MySQL Job Trends

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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 157 151
Rank change year-on-year -90 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 533 1,190 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.77% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% 10.84% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 394 772 966
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,938 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Database and 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 6,935 10,974 10,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.86% 16.34% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,534 6,320 8,588
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,600 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -94 473 £52,500 -4.55% 242
UK excluding London -101 322 £52,500 +5.00% 219
Work from Home -34 228 £45,000 -14.29% 140
London 0 168 £57,500 -4.17% 56
North of England -46 84 £51,750 -1.43% 46
South East -73 68 £60,000 +18.81% 85
East of England -15 53 £50,000 - 16
Midlands -31 53 £42,500 -3.41% 38
North West -28 43 £58,750 +11.90% 29
South West -52 43 £56,250 +12.50% 28
West Midlands +27 31 £39,000 -15.68% 28
Yorkshire -22 30 £37,500 -31.82% 16
East Midlands -26 18 £45,000 +20.00% 10
Wales -14 17 £67,500 +107.69% 1
North East +8 11 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Scotland -22 4 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland +3 1 £50,000 +11.11% 4

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 18 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 17 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.00%) Confluence
4 14 (2.63%) Apache Solr
5 13 (2.44%) Apache
5 13 (2.44%) SharePoint
6 12 (2.25%) IIS
7 11 (2.06%) CMS
8 10 (1.88%) WordPress
9 9 (1.69%) nginx
10 5 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.38%) Appian
11 2 (0.38%) SAS
11 2 (0.38%) WildFly
12 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.19%) JBoss
12 1 (0.19%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.94%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 195 (36.59%) AWS
2 172 (32.27%) Azure
3 58 (10.88%) GCP
4 55 (10.32%) SaaS
5 36 (6.75%) GitHub
6 27 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.07%) Serverless
7 19 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.00%) Cloudflare
9 13 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.88%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.50%) npm
15 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (0.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.56%) Firewall
2 15 (2.81%) VPN
3 13 (2.44%) FTP
4 11 (2.06%) SAN
5 10 (1.88%) DNS
5 10 (1.88%) iSCSI
5 10 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.50%) Broadband
6 8 (1.50%) DHCP
7 7 (1.31%) VLAN
7 7 (1.31%) WAN
8 6 (1.13%) Internet
9 5 (0.94%) LAN
9 5 (0.94%) VoIP
9 5 (0.94%) WPA
10 3 (0.56%) MQTT
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (37.71%) SQL Server
2 119 (22.33%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (12.57%) Relational Database
4 57 (10.69%) MongoDB
5 39 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 34 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (4.69%) BusinessObjects
7 25 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (4.32%) DynamoDB
8 23 (4.32%) Power BI
9 18 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (3.00%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
11 13 (2.44%) MariaDB
12 12 (2.25%) Big Data
12 12 (2.25%) Tableau
13 11 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.88%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (18.95%) Git
2 37 (6.94%) JIRA
3 11 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.69%) GitLab
5 8 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.50%) git-flow
6 6 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.94%) NUnit
7 5 (0.94%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.75%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.75%) Mocha
8 4 (0.75%) PHPUnit
8 4 (0.75%) webpack
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Mockito
10 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 173 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 97 (18.20%) Finance
3 60 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.07%) Law
5 35 (6.57%) Marketing
6 26 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.63%) Health Technology
9 13 (2.44%) Retail
10 12 (2.25%) Games
10 12 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.50%) Automotive
11 8 (1.50%) Front Office
12 5 (0.94%) Banking
12 5 (0.94%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.75%) Advertising
13 4 (0.75%) Billing
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 243 (45.59%) Developer
2 91 (17.07%) Senior
3 53 (9.94%) PHP Developer
4 51 (9.57%) Consultant
5 48 (9.01%) Lead
5 48 (9.01%) Senior Developer
6 45 (8.44%) Graduate
6 45 (8.44%) Graduate Developer
7 44 (8.26%) Software Developer
8 38 (7.13%) Analyst
9 37 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (6.75%) Software Engineer
11 34 (6.38%) IT Graduate
12 28 (5.25%) Applications Support
12 28 (5.25%) C# Developer
13 27 (5.07%) Data Engineer
14 23 (4.32%) Support Analyst
15 22 (4.13%) SQL Developer
16 19 (3.56%) Support Engineer
17 17 (3.19%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (26.83%) CSS
2 116 (21.76%) HTML
3 88 (16.51%) .NET
4 83 (15.57%) React
5 56 (10.51%) REST
6 53 (9.94%) Laravel
7 51 (9.57%) jQuery
8 50 (9.38%) ASP.NET
9 44 (8.26%) RESTful
10 38 (7.13%) Node.js
11 34 (6.38%) Vue
12 33 (6.19%) AngularJS
13 30 (5.63%) HTML5
14 29 (5.44%) Symfony
15 24 (4.50%) JSON
16 23 (4.32%) Kafka
17 20 (3.75%) Web Services
18 18 (3.38%) Django
18 18 (3.38%) LAMP
19 17 (3.19%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 41 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 30 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.44%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.56%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.63%) NHS
8 13 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.06%) IoT
10 11 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.69%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.50%) Social Media
13 7 (1.31%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.51%) Linux
2 50 (9.38%) Windows
3 30 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.81%) Unix
5 13 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.13%) CentOS
8 4 (0.75%) Android
8 4 (0.75%) VMS
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.56%) Rocky
9 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (36.02%) Agile
2 183 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (22.51%) OO
4 119 (22.33%) OOP
5 107 (20.08%) CI/CD
6 87 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 83 (15.57%) Software Engineering
8 77 (14.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 75 (14.07%) MVC
10 71 (13.32%) Mentoring
11 69 (12.95%) Computer Science
12 68 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (11.82%) AI
14 59 (11.07%) ETL
14 59 (11.07%) Microservices
15 53 (9.94%) DevOps
16 51 (9.57%) Containerisation
17 50 (9.38%) Data Modelling
18 45 (8.44%) Analytics
18 45 (8.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 228 (42.78%) SQL
2 173 (32.46%) JavaScript
3 168 (31.52%) PHP
4 119 (22.33%) Python
5 101 (18.95%) C#
6 91 (17.07%) Java
7 81 (15.20%) TypeScript
8 47 (8.82%) C++
9 44 (8.26%) Delphi
9 44 (8.26%) Pascal
10 21 (3.94%) Bash
11 16 (3.00%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.06%) Scala
13 11 (2.06%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.50%) Korn
15 7 (1.31%) R
16 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.13%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (17.26%) Degree
2 66 (12.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.94%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.56%) MCSE
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.38%) CCNA
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) HNC
11 2 (0.38%) HND
11 2 (0.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.57%) QA
2 14 (2.63%) SLA
3 13 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.69%) HL7
5 8 (1.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) COBIT
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 96 (18.01%) Docker
2 22 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) HDFS
6 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 2 (0.38%) pfSense
6 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.38%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 71 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.44%) Terraform
3 26 (4.88%) Ansible
4 7 (1.31%) Grafana
5 5 (0.94%) Autotask
5 5 (0.94%) Nagios
5 5 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.75%) Argo
7 3 (0.56%) Kibana
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.38%) logstash
8 2 (0.38%) Oozie
8 2 (0.38%) Plesk
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (17.45%) Oracle
2 72 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.75%) SAP
4 17 (3.19%) Google
4 17 (3.19%) Informatica
5 15 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.63%) Databricks
6 14 (2.63%) Talend
7 13 (2.44%) Splunk
8 11 (2.06%) Dell
9 10 (1.88%) VMware
10 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.31%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.31%) Rollbar
12 6 (1.13%) Adobe
12 6 (1.13%) RedGate
13 5 (0.94%) Datto
13 5 (0.94%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.94%) Palantir
14 4 (0.75%) WooCommerce