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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 231 162
Rank change year-on-year -121 -69 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 460 656 1,786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.48% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.76% 8.88% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 374 517 1,505
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,707 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,938 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £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 7,989 7,386 17,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 16.63% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,163 4,762 12,631
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,525 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,714 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,925 £98,750
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 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 13 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 -120 419 £55,000 +3.29% 105
UK excluding London -123 316 £50,000 - 88
Work from Home -67 176 £52,500 - 44
North of England -53 105 £50,000 -4.76% 31
London -56 105 £77,500 +29.17% 28
South East -43 88 £55,000 +10.00% 27
Midlands -34 50 £42,500 -5.56% 10
Yorkshire -28 44 £42,500 -10.53% 5
North West -29 43 £55,000 - 20
South West -77 33 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East Midlands -21 27 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -40 27 £46,250 +23.33% 13
West Midlands -35 23 £47,500 +8.57% 8
North East -37 18 £47,500 - 6
Wales -54 6 £40,000 -15.79% 1
Scotland +1 5 £58,000 +0.87% 1
Northern Ireland -33 2 £62,500 -26.47%

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 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.91%) CMS
1 18 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.70%) Apache
2 17 (3.70%) WordPress
3 14 (3.04%) Confluence
4 13 (2.83%) nginx
5 11 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.39%) IIS
6 7 (1.52%) Drupal
7 4 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.65%) JBoss
8 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.52%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (48.70%) AWS
2 128 (27.83%) Azure
3 52 (11.30%) GCP
4 41 (8.91%) SaaS
5 36 (7.83%) GitHub
6 31 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 31 (6.74%) Serverless
7 18 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (3.26%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.22%) Firewall
2 14 (3.04%) VPN
3 10 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.96%) Broadband
4 9 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.74%) DNS
5 8 (1.74%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.74%) Network Security
5 8 (1.74%) SAN
6 7 (1.52%) VoIP
7 6 (1.30%) VLAN
8 5 (1.09%) LAN
8 5 (1.09%) WAN
9 4 (0.87%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.87%) MQTT
9 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.65%) RTP
10 3 (0.65%) SSH
10 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (24.35%) SQL Server
3 81 (17.61%) MongoDB
4 72 (15.65%) NoSQL
5 63 (13.70%) Relational Database
6 28 (6.09%) Power BI
7 27 (5.87%) MariaDB
8 24 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (2.39%) Redis
10 11 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.17%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.74%) Metadata
13 7 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (1.52%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (23.48%) Git
2 27 (5.87%) GitLab
3 26 (5.65%) JIRA
4 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.96%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.96%) PHPUnit
6 8 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.87%) JUnit
7 4 (0.87%) NUnit
7 4 (0.87%) Selenium
7 4 (0.87%) Vite
8 3 (0.65%) Mocha
8 3 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 75 (16.30%) Finance
3 47 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.00%) Law
6 18 (3.91%) Banking
6 18 (3.91%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.04%) Retail
8 11 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.52%) Advertising
9 7 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.30%) Marketing
10 6 (1.30%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.09%) Legal
12 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Local Government
12 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 182 (39.57%) Developer
2 105 (22.83%) Senior
3 52 (11.30%) Senior Developer
4 50 (10.87%) PHP Developer
4 50 (10.87%) Software Engineer
5 36 (7.83%) Lead
6 33 (7.17%) Software Developer
7 32 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 31 (6.74%) Administrator
9 29 (6.30%) DBA
10 20 (4.35%) C# Developer
11 19 (4.13%) Analyst
11 19 (4.13%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.13%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 17 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (3.48%) Graduate
13 16 (3.48%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (3.48%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.48%) Web Developer
14 15 (3.26%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (25.00%) CSS
2 95 (20.65%) HTML
3 74 (16.09%) RESTful
4 73 (15.87%) React
5 69 (15.00%) Laravel
6 62 (13.48%) Node.js
7 58 (12.61%) .NET
8 56 (12.17%) Vue
9 49 (10.65%) REST
10 34 (7.39%) jQuery
11 33 (7.17%) JSON
12 30 (6.52%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.52%) HTML5
13 28 (6.09%) Spring
14 27 (5.87%) CSS3
15 26 (5.65%) Kafka
16 24 (5.22%) Spring Boot
17 17 (3.70%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.48%) ASP.NET
19 13 (2.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.96%) Replication
3 23 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.83%) NHS
7 11 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.17%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.74%) IoT
9 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.09%) PropTech
11 5 (1.09%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (0.87%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 124 (26.96%) Linux
2 28 (6.09%) Windows
3 24 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.78%) Ubuntu
5 14 (3.04%) CentOS
6 13 (2.83%) Debian
7 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.87%) Android
10 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.43%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (33.91%) Agile
2 112 (24.35%) CI/CD
3 98 (21.30%) Software Engineering
4 97 (21.09%) Microservices
4 97 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (15.87%) DevOps
7 59 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (12.61%) AI
9 56 (12.17%) Mentoring
10 54 (11.74%) Containerisation
11 48 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (10.00%) Computer Science
13 45 (9.78%) Web Development
14 43 (9.35%) TDD
15 42 (9.13%) Data Modelling
16 38 (8.26%) Clean Code
17 35 (7.61%) OOP
17 35 (7.61%) Open Source
18 33 (7.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 177 (38.48%) SQL
2 162 (35.22%) JavaScript
3 141 (30.65%) PHP
4 89 (19.35%) Python
5 85 (18.48%) Java
6 67 (14.57%) C#
7 36 (7.83%) TypeScript
8 33 (7.17%) Bash
9 26 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.22%) C++
11 15 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.17%) Go
13 10 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.17%) Ruby
14 7 (1.52%) Korn
15 6 (1.30%) C
16 5 (1.09%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.87%) Perl
17 4 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (15.87%) Degree
2 35 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.57%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.52%) HNC
6 7 (1.52%) HND
7 6 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.48%) QA
2 31 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.39%) GDPR
6 8 (1.74%) HL7
7 7 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.52%) SLA
8 5 (1.09%) WCAG
9 4 (0.87%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 86 (18.70%) Docker
2 33 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.17%) vSphere
5 9 (1.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.65%) iptables
8 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 67 (14.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.87%) Terraform
3 25 (5.43%) Ansible
4 20 (4.35%) Grafana
5 11 (2.39%) Nagios
6 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.52%) Puppet
8 4 (0.87%) Argo
8 4 (0.87%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.65%) Plesk
9 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.65%) systemd
10 2 (0.43%) Rancher
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Podman
11 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.43%) Oracle
3 22 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.70%) VMware
5 15 (3.26%) Splunk
6 13 (2.83%) Google
7 10 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.96%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.74%) Dell
9 8 (1.74%) Veeam
10 7 (1.52%) Cisco
11 6 (1.30%) Adobe
11 6 (1.30%) Synology
11 6 (1.30%) WooCommerce
12 5 (1.09%) Meraki
13 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.65%) BT
14 3 (0.65%) Mitel
14 3 (0.65%) SAP