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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 279 167
Rank change year-on-year -88 -112 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 560 521 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.05% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 7.38% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 415 363 748
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -7.05%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 8,790 7,059 11,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 14.27% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,416 6,717
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 £79,500 £80,000 £87,348
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 1 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 1 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 -73 494 £55,000 +4.76% 462
UK excluding London -84 387 £50,000 -4.76% 258
Work from Home -79 180 £65,000 +36.84% 198
North of England -35 135 £42,500 -19.05% 63
London -78 135 £80,000 +39.13% 249
South East -42 99 £57,500 - 53
North West -26 60 £48,500 -15.65% 34
Midlands -41 43 £47,500 +5.56% 34
Yorkshire -17 42 £42,500 +9.68% 23
South West -73 40 £56,250 +25.00% 25
North East -47 33 £42,500 -10.53% 7
East of England -40 32 £50,000 +5.26% 38
Wales -64 26 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East Midlands -27 22 £37,500 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -45 21 £55,000 +41.03% 21
Scotland +16 11 £40,000 -46.67% 20
Northern Ireland -86 1 - - 19

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 (5.36%) IIS
2 24 (4.29%) Apache
3 20 (3.57%) WordPress
4 14 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.50%) Confluence
5 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.79%) CMS
7 9 (1.61%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.43%) Drupal
9 5 (0.89%) JBoss
10 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.71%) nginx
11 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.36%) Elementor
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 297 (53.04%) AWS
2 167 (29.82%) Azure
3 85 (15.18%) GCP
4 55 (9.82%) GitHub
5 29 (5.18%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.64%) Amazon S3
6 26 (4.64%) SaaS
7 25 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 23 (4.11%) Serverless
9 21 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.04%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.68%) Firewall
3 13 (2.32%) Broadband
3 13 (2.32%) DNS
4 11 (1.96%) VPN
5 7 (1.25%) VLAN
5 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 6 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.07%) SSH
6 6 (1.07%) VoIP
7 5 (0.89%) HTTP
7 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.89%) SAN
8 4 (0.71%) Internet
8 4 (0.71%) LAN
8 4 (0.71%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) 4G
9 3 (0.54%) 5G
9 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (33.04%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (27.86%) SQL Server
3 115 (20.54%) Relational Database
4 96 (17.14%) MongoDB
5 69 (12.32%) NoSQL
6 27 (4.82%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.64%) Power BI
8 23 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (4.11%) Redis
9 20 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.21%) Metadata
11 16 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.96%) Big Data
13 9 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 144 (25.71%) Git
2 46 (8.21%) Claude Code
3 40 (7.14%) GitLab
4 27 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 26 (4.64%) JIRA
6 14 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.32%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.43%) Selenium
9 5 (0.89%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) RSpec
10 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.71%) minitest
10 4 (0.71%) Mocha
10 4 (0.71%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.54%) git-flow
11 3 (0.54%) Maven
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
General
1 127 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.07%) Finance
3 89 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 61 (10.89%) Law
6 32 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.00%) Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (3.04%) Marketing
10 10 (1.79%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.43%) Retail
12 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.54%) Games
16 3 (0.54%) Local Government
16 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 234 (41.79%) Developer
2 156 (27.86%) Senior
3 83 (14.82%) Senior Developer
4 74 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 61 (10.89%) PHP Developer
6 53 (9.46%) Lead
7 40 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.61%) Administrator
9 34 (6.07%) DBA
10 31 (5.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.36%) C# Developer
12 29 (5.18%) Database Engineer
13 28 (5.00%) .NET Developer
14 26 (4.64%) Java Developer
15 23 (4.11%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
18 20 (3.57%) Web Developer
19 19 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (23.21%) CSS
2 117 (20.89%) HTML
3 102 (18.21%) React
4 90 (16.07%) .NET
5 87 (15.54%) RESTful
6 69 (12.32%) Laravel
7 61 (10.89%) REST
8 56 (10.00%) Terraform
8 56 (10.00%) Vue
9 53 (9.46%) Kafka
9 53 (9.46%) Node.js
10 46 (8.21%) Spring
10 46 (8.21%) Spring Boot
11 40 (7.14%) ASP.NET
11 40 (7.14%) jQuery
12 37 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
13 34 (6.07%) AngularJS
13 34 (6.07%) HTML5
14 28 (5.00%) Hibernate
15 26 (4.64%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.04%) Replication
3 42 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (7.32%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 24 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 22 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.61%) NHS
11 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.25%) Social Media
13 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 165 (29.46%) Linux
2 39 (6.96%) Windows
3 28 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.64%) Ubuntu
5 19 (3.39%) Debian
6 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.96%) CentOS
8 7 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Android
10 3 (0.54%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (35.54%) Agile
2 174 (31.07%) Software Engineering
3 173 (30.89%) CI/CD
4 170 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (22.50%) DevOps
6 119 (21.25%) Microservices
7 110 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (18.57%) AI
9 88 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 82 (14.64%) Mentoring
11 75 (13.39%) Clean Code
12 74 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 68 (12.14%) Scrum
14 64 (11.43%) OOP
15 62 (11.07%) Containerisation
16 60 (10.71%) Web Development
17 58 (10.36%) High Availability
18 55 (9.82%) Observability
19 50 (8.93%) Code Quality
19 50 (8.93%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 196 (35.00%) SQL
2 180 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 138 (24.64%) Python
4 135 (24.11%) PHP
5 98 (17.50%) Java
6 87 (15.54%) C#
7 66 (11.79%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.61%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.18%) Bash
10 22 (3.93%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.04%) C++
11 17 (3.04%) Ruby
12 16 (2.86%) Go
13 13 (2.32%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.07%) Scala
15 5 (0.89%) Korn
15 5 (0.89%) Perl
15 5 (0.89%) Rust
16 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (12.14%) Degree
2 44 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.89%) HNC
8 5 (0.89%) 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 62 (11.07%) QA
2 32 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.79%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.07%) HL7
6 6 (1.07%) WCAG
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
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 149 (26.61%) Docker
2 24 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.07%) vSphere
5 5 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.54%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.79%) Grafana
3 26 (4.64%) Ansible
4 24 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.79%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) WSUS
7 4 (0.71%) Kibana
8 3 (0.54%) Plesk
8 3 (0.54%) Rancher
8 3 (0.54%) systemd
9 2 (0.36%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.18%) Oracle
3 29 (5.18%) Splunk
4 23 (4.11%) Google
5 18 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.68%) VMware
8 11 (1.96%) Dell
9 10 (1.79%) Veeam
10 9 (1.61%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.25%) Adobe
12 6 (1.07%) Aruba
12 6 (1.07%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.07%) Databricks
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) NetApp
12 6 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.07%) SonicWALL
13 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.71%) TIBCO