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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 237 162
Rank change year-on-year -110 -75 -14
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 496 624 1,784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.37% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.98% 8.41% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 393 488 1,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 8,288 7,417 17,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 16.33% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,467 4,813 12,457
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -96 445 £54,000 +2.86% 107
UK excluding London -98 342 £50,000 - 96
Work from Home -54 189 £54,000 +3.75% 50
North of England -33 116 £50,000 -3.61% 35
London -63 109 £82,500 +34.69% 26
South East -59 91 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Midlands -25 54 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire -23 47 £42,500 -10.53% 7
North West -25 47 £55,000 - 21
South West -77 36 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands -15 29 £37,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -39 28 £47,500 +11.76% 12
West Midlands -28 25 £55,000 +37.50% 6
North East -38 22 £47,500 - 7
Scotland -3 8 £51,000 -11.30% 3
Wales -55 7 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Northern Ireland -37 2 £62,500 - 3

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 19 (3.83%) Apache
1 19 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.63%) CMS
2 18 (3.63%) WordPress
3 14 (2.82%) Confluence
4 13 (2.62%) IIS
5 12 (2.42%) nginx
6 11 (2.22%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.41%) Drupal
8 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.81%) JBoss
8 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Elementor
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Shopify
2 3 (0.60%) Magento
3 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 246 (49.60%) AWS
2 141 (28.43%) Azure
3 57 (11.49%) GCP
4 43 (8.67%) SaaS
5 42 (8.47%) GitHub
6 33 (6.65%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (6.25%) Serverless
8 19 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 9 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.84%) Firewall
2 13 (2.62%) Broadband
2 13 (2.62%) VPN
3 12 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.81%) DNS
4 9 (1.81%) Network Security
4 9 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.61%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.61%) SAN
5 8 (1.61%) VoIP
6 7 (1.41%) VLAN
7 6 (1.21%) LAN
7 6 (1.21%) WAN
8 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.81%) DHCP
9 4 (0.81%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.81%) MQTT
10 3 (0.60%) HTTP
10 3 (0.60%) Internet
10 3 (0.60%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (30.65%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (25.40%) SQL Server
3 86 (17.34%) MongoDB
4 75 (15.12%) Relational Database
5 72 (14.52%) NoSQL
6 30 (6.05%) Power BI
7 28 (5.65%) MariaDB
8 25 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.42%) Redis
13 10 (2.02%) Metadata
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.81%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 119 (23.99%) Git
2 31 (6.25%) GitLab
3 30 (6.05%) JIRA
4 22 (4.44%) Claude Code
5 14 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.62%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.81%) PHPUnit
8 5 (1.01%) JUnit
9 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.81%) Selenium
9 4 (0.81%) Vite
10 3 (0.60%) Mocha
10 3 (0.60%) Mockito
10 3 (0.60%) NUnit
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Subversion
11 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 121 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.73%) Finance
3 54 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.85%) Law
6 19 (3.83%) Banking
7 18 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.23%) Health Technology
9 13 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.62%) Retail
10 11 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.61%) Marketing
12 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.21%) Advertising
13 6 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.01%) Legal
15 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (38.51%) Developer
2 118 (23.79%) Senior
3 59 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 52 (10.48%) PHP Developer
4 52 (10.48%) Senior Developer
5 39 (7.86%) Lead
6 38 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (7.06%) Administrator
8 33 (6.65%) DBA
8 33 (6.65%) Software Developer
9 23 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (4.23%) C# Developer
11 20 (4.03%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.83%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 18 (3.63%) Analyst
14 17 (3.43%) Linux Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) Database Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.23%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (23.99%) CSS
2 98 (19.76%) HTML
3 84 (16.94%) React
4 81 (16.33%) RESTful
5 70 (14.11%) Laravel
6 66 (13.31%) Node.js
7 63 (12.70%) .NET
8 57 (11.49%) Vue
9 56 (11.29%) REST
10 36 (7.26%) jQuery
11 33 (6.65%) AngularJS
11 33 (6.65%) JSON
12 32 (6.45%) Spring
13 31 (6.25%) HTML5
14 29 (5.85%) Kafka
14 29 (5.85%) Spring Boot
15 27 (5.44%) CSS3
16 23 (4.64%) ASP.NET
17 17 (3.43%) Flask
18 14 (2.82%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.06%) Replication
3 28 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.62%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.62%) NHS
6 13 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.62%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.61%) IoT
9 8 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.41%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.01%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 137 (27.62%) Linux
2 31 (6.25%) Windows
3 26 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.84%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.82%) CentOS
5 14 (2.82%) Debian
6 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.60%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) Rocky
11 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (34.27%) Agile
2 130 (26.21%) CI/CD
3 123 (24.80%) Software Engineering
4 111 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (21.37%) Microservices
6 92 (18.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (17.14%) DevOps
8 76 (15.32%) AI
9 71 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.30%) Mentoring
11 55 (11.09%) Containerisation
12 54 (10.89%) Data Modelling
13 50 (10.08%) Clean Code
14 48 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (9.68%) Computer Science
15 45 (9.07%) Web Development
16 44 (8.87%) TDD
17 42 (8.47%) High Availability
18 39 (7.86%) Open Source
19 38 (7.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 188 (37.90%) SQL
2 169 (34.07%) JavaScript
3 144 (29.03%) PHP
4 109 (21.98%) Python
5 92 (18.55%) Java
6 73 (14.72%) C#
7 43 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 34 (6.85%) Bash
9 25 (5.04%) C++
9 25 (5.04%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.62%) Go
12 11 (2.22%) Ruby
12 11 (2.22%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.41%) Korn
13 7 (1.41%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.21%) C
14 6 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.81%) Perl
15 4 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (15.52%) Degree
2 34 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.62%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.41%) HNC
7 7 (1.41%) HND
8 6 (1.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.60%) RHCE
11 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.27%) QA
2 34 (6.85%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.62%) GDPR
6 7 (1.41%) HL7
6 7 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.41%) SLA
7 5 (1.01%) WCAG
8 4 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 103 (20.77%) Docker
2 35 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.02%) vSphere
5 9 (1.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.60%) iptables
8 3 (0.60%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.45%) Terraform
3 28 (5.65%) Ansible
4 21 (4.23%) Grafana
5 11 (2.22%) Nagios
6 10 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.41%) Puppet
8 4 (0.81%) Argo
8 4 (0.81%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Plesk
9 3 (0.60%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.60%) Rancher
9 3 (0.60%) systemd
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.20%) Graylog
11 1 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.85%) Oracle
3 22 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.63%) VMware
5 16 (3.23%) Splunk
6 12 (2.42%) Google
7 11 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.81%) Dell
8 9 (1.81%) Rapid7
8 9 (1.81%) Veeam
9 7 (1.41%) Adobe
9 7 (1.41%) Cisco
10 6 (1.21%) Synology
11 5 (1.01%) Meraki
12 4 (0.81%) Databricks
12 4 (0.81%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.81%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.60%) BT
13 3 (0.60%) Mitel