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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 244 179
Rank change year-on-year -86 -65 -27
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 587 630 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.60% 8.28% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 456 495 1,053
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% -2.66%

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 8,893 7,605 13,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 15.39% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,961 4,902 9,325
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +1.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,938 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £111,250
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -91 523 £54,000 +2.86% 124
UK excluding London -68 408 £50,000 -2.44% 106
Work from Home -56 211 £52,500 +5.00% 55
North of England -15 138 £47,500 -9.52% 33
London -61 134 £85,000 +36.00% 36
South East -29 112 £55,000 +4.76% 32
North West -18 58 £51,065 -11.19% 20
Midlands -44 53 £42,500 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -14 50 £42,500 -12.82% 7
South West -74 40 £52,500 -4.55% 7
East of England -38 35 £47,500 - 8
North East -36 30 £43,750 -7.89% 6
East Midlands -13 29 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -29 24 £47,500 +15.15% 12
Wales -60 18 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland +6 12 £51,000 -11.30% 5

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 (4.43%) Apache
2 19 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.24%) IIS
2 19 (3.24%) WordPress
3 17 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.73%) Confluence
5 13 (2.21%) Apache Spark
6 12 (2.04%) CMS
7 7 (1.19%) Drupal
7 7 (1.19%) nginx
8 5 (0.85%) JBoss
9 4 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.17%) Moodle
12 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 311 (52.98%) AWS
2 177 (30.15%) Azure
3 83 (14.14%) GCP
4 46 (7.84%) GitHub
5 37 (6.30%) SaaS
6 33 (5.62%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.94%) Serverless
8 26 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 26 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (3.24%) GitHub Copilot
12 18 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
16 12 (2.04%) OpenShift
17 11 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.75%) Firewall
2 13 (2.21%) Broadband
3 11 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.87%) VPN
4 9 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.36%) DNS
5 8 (1.36%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.36%) SAN
6 7 (1.19%) VoIP
7 6 (1.02%) VLAN
8 5 (0.85%) LAN
8 5 (0.85%) Network Security
8 5 (0.85%) WAN
9 4 (0.68%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.51%) DHCP
10 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.51%) Internet
10 3 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (32.54%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (26.58%) SQL Server
3 104 (17.72%) Relational Database
4 94 (16.01%) MongoDB
5 78 (13.29%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.62%) MariaDB
7 30 (5.11%) Power BI
8 26 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.07%) Metadata
12 17 (2.90%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.90%) Redis
13 15 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.39%) Big Data
15 13 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.70%) RDBMS
17 9 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
17 9 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 138 (23.51%) Git
2 36 (6.13%) GitLab
3 34 (5.79%) JIRA
4 32 (5.45%) Claude Code
5 21 (3.58%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.87%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.02%) JUnit
8 6 (1.02%) Selenium
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.85%) RSpec
10 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.68%) minitest
10 4 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.51%) Maven
11 3 (0.51%) Mocha
11 3 (0.51%) Mockito
12 2 (0.34%) NUnit
12 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.70%) Finance
3 72 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.84%) Law
6 24 (4.09%) Banking
7 21 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.56%) Health Technology
10 12 (2.04%) Marketing
10 12 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.70%) Retail
12 7 (1.19%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.02%) Advertising
13 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.85%) Legal
15 3 (0.51%) Local Government
15 3 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 249 (42.42%) Developer
2 147 (25.04%) Senior
3 75 (12.78%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.27%) Software Engineer
5 71 (12.10%) PHP Developer
6 57 (9.71%) Lead
7 43 (7.33%) Software Developer
8 38 (6.47%) Administrator
8 38 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.45%) DBA
10 28 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (4.43%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.26%) Database Engineer
12 25 (4.26%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.09%) Web Developer
14 23 (3.92%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.92%) Java Developer
15 21 (3.58%) Backend Developer
16 20 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (3.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (24.53%) CSS
2 125 (21.29%) HTML
3 100 (17.04%) React
4 90 (15.33%) RESTful
5 85 (14.48%) Laravel
6 75 (12.78%) .NET
7 65 (11.07%) Vue
8 64 (10.90%) Node.js
9 62 (10.56%) REST
10 43 (7.33%) jQuery
10 43 (7.33%) Kafka
11 42 (7.16%) Spring
12 40 (6.81%) Spring Boot
13 36 (6.13%) HTML5
14 33 (5.62%) AngularJS
15 30 (5.11%) ASP.NET
16 29 (4.94%) CSS3
16 29 (4.94%) JSON
17 22 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
18 21 (3.58%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.67%) Replication
3 34 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.43%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.90%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.39%) NHS
9 13 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.70%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.36%) IoT
13 7 (1.19%) Social Media
14 5 (0.85%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 153 (26.06%) Linux
2 34 (5.79%) Windows
3 28 (4.77%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.07%) CentOS
6 17 (2.90%) Debian
7 10 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.51%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (34.41%) Agile
2 160 (27.26%) CI/CD
3 153 (26.06%) Software Engineering
4 142 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (21.29%) Microservices
6 108 (18.40%) DevOps
7 98 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (16.52%) AI
9 93 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (13.80%) Mentoring
11 64 (10.90%) Clean Code
12 62 (10.56%) Web Development
13 59 (10.05%) OOP
14 57 (9.71%) Containerisation
14 57 (9.71%) Data Modelling
15 55 (9.37%) TDD
16 54 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 53 (9.03%) High Availability
18 52 (8.86%) Computer Science
19 51 (8.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 220 (37.48%) SQL
2 204 (34.75%) JavaScript
3 163 (27.77%) PHP
4 130 (22.15%) Python
5 106 (18.06%) Java
6 83 (14.14%) C#
7 52 (8.86%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.79%) Bash
9 27 (4.60%) Shell Script
10 24 (4.09%) C++
11 20 (3.41%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.07%) Ruby
13 13 (2.21%) Go
13 13 (2.21%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.19%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.02%) Korn
15 6 (1.02%) Scala
16 5 (0.85%) Perl
17 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (13.97%) Degree
2 37 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 34 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.19%) HNC
6 7 (1.19%) HND
7 6 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.51%) RHCE
10 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.52%) QA
2 39 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.87%) GDPR
6 7 (1.19%) HL7
6 7 (1.19%) SLA
7 5 (0.85%) WCAG
8 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 135 (23.00%) Docker
2 31 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.70%) vSphere
5 9 (1.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) iptables
7 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.01%) Terraform
3 28 (4.77%) Ansible
3 28 (4.77%) Grafana
4 15 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.39%) Nagios
6 6 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.02%) Puppet
7 4 (0.68%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.51%) Plesk
8 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.51%) systemd
8 3 (0.51%) WSUS
9 2 (0.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 69 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.81%) Oracle
3 25 (4.26%) Google
4 23 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.58%) Splunk
6 18 (3.07%) VMware
7 17 (2.90%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.87%) Dell
8 11 (1.87%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.87%) Veeam
9 7 (1.19%) Adobe
9 7 (1.19%) Cisco
10 6 (1.02%) Databricks
10 6 (1.02%) Synology
11 5 (0.85%) Informatica
11 5 (0.85%) Meraki
12 4 (0.68%) IBM
12 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.68%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.68%) WooCommerce