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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 250 178
Rank change year-on-year -74 -72 +6
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 600 609 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.22% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.71% 8.14% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 454 468 967
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +1.87% -5.31%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%

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 8,938 7,481 12,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.32% 14.99% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 4,780 8,481
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,755 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,600 £112,500
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 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 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 19 August 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 -67 534 £55,000 +4.76% 191
UK excluding London -68 409 £50,000 - 108
Work from Home -70 203 £60,000 +20.00% 79
London -48 144 £85,000 +33.86% 106
North of England -22 133 £42,500 -19.05% 29
South East -20 113 £55,000 - 31
North West -32 55 £50,000 -13.79% 17
Midlands -40 52 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Yorkshire -8 46 £42,500 -13.27% 4
South West -68 43 £55,000 +15.79% 10
East of England -43 36 £47,500 - 13
North East -39 32 £42,500 -10.53% 8
East Midlands -8 30 £37,500 -21.05% 2
West Midlands -36 22 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Wales -60 20 £65,000 +1.96% 4
Scotland -4 12 £51,000 -9.33% 7

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 26 (4.33%) Apache
2 23 (3.83%) IIS
3 19 (3.17%) WordPress
4 16 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.67%) Confluence
5 13 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.83%) CMS
7 7 (1.17%) Drupal
8 6 (1.00%) nginx
9 5 (0.83%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 312 (52.00%) AWS
2 166 (27.67%) Azure
3 87 (14.50%) GCP
4 57 (9.50%) GitHub
5 32 (5.33%) SaaS
6 29 (4.83%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.67%) Serverless
8 27 (4.50%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.17%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.67%) Firewall
2 13 (2.17%) Broadband
3 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.83%) VPN
4 9 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.33%) DNS
5 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.33%) SAN
6 6 (1.00%) VLAN
6 6 (1.00%) VoIP
7 5 (0.83%) LAN
7 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 5 (0.83%) WAN
8 4 (0.67%) Internet
8 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) DHCP
9 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (27.67%) SQL Server
3 118 (19.67%) Relational Database
4 87 (14.50%) MongoDB
5 69 (11.50%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.67%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (4.17%) Power BI
9 21 (3.50%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.00%) Metadata
12 17 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.83%) Redis
13 14 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.17%) Big Data
15 12 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.50%) Electronic Patient Records
16 9 (1.50%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (24.33%) Git
2 37 (6.17%) Claude Code
2 37 (6.17%) GitLab
3 31 (5.17%) JIRA
4 25 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.67%) PHPUnit
7 9 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.00%) JUnit
9 6 (1.00%) Selenium
10 5 (0.83%) RSpec
11 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) minitest
11 4 (0.67%) Mocha
12 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.50%) git-flow
12 3 (0.50%) Mockito
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 133 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.33%) Finance
3 85 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.67%) Law
5 56 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.17%) Banking
8 18 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.50%) Marketing
10 11 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.67%) Retail
12 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.00%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.83%) Legal
15 4 (0.67%) Advertising
16 3 (0.50%) Games
16 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 254 (42.33%) Developer
2 157 (26.17%) Senior
3 79 (13.17%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.50%) PHP Developer
6 61 (10.17%) Lead
7 41 (6.83%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.17%) Administrator
8 37 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (5.17%) DBA
11 29 (4.83%) C# Developer
11 29 (4.83%) Database Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.00%) .NET Developer
14 23 (3.83%) Java Developer
14 23 (3.83%) Web Developer
15 22 (3.67%) Backend Developer
15 22 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (24.83%) CSS
2 134 (22.33%) HTML
3 107 (17.83%) React
4 90 (15.00%) .NET
5 82 (13.67%) Laravel
6 80 (13.33%) RESTful
7 64 (10.67%) Node.js
7 64 (10.67%) REST
8 62 (10.33%) Vue
9 51 (8.50%) Kafka
10 44 (7.33%) Spring Boot
11 43 (7.17%) jQuery
11 43 (7.17%) Spring
12 38 (6.33%) AngularJS
13 37 (6.17%) HTML5
14 36 (6.00%) ASP.NET
15 30 (5.00%) CSS3
16 28 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (4.33%) .NET Framework
18 25 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.17%) Replication
3 38 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.17%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.33%) NHS
11 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.83%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.33%) IoT
14 7 (1.17%) Social Media
15 6 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
15 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.00%) Linux
2 34 (5.67%) Windows
3 27 (4.50%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.33%) Debian
6 18 (3.00%) CentOS
7 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (32.83%) Agile
2 172 (28.67%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (27.33%) Software Engineering
5 119 (19.83%) DevOps
6 117 (19.50%) Microservices
7 111 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 98 (16.33%) AI
10 76 (12.67%) Clean Code
10 76 (12.67%) Mentoring
11 69 (11.50%) Web Development
12 65 (10.83%) OOP
13 64 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 61 (10.17%) Containerisation
14 61 (10.17%) High Availability
15 56 (9.33%) Scrum
16 51 (8.50%) Data Modelling
17 50 (8.33%) Observability
18 47 (7.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 209 (34.83%) SQL
2 207 (34.50%) JavaScript
3 159 (26.50%) PHP
4 136 (22.67%) Python
5 99 (16.50%) Java
6 88 (14.67%) C#
7 60 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.50%) Shell Script
9 32 (5.33%) Bash
10 19 (3.17%) C++
11 17 (2.83%) Ruby
11 17 (2.83%) VB.NET
12 15 (2.50%) Go
12 15 (2.50%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.00%) Korn
13 6 (1.00%) Scala
14 5 (0.83%) Perl
15 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.50%) SOQL
16 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (14.00%) Degree
2 44 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (3.83%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.17%) HNC
6 7 (1.17%) HND
7 5 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.50%) RHCE
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.67%) QA
2 34 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.67%) GDPR
5 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.33%) SLA
6 7 (1.17%) HL7
7 5 (0.83%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 141 (23.50%) Docker
2 28 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.67%) vSphere
5 9 (1.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.33%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 54 (9.00%) Terraform
3 30 (5.00%) Grafana
4 29 (4.83%) Ansible
5 17 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.33%) Nagios
7 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.00%) Puppet
8 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.50%) Plesk
9 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) systemd
9 3 (0.50%) WSUS
10 2 (0.33%) kaniko
10 2 (0.33%) Kibana
10 2 (0.33%) Rancher
10 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 73 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.17%) Oracle
3 28 (4.67%) Google
4 25 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.83%) Splunk
6 18 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 18 (3.00%) VMware
7 11 (1.83%) Dell
7 11 (1.83%) Rapid7
7 11 (1.83%) Veeam
8 7 (1.17%) Adobe
8 7 (1.17%) Cisco
9 6 (1.00%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.00%) Synology
10 5 (0.83%) Informatica
10 5 (0.83%) Meraki
11 4 (0.67%) IBM
11 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce