MySQL Job Trends

MySQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MySQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 171 182
Rank change year-on-year -95 +11 -81
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 540 1,196 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.53% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.49% 9.95% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 387 796 1,035
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.76%

All Database and 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 7,208 12,022 12,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 15.39% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,535 7,174 10,178
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +2.80%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -109 471 £52,500 -4.55% 254
UK excluding London -96 346 £52,000 - 182
Work from Home -39 239 £47,500 -13.64% 179
London +9 155 £60,000 -11.11% 103
North of England -89 105 £52,500 - 51
South East -39 83 £57,500 +4.55% 62
North West -68 62 £57,500 +9.52% 29
East of England -57 51 £47,500 -5.00% 28
South West -19 39 £45,000 -10.00% 15
Midlands -57 37 £45,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -33 29 £38,750 -26.19% 17
Wales +9 19 £67,500 +107.69% 2
West Midlands -30 17 £39,500 -28.18% 16
East Midlands -13 16 £45,000 +5.88% 12
North East +12 14 £47,500 +22.58% 6
Scotland +6 10 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +18 4 - - 1

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.63%) Confluence
2 21 (3.89%) Apache
3 17 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.78%) CMS
5 14 (2.59%) IIS
5 14 (2.59%) WordPress
6 13 (2.41%) Apache Solr
6 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.48%) nginx
7 8 (1.48%) SharePoint
8 7 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.74%) SAS
10 2 (0.37%) Appian
10 2 (0.37%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) WildFly
11 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.74%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.74%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 230 (42.59%) AWS
2 180 (33.33%) Azure
3 61 (11.30%) SaaS
4 54 (10.00%) GCP
5 38 (7.04%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.30%) GitHub
7 26 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.81%) Cloudflare
8 23 (4.26%) Serverless
9 22 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.07%) PaaS
10 21 (3.89%) Entra ID
11 20 (3.70%) IaaS
12 19 (3.52%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.96%) Azure AI
14 16 (2.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 16 (2.96%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.48%) Firewall
2 29 (5.37%) VPN
3 24 (4.44%) DNS
4 23 (4.26%) WAN
5 17 (3.15%) FTP
6 16 (2.96%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.22%) SAN
8 11 (2.04%) iSCSI
8 11 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (1.67%) Internet
10 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.30%) Broadband
11 7 (1.30%) VLAN
12 6 (1.11%) DHCP
12 6 (1.11%) MQTT
12 6 (1.11%) VoIP
13 5 (0.93%) LAN
13 5 (0.93%) WPA
14 4 (0.74%) SMS
15 3 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (38.15%) SQL Server
2 130 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (13.15%) MongoDB
4 69 (12.78%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.89%) NoSQL
6 34 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (6.30%) Power BI
7 20 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.52%) RDBMS
9 18 (3.33%) Data Lake
10 17 (3.15%) Redis
11 16 (2.96%) BusinessObjects
12 15 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.78%) Big Data
13 14 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.59%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.59%) MariaDB
14 12 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 120 (22.22%) Git
2 44 (8.15%) JIRA
3 15 (2.78%) GitLab
4 11 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.04%) NUnit
4 11 (2.04%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.85%) Jasmine
6 6 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.11%) PHPUnit
6 6 (1.11%) Postman
6 6 (1.11%) Selenium
7 5 (0.93%) Gradle
7 5 (0.93%) JMeter
7 5 (0.93%) Maven
8 4 (0.74%) Appium
8 4 (0.74%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.74%) git-flow
8 4 (0.74%) Mocha
8 4 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 177 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.11%) Finance
3 44 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.96%) Law
4 43 (7.96%) Marketing
5 32 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.15%) Games
6 17 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.96%) Retail
8 15 (2.78%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.48%) Advertising
11 8 (1.48%) Front Office
12 7 (1.30%) Banking
12 7 (1.30%) Digital Healthcare
12 7 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.93%) Automotive
13 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 229 (42.41%) Developer
2 88 (16.30%) Senior
3 63 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 51 (9.44%) Software Engineer
5 49 (9.07%) Analyst
6 43 (7.96%) PHP Developer
7 40 (7.41%) Graduate
7 40 (7.41%) Graduate Developer
7 40 (7.41%) Lead
8 38 (7.04%) IT Graduate
8 38 (7.04%) Senior Developer
9 35 (6.48%) Consultant
10 33 (6.11%) Support Analyst
11 26 (4.81%) Applications Support
12 24 (4.44%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.26%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.07%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.89%) SQL Developer
16 20 (3.70%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (25.56%) CSS
2 121 (22.41%) HTML
3 99 (18.33%) React
4 81 (15.00%) .NET
5 64 (11.85%) REST
6 59 (10.93%) ASP.NET
7 57 (10.56%) RESTful
8 53 (9.81%) Node.js
9 51 (9.44%) jQuery
10 48 (8.89%) Laravel
11 47 (8.70%) Vue
12 41 (7.59%) HTML5
13 38 (7.04%) AngularJS
14 34 (6.30%) Kafka
15 33 (6.11%) Spring Boot
16 31 (5.74%) JSON
17 28 (5.19%) Web Services
18 27 (5.00%) CSS3
19 25 (4.63%) Spring
20 21 (3.89%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.15%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (5.74%) Management Information System
3 29 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.00%) NHS
5 25 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.52%) Virtual Team
8 18 (3.33%) Data Centre
9 17 (3.15%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.59%) Mobile App
11 13 (2.41%) AI Agents
12 12 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.85%) Legacy Code
15 9 (1.67%) Online Games
15 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.00%) Linux
2 44 (8.15%) Windows
3 26 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.52%) Unix
5 14 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.93%) CentOS
8 4 (0.74%) Android
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.37%) Solaris
10 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (39.81%) Agile
2 176 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (22.78%) CI/CD
4 106 (19.63%) OO
5 100 (18.52%) OOP
6 97 (17.96%) Software Engineering
7 94 (17.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 84 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (12.78%) Analytics
11 68 (12.59%) MVC
12 64 (11.85%) DevOps
13 63 (11.67%) Microservices
14 62 (11.48%) Computer Science
14 62 (11.48%) Mentoring
15 60 (11.11%) User Experience
16 52 (9.63%) ETL
17 50 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
17 50 (9.26%) Roadmaps
18 49 (9.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 236 (43.70%) SQL
2 191 (35.37%) JavaScript
3 136 (25.19%) PHP
4 128 (23.70%) Python
5 116 (21.48%) Java
6 88 (16.30%) C#
6 88 (16.30%) TypeScript
7 44 (8.15%) C++
8 41 (7.59%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.93%) Delphi
9 32 (5.93%) Pascal
10 24 (4.44%) Bash
11 16 (2.96%) Bicep
12 15 (2.78%) PL/SQL
12 15 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.85%) R
15 9 (1.67%) Korn
16 8 (1.48%) Scala
17 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 86 (15.93%) Degree
2 55 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (4.81%) Azure Certification
4 25 (4.63%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.78%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.37%) CCNA
9 2 (0.37%) CCNP
9 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.37%) MCSE
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) HNC
10 1 (0.19%) MCSA
10 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.04%) QA
2 12 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.04%) SLA
4 10 (1.85%) GDPR
5 9 (1.67%) HL7
6 7 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 110 (20.37%) Docker
2 18 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.56%) HDFS
7 3 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.37%) NFS
8 2 (0.37%) pfSense
8 2 (0.37%) Samba
8 2 (0.37%) Xen
9 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.19%) Corosync
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.19%) Postfix
9 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.56%) Terraform
3 20 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (2.78%) Ansible
5 7 (1.30%) Grafana
6 5 (0.93%) Autotask
7 4 (0.74%) Kibana
7 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.56%) logstash
8 3 (0.56%) Oozie
8 3 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.37%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.19%) Icinga
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) Pacemaker
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 81 (15.00%) Oracle
2 75 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.00%) Databricks
4 26 (4.81%) Google
5 16 (2.96%) Meraki
6 15 (2.78%) Informatica
6 15 (2.78%) SAP
7 14 (2.59%) Rollbar
7 14 (2.59%) Splunk
8 13 (2.41%) Talend
9 12 (2.22%) Dell
10 11 (2.04%) Red Hat
10 11 (2.04%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.67%) VMware
12 8 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.11%) Adobe
14 5 (0.93%) Datto
14 5 (0.93%) RedGate
14 5 (0.93%) Sage
14 5 (0.93%) Sybase