MySQL Job Trends

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 164 153
Rank change year-on-year -177 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 424 756 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.85% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 10.04% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 331 653 1,547
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 7,392 7,530 16,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.36% 18.39% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,383 5,131 12,399
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -149 385 £55,000 - 144
UK excluding London -161 278 £50,000 - 126
Work from Home -80 172 £52,130 -0.70% 84
London -96 106 £71,250 +18.75% 33
South East -88 71 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North of England -101 70 £52,130 -0.70% 32
Midlands -64 48 £40,000 -13.51% 17
East of England -30 41 £50,000 +11.11% 20
South West -80 40 £57,500 -2.13% 19
North West -49 38 £55,000 +4.76% 24
Yorkshire -59 27 £50,000 +2.04% 4
West Midlands -23 25 £42,500 -12.82% 10
East Midlands -66 23 £40,000 - 7
North East -24 5 £51,000 -7.27% 4
Scotland -50 4 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland -35 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -48 1 £45,000 +38.46% 8

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 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.30%) nginx
4 13 (3.07%) CMS
5 9 (2.12%) Apache
6 8 (1.89%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.65%) Confluence
8 4 (0.94%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.71%) IIS
10 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.47%) WordPress
11 1 (0.24%) Camunda
11 1 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.18%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Shopify
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 193 (45.52%) AWS
2 118 (27.83%) Azure
3 65 (15.33%) GCP
4 49 (11.56%) SaaS
5 30 (7.08%) GitHub
6 28 (6.60%) Serverless
7 25 (5.90%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.89%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.19%) VPN
2 12 (2.83%) Firewall
3 7 (1.65%) DNS
3 7 (1.65%) Network Security
3 7 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.42%) FTP
5 5 (1.18%) DHCP
5 5 (1.18%) VLAN
6 4 (0.94%) HTTP
7 3 (0.71%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.71%) MQTT
7 3 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.71%) RTP
7 3 (0.71%) SAN
7 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.71%) VoIP
7 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.71%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (22.41%) SQL Server
3 60 (14.15%) Relational Database
4 58 (13.68%) NoSQL
5 57 (13.44%) MongoDB
6 28 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.42%) Power BI
8 20 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (4.25%) BusinessObjects
11 17 (4.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (3.77%) DynamoDB
12 16 (3.77%) RDBMS
13 13 (3.07%) MariaDB
14 12 (2.83%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (2.12%) Big Data
15 9 (2.12%) Tableau
16 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (1.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 94 (22.17%) Git
2 21 (4.95%) JIRA
3 12 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.83%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.59%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.36%) GitLab
6 5 (1.18%) JUnit
6 5 (1.18%) Vite
7 4 (0.94%) git-flow
7 4 (0.94%) Gradle
7 4 (0.94%) Maven
7 4 (0.94%) Mockito
7 4 (0.94%) NUnit
7 4 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.71%) JMeter
8 3 (0.71%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.71%) Subversion
9 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 92 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (13.21%) Finance
3 25 (5.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.72%) Health Technology
5 17 (4.01%) Law
6 15 (3.54%) Retail
7 11 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.12%) Banking
9 7 (1.65%) Marketing
10 6 (1.42%) Advertising
11 5 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.71%) Automotive
13 3 (0.71%) Front Office
13 3 (0.71%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 197 (46.46%) Developer
2 87 (20.52%) Senior
3 54 (12.74%) PHP Developer
4 47 (11.08%) Senior Developer
5 36 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (8.49%) Software Developer
6 31 (7.31%) Data Engineer
7 30 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.84%) Lead
9 23 (5.42%) C# Developer
10 22 (5.19%) Backend Developer
11 19 (4.48%) Applications Support
12 18 (4.25%) Analyst
12 18 (4.25%) Graduate
12 18 (4.25%) Graduate Developer
12 18 (4.25%) Graduate Software Developer
12 18 (4.25%) SQL Developer
12 18 (4.25%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.77%) C# Software Developer
13 16 (3.77%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (22.88%) CSS
2 87 (20.52%) HTML
3 74 (17.45%) React
4 69 (16.27%) Laravel
5 54 (12.74%) RESTful
6 46 (10.85%) .NET
7 45 (10.61%) Vue
8 44 (10.38%) Node.js
8 44 (10.38%) REST
9 31 (7.31%) JSON
10 28 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 26 (6.13%) jQuery
12 23 (5.42%) Spring
13 20 (4.72%) Spring Boot
14 19 (4.48%) .NET Core
14 19 (4.48%) Kafka
14 19 (4.48%) Symfony
15 18 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
16 16 (3.77%) Web Services
17 15 (3.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.54%) NHS
5 13 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.07%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.07%) Replication
6 12 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.59%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.59%) IoT
8 10 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.65%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (22.41%) Linux
2 25 (5.90%) Windows
3 16 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.07%) CentOS
5 10 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.65%) Debian
7 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.18%) Rocky
9 4 (0.94%) VMS
9 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.71%) Android
10 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.47%) Unix
11 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (33.02%) Agile
2 102 (24.06%) CI/CD
3 99 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (17.69%) Microservices
5 73 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 71 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
7 69 (16.27%) Software Engineering
8 64 (15.09%) DevOps
9 56 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 52 (12.26%) Mentoring
11 48 (11.32%) Data Modelling
12 47 (11.08%) OOP
13 45 (10.61%) ETL
13 45 (10.61%) Test Automation
14 43 (10.14%) TDD
15 42 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (9.43%) AI
17 38 (8.96%) Computer Science
17 38 (8.96%) MVC
18 36 (8.49%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (44.10%) SQL
2 146 (34.43%) PHP
3 135 (31.84%) JavaScript
4 85 (20.05%) Python
5 74 (17.45%) Java
6 63 (14.86%) C#
7 59 (13.92%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.66%) C++
8 24 (5.66%) PowerShell
9 22 (5.19%) Bash
10 13 (3.07%) PL/SQL
10 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.36%) Go
12 8 (1.89%) Scala
13 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.42%) C
15 3 (0.71%) Perl
16 2 (0.47%) Korn
16 2 (0.47%) Ruby
16 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (12.97%) Degree
2 34 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.71%) RHCE
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) HNC
10 2 (0.47%) HND
10 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.37%) QA
2 19 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.07%) HL7
5 9 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.12%) SLA
6 8 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.89%) GDPR
7 3 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (17.69%) Docker
2 23 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.42%) vSphere
5 4 (0.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.47%) Samba
7 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (14.15%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.08%) Ansible
2 30 (7.08%) Terraform
3 12 (2.83%) Grafana
3 12 (2.83%) Nagios
4 5 (1.18%) Argo
5 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.71%) Puppet
6 3 (0.71%) Rancher
7 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.47%) Galera Cluster
7 2 (0.47%) Plesk
7 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.24%) Graylog
8 1 (0.24%) Podman
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.55%) Oracle
3 16 (3.77%) SAP
4 14 (3.30%) Google
4 14 (3.30%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.30%) VMware
5 9 (2.12%) Informatica
6 8 (1.89%) Databricks
6 8 (1.89%) Splunk
6 8 (1.89%) Talend
7 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.18%) Palantir
8 5 (1.18%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.94%) Apple
9 4 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.94%) Veeam
9 4 (0.94%) Zend
10 3 (0.71%) BT
10 3 (0.71%) Cisco
10 3 (0.71%) Dell