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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 271 165
Rank change year-on-year -96 -106 +8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 562 530 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 7.38% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 414 379 799
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.30%
75th Percentile £75,938 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,250 £51,250
% change year-on-year -4.31% +1.95% +0.99%

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 8,943 7,177 11,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 14.56% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,039 4,521 7,125
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,900
Median % change year-on-year - -4.61% +0.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -95 496 £55,000 +4.76% 397
UK excluding London -82 392 £50,000 -4.31% 208
Work from Home -74 188 £62,500 +31.58% 180
North of England -43 132 £42,500 -19.05% 67
London -88 130 £85,000 +46.55% 234
South East -28 100 £55,000 -4.35% 39
North West -25 60 £49,250 -14.35% 38
Midlands -36 50 £45,000 - 23
Yorkshire -24 40 £42,500 +9.68% 18
South West -70 40 £57,500 +24.32% 23
East of England -49 34 £50,000 +5.26% 15
North East -43 32 £42,500 -10.53% 12
East Midlands -23 29 £37,500 -16.67% 6
Wales -61 25 £60,000 -11.11% 3
West Midlands -43 21 £55,000 +39.24% 17
Scotland +13 10 £40,000 -46.67% 17
Northern Ireland -84 1 - - 24

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 (5.34%) IIS
2 24 (4.27%) Apache
3 19 (3.38%) WordPress
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 13 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.78%) CMS
8 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
9 7 (1.25%) Drupal
10 5 (0.89%) JBoss
11 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.71%) nginx
12 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.18%) Moodle
14 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 292 (51.96%) AWS
2 161 (28.65%) Azure
3 81 (14.41%) GCP
4 54 (9.61%) GitHub
5 27 (4.80%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.63%) SaaS
7 24 (4.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 24 (4.27%) Serverless
8 22 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (2.31%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.02%) Firewall
1 17 (3.02%) TCP/IP
2 13 (2.31%) Broadband
2 13 (2.31%) DNS
3 12 (2.14%) VPN
4 7 (1.25%) VLAN
4 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.07%) DHCP
5 6 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.07%) SSH
5 6 (1.07%) VoIP
6 5 (0.89%) HTTP
6 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.89%) SAN
7 4 (0.71%) Internet
7 4 (0.71%) LAN
7 4 (0.71%) WAN
8 3 (0.53%) 4G
8 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (31.85%) PostgreSQL
2 153 (27.22%) SQL Server
3 110 (19.57%) Relational Database
4 91 (16.19%) MongoDB
5 67 (11.92%) NoSQL
6 29 (5.16%) MariaDB
7 24 (4.27%) Power BI
8 22 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.74%) Redis
10 20 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.56%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (3.20%) Metadata
13 17 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.96%) Big Data
15 9 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.60%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
17 6 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 141 (25.09%) Git
2 43 (7.65%) Claude Code
3 40 (7.12%) GitLab
4 28 (4.98%) JIRA
5 26 (4.63%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.42%) 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 (0.53%) git-flow
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.53%) PHPUnit
General
1 120 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.84%) Finance
3 85 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.03%) Law
4 62 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.80%) Banking
7 18 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.67%) Marketing
9 12 (2.14%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.42%) 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
14 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.53%) Advertising
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (43.06%) Developer
2 150 (26.69%) Senior
3 81 (14.41%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.81%) Software Engineer
5 66 (11.74%) PHP Developer
6 55 (9.79%) Lead
7 39 (6.94%) Software Developer
8 34 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.87%) Administrator
10 31 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.34%) DBA
12 29 (5.16%) C# Developer
12 29 (5.16%) Database Engineer
13 27 (4.80%) .NET Developer
14 25 (4.45%) Java Developer
15 23 (4.09%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (3.74%) Senior Software Developer
17 21 (3.74%) Web Developer
18 20 (3.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (24.38%) CSS
2 124 (22.06%) HTML
3 102 (18.15%) React
4 88 (15.66%) .NET
5 85 (15.12%) RESTful
6 77 (13.70%) Laravel
7 62 (11.03%) REST
8 59 (10.50%) Vue
9 54 (9.61%) Node.js
9 54 (9.61%) Terraform
10 52 (9.25%) Kafka
11 46 (8.19%) Spring Boot
12 45 (8.01%) Spring
13 42 (7.47%) jQuery
14 39 (6.94%) ASP.NET
15 37 (6.58%) HTML5
16 35 (6.23%) AngularJS
16 35 (6.23%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (4.80%) CSS3
18 26 (4.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.01%) Replication
3 42 (7.47%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (7.12%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 23 (4.09%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.96%) NHS
12 10 (1.78%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.25%) Social Media
15 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
15 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.07%) IoT
16 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 166 (29.54%) Linux
2 39 (6.94%) Windows
3 29 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 28 (4.98%) Ubuntu
5 22 (3.91%) 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 (0.53%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (34.70%) Agile
2 170 (30.25%) CI/CD
2 170 (30.25%) Software Engineering
3 167 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (22.24%) DevOps
5 116 (20.64%) Microservices
6 109 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (17.44%) AI
8 92 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (13.88%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.35%) Clean Code
11 72 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (11.74%) Scrum
13 62 (11.03%) OOP
14 61 (10.85%) Web Development
15 59 (10.50%) Containerisation
16 56 (9.96%) High Availability
17 52 (9.25%) Observability
18 49 (8.72%) Data Modelling
19 48 (8.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 195 (34.70%) SQL
2 188 (33.45%) JavaScript
3 141 (25.09%) PHP
4 131 (23.31%) Python
5 95 (16.90%) Java
6 84 (14.95%) C#
7 64 (11.39%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.41%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.16%) Bash
10 21 (3.74%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.02%) Go
11 17 (3.02%) Ruby
12 16 (2.85%) C++
13 13 (2.31%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.07%) Scala
15 5 (0.89%) Korn
15 5 (0.89%) Perl
15 5 (0.89%) Rust
16 3 (0.53%) SOQL
16 3 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 68 (12.10%) Degree
2 42 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) HNC
7 6 (1.07%) HND
7 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.68%) QA
2 30 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.78%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) HL7
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.89%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (25.62%) Docker
2 26 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.42%) vSphere
5 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 99 (17.62%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.23%) Grafana
3 25 (4.45%) Ansible
4 23 (4.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.78%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) WSUS
7 4 (0.71%) Kibana
8 3 (0.53%) Galera Cluster
8 3 (0.53%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Rancher
8 3 (0.53%) systemd
8 3 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
10 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.79%) Oracle
3 28 (4.98%) Splunk
4 22 (3.91%) Google
5 18 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.02%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.02%) VMware
7 11 (1.96%) Dell
7 11 (1.96%) Veeam
8 9 (1.60%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.25%) Adobe
10 6 (1.07%) Aruba
10 6 (1.07%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.07%) Databricks
10 6 (1.07%) HP
10 6 (1.07%) NetApp
10 6 (1.07%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.07%) SonicWALL
11 5 (0.89%) Cisco
11 5 (0.89%) Synology