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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 158 147
Rank change year-on-year -171 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 419 821 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.91% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.92% 10.28% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 320 660 1,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%

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 7,079 7,987 16,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 18.57% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 5,154 12,218
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -148 384 £55,000 - 151
UK excluding London -162 267 £50,500 +1.00% 125
Work from Home -92 166 £52,130 -0.70% 107
London -51 116 £62,500 +4.17% 39
South East -94 71 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England -87 68 £52,130 -0.70% 30
Midlands -71 42 £42,500 +6.25% 20
East of England -13 39 £50,000 +25.00% 18
South West -73 39 £57,500 -4.17% 21
North West -51 36 £55,000 +4.76% 21
West Midlands -11 27 £42,500 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -55 27 £50,000 +2.04% 4
East Midlands -66 15 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -32 5 £51,000 -7.27% 5
Scotland -48 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Northern Ireland -30 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -42 1 £45,000 +38.46% 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 17 (4.06%) Apache Spark
1 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.10%) nginx
3 12 (2.86%) CMS
4 10 (2.39%) Apache
5 8 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.19%) Confluence
8 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.95%) IIS
9 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.48%) WordPress
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.19%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (45.58%) AWS
2 121 (28.88%) Azure
3 65 (15.51%) GCP
4 54 (12.89%) SaaS
5 32 (7.64%) GitHub
6 28 (6.68%) Serverless
7 26 (6.21%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.34%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.67%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.01%) VPN
2 9 (2.15%) Firewall
3 7 (1.67%) Network Security
4 6 (1.43%) DNS
4 6 (1.43%) FTP
4 6 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.19%) DHCP
6 4 (0.95%) HTTP
6 4 (0.95%) VLAN
7 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) SAN
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.48%) MQTT
8 2 (0.48%) PBX
9 1 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (26.49%) SQL Server
2 105 (25.06%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (15.04%) MongoDB
4 61 (14.56%) Relational Database
5 57 (13.60%) NoSQL
6 34 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (5.73%) Power BI
8 20 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 18 (4.30%) BusinessObjects
9 18 (4.30%) DynamoDB
10 17 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (4.06%) RDBMS
11 13 (3.10%) Electronic Patient Records
11 13 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (2.63%) MariaDB
13 10 (2.39%) Big Data
13 10 (2.39%) Tableau
14 7 (1.67%) Neo4j
14 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (21.96%) Git
2 20 (4.77%) JIRA
3 12 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.86%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.15%) GitLab
6 5 (1.19%) git-flow
6 5 (1.19%) JUnit
6 5 (1.19%) Vite
7 4 (0.95%) Gradle
7 4 (0.95%) Maven
7 4 (0.95%) Mockito
7 4 (0.95%) NUnit
7 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.72%) JMeter
8 3 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.72%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 98 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (12.65%) Finance
4 25 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.30%) Law
6 17 (4.06%) Health Technology
7 15 (3.58%) Retail
8 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.39%) Marketing
10 6 (1.43%) Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Billing
12 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.72%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 186 (44.39%) Developer
2 88 (21.00%) Senior
3 49 (11.69%) Senior Developer
4 48 (11.46%) PHP Developer
5 38 (9.07%) Software Developer
6 33 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (7.16%) Data Engineer
7 30 (7.16%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.97%) Lead
9 23 (5.49%) C# Developer
10 22 (5.25%) Backend Developer
10 22 (5.25%) Consultant
11 21 (5.01%) Applications Support
12 19 (4.53%) Graduate
12 19 (4.53%) Graduate Developer
12 19 (4.53%) Graduate Software Developer
12 19 (4.53%) SQL Developer
13 18 (4.30%) Analyst
14 17 (4.06%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.82%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (21.24%) CSS
2 77 (18.38%) HTML
3 73 (17.42%) React
4 58 (13.84%) Laravel
5 52 (12.41%) .NET
5 52 (12.41%) RESTful
6 43 (10.26%) REST
7 42 (10.02%) Node.js
8 41 (9.79%) Vue
9 30 (7.16%) JSON
10 27 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 22 (5.25%) jQuery
12 21 (5.01%) Spring
13 19 (4.53%) .NET Core
13 19 (4.53%) Kafka
13 19 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.53%) Symfony
14 18 (4.30%) Spring Boot
15 17 (4.06%) Web Services
16 14 (3.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.34%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.34%) NHS
5 14 (3.34%) Replication
6 13 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.63%) IoT
9 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.19%) Clustering
13 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (21.24%) Linux
2 22 (5.25%) Windows
3 14 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.39%) CentOS
5 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.43%) Android
6 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Debian
7 4 (0.95%) Rocky
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (34.37%) Agile
2 103 (24.58%) CI/CD
3 98 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (17.66%) Microservices
5 72 (17.18%) Software Engineering
6 69 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
8 64 (15.27%) DevOps
9 59 (14.08%) OOP
10 55 (13.13%) Containerisation
10 55 (13.13%) Mentoring
11 54 (12.89%) Data Modelling
12 47 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (11.22%) ETL
12 47 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 44 (10.50%) TDD
14 40 (9.55%) Computer Science
15 38 (9.07%) AI
15 38 (9.07%) MVC
15 38 (9.07%) OO
Programming Languages
1 182 (43.44%) SQL
2 142 (33.89%) PHP
3 124 (29.59%) JavaScript
4 85 (20.29%) Python
5 74 (17.66%) Java
6 68 (16.23%) C#
7 63 (15.04%) TypeScript
8 25 (5.97%) C++
9 24 (5.73%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.77%) Bash
11 13 (3.10%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.86%) Delphi
12 12 (2.86%) Pascal
13 11 (2.63%) PL/SQL
14 10 (2.39%) Go
15 8 (1.91%) Scala
16 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.43%) C
18 3 (0.72%) Perl
18 3 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (13.60%) Degree
2 36 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.34%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.48%) RHCE
10 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) HNC
11 1 (0.24%) HND
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.55%) QA
2 18 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.86%) HL7
5 10 (2.39%) SLA
6 9 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.91%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 74 (17.66%) Docker
2 20 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.72%) vSphere
5 2 (0.48%) Samba
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.92%) Terraform
3 27 (6.44%) Ansible
4 13 (3.10%) Grafana
5 10 (2.39%) Nagios
6 7 (1.67%) Argo
7 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.72%) Puppet
8 3 (0.72%) Rancher
9 2 (0.48%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.48%) Plesk
9 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.24%) Graylog
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.98%) Oracle
3 16 (3.82%) SAP
4 14 (3.34%) Google
5 11 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.39%) Informatica
7 9 (2.15%) Talend
7 9 (2.15%) VMware
8 8 (1.91%) Databricks
8 8 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.67%) Splunk
10 5 (1.19%) Palantir
11 4 (0.95%) Apple
11 4 (0.95%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.95%) Zend
12 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.72%) BT
12 3 (0.72%) Dell
12 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.72%) Mitel