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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 227 159
Rank change year-on-year -126 -68 -7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 452 642 1,736
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.50% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.70% 9.11% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 508 1,528
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £40,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £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 7,925 7,051 17,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.43% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,847 4,631 12,490
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 £95,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -108 416 £55,000 - 120
UK excluding London -105 307 £50,000 - 102
Work from Home -47 169 £52,130 -0.70% 51
London -72 108 £75,000 +25.00% 29
North of England -50 105 £50,000 -4.76% 42
South East -66 85 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North West -29 48 £55,000 - 22
Midlands -57 45 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Yorkshire -34 44 £47,000 -1.05% 16
South West -82 36 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -33 26 £47,500 - 9
East Midlands -43 24 £35,000 -17.65% 5
West Midlands -37 21 £47,500 -6.40% 5
North East -34 13 £47,500 -3.80% 4
Scotland -20 5 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Wales -44 3 £35,000 +7.69% 1
Northern Ireland -39 2 £62,500 -26.47% 2

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 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.98%) CMS
2 18 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.76%) Apache
3 17 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.32%) nginx
4 15 (3.32%) WordPress
5 11 (2.43%) Confluence
5 11 (2.43%) IIS
6 7 (1.55%) Drupal
7 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.66%) JBoss
7 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Camunda
9 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.55%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (47.35%) AWS
2 120 (26.55%) Azure
3 60 (13.27%) GCP
4 42 (9.29%) SaaS
5 30 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (5.97%) GitHub
6 27 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 26 (5.75%) Serverless
8 17 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (2.88%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.77%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.55%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (1.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.65%) Firewall
2 18 (3.98%) VPN
3 9 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.77%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.77%) SAN
5 7 (1.55%) Broadband
5 7 (1.55%) DNS
5 7 (1.55%) Network Security
5 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) 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
1 131 (28.98%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (23.89%) SQL Server
3 77 (17.04%) MongoDB
4 73 (16.15%) NoSQL
5 67 (14.82%) Relational Database
6 26 (5.75%) MariaDB
7 25 (5.53%) Power BI
8 24 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 16 (3.54%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.65%) DynamoDB
13 11 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.99%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (1.77%) Big Data
16 8 (1.77%) Neo4j
16 8 (1.77%) Oracle Database
17 6 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (21.68%) Git
2 23 (5.09%) GitLab
3 17 (3.76%) JIRA
4 10 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.21%) PHPUnit
5 8 (1.77%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.11%) 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%) MSTest
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 102 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.94%) Finance
3 47 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.31%) Law
6 21 (4.65%) Health Technology
7 15 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.10%) Banking
8 14 (3.10%) Retail
9 11 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.77%) Marketing
11 7 (1.55%) Advertising
11 7 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.88%) Social Housing
15 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.66%) Front Office
15 3 (0.66%) Legal
15 3 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 181 (40.04%) Developer
2 101 (22.35%) Senior
3 58 (12.83%) PHP Developer
4 48 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 43 (9.51%) Software Engineer
6 38 (8.41%) Lead
7 35 (7.74%) Software Developer
8 32 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (5.97%) Administrator
9 27 (5.97%) DBA
10 24 (5.31%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.65%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 20 (4.42%) Analyst
12 20 (4.42%) C# Developer
13 18 (3.98%) Support Engineer
14 16 (3.54%) Backend Developer
15 15 (3.32%) C# Software Developer
15 15 (3.32%) Senior Backend Developer
15 15 (3.32%) Web Developer
16 14 (3.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (23.45%) CSS
2 96 (21.24%) HTML
3 73 (16.15%) Laravel
4 72 (15.93%) RESTful
5 67 (14.82%) React
6 55 (12.17%) Vue
7 52 (11.50%) Node.js
8 51 (11.28%) .NET
9 42 (9.29%) REST
10 35 (7.74%) JSON
11 34 (7.52%) AngularJS
12 29 (6.42%) jQuery
13 28 (6.19%) HTML5
14 27 (5.97%) CSS3
15 25 (5.53%) Kafka
16 22 (4.87%) Spring
17 19 (4.20%) Spring Boot
18 18 (3.98%) .NET Core
19 16 (3.54%) ASP.NET
20 12 (2.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.64%) Replication
3 20 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.10%) NHS
7 14 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.21%) IoT
9 10 (2.21%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.33%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.11%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 117 (25.88%) Linux
2 27 (5.97%) Windows
3 25 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.32%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.65%) CentOS
6 10 (2.21%) Debian
6 10 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (30.75%) Agile
2 96 (21.24%) CI/CD
3 90 (19.91%) Microservices
4 89 (19.69%) Software Engineering
5 88 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (14.82%) DevOps
8 57 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (10.84%) Containerisation
11 48 (10.62%) Mentoring
11 48 (10.62%) TDD
11 48 (10.62%) Web Development
12 44 (9.73%) AI
12 44 (9.73%) Data Modelling
13 38 (8.41%) Computer Science
14 36 (7.96%) Analytics
15 34 (7.52%) Open Source
16 33 (7.30%) OOP
16 33 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 173 (38.27%) SQL
2 156 (34.51%) JavaScript
3 149 (32.96%) PHP
4 89 (19.69%) Python
5 77 (17.04%) Java
6 59 (13.05%) C#
7 39 (8.63%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.42%) Bash
9 25 (5.53%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.98%) C++
11 14 (3.10%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.10%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.65%) Go
13 10 (2.21%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.77%) Scala
15 7 (1.55%) Korn
16 6 (1.33%) C
17 4 (0.88%) Perl
18 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
18 3 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (13.27%) Degree
2 30 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.43%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.55%) HNC
5 7 (1.55%) HND
6 6 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.11%) 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 (7.08%) QA
2 29 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.21%) HL7
5 9 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.99%) GDPR
6 7 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.55%) SLA
7 5 (1.11%) 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 (16.37%) Docker
2 31 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.77%) vSphere
6 5 (1.11%) 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 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.75%) Terraform
3 25 (5.53%) Ansible
4 17 (3.76%) Grafana
5 10 (2.21%) Nagios
6 7 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.55%) Puppet
7 5 (1.11%) Argo
8 4 (0.88%) Rancher
9 3 (0.66%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.66%) Plesk
9 3 (0.66%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.66%) systemd
9 3 (0.66%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.22%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Podman
11 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.42%) Oracle
3 21 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.32%) VMware
5 13 (2.88%) Google
6 11 (2.43%) Splunk
7 8 (1.77%) Dell
8 7 (1.55%) Adobe
8 7 (1.55%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.55%) Veeam
9 6 (1.33%) Cisco
9 6 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.33%) WooCommerce
10 5 (1.11%) Informatica
10 5 (1.11%) Meraki
10 5 (1.11%) SAP
10 5 (1.11%) Synology
10 5 (1.11%) Talend
11 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.88%) Salesforce