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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 237 165
Rank change year-on-year -122 -72 -18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 473 638 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.42% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.82% 8.64% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 379 499 1,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,414 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 8,134 7,385 17,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 16.45% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 4,774 12,707
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -122 428 £54,000 +2.86% 101
UK excluding London -96 323 £50,000 - 97
Work from Home -68 183 £53,250 +1.43% 53
North of England -41 108 £50,000 -4.76% 39
London -66 107 £78,750 +31.25% 25
South East -50 89 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands -38 51 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Yorkshire -27 46 £42,500 -10.53% 8
North West -30 42 £55,000 - 24
South West -80 35 £55,000 -4.35% 9
East Midlands -27 28 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -36 27 £46,250 +23.33% 9
West Midlands -32 23 £51,250 +20.59% 6
North East -46 20 £47,500 - 7
Wales -53 6 £40,000 -27.27% 1
Scotland -2 5 £58,000 +0.87% 3
Northern Ireland -33 2 £62,500 - 10

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 (3.81%) Apache
1 18 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.81%) CMS
1 18 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.59%) WordPress
3 14 (2.96%) Confluence
4 12 (2.54%) IIS
4 12 (2.54%) nginx
5 11 (2.33%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.48%) Drupal
7 4 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.85%) JBoss
7 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Moodle
10 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.48%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Shopify
2 3 (0.63%) Magento
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 232 (49.05%) AWS
2 134 (28.33%) Azure
3 53 (11.21%) GCP
4 44 (9.30%) SaaS
5 37 (7.82%) GitHub
6 32 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.55%) Serverless
8 30 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.07%) Firewall
2 13 (2.75%) Broadband
2 13 (2.75%) VPN
3 11 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.90%) Network Security
4 9 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.69%) DNS
5 8 (1.69%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.69%) SAN
5 8 (1.69%) VoIP
6 6 (1.27%) LAN
6 6 (1.27%) VLAN
6 6 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (0.85%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.85%) MQTT
7 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.63%) DHCP
8 3 (0.63%) HTTP
8 3 (0.63%) RTP
8 3 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (31.08%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (24.95%) SQL Server
3 81 (17.12%) MongoDB
4 71 (15.01%) NoSQL
5 69 (14.59%) Relational Database
6 29 (6.13%) Power BI
7 28 (5.92%) MariaDB
8 24 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.54%) Redis
10 12 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.90%) Metadata
11 9 (1.90%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.48%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (24.10%) Git
2 30 (6.34%) GitLab
2 30 (6.34%) JIRA
3 16 (3.38%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.90%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.06%) JUnit
7 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.85%) Selenium
7 4 (0.85%) Vite
8 3 (0.63%) Mocha
8 3 (0.63%) Mockito
8 3 (0.63%) NUnit
8 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.42%) Gradle
9 2 (0.42%) Maven
9 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.21%) RSpec
General
1 118 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.86%) Finance
3 51 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.50%) Law
6 18 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.59%) Banking
7 17 (3.59%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.75%) Retail
9 11 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.69%) Marketing
12 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.27%) Advertising
13 6 (1.27%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.06%) Legal
15 4 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (38.27%) Developer
2 110 (23.26%) Senior
3 57 (12.05%) Software Engineer
4 50 (10.57%) Senior Developer
5 48 (10.15%) PHP Developer
6 37 (7.82%) Lead
7 33 (6.98%) Administrator
7 33 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (6.98%) Software Developer
8 31 (6.55%) DBA
9 22 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (4.44%) C# Developer
11 19 (4.02%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 18 (3.81%) Analyst
12 18 (3.81%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Graduate
13 16 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Python Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Web Developer
14 15 (3.17%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (24.31%) CSS
2 94 (19.87%) HTML
3 80 (16.91%) React
4 78 (16.49%) RESTful
5 68 (14.38%) Laravel
6 65 (13.74%) Node.js
7 62 (13.11%) .NET
8 57 (12.05%) Vue
9 51 (10.78%) REST
10 35 (7.40%) jQuery
11 32 (6.77%) AngularJS
11 32 (6.77%) JSON
12 30 (6.34%) HTML5
13 27 (5.71%) CSS3
13 27 (5.71%) Spring
14 26 (5.50%) Kafka
15 24 (5.07%) Spring Boot
16 22 (4.65%) ASP.NET
17 15 (3.17%) .NET Core
18 13 (2.75%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.61%) Replication
3 27 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.75%) NHS
5 13 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.69%) IoT
9 8 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.48%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.06%) PropTech
11 5 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 131 (27.70%) Linux
2 30 (6.34%) Windows
3 25 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 23 (4.86%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.96%) Debian
6 13 (2.75%) CentOS
7 9 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.63%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Rocky
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (34.67%) Agile
2 121 (25.58%) CI/CD
3 114 (24.10%) Software Engineering
4 102 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (21.35%) Microservices
6 84 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 79 (16.70%) DevOps
8 68 (14.38%) AI
9 65 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (12.05%) Mentoring
11 52 (10.99%) Containerisation
12 48 (10.15%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (10.15%) Computer Science
13 47 (9.94%) Data Modelling
14 45 (9.51%) Clean Code
15 44 (9.30%) Web Development
16 43 (9.09%) TDD
17 37 (7.82%) High Availability
17 37 (7.82%) Open Source
18 34 (7.19%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 183 (38.69%) SQL
2 165 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 140 (29.60%) PHP
4 99 (20.93%) Python
5 86 (18.18%) Java
6 71 (15.01%) C#
7 41 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.77%) Bash
9 25 (5.29%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.07%) C++
11 18 (3.81%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.54%) Go
13 11 (2.33%) Ruby
13 11 (2.33%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.69%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.48%) Korn
16 6 (1.27%) C
16 6 (1.27%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.85%) Perl
17 4 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (16.07%) Degree
2 34 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.48%) HNC
7 7 (1.48%) HND
8 6 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.63%) RHCE
11 2 (0.42%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.25%) QA
2 32 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.54%) GDPR
6 7 (1.48%) HL7
6 7 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.48%) SLA
7 5 (1.06%) WCAG
8 4 (0.85%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 92 (19.45%) Docker
2 34 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.11%) vSphere
5 9 (1.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.63%) iptables
8 3 (0.63%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.42%) Samba
10 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.92%) Terraform
3 25 (5.29%) Ansible
4 18 (3.81%) Grafana
5 10 (2.11%) Nagios
6 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.48%) Puppet
8 4 (0.85%) Argo
8 4 (0.85%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.85%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.63%) Plesk
9 3 (0.63%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.63%) Rancher
9 3 (0.63%) systemd
10 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.21%) Graylog
11 1 (0.21%) Podman
11 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.71%) Oracle
3 21 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.59%) VMware
5 14 (2.96%) Splunk
6 12 (2.54%) Google
7 11 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.69%) Dell
8 8 (1.69%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.69%) Veeam
9 7 (1.48%) Adobe
9 7 (1.48%) Cisco
10 6 (1.27%) Synology
11 5 (1.06%) Meraki
11 5 (1.06%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.85%) Databricks
12 4 (0.85%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.63%) BT
13 3 (0.63%) Mitel