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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 149 152
Rank change year-on-year -111 +3 +20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 489 1,089 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.92% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 10.79% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 360 740 948
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Database and 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 6,714 10,094 10,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 17.77% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,283 5,789 8,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,654
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -99 443 £55,000 - 145
UK excluding London -134 286 £52,500 +5.00% 131
Work from Home -71 191 £45,900 -12.57% 83
London +2 165 £57,500 -8.73% 27
North of England -60 78 £52,500 - 38
South East -85 56 £60,000 +20.00% 35
East of England -2 51 £50,000 -9.09% 15
South West -54 44 £58,750 +11.90% 19
Midlands -55 44 £43,000 -0.58% 24
North West -33 43 £60,000 +23.08% 19
Yorkshire -33 30 £40,000 -27.27% 18
West Midlands +1 25 £39,000 -29.09% 14
East Midlands -61 15 £45,000 +20.00% 10
Wales -28 11 £67,500 +107.69% 1
North East -7 5 £51,000 -7.27% 2
Northern Ireland -4 1 £50,000 +11.11%
Scotland -25 1 £50,000 -9.09% 2

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 20 (4.09%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.27%) Confluence
3 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.45%) Apache
4 12 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.04%) Apache Solr
5 10 (2.04%) nginx
6 7 (1.43%) IIS
7 6 (1.23%) CMS
8 5 (1.02%) WordPress
9 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.41%) WildFly
11 1 (0.20%) Appian
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) JBoss
11 1 (0.20%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 180 (36.81%) AWS
2 150 (30.67%) Azure
3 66 (13.50%) GCP
4 59 (12.07%) SaaS
5 27 (5.52%) GitHub
6 23 (4.70%) Power Platform
7 21 (4.29%) Serverless
8 16 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.25%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.04%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.02%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.50%) VPN
2 16 (3.27%) Firewall
3 14 (2.86%) FTP
4 9 (1.84%) DNS
4 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.64%) Broadband
5 8 (1.64%) DHCP
6 7 (1.43%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.43%) SAN
6 7 (1.43%) VLAN
6 7 (1.43%) WAN
7 5 (1.02%) Internet
7 5 (1.02%) LAN
7 5 (1.02%) VoIP
7 5 (1.02%) WPA
8 3 (0.61%) MQTT
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.41%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (35.99%) SQL Server
2 104 (21.27%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (12.27%) MongoDB
4 57 (11.66%) Relational Database
5 41 (8.38%) NoSQL
6 37 (7.57%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (4.91%) BusinessObjects
8 22 (4.50%) DynamoDB
9 20 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (4.09%) Power BI
9 20 (4.09%) RDBMS
10 18 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (2.66%) Big Data
14 12 (2.45%) MariaDB
14 12 (2.45%) Pentaho
15 11 (2.25%) DataStage
15 11 (2.25%) Hadoop
15 11 (2.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (14.52%) Git
2 30 (6.13%) JIRA
3 12 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.04%) GitLab
5 9 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.02%) git-flow
7 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.82%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.61%) Gradle
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Maven
8 3 (0.61%) Mocha
8 3 (0.61%) Mockito
8 3 (0.61%) webpack
9 2 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.50%) Finance
3 58 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.93%) Law
5 21 (4.29%) Marketing
6 18 (3.68%) Health Technology
7 12 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.45%) Retail
8 8 (1.64%) Front Office
8 8 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Automotive
9 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.43%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (0.82%) Advertising
11 4 (0.82%) Billing
12 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.41%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.41%) Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 206 (42.13%) Developer
2 81 (16.56%) Senior
3 55 (11.25%) Consultant
4 51 (10.43%) PHP Developer
5 47 (9.61%) Software Developer
6 41 (8.38%) Lead
7 40 (8.18%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.77%) Analyst
9 33 (6.75%) Graduate
9 33 (6.75%) Graduate Developer
10 31 (6.34%) Applications Support
11 30 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (5.73%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.70%) IT Graduate
13 23 (4.70%) Software Engineer
14 22 (4.50%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.50%) Support Analyst
14 22 (4.50%) Support Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Backend Developer
16 17 (3.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (22.70%) CSS
2 95 (19.43%) HTML
3 71 (14.52%) .NET
3 71 (14.52%) React
4 49 (10.02%) Laravel
5 45 (9.20%) REST
6 40 (8.18%) jQuery
7 37 (7.57%) RESTful
8 34 (6.95%) ASP.NET
9 33 (6.75%) Node.js
10 29 (5.93%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.93%) JSON
11 27 (5.52%) Symfony
12 25 (5.11%) Vue
13 20 (4.09%) HTML5
13 20 (4.09%) Web Services
14 17 (3.48%) SOAP
15 16 (3.27%) Kafka
16 15 (3.07%) .NET Framework
16 15 (3.07%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.84%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.91%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.68%) NHS
6 17 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.27%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.66%) IoT
9 11 (2.25%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.64%) Social Media
12 7 (1.43%) Clustering
13 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.02%) Legacy Code
13 5 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (18.40%) Linux
2 44 (9.00%) Windows
3 28 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.43%) CentOS
5 7 (1.43%) Unix
6 6 (1.23%) Android
7 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.82%) VMS
9 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.61%) Rocky
9 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (31.49%) Agile
2 152 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (21.27%) OO
3 104 (21.27%) OOP
4 99 (20.25%) CI/CD
5 75 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (13.91%) Software Engineering
8 67 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 60 (12.27%) Mentoring
10 59 (12.07%) DevOps
10 59 (12.07%) MVC
11 58 (11.86%) ETL
12 56 (11.45%) Microservices
13 54 (11.04%) Data Modelling
14 53 (10.84%) AI
14 53 (10.84%) Computer Science
15 51 (10.43%) Containerisation
16 41 (8.38%) Analytics
16 41 (8.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 209 (42.74%) SQL
2 148 (30.27%) PHP
3 140 (28.63%) JavaScript
4 108 (22.09%) Python
5 85 (17.38%) C#
6 74 (15.13%) TypeScript
7 69 (14.11%) Java
8 44 (9.00%) Delphi
8 44 (9.00%) Pascal
9 36 (7.36%) C++
10 17 (3.48%) Bash
11 15 (3.07%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.04%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.84%) Scala
13 9 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.64%) Go
14 8 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.02%) Korn
15 5 (1.02%) Perl
15 5 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (15.13%) Degree
2 52 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.61%) MCSE
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) CCNA
10 2 (0.41%) CCNP
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.41%) HNC
10 2 (0.41%) HND
10 2 (0.41%) MCSA
11 1 (0.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.68%) QA
2 14 (2.86%) HL7
2 14 (2.86%) SLA
3 13 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.41%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (17.18%) Docker
2 18 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) NFS
5 2 (0.41%) pfSense
5 2 (0.41%) Samba
5 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 65 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.52%) Terraform
3 24 (4.91%) Ansible
4 9 (1.84%) Grafana
5 7 (1.43%) Nagios
6 6 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) Argo
7 5 (1.02%) Autotask
8 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.41%) Plesk
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 1 (0.20%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (19.02%) Oracle
2 61 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.09%) SAP
4 17 (3.48%) Informatica
5 16 (3.27%) Talend
6 13 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.25%) Databricks
7 11 (2.25%) Splunk
8 10 (2.04%) VMware
9 9 (1.84%) Google
10 8 (1.64%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.43%) Dell
11 7 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.02%) Datto
12 5 (1.02%) Palantir
12 5 (1.02%) RedGate
13 4 (0.82%) Zend
14 3 (0.61%) Apple
14 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.61%) WooCommerce