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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 172 149
Rank change year-on-year -168 -23 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 441 742 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.80% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.73% 10.04% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 346 630 1,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,207 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £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 7,694 7,388 17,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.07% 17.93% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,547 5,175 12,550
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -152 399 £55,000 - 122
UK excluding London -157 301 £50,000 - 111
Work from Home -86 174 £51,065 -2.73% 60
London -73 99 £75,000 +25.00% 34
South East -78 81 £55,000 +10.00% 31
North of England -111 74 £51,000 -2.86% 22
Midlands -72 51 £42,500 -10.53% 15
East of England -34 43 £50,000 +5.26% 11
South West -81 42 £56,250 -2.17% 17
North West -61 40 £55,000 +2.33% 17
East Midlands -60 29 £37,500 -6.25% 10
Yorkshire -73 27 £50,000 +2.04% 4
West Midlands -25 22 £47,500 -6.40% 5
North East -36 7 £51,000 -5.12% 1
Scotland -29 5 £58,000 +5.45% 10
Northern Ireland -45 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -47 2 £40,000 +23.08% 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 20 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.17%) CMS
3 14 (3.17%) nginx
4 12 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.04%) Apache
6 8 (1.81%) Confluence
7 7 (1.59%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.13%) WordPress
9 3 (0.68%) IIS
10 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.23%) Camunda
11 1 (0.23%) JBoss
11 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.59%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (45.35%) AWS
2 117 (26.53%) Azure
3 66 (14.97%) GCP
4 50 (11.34%) SaaS
5 30 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (6.58%) GitHub
7 28 (6.35%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.35%) Serverless
8 15 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.04%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.81%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.76%) VPN
2 17 (3.85%) Firewall
3 7 (1.59%) Network Security
4 6 (1.36%) DNS
4 6 (1.36%) FTP
4 6 (1.36%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (1.36%) SAN
4 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.13%) VLAN
6 4 (0.91%) DHCP
6 4 (0.91%) HTTP
6 4 (0.91%) MQTT
7 3 (0.68%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.68%) RTP
7 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.68%) VoIP
7 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.45%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 60 (13.61%) NoSQL
4 58 (13.15%) Relational Database
5 56 (12.70%) MongoDB
6 27 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (5.90%) Power BI
8 18 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.63%) BusinessObjects
9 16 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.63%) RDBMS
10 14 (3.17%) MariaDB
11 13 (2.95%) Electronic Patient Records
12 12 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.04%) Big Data
13 9 (2.04%) Tableau
14 8 (1.81%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 92 (20.86%) Git
2 18 (4.08%) JIRA
3 12 (2.72%) Bitbucket
3 12 (2.72%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.49%) GitLab
4 11 (2.49%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.13%) Vite
6 4 (0.91%) Gradle
6 4 (0.91%) JUnit
6 4 (0.91%) Maven
6 4 (0.91%) NUnit
6 4 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.68%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.68%) git-flow
7 3 (0.68%) JMeter
7 3 (0.68%) Mockito
7 3 (0.68%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.68%) Subversion
8 2 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.06%) Finance
3 54 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.99%) Health Technology
5 21 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.85%) Law
7 14 (3.17%) Retail
8 9 (2.04%) Banking
8 9 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.59%) Advertising
10 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.36%) Marketing
11 5 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.13%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Front Office
13 3 (0.68%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.45%) Back Office
14 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 200 (45.35%) Developer
2 90 (20.41%) Senior
3 61 (13.83%) PHP Developer
4 46 (10.43%) Senior Developer
5 38 (8.62%) Software Developer
6 36 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (7.48%) Data Engineer
7 33 (7.48%) Lead
8 31 (7.03%) Software Engineer
9 24 (5.44%) C# Developer
10 20 (4.54%) Backend Developer
10 20 (4.54%) Graduate
10 20 (4.54%) Graduate Developer
10 20 (4.54%) Graduate Software Developer
10 20 (4.54%) SQL Developer
10 20 (4.54%) Support Engineer
11 19 (4.31%) Analyst
11 19 (4.31%) Senior Backend Developer
12 18 (4.08%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 18 (4.08%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (24.04%) CSS
2 94 (21.32%) HTML
3 76 (17.23%) Laravel
4 73 (16.55%) React
5 57 (12.93%) RESTful
6 48 (10.88%) Vue
7 43 (9.75%) .NET
8 42 (9.52%) REST
9 40 (9.07%) Node.js
10 34 (7.71%) JSON
11 33 (7.48%) jQuery
12 29 (6.58%) AngularJS
13 24 (5.44%) Spring
14 22 (4.99%) Kafka
15 21 (4.76%) Spring Boot
16 19 (4.31%) Symfony
17 17 (3.85%) XML
18 16 (3.63%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
19 15 (3.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.90%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.85%) NHS
4 16 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.63%) Replication
5 15 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.49%) IoT
9 10 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 101 (22.90%) Linux
2 23 (5.22%) Windows
3 15 (3.40%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.95%) CentOS
5 9 (2.04%) Debian
5 9 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.13%) Rocky
7 3 (0.68%) Android
7 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.68%) VMS
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (33.33%) Agile
2 93 (21.09%) CI/CD
3 89 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
5 72 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 72 (16.33%) Microservices
6 63 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 62 (14.06%) DevOps
8 51 (11.56%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.56%) Mentoring
9 49 (11.11%) OOP
10 46 (10.43%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.20%) TDD
12 44 (9.98%) ETL
13 42 (9.52%) Computer Science
14 41 (9.30%) AI
15 39 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (8.84%) MVC
16 38 (8.62%) Data Engineering
16 38 (8.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (45.80%) SQL
2 153 (34.69%) PHP
3 135 (30.61%) JavaScript
4 83 (18.82%) Python
5 77 (17.46%) Java
6 63 (14.29%) C#
7 58 (13.15%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.12%) Bash
9 26 (5.90%) C++
9 26 (5.90%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.17%) PL/SQL
11 13 (2.95%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.72%) Go
13 9 (2.04%) Scala
14 6 (1.36%) C
14 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.13%) Korn
16 2 (0.45%) Perl
16 2 (0.45%) Ruby
16 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (14.06%) Degree
2 37 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.54%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.91%) HNC
7 4 (0.91%) HND
8 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.68%) RHCE
9 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.44%) QA
2 22 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.17%) HL7
5 9 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.04%) GDPR
6 8 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.81%) SLA
7 4 (0.91%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 73 (16.55%) Docker
2 28 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.81%) vSphere
5 7 (1.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.68%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.45%) iptables
9 2 (0.45%) Samba
10 1 (0.23%) Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.03%) Terraform
3 25 (5.67%) Ansible
4 14 (3.17%) Grafana
5 12 (2.72%) Nagios
6 6 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.13%) Argo
8 4 (0.91%) Rancher
9 3 (0.68%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.68%) Puppet
9 3 (0.68%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.45%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.45%) Plesk
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.45%) systemd
11 1 (0.23%) Graylog
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.12%) Oracle
3 17 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.40%) VMware
5 14 (3.17%) SAP
6 13 (2.95%) Google
7 9 (2.04%) Informatica
8 8 (1.81%) Databricks
8 8 (1.81%) Splunk
8 8 (1.81%) Talend
9 6 (1.36%) Dell
9 6 (1.36%) Veeam
10 5 (1.13%) Cisco
10 5 (1.13%) Palantir
10 5 (1.13%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.91%) Apple
11 4 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.91%) Meraki
11 4 (0.91%) Synology
11 4 (0.91%) Zend