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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 154 145
Rank change year-on-year -178 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 423 848 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.93% 2.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.99% 10.36% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 321 673 1,520
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,688
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 £68,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,565 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -9.09%

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 7,057 8,185 16,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 18.67% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,261 5,199 12,182
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 15 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 15 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 -160 388 £55,000 - 144
UK excluding London -162 265 £51,565 +3.13% 125
Work from Home -77 168 £52,130 -0.70% 89
London -52 120 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South East -84 71 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North of England -109 68 £52,130 -0.70% 27
East of England -4 40 £50,000 +25.00% 17
Midlands -76 40 £40,000 - 24
South West -71 39 £57,500 -4.17% 22
North West -46 36 £55,000 +4.76% 19
Yorkshire -60 27 £50,000 +2.04% 3
West Midlands -21 25 £42,500 -10.53% 18
East Midlands -72 15 £40,000 +14.29% 6
North East -24 5 £51,000 -7.27% 5
Northern Ireland -28 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Scotland -46 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Wales -37 1 £45,000 +38.46% 7

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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.55%) nginx
4 12 (2.84%) CMS
5 10 (2.36%) Apache
6 9 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (1.42%) Confluence
9 5 (1.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.47%) WordPress
12 1 (0.24%) Camunda
12 1 (0.24%) JBoss
12 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
12 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.18%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) 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
1 194 (45.86%) AWS
2 123 (29.08%) Azure
3 68 (16.08%) GCP
4 54 (12.77%) SaaS
5 32 (7.57%) GitHub
6 28 (6.62%) Serverless
7 26 (6.15%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.65%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.20%) VPN
2 10 (2.36%) Firewall
3 7 (1.65%) DNS
3 7 (1.65%) Network Security
3 7 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.42%) DHCP
4 6 (1.42%) FTP
5 5 (1.18%) HTTP
5 5 (1.18%) VLAN
6 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
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%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.47%) PBX
8 2 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (26.71%) SQL Server
2 107 (25.30%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (15.60%) MongoDB
4 59 (13.95%) Relational Database
5 57 (13.48%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.44%) Power BI
8 21 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (4.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 19 (4.49%) BusinessObjects
11 18 (4.26%) DynamoDB
12 17 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (4.02%) RDBMS
13 13 (3.07%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (2.36%) Big Data
14 10 (2.36%) MariaDB
14 10 (2.36%) Tableau
15 7 (1.65%) Pentaho
15 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (21.28%) Git
2 21 (4.96%) JIRA
3 13 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.84%) PHPUnit
5 11 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.36%) GitLab
7 5 (1.18%) git-flow
7 5 (1.18%) JUnit
7 5 (1.18%) Vite
8 4 (0.95%) Gradle
8 4 (0.95%) Maven
8 4 (0.95%) Mockito
8 4 (0.95%) NUnit
8 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.71%) JMeter
9 3 (0.71%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.71%) Subversion
10 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 99 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (12.53%) Finance
3 25 (5.91%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.26%) Law
5 17 (4.02%) Health Technology
6 15 (3.55%) Retail
7 11 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.36%) Marketing
9 6 (1.42%) Banking
10 5 (1.18%) Automotive
11 4 (0.95%) Advertising
11 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.95%) Billing
11 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.71%) Front Office
12 3 (0.71%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 185 (43.74%) Developer
2 89 (21.04%) Senior
3 49 (11.58%) Senior Developer
4 47 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 38 (8.98%) Software Developer
6 33 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 31 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 30 (7.09%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.91%) Lead
10 24 (5.67%) Consultant
11 23 (5.44%) C# Developer
12 22 (5.20%) Backend Developer
13 21 (4.96%) Applications Support
14 19 (4.49%) Graduate
14 19 (4.49%) Graduate Developer
14 19 (4.49%) Graduate Software Developer
14 19 (4.49%) SQL Developer
15 18 (4.26%) Analyst
15 18 (4.26%) Support Engineer
16 16 (3.78%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (20.57%) CSS
2 75 (17.73%) HTML
3 74 (17.49%) React
4 58 (13.71%) Laravel
5 53 (12.53%) .NET
6 52 (12.29%) RESTful
7 43 (10.17%) Node.js
7 43 (10.17%) REST
8 42 (9.93%) Vue
9 30 (7.09%) JSON
10 28 (6.62%) AngularJS
11 22 (5.20%) jQuery
12 21 (4.96%) Spring
13 20 (4.73%) Kafka
14 19 (4.49%) .NET Core
14 19 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (4.49%) Symfony
15 18 (4.26%) Spring Boot
16 17 (4.02%) Web Services
17 14 (3.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.31%) NHS
5 14 (3.31%) Replication
6 13 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.84%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.84%) IoT
8 11 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.18%) Clustering
12 5 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.28%) Linux
2 22 (5.20%) Windows
3 14 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.36%) CentOS
5 7 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.42%) Android
6 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Debian
7 4 (0.95%) Rocky
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.47%) Unix
9 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (34.52%) Agile
2 103 (24.35%) CI/CD
3 97 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (17.49%) Microservices
4 74 (17.49%) Software Engineering
5 70 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 68 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (15.84%) DevOps
8 61 (14.42%) OOP
9 56 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 55 (13.00%) Data Modelling
10 55 (13.00%) Mentoring
11 48 (11.35%) ETL
11 48 (11.35%) Test Automation
12 45 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (10.40%) TDD
14 40 (9.46%) Computer Science
14 40 (9.46%) OO
15 39 (9.22%) AI
16 38 (8.98%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 184 (43.50%) SQL
2 142 (33.57%) PHP
3 123 (29.08%) JavaScript
4 87 (20.57%) Python
5 74 (17.49%) Java
6 69 (16.31%) C#
7 63 (14.89%) TypeScript
8 26 (6.15%) C++
8 26 (6.15%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.96%) Bash
10 14 (3.31%) Delphi
10 14 (3.31%) Pascal
11 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.60%) Go
12 11 (2.60%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.89%) Scala
14 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.42%) C
16 3 (0.71%) Perl
16 3 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (13.71%) Degree
2 36 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.67%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.13%) 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
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) MCSE
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) RHCE
10 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) HNC
11 1 (0.24%) HND
11 1 (0.24%) MCSA
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.93%) QA
2 18 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.84%) HL7
5 11 (2.60%) SLA
6 9 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.89%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 76 (17.97%) Docker
2 20 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.71%) vSphere
5 2 (0.47%) Samba
5 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 62 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.09%) Terraform
3 28 (6.62%) Ansible
4 14 (3.31%) Grafana
5 10 (2.36%) Nagios
6 8 (1.89%) Argo
7 7 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.47%) Plesk
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.24%) Graylog
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (11.35%) Microsoft
1 48 (11.35%) Oracle
2 17 (4.02%) SAP
3 14 (3.31%) Google
4 11 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.36%) Informatica
6 9 (2.13%) Talend
6 9 (2.13%) VMware
7 8 (1.89%) Databricks
8 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.65%) Splunk
9 5 (1.18%) Palantir
10 4 (0.95%) Apple
10 4 (0.95%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.95%) Zend
11 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.71%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.71%) Mitel
11 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.71%) RedGate