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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 251 179
Rank change year-on-year -82 -72 -27
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 592 631 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.62% 8.26% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 453 493 1,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,625 £51,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.74% -1.92%

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 8,945 7,636 13,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 15.35% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,976 4,925 8,745
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 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 3 August 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 -73 527 £54,000 +2.86% 142
UK excluding London -78 409 £50,000 -1.23% 120
Work from Home -59 212 £52,500 +5.00% 65
London -62 137 £85,000 +36.00% 49
North of England -25 136 £47,500 -9.52% 28
South East -10 115 £55,000 +4.76% 38
North West -20 57 £52,130 -9.34% 17
Midlands -31 53 £42,500 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -19 48 £42,500 -12.82% 6
South West -82 40 £52,500 +1.74% 11
East of England -44 35 £47,500 - 8
North East -40 31 £43,750 -7.89% 5
East Midlands -9 30 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -40 23 £51,250 +24.24% 12
Wales -61 18 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +6 12 £51,000 -11.30% 5

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 26 (4.39%) Apache
2 21 (3.55%) IIS
3 20 (3.38%) WordPress
4 19 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.70%) Confluence
5 16 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (2.20%) Apache Spark
7 12 (2.03%) CMS
8 7 (1.18%) Drupal
8 7 (1.18%) nginx
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss
10 4 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 314 (53.04%) AWS
2 178 (30.07%) Azure
3 85 (14.36%) GCP
4 48 (8.11%) GitHub
5 35 (5.91%) SaaS
6 33 (5.57%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.90%) Serverless
8 26 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 18 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (2.03%) OpenShift
17 11 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.72%) Firewall
2 13 (2.20%) Broadband
3 11 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.86%) VPN
4 9 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.35%) DNS
5 8 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.35%) SAN
6 6 (1.01%) VLAN
6 6 (1.01%) VoIP
7 5 (0.84%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) Network Security
7 5 (0.84%) WAN
8 4 (0.68%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.68%) MQTT
8 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.51%) DHCP
9 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.51%) Internet
9 3 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (32.94%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (26.69%) SQL Server
3 109 (18.41%) Relational Database
4 93 (15.71%) MongoDB
5 79 (13.34%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.57%) MariaDB
7 29 (4.90%) Power BI
8 26 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.04%) Metadata
11 17 (2.87%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.87%) Redis
12 15 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (2.36%) Big Data
14 9 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 139 (23.48%) Git
2 37 (6.25%) GitLab
3 35 (5.91%) Claude Code
4 34 (5.74%) JIRA
5 21 (3.55%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.69%) PHPUnit
8 7 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.01%) JUnit
9 6 (1.01%) Selenium
9 6 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.84%) RSpec
11 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.68%) minitest
11 4 (0.68%) Mocha
12 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.51%) Maven
12 3 (0.51%) Mockito
12 3 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 127 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 101 (17.06%) Finance
3 74 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.45%) Law
6 25 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.05%) Banking
8 18 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.53%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.36%) Marketing
11 12 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.86%) Retail
13 7 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.84%) Advertising
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 3 (0.51%) Local Government
16 3 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 252 (42.57%) Developer
2 149 (25.17%) Senior
3 76 (12.84%) Software Engineer
4 75 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 70 (11.82%) PHP Developer
6 59 (9.97%) Lead
7 44 (7.43%) Software Developer
8 38 (6.42%) Administrator
8 38 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.41%) DBA
10 30 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (4.73%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.22%) Database Engineer
12 25 (4.22%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.22%) Web Developer
13 23 (3.89%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.89%) Java Developer
14 22 (3.72%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.55%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (24.83%) CSS
2 127 (21.45%) HTML
3 102 (17.23%) React
4 91 (15.37%) RESTful
5 83 (14.02%) Laravel
6 81 (13.68%) .NET
7 65 (10.98%) Node.js
7 65 (10.98%) Vue
8 62 (10.47%) REST
9 45 (7.60%) jQuery
9 45 (7.60%) Kafka
10 41 (6.93%) Spring
11 39 (6.59%) Spring Boot
12 36 (6.08%) AngularJS
12 36 (6.08%) HTML5
13 33 (5.57%) ASP.NET
14 29 (4.90%) CSS3
15 28 (4.73%) JSON
16 23 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
17 21 (3.55%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.60%) Replication
3 34 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.89%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.87%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.36%) NHS
10 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.20%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.35%) IoT
15 7 (1.18%) Social Media
16 5 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 154 (26.01%) Linux
2 34 (5.74%) Windows
3 27 (4.56%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.04%) CentOS
5 18 (3.04%) Debian
6 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.51%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (34.46%) Agile
2 164 (27.70%) CI/CD
3 159 (26.86%) Software Engineering
4 147 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (20.78%) Microservices
6 111 (18.75%) DevOps
7 98 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (16.39%) AI
9 96 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (14.02%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.82%) Clean Code
12 65 (10.98%) Web Development
13 61 (10.30%) OOP
14 57 (9.63%) Containerisation
14 57 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (9.46%) Data Modelling
16 55 (9.29%) TDD
17 54 (9.12%) High Availability
17 54 (9.12%) Scrum
18 52 (8.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 220 (37.16%) SQL
2 207 (34.97%) JavaScript
3 163 (27.53%) PHP
4 132 (22.30%) Python
5 107 (18.07%) Java
6 85 (14.36%) C#
7 55 (9.29%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.74%) Bash
9 27 (4.56%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.89%) C++
11 19 (3.21%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.04%) Ruby
13 15 (2.53%) VB.NET
14 14 (2.36%) Go
15 6 (1.01%) Korn
15 6 (1.01%) Scala
15 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.84%) Perl
17 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (14.19%) Degree
2 39 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 35 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.18%) HNC
6 7 (1.18%) HND
7 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.51%) RHCE
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.45%) QA
2 38 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.86%) GDPR
4 11 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.18%) HL7
6 6 (1.01%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 137 (23.14%) Docker
2 31 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.69%) vSphere
5 9 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) iptables
7 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.11%) Terraform
3 28 (4.73%) Ansible
3 28 (4.73%) Grafana
4 15 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.36%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.68%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.51%) Plesk
8 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.51%) systemd
8 3 (0.51%) WSUS
9 2 (0.34%) kaniko
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.43%) Oracle
3 26 (4.39%) Google
4 24 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.55%) Splunk
6 18 (3.04%) VMware
7 17 (2.87%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.86%) Dell
8 11 (1.86%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.86%) Veeam
9 7 (1.18%) Adobe
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco
10 6 (1.01%) Databricks
10 6 (1.01%) Synology
11 5 (0.84%) Informatica
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
11 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.68%) IBM
12 4 (0.68%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.68%) WooCommerce