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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 225 161
Rank change year-on-year -134 -64 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 454 672 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.53% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.73% 9.30% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 365 545 1,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £81,250
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 7,919 7,226 17,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.45% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,833 4,857 12,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,400 £115,000 £97,500
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -111 418 £55,000 - 134
UK excluding London -115 310 £50,000 - 114
Work from Home -48 169 £52,130 -0.70% 56
London -70 107 £75,000 +25.00% 31
North of England -59 104 £50,000 -4.76% 45
South East -58 87 £55,000 +10.00% 34
North West -30 48 £55,000 - 24
Midlands -51 46 £42,500 -10.53% 14
Yorkshire -33 43 £49,000 +3.16% 18
South West -81 36 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East of England -34 27 £47,500 +15.15% 9
East Midlands -31 25 £36,250 -9.38% 6
West Midlands -52 21 £47,500 -7.77% 8
North East -40 13 £47,500 -8.43% 3
Scotland -16 5 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Wales -41 3 £35,000 +7.69% 2
Northern Ireland -41 2 £62,500 -26.47% 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 19 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.96%) CMS
2 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.74%) Apache
3 17 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.30%) nginx
5 14 (3.08%) WordPress
6 11 (2.42%) Confluence
6 11 (2.42%) IIS
7 7 (1.54%) Drupal
8 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.66%) JBoss
8 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Camunda
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.54%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 216 (47.58%) AWS
2 121 (26.65%) Azure
3 62 (13.66%) GCP
4 42 (9.25%) SaaS
5 30 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (5.95%) GitHub
6 27 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 26 (5.73%) Serverless
8 17 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.63%) Firewall
2 18 (3.96%) VPN
3 9 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.76%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.76%) SAN
5 7 (1.54%) Broadband
5 7 (1.54%) DNS
5 7 (1.54%) Network Security
5 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.10%) VLAN
7 4 (0.88%) VoIP
7 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) DHCP
8 3 (0.66%) HTTP
8 3 (0.66%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.66%) RTP
8 3 (0.66%) SSH
8 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (28.63%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (23.79%) SQL Server
3 76 (16.74%) MongoDB
4 72 (15.86%) NoSQL
5 68 (14.98%) Relational Database
6 26 (5.73%) MariaDB
7 25 (5.51%) Power BI
8 24 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (4.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 16 (3.52%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.64%) DynamoDB
13 11 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (1.76%) Big Data
16 8 (1.76%) Neo4j
17 7 (1.54%) Oracle Database
18 6 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (21.81%) Git
2 23 (5.07%) GitLab
3 18 (3.96%) JIRA
4 10 (2.20%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.20%) PHPUnit
5 8 (1.76%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.10%) JUnit
7 4 (0.88%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.88%) Mockito
7 4 (0.88%) NUnit
7 4 (0.88%) Vite
8 3 (0.66%) Gradle
8 3 (0.66%) Maven
8 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.44%) Selenium
9 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Ant
10 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 101 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.88%) Finance
3 48 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.29%) Law
6 21 (4.63%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.08%) Banking
7 14 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.08%) Retail
8 11 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.54%) Advertising
9 7 (1.54%) Marketing
9 7 (1.54%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.88%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Front Office
13 3 (0.66%) Local Government
14 2 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 185 (40.75%) Developer
2 103 (22.69%) Senior
3 58 (12.78%) PHP Developer
4 50 (11.01%) Senior Developer
5 43 (9.47%) Software Engineer
6 39 (8.59%) Lead
7 36 (7.93%) Software Developer
8 33 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (5.95%) Administrator
10 26 (5.73%) DBA
11 24 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.63%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 20 (4.41%) Analyst
13 20 (4.41%) C# Developer
14 18 (3.96%) Support Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Backend Developer
16 16 (3.52%) Senior Backend Developer
17 15 (3.30%) C# Software Developer
18 14 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
18 14 (3.08%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (23.13%) CSS
2 95 (20.93%) HTML
3 75 (16.52%) Laravel
4 73 (16.08%) RESTful
5 68 (14.98%) React
6 55 (12.11%) Vue
7 52 (11.45%) Node.js
8 51 (11.23%) .NET
9 41 (9.03%) REST
10 35 (7.71%) JSON
11 34 (7.49%) AngularJS
12 29 (6.39%) jQuery
13 28 (6.17%) HTML5
14 27 (5.95%) CSS3
15 25 (5.51%) Kafka
16 22 (4.85%) Spring
17 19 (4.19%) Spring Boot
18 18 (3.96%) .NET Core
19 16 (3.52%) ASP.NET
20 12 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.61%) Replication
3 21 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.08%) NHS
7 14 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.42%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.20%) IoT
11 9 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.10%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 116 (25.55%) Linux
2 26 (5.73%) Windows
3 24 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.30%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.64%) CentOS
6 10 (2.20%) Debian
6 10 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (30.62%) Agile
2 96 (21.15%) CI/CD
3 90 (19.82%) Microservices
3 90 (19.82%) Software Engineering
4 87 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 67 (14.76%) DevOps
7 58 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (10.79%) Containerisation
8 49 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (10.79%) Mentoring
8 49 (10.79%) TDD
9 47 (10.35%) Web Development
10 45 (9.91%) AI
10 45 (9.91%) Data Modelling
11 38 (8.37%) Computer Science
12 36 (7.93%) Analytics
13 34 (7.49%) Clean Code
13 34 (7.49%) OOP
13 34 (7.49%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 175 (38.55%) SQL
2 155 (34.14%) JavaScript
3 151 (33.26%) PHP
4 90 (19.82%) Python
5 77 (16.96%) Java
6 59 (13.00%) C#
7 41 (9.03%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.39%) Bash
9 25 (5.51%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.96%) C++
11 14 (3.08%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.08%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.64%) Go
13 10 (2.20%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.76%) Scala
15 7 (1.54%) Korn
16 6 (1.32%) C
17 4 (0.88%) Perl
18 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
18 3 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (13.22%) Degree
2 31 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.54%) HNC
5 7 (1.54%) HND
6 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.66%) RHCE
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.44%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.05%) QA
2 29 (6.39%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.20%) HL7
5 9 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.98%) GDPR
6 7 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.54%) SLA
7 5 (1.10%) WCAG
8 4 (0.88%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (16.30%) Docker
2 31 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.76%) vSphere
6 5 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.66%) iptables
8 3 (0.66%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.44%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.73%) Terraform
3 24 (5.29%) Ansible
4 17 (3.74%) Grafana
5 10 (2.20%) Nagios
6 7 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.32%) Puppet
8 5 (1.10%) Argo
9 4 (0.88%) Rancher
10 3 (0.66%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.66%) Plesk
10 3 (0.66%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.66%) systemd
10 3 (0.66%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Graylog
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.95%) Oracle
3 21 (4.63%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.30%) VMware
5 13 (2.86%) Google
6 11 (2.42%) Splunk
7 8 (1.76%) Dell
8 7 (1.54%) Adobe
8 7 (1.54%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.54%) Veeam
9 6 (1.32%) Cisco
9 6 (1.32%) Informatica
9 6 (1.32%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.32%) SAP
10 5 (1.10%) Meraki
10 5 (1.10%) Synology
10 5 (1.10%) Talend
10 5 (1.10%) WooCommerce
11 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.88%) Salesforce