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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 284 166
Rank change year-on-year -88 -118 +1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 552 515 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 7.32% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 409 358 743
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 8,703 7,035 11,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 14.17% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,925 4,378 6,627
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -78 486 £55,000 - 543
UK excluding London -76 373 £50,000 -9.09% 363
Work from Home -84 171 £65,000 +36.84% 323
London -86 142 £80,000 +39.13% 233
North of England -14 130 £42,500 -19.05% 77
South East -35 96 £57,500 - 85
North West -29 57 £49,250 -17.92% 38
Yorkshire -25 41 £42,500 +13.33% 28
South West -69 40 £56,250 +25.00% 32
Midlands -52 36 £54,000 +20.00% 52
North East -42 32 £42,500 -10.53% 12
East of England -45 32 £50,000 +5.26% 61
Wales -56 27 £61,000 -9.63% 16
West Midlands -35 19 £55,000 +41.03% 32
East Midlands -38 17 £40,000 -11.11% 20
Scotland +4 11 £40,000 -46.67% 24
Northern Ireland -82 1 - - 18

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 30 (5.43%) IIS
2 24 (4.35%) Apache
3 20 (3.62%) WordPress
4 13 (2.36%) Confluence
5 11 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.81%) CMS
7 9 (1.63%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.63%) Drupal
8 5 (0.91%) JBoss
9 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.72%) nginx
10 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.36%) Elementor
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Shopify
2 2 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 293 (53.08%) AWS
2 167 (30.25%) Azure
3 84 (15.22%) GCP
4 55 (9.96%) GitHub
5 28 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.53%) Amazon S3
6 25 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
7 24 (4.35%) SaaS
8 21 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.80%) Serverless
9 17 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (2.72%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.44%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.72%) DNS
2 15 (2.72%) Firewall
3 13 (2.36%) Broadband
4 10 (1.81%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) VLAN
5 7 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.09%) DHCP
6 6 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.09%) VoIP
7 5 (0.91%) HTTP
7 5 (0.91%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.91%) SAN
7 5 (0.91%) SSH
8 4 (0.72%) Internet
8 4 (0.72%) LAN
8 4 (0.72%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) 4G
9 3 (0.54%) 5G
9 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (28.62%) SQL Server
3 116 (21.01%) Relational Database
4 98 (17.75%) MongoDB
5 68 (12.32%) NoSQL
6 28 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
6 28 (5.07%) Redis
7 27 (4.89%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.53%) Power BI
9 20 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.62%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.26%) Metadata
11 17 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.99%) Big Data
14 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.45%) Tableau
17 7 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 147 (26.63%) Git
2 47 (8.51%) Claude Code
3 42 (7.61%) GitLab
4 27 (4.89%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.53%) JIRA
6 14 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.54%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.45%) Selenium
8 5 (0.91%) JUnit
8 5 (0.91%) RSpec
9 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.72%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.72%) minitest
9 4 (0.72%) Mocha
9 4 (0.72%) PHPUnit
9 4 (0.72%) Postman
9 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.54%) git-flow
10 3 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 126 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.85%) Finance
3 90 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 59 (10.69%) Law
6 33 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.43%) Banking
8 18 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (3.08%) Marketing
10 10 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.45%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.45%) Retail
12 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.91%) Legal
15 3 (0.54%) Games
15 3 (0.54%) Local Government
15 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 226 (40.94%) Developer
2 161 (29.17%) Senior
3 83 (15.04%) Senior Developer
4 74 (13.41%) Software Engineer
5 58 (10.51%) PHP Developer
6 54 (9.78%) Lead
7 45 (8.15%) Administrator
8 41 (7.43%) DBA
9 40 (7.25%) Software Developer
10 31 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.43%) C# Developer
11 30 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (5.25%) Database Engineer
13 28 (5.07%) .NET Developer
14 26 (4.71%) Java Developer
15 23 (4.17%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.80%) Senior Software Developer
18 18 (3.26%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (23.01%) CSS
2 113 (20.47%) HTML
3 98 (17.75%) React
4 90 (16.30%) .NET
5 84 (15.22%) RESTful
6 65 (11.78%) Laravel
7 62 (11.23%) REST
8 59 (10.69%) Terraform
9 54 (9.78%) Vue
10 52 (9.42%) Kafka
11 50 (9.06%) Node.js
12 46 (8.33%) Spring
12 46 (8.33%) Spring Boot
13 40 (7.25%) ASP.NET
14 38 (6.88%) jQuery
14 38 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (5.80%) HTML5
16 31 (5.62%) AngularJS
17 29 (5.25%) Hibernate
18 26 (4.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.79%) Replication
2 43 (7.79%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.61%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.53%) Virtual Team
5 23 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.27%) NHS
13 6 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.09%) Social Media
14 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 166 (30.07%) Linux
2 37 (6.70%) Windows
3 26 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 18 (3.26%) Debian
6 13 (2.36%) CentOS
7 12 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Android
10 3 (0.54%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (35.33%) Agile
2 175 (31.70%) Software Engineering
3 174 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 170 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (23.19%) DevOps
6 121 (21.92%) Microservices
7 114 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (18.84%) AI
9 87 (15.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 83 (15.04%) Mentoring
11 77 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (13.41%) Clean Code
13 68 (12.32%) Scrum
14 64 (11.59%) Containerisation
15 63 (11.41%) High Availability
15 63 (11.41%) OOP
16 61 (11.05%) Observability
17 58 (10.51%) Web Development
18 50 (9.06%) Code Quality
19 49 (8.88%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.78%) SQL
2 175 (31.70%) JavaScript
3 139 (25.18%) Python
4 127 (23.01%) PHP
5 97 (17.57%) Java
6 87 (15.76%) C#
7 65 (11.78%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.70%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.62%) Bash
10 23 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.08%) C++
11 17 (3.08%) Ruby
12 16 (2.90%) Go
13 14 (2.54%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.91%) Korn
14 5 (0.91%) Perl
14 5 (0.91%) Rust
14 5 (0.91%) Scala
15 3 (0.54%) SOQL
15 3 (0.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 65 (11.78%) Degree
2 45 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.72%) HNC
8 4 (0.72%) HND
9 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.78%) QA
2 31 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.63%) GDPR
5 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.27%) WCAG
6 5 (0.91%) HL7
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (27.17%) Docker
2 22 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.72%) vSphere
7 2 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.36%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 106 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.79%) Grafana
3 29 (5.25%) Ansible
4 25 (4.53%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.81%) Nagios
6 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.09%) Puppet
6 6 (1.09%) WSUS
7 4 (0.72%) Kibana
8 3 (0.54%) Plesk
8 3 (0.54%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) systemd
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.69%) Oracle
3 30 (5.43%) Splunk
4 23 (4.17%) Google
5 19 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.36%) VMware
8 11 (1.99%) Dell
9 9 (1.63%) Rapid7
9 9 (1.63%) Veeam
10 7 (1.27%) HP
11 6 (1.09%) Adobe
11 6 (1.09%) Aruba
11 6 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.09%) Databricks
11 6 (1.09%) NetApp
11 6 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.09%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.72%) TIBCO