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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 270 171
Rank change year-on-year -88 -99 +11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 560 531 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.08% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.35% 7.43% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 416 382 804
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

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 8,816 7,151 11,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.55% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,974 4,471 7,165
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year - -4.40% +0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -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 September 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 September 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 -89 495 £55,000 +4.76% 471
UK excluding London -73 387 £50,000 -2.44% 247
Work from Home -72 187 £62,500 +31.58% 206
London -59 132 £85,000 +41.67% 262
North of England -34 130 £42,500 -19.05% 79
South East -27 96 £55,000 -4.35% 56
North West -22 58 £50,000 -13.04% 43
Midlands -33 53 £42,500 -5.56% 30
South West -78 41 £57,500 +27.78% 26
Yorkshire -33 40 £42,500 +9.68% 25
East of England -45 33 £50,000 +5.26% 20
North East -43 32 £42,500 -10.53% 12
East Midlands -14 30 £37,500 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -33 23 £51,250 +29.75% 24
Wales -68 23 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Scotland +4 10 £48,500 -35.33% 21
Northern Ireland -80 1 - - 16

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 29 (5.18%) IIS
2 25 (4.46%) Apache
3 19 (3.39%) WordPress
4 16 (2.86%) Confluence
5 14 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.79%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.79%) CMS
8 7 (1.25%) Drupal
9 5 (0.89%) JBoss
9 5 (0.89%) nginx
10 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.36%) Elementor
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 290 (51.79%) AWS
2 155 (27.68%) Azure
3 81 (14.46%) GCP
4 53 (9.46%) GitHub
5 28 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.82%) SaaS
7 26 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 23 (4.11%) Serverless
9 22 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.50%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.21%) Firewall
1 18 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.50%) DNS
3 13 (2.32%) Broadband
4 12 (2.14%) VPN
5 8 (1.43%) VLAN
6 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.07%) DHCP
7 6 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.07%) SSH
7 6 (1.07%) VoIP
8 5 (0.89%) HTTP
8 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.89%) LAN
8 5 (0.89%) SAN
8 5 (0.89%) WAN
9 4 (0.71%) Internet
10 3 (0.54%) 4G
10 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (26.79%) SQL Server
3 111 (19.82%) Relational Database
4 88 (15.71%) MongoDB
5 65 (11.61%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.54%) MariaDB
7 25 (4.46%) Power BI
8 24 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.75%) Redis
10 20 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 18 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.21%) Metadata
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.96%) Big Data
14 9 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 139 (24.82%) Git
2 40 (7.14%) Claude Code
2 40 (7.14%) GitLab
3 28 (5.00%) JIRA
4 25 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.43%) Selenium
8 5 (0.89%) RSpec
9 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.71%) JUnit
9 4 (0.71%) minitest
9 4 (0.71%) Mocha
10 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.54%) git-flow
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.54%) Postman
10 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.89%) Finance
3 84 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.07%) Law
5 60 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.82%) Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.50%) Marketing
10 13 (2.32%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.43%) Retail
13 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.54%) Advertising
16 3 (0.54%) Games
16 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 237 (42.32%) Developer
2 147 (26.25%) Senior
3 77 (13.75%) Senior Developer
4 70 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 66 (11.79%) PHP Developer
6 56 (10.00%) Lead
7 38 (6.79%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.25%) Administrator
9 32 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.36%) DBA
12 29 (5.18%) Database Engineer
13 27 (4.82%) C# Developer
14 26 (4.64%) .NET Developer
15 24 (4.29%) Java Developer
15 24 (4.29%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (3.93%) Web Developer
17 21 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
17 21 (3.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (24.11%) CSS
2 123 (21.96%) HTML
3 100 (17.86%) React
4 84 (15.00%) .NET
5 79 (14.11%) RESTful
6 76 (13.57%) Laravel
7 59 (10.54%) REST
8 55 (9.82%) Terraform
8 55 (9.82%) Vue
9 53 (9.46%) Node.js
10 51 (9.11%) Kafka
11 42 (7.50%) jQuery
11 42 (7.50%) Spring Boot
12 41 (7.32%) Spring
13 38 (6.79%) ASP.NET
14 35 (6.25%) AngularJS
14 35 (6.25%) HTML5
15 33 (5.89%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (4.82%) CSS3
17 26 (4.64%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.11%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.86%) Replication
3 39 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (6.61%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.93%) Virtual Team
8 20 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (2.14%) NHS
11 10 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.25%) Social Media
13 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 168 (30.00%) Linux
2 38 (6.79%) Windows
3 29 (5.18%) Ubuntu
3 29 (5.18%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.93%) Debian
5 14 (2.50%) CentOS
6 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.54%) Android
10 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.36%) Unix
11 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (33.75%) Agile
2 167 (29.82%) CI/CD
3 165 (29.46%) Software Engineering
4 164 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (21.43%) DevOps
6 110 (19.64%) Microservices
7 107 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (16.96%) AI
9 90 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 76 (13.57%) Mentoring
11 74 (13.21%) Clean Code
12 69 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (11.07%) Web Development
14 61 (10.89%) OOP
14 61 (10.89%) Scrum
15 56 (10.00%) Containerisation
16 55 (9.82%) High Availability
17 51 (9.11%) Observability
18 48 (8.57%) Data Modelling
19 47 (8.39%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 195 (34.82%) SQL
2 188 (33.57%) JavaScript
3 142 (25.36%) PHP
4 132 (23.57%) Python
5 93 (16.61%) Java
6 79 (14.11%) C#
7 61 (10.89%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.43%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.54%) Bash
10 20 (3.57%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.04%) Go
11 17 (3.04%) Ruby
12 16 (2.86%) C++
13 12 (2.14%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.07%) Scala
15 5 (0.89%) Korn
15 5 (0.89%) Perl
15 5 (0.89%) Rust
16 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (12.14%) Degree
2 42 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.25%) HNC
6 7 (1.25%) HND
7 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (10.18%) QA
2 31 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.79%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) HL7
6 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.89%) WCAG
8 3 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (24.82%) Docker
2 27 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.61%) vSphere
5 6 (1.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.54%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 99 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.07%) Grafana
3 28 (5.00%) Ansible
4 21 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.14%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) WSUS
7 4 (0.71%) Kibana
8 3 (0.54%) Galera Cluster
8 3 (0.54%) Plesk
8 3 (0.54%) Rancher
8 3 (0.54%) systemd
8 3 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.64%) Oracle
3 27 (4.82%) Splunk
4 22 (3.93%) Google
5 20 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.57%) VMware
6 17 (3.04%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.32%) Veeam
8 11 (1.96%) Dell
9 10 (1.79%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.25%) Adobe
10 7 (1.25%) Cisco
11 6 (1.07%) Aruba
11 6 (1.07%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.07%) Databricks
11 6 (1.07%) HP
11 6 (1.07%) NetApp
11 6 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.07%) SonicWALL
11 6 (1.07%) Synology