-year -99 -107 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 546 516 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 7.36% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 404 360 723
10th Percentile £36,325 £26,125 £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 £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,625 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

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 8,609 7,011 11,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.30% 14.09% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 4,354 6,510
10th Percentile £36,436 £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 9 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 9 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 -85 479 £55,000 - 470
UK excluding London -83 364 £50,000 -9.09% 202
Work from Home -83 168 £65,000 +36.84% 183
London -76 144 £80,000 +39.13% 283
North of England -31 131 £42,500 -19.05% 48
South East -44 89 £57,500 - 44
North West -16 59 £49,250 -17.92% 24
Yorkshire -19 41 £42,500 +13.33% 18
South West -74 38 £57,500 +27.78% 17
Midlands -47 36 £54,000 +22.73% 29
North East -46 31 £42,500 -10.53% 6
East of England -51 31 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Wales -66 27 £61,000 -9.63% 4
West Midlands -42 19 £55,000 +41.03% 18
East Midlands -31 17 £40,000 -11.11% 11
Scotland +13 11 £40,000 -46.67% 10
Northern Ireland -79 1 - - 18

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 31 (5.68%) IIS
2 24 (4.40%) Apache
3 20 (3.66%) WordPress
4 13 (2.38%) Confluence
5 11 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.83%) CMS
6 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.65%) Drupal
8 8 (1.47%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.92%) JBoss
10 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.73%) nginx
11 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.37%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.37%) Elementor
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 287 (52.56%) AWS
2 166 (30.40%) Azure
3 83 (15.20%) GCP
4 55 (10.07%) GitHub
5 29 (5.31%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
7 24 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 24 (4.40%) SaaS
8 21 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.85%) Serverless
9 17 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.93%) DNS
3 13 (2.38%) Broadband
3 13 (2.38%) Firewall
4 11 (2.01%) VPN
5 8 (1.47%) VLAN
5 8 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.28%) DHCP
7 6 (1.10%) VoIP
8 5 (0.92%) HTTP
9 4 (0.73%) Internet
9 4 (0.73%) LAN
9 4 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.73%) SSH
9 4 (0.73%) WAN
10 3 (0.55%) 4G
10 3 (0.55%) 5G
10 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.55%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (34.43%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 114 (20.88%) Relational Database
4 99 (18.13%) MongoDB
5 67 (12.27%) NoSQL
6 29 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (5.31%) Redis
7 26 (4.76%) Power BI
8 25 (4.58%) MariaDB
9 20 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.66%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.48%) Metadata
11 16 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.01%) Big Data
13 10 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.65%) Tableau
15 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 148 (27.11%) Git
2 47 (8.61%) Claude Code
3 42 (7.69%) GitLab
4 27 (4.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.58%) JIRA
6 14 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.28%) Selenium
8 5 (0.92%) JUnit
8 5 (0.92%) 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
1 125 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 92 (16.85%) Finance
3 90 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.62%) Law
6 33 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.68%) Banking
8 18 (3.30%) Marketing
8 18 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.92%) Legal
13 5 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Games
14 3 (0.55%) Local Government
14 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 221 (40.48%) Developer
2 155 (28.39%) Senior
3 81 (14.84%) Senior Developer
4 72 (13.19%) Software Engineer
5 55 (10.07%) PHP Developer
6 52 (9.52%) Lead
7 45 (8.24%) Administrator
8 42 (7.69%) DBA
9 38 (6.96%) Software Developer
10 29 (5.31%) Database Engineer
10 29 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.95%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.95%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.76%) Java Developer
13 22 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.03%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
15 18 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (22.53%) CSS
2 111 (20.33%) HTML
3 100 (18.32%) React
4 89 (16.30%) .NET
5 84 (15.38%) RESTful
6 64 (11.72%) Laravel
7 62 (11.36%) REST
8 58 (10.62%) Terraform
9 52 (9.52%) Vue
10 51 (9.34%) Kafka
11 50 (9.16%) Node.js
12 45 (8.24%) Spring
12 45 (8.24%) Spring Boot
13 39 (7.14%) ASP.NET
14 38 (6.96%) RabbitMQ
15 35 (6.41%) jQuery
16 31 (5.68%) HTML5
17 29 (5.31%) AngularJS
17 29 (5.31%) Hibernate
18 26 (4.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.88%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.69%) Replication
4 25 (4.58%) Virtual Team
5 24 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.28%) NHS
12 6 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
12 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.10%) Social Media
13 5 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 164 (30.04%) Linux
2 38 (6.96%) Windows
3 27 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 18 (3.30%) Debian
6 13 (2.38%) CentOS
6 13 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Android
9 3 (0.55%) Unix
10 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (35.16%) Agile
2 174 (31.87%) CI/CD
3 173 (31.68%) Software Engineering
4 170 (31.14%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (23.63%) DevOps
6 120 (21.98%) Microservices
7 113 (20.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (19.23%) AI
9 86 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 84 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 76 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (13.74%) Clean Code
13 67 (12.27%) Scrum
14 65 (11.90%) Containerisation
15 62 (11.36%) High Availability
16 61 (11.17%) Observability
17 59 (10.81%) OOP
18 56 (10.26%) Web Development
19 49 (8.97%) Code Quality
19 49 (8.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 190 (34.80%) SQL
2 175 (32.05%) JavaScript
3 140 (25.64%) Python
4 123 (22.53%) PHP
5 95 (17.40%) Java
6 85 (15.57%) C#
7 66 (12.09%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 28 (5.13%) Bash
10 23 (4.21%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.11%) Go
11 17 (3.11%) Ruby
12 15 (2.75%) C++
13 12 (2.20%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.10%) Rust
15 5 (0.92%) Perl
15 5 (0.92%) Scala
16 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.55%) Korn
16 3 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (11.36%) Degree
2 45 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.73%) HNC
8 4 (0.73%) HND
9 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.09%) QA
2 31 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.28%) WCAG
6 5 (0.92%) HL7
7 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (27.11%) Docker
2 21 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.37%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 103 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.88%) Grafana
3 29 (5.31%) Ansible
4 24 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.83%) Nagios
6 7 (1.28%) WSUS
7 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.10%) Puppet
8 4 (0.73%) Kibana
9 3 (0.55%) Rancher
10 2 (0.37%) Argo
10 2 (0.37%) kaniko
10 2 (0.37%) Plesk
11 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Packer
11 1 (0.18%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.18%) SCOM
11 1 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.99%) Oracle
3 30 (5.49%) Splunk
4 23 (4.21%) Google
5 17 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.93%) OpenAI
7 14 (2.56%) VMware
8 10 (1.83%) Dell
8 10 (1.83%) Veeam
9 9 (1.65%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.47%) HP
11 7 (1.28%) Aruba
11 7 (1.28%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.28%) NetApp
11 7 (1.28%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.28%) SonicWALL
12 6 (1.10%) Adobe
12 6 (1.10%) Databricks
13 5 (0.92%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.73%) TIBCO