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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 272 165
Rank change year-on-year -92 -107 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 559 511 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.04% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.41% 7.34% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 412 359 704
10th Percentile £36,825 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -5.68%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

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 8,719 6,964 11,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 14.16% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,963 4,332 6,384
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
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 15 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 15 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 -89 490 £55,000 - 70
UK excluding London -104 368 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Work from Home -86 176 £65,000 +30.00% 40
London -78 153 £80,000 +39.13% 21
North of England -23 131 £42,500 -19.05% 18
South East -43 90 £57,500 -4.17% 11
North West -19 59 £49,250 -17.92% 11
Yorkshire -19 41 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Midlands -48 37 £54,000 +30.91% 5
South West -73 37 £57,500 +27.78% 7
East of England -53 32 £48,750 - 10
North East -44 31 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Wales -57 27 £62,000 -8.15%
West Midlands -51 19 £55,000 +41.03% 4
East Midlands -22 18 £40,000 -11.11% 1
Scotland +18 12 £40,000 -46.67% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

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 31 (5.55%) IIS
2 24 (4.29%) Apache
3 23 (4.11%) WordPress
4 12 (2.15%) CMS
4 12 (2.15%) Confluence
5 10 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.79%) Drupal
5 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.89%) JBoss
8 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.72%) nginx
9 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Elementor
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Shopify
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 291 (52.06%) AWS
2 168 (30.05%) Azure
3 83 (14.85%) GCP
4 56 (10.02%) GitHub
5 31 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.83%) SaaS
7 25 (4.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 24 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 21 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.76%) Serverless
10 17 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (2.50%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.50%) OpenShift
14 13 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.40%) DNS
3 13 (2.33%) Broadband
3 13 (2.33%) VPN
4 11 (1.97%) Firewall
5 9 (1.61%) VLAN
5 9 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.43%) DHCP
7 6 (1.07%) VoIP
8 5 (0.89%) HTTP
9 4 (0.72%) Internet
9 4 (0.72%) LAN
9 4 (0.72%) SSH
9 4 (0.72%) WAN
10 3 (0.54%) 4G
10 3 (0.54%) 5G
10 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.54%) SSL
11 2 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (34.88%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (27.91%) SQL Server
3 115 (20.57%) Relational Database
4 101 (18.07%) MongoDB
5 67 (11.99%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.72%) Redis
7 30 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (5.01%) Power BI
9 26 (4.65%) MariaDB
10 20 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.58%) Metadata
11 19 (3.40%) DynamoDB
12 16 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.97%) Big Data
13 11 (1.97%) Tableau
14 10 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 160 (28.62%) Git
2 47 (8.41%) Claude Code
3 41 (7.33%) GitLab
4 27 (4.83%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.47%) JIRA
6 14 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.25%) Selenium
9 5 (0.89%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) Postman
9 5 (0.89%) RSpec
10 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.72%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.72%) minitest
10 4 (0.72%) Mocha
10 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.54%) Maven
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.54%) PHPUnit
General
1 127 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 95 (16.99%) Finance
3 93 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.52%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.38%) Law
6 34 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.72%) Banking
8 24 (4.29%) Marketing
9 18 (3.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.43%) Retail
12 7 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.89%) Legal
13 5 (0.89%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.72%) Billing
15 3 (0.54%) Local Government
15 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (41.32%) Developer
2 161 (28.80%) Senior
3 85 (15.21%) Senior Developer
4 73 (13.06%) Software Engineer
5 58 (10.38%) PHP Developer
6 52 (9.30%) Lead
7 49 (8.77%) Administrator
8 45 (8.05%) DBA
9 39 (6.98%) Software Developer
10 31 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 28 (5.01%) Database Engineer
12 28 (5.01%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.83%) .NET Developer
13 27 (4.83%) C# Developer
14 22 (3.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.94%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.76%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.76%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.22%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (22.72%) CSS
2 114 (20.39%) HTML
3 103 (18.43%) React
4 89 (15.92%) .NET
5 87 (15.56%) RESTful
6 68 (12.16%) Laravel
6 68 (12.16%) REST
7 59 (10.55%) Terraform
8 52 (9.30%) Vue
9 51 (9.12%) Kafka
10 50 (8.94%) Node.js
11 47 (8.41%) Spring
11 47 (8.41%) Spring Boot
12 39 (6.98%) ASP.NET
12 39 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
13 35 (6.26%) jQuery
14 33 (5.90%) HTML5
15 31 (5.55%) Hibernate
16 30 (5.37%) AngularJS
17 27 (4.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.69%) Replication
4 26 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.65%) Virtual Team
5 20 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
10 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.07%) NHS
11 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.89%) Educational Technology
11 5 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 164 (29.34%) Linux
2 38 (6.80%) Windows
3 27 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.47%) Ubuntu
5 17 (3.04%) Debian
6 14 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.33%) CentOS
8 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.54%) Android
10 3 (0.54%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (35.42%) Agile
2 177 (31.66%) CI/CD
2 177 (31.66%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (31.13%) Software Engineering
4 131 (23.43%) DevOps
5 121 (21.65%) Microservices
6 116 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 108 (19.32%) AI
8 88 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (15.74%) Mentoring
9 78 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (13.77%) Clean Code
11 68 (12.16%) Scrum
12 66 (11.81%) Containerisation
13 64 (11.45%) High Availability
13 64 (11.45%) Observability
14 60 (10.73%) OOP
15 59 (10.55%) Web Development
16 51 (9.12%) Event-Driven
16 51 (9.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 198 (35.42%) SQL
2 183 (32.74%) JavaScript
3 140 (25.04%) Python
4 131 (23.43%) PHP
5 96 (17.17%) Java
6 85 (15.21%) C#
7 69 (12.34%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.62%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.19%) Bash
10 23 (4.11%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.04%) Ruby
12 15 (2.68%) C++
12 15 (2.68%) Go
13 12 (2.15%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.07%) Rust
15 5 (0.89%) Perl
15 5 (0.89%) Scala
16 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.54%) SOQL
16 3 (0.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 61 (10.91%) Degree
2 45 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.54%) HNC
8 3 (0.54%) HND
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) OCP
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.24%) QA
2 32 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (1.43%) WCAG
6 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.72%) HL7
8 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 153 (27.37%) Docker
2 20 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.54%) vSphere
6 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.36%) Firmware
6 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) iptables
7 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 103 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.41%) Grafana
3 29 (5.19%) Ansible
4 26 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.79%) Nagios
6 8 (1.43%) WSUS
7 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.07%) Puppet
8 5 (0.89%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Plesk
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Rsyslog
9 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.27%) Oracle
3 32 (5.72%) Splunk
4 29 (5.19%) Google
5 16 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.68%) VMware
7 10 (1.79%) Dell
7 10 (1.79%) Veeam
8 9 (1.61%) HP
8 9 (1.61%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.43%) Aruba
9 8 (1.43%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.43%) NetApp
9 8 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.43%) SonicWALL
9 8 (1.43%) WooCommerce
10 7 (1.25%) Databricks
11 5 (0.89%) Adobe
11 5 (0.89%) Salesforce