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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 244 176
Rank change year-on-year -95 -68 -20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 594 632 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.63% 8.30% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 453 492 1,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.06%
75th Percentile £74,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -1.92%

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 8,963 7,616 13,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 15.35% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,984 4,888 8,735
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,327
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £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 5 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 5 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 -83 529 £55,000 +4.76% 202
UK excluding London -76 408 £50,000 - 128
Work from Home -62 212 £54,000 +8.00% 99
London -69 140 £85,000 +34.92% 102
North of England -25 134 £47,500 -9.52% 33
South East -18 117 £55,000 +2.33% 39
North West -22 55 £52,130 -9.34% 21
Midlands -36 53 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -16 48 £42,500 -12.37% 7
East of England -44 37 £47,500 - 9
South West -76 37 £52,500 +1.74% 12
North East -38 31 £43,750 -2.78% 5
East Midlands -12 30 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -40 23 £51,250 +24.24% 10
Wales -54 18 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +9 12 £51,000 -15.00% 8

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 (4.38%) Apache
2 21 (3.54%) IIS
3 20 (3.37%) WordPress
4 18 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.69%) Confluence
5 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 11 (1.85%) CMS
8 7 (1.18%) Drupal
8 7 (1.18%) nginx
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 316 (53.20%) AWS
2 178 (29.97%) Azure
3 84 (14.14%) GCP
4 50 (8.42%) GitHub
5 35 (5.89%) SaaS
6 32 (5.39%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.88%) Serverless
8 26 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 20 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (2.02%) OpenShift
18 11 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.70%) Firewall
2 13 (2.19%) Broadband
3 11 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.85%) VPN
4 9 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.35%) DNS
5 8 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.35%) SAN
6 6 (1.01%) VLAN
6 6 (1.01%) VoIP
7 5 (0.84%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) Network Security
7 5 (0.84%) WAN
8 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.51%) DHCP
9 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.51%) Internet
9 3 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (32.83%) PostgreSQL
2 159 (26.77%) SQL Server
3 109 (18.35%) Relational Database
4 92 (15.49%) MongoDB
5 76 (12.79%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.56%) MariaDB
7 28 (4.71%) Power BI
8 26 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.03%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.03%) Metadata
11 17 (2.86%) Redis
12 16 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (2.19%) Big Data
15 9 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (1.52%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 139 (23.40%) Git
2 37 (6.23%) GitLab
3 35 (5.89%) Claude Code
4 33 (5.56%) JIRA
5 21 (3.54%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.68%) PHPUnit
8 7 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.01%) JUnit
9 6 (1.01%) Selenium
9 6 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.84%) RSpec
11 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) minitest
11 4 (0.67%) Mocha
12 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.51%) Maven
12 3 (0.51%) Mockito
12 3 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.34%) Finance
3 76 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.59%) Law
6 26 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.87%) Banking
8 18 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.53%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.36%) Marketing
11 12 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.85%) Retail
13 7 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 4 (0.67%) Advertising
17 3 (0.51%) Local Government
18 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 252 (42.42%) Developer
2 150 (25.25%) Senior
3 76 (12.79%) Senior Developer
3 76 (12.79%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.95%) PHP Developer
5 60 (10.10%) Lead
6 44 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 37 (6.23%) Administrator
8 36 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (5.22%) DBA
10 30 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (4.88%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.21%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.21%) Web Developer
13 24 (4.04%) Database Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.70%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) Java Developer
14 22 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.54%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (24.75%) CSS
2 127 (21.38%) HTML
3 101 (17.00%) React
4 89 (14.98%) RESTful
5 83 (13.97%) .NET
5 83 (13.97%) Laravel
6 63 (10.61%) Node.js
6 63 (10.61%) REST
7 62 (10.44%) Vue
8 46 (7.74%) Kafka
9 45 (7.58%) jQuery
10 40 (6.73%) Spring
11 39 (6.57%) Spring Boot
12 36 (6.06%) HTML5
13 34 (5.72%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.72%) ASP.NET
14 29 (4.88%) CSS3
15 28 (4.71%) JSON
16 23 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
17 21 (3.54%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.41%) Replication
3 35 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.87%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.36%) NHS
10 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.85%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.18%) IoT
14 7 (1.18%) Social Media
15 5 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 154 (25.93%) Linux
2 34 (5.72%) Windows
3 27 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.20%) Debian
6 18 (3.03%) CentOS
7 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.51%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (34.51%) Agile
2 166 (27.95%) CI/CD
3 160 (26.94%) Software Engineering
4 148 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.88%) Microservices
6 111 (18.69%) DevOps
7 99 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (16.33%) AI
9 95 (15.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 84 (14.14%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.78%) Clean Code
12 65 (10.94%) Web Development
13 63 (10.61%) OOP
14 58 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (9.43%) Containerisation
16 55 (9.26%) Data Modelling
16 55 (9.26%) TDD
17 54 (9.09%) Computer Science
17 54 (9.09%) High Availability
18 53 (8.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 219 (36.87%) SQL
2 205 (34.51%) JavaScript
3 163 (27.44%) PHP
4 133 (22.39%) Python
5 108 (18.18%) Java
6 88 (14.81%) C#
7 55 (9.26%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.56%) Bash
9 27 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.70%) C++
11 18 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.03%) Ruby
12 15 (2.53%) VB.NET
13 14 (2.36%) Go
14 7 (1.18%) Scala
15 6 (1.01%) Korn
16 5 (0.84%) Perl
16 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (14.48%) Degree
2 38 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.18%) HNC
6 7 (1.18%) HND
7 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.51%) RHCE
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.42%) QA
2 38 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.85%) GDPR
4 11 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.18%) HL7
6 6 (1.01%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 135 (22.73%) Docker
2 31 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 9 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.08%) Terraform
3 28 (4.71%) Ansible
3 28 (4.71%) Grafana
4 15 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.36%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.67%) 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%) kaniko
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 70 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.58%) Oracle
3 26 (4.38%) Google
4 24 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.54%) Splunk
6 18 (3.03%) VMware
7 17 (2.86%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.85%) Dell
8 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.85%) Veeam
9 7 (1.18%) Adobe
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco
10 6 (1.01%) Databricks
10 6 (1.01%) Synology
11 5 (0.84%) Informatica
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
11 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.67%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce