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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 213 159
Rank change year-on-year -150 -54 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 446 688 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.56% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.64% 9.43% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 359 559 1,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,375 £41,250
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 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £84,625
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 7,907 7,297 17,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.56% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 4,910 12,504
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 £77,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £96,539
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 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 19 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 -127 411 £54,000 -1.82% 147
UK excluding London -120 307 £50,000 - 127
Work from Home -49 166 £52,130 -0.70% 53
London -71 103 £75,000 +22.45% 32
North of England -58 99 £50,000 -4.76% 49
South East -58 85 £55,000 +10.00% 40
North West -29 48 £55,000 - 27
Midlands -52 47 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -48 39 £49,500 +4.21% 18
South West -82 37 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East of England -39 29 £48,750 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -34 26 £37,500 -6.25% 7
West Midlands -30 21 £47,500 -7.77% 6
North East -39 12 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Scotland -19 5 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Wales -44 3 £35,000 -9.68% 3
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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.04%) CMS
3 16 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.36%) Apache
4 15 (3.36%) nginx
5 14 (3.14%) WordPress
6 11 (2.47%) Confluence
6 11 (2.47%) IIS
7 7 (1.57%) Drupal
8 4 (0.90%) JBoss
8 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.22%) Camunda
11 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.57%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.69%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Magento
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (46.86%) AWS
2 117 (26.23%) Azure
3 62 (13.90%) GCP
4 42 (9.42%) SaaS
5 31 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.05%) GitHub
7 26 (5.83%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.38%) Serverless
9 17 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.91%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.71%) Firewall
2 18 (4.04%) VPN
3 9 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.79%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.79%) SAN
5 7 (1.57%) Broadband
5 7 (1.57%) DNS
5 7 (1.57%) Network Security
5 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.12%) VLAN
7 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) HTTP
8 3 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.67%) MQTT
8 3 (0.67%) RTP
8 3 (0.67%) SSH
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
8 3 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (27.58%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (24.44%) SQL Server
3 71 (15.92%) MongoDB
4 68 (15.25%) NoSQL
5 66 (14.80%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.38%) MariaDB
6 24 (5.38%) Power BI
7 23 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 16 (3.59%) RDBMS
10 15 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.69%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.79%) Big Data
15 8 (1.79%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.57%) Oracle Database
17 6 (1.35%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 100 (22.42%) Git
2 23 (5.16%) GitLab
3 17 (3.81%) JIRA
4 10 (2.24%) PHPUnit
5 9 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.12%) JUnit
8 4 (0.90%) Mockito
8 4 (0.90%) NUnit
8 4 (0.90%) Vite
9 3 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.67%) Gradle
9 3 (0.67%) Maven
10 2 (0.45%) Selenium
10 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.45%) Subversion
11 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.22%) MSTest
11 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (22.42%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.68%) Finance
3 47 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.83%) Law
6 21 (4.71%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.14%) Banking
7 14 (3.14%) Retail
8 13 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.57%) Advertising
10 7 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.35%) Marketing
12 5 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.90%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Front Office
15 2 (0.45%) Automotive
15 2 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 181 (40.58%) Developer
2 100 (22.42%) Senior
3 58 (13.00%) PHP Developer
4 49 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 40 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 37 (8.30%) Lead
7 35 (7.85%) Software Developer
8 33 (7.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.05%) Administrator
10 26 (5.83%) DBA
11 24 (5.38%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.48%) Analyst
12 20 (4.48%) C# Developer
12 20 (4.48%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 18 (4.04%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.81%) Backend Developer
15 16 (3.59%) Senior Backend Developer
16 15 (3.36%) C# Software Developer
16 15 (3.36%) Web Developer
17 14 (3.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (23.54%) CSS
2 95 (21.30%) HTML
3 75 (16.82%) Laravel
4 67 (15.02%) React
4 67 (15.02%) RESTful
5 53 (11.88%) Vue
6 49 (10.99%) Node.js
7 48 (10.76%) .NET
8 42 (9.42%) REST
9 35 (7.85%) JSON
10 32 (7.17%) AngularJS
11 28 (6.28%) HTML5
11 28 (6.28%) jQuery
12 27 (6.05%) CSS3
13 23 (5.16%) Kafka
14 22 (4.93%) Spring
15 19 (4.26%) Spring Boot
16 18 (4.04%) .NET Core
17 16 (3.59%) ASP.NET
18 13 (2.91%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.73%) Replication
3 21 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.14%) NHS
8 13 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.47%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.24%) IoT
11 9 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 115 (25.78%) Linux
2 27 (6.05%) Windows
3 24 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.14%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.69%) CentOS
6 10 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.02%) Debian
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.67%) Android
9 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.45%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.27%) Agile
2 96 (21.52%) CI/CD
3 86 (19.28%) Microservices
4 85 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (18.83%) Software Engineering
6 70 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (14.80%) DevOps
8 57 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (11.21%) Containerisation
10 49 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 48 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (10.54%) TDD
13 46 (10.31%) Web Development
14 42 (9.42%) Data Modelling
15 41 (9.19%) AI
16 36 (8.07%) Computer Science
17 35 (7.85%) Analytics
18 34 (7.62%) OOP
19 33 (7.40%) Test Automation
20 32 (7.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 175 (39.24%) SQL
2 150 (33.63%) JavaScript
2 150 (33.63%) PHP
3 84 (18.83%) Python
4 75 (16.82%) Java
5 58 (13.00%) C#
6 44 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.28%) Bash
8 25 (5.61%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.04%) C++
10 14 (3.14%) PL/SQL
10 14 (3.14%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.69%) Go
12 10 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.79%) Scala
14 7 (1.57%) Korn
15 6 (1.35%) C
16 3 (0.67%) Perl
16 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (13.00%) Degree
2 30 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.35%) HNC
5 6 (1.35%) HND
5 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.67%) RHCE
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.17%) QA
2 28 (6.28%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.24%) HL7
5 9 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.02%) GDPR
6 7 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.57%) SLA
7 5 (1.12%) WCAG
8 4 (0.90%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (16.82%) Docker
2 32 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.79%) vSphere
6 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.67%) iptables
8 3 (0.67%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.45%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.05%) Terraform
3 24 (5.38%) Ansible
4 17 (3.81%) Grafana
5 10 (2.24%) Nagios
6 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.35%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) Argo
9 4 (0.90%) Rancher
10 3 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.67%) Plesk
10 3 (0.67%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.67%) systemd
10 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.45%) 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 53 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.05%) Oracle
3 21 (4.71%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.36%) VMware
5 13 (2.91%) Google
6 11 (2.47%) Splunk
7 8 (1.79%) Dell
8 7 (1.57%) Adobe
8 7 (1.57%) Informatica
8 7 (1.57%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.57%) Veeam
9 6 (1.35%) Cisco
9 6 (1.35%) SAP
9 6 (1.35%) Talend
10 5 (1.12%) Meraki
10 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.12%) Synology
10 5 (1.12%) WooCommerce
11 4 (0.90%) Databricks
11 4 (0.90%) Fortinet