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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 150 152
Rank change year-on-year -120 +2 +22
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 478 1,149 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.85% 2.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.13% 10.79% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 347 773 969
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,000 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £90,000
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 6,702 10,650 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 17.14% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,305 6,180 8,556
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -110 430 £55,000 - 330
UK excluding London -133 275 £52,500 +5.00% 323
Work from Home -67 188 £46,700 -11.05% 300
London +13 165 £57,500 -2.13% 45
North of England -65 76 £52,500 - 71
South East -90 53 £60,000 +20.00% 98
East of England -20 48 £50,000 - 40
Midlands -45 44 £42,500 - 49
North West -37 40 £58,750 +17.50% 33
South West -55 40 £57,500 +9.52% 47
Yorkshire -31 29 £38,500 -30.00% 33
West Midlands -1 25 £39,000 -17.89% 27
East Midlands -39 15 £45,000 +28.57% 21
Wales -24 12 £67,500 +107.69% 4
North East -6 7 £51,000 -7.27% 6
Scotland -33 2 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Northern Ireland -3 1 £50,000 +11.11% 10

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 21 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.93%) Confluence
2 14 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.72%) Apache Solr
4 12 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.30%) Apache
6 9 (1.88%) CMS
7 7 (1.46%) IIS
8 6 (1.26%) nginx
9 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (1.05%) WordPress
10 2 (0.42%) Appian
10 2 (0.42%) SAS
10 2 (0.42%) WildFly
11 1 (0.21%) Camunda
11 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.21%) JBoss
11 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 176 (36.82%) AWS
2 153 (32.01%) Azure
3 59 (12.34%) GCP
4 56 (11.72%) SaaS
5 31 (6.49%) GitHub
6 24 (5.02%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.18%) Serverless
8 16 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
9 12 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.88%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.46%) Cloudflare
13 6 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.26%) npm
14 5 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.56%) Firewall
1 17 (3.56%) VPN
2 13 (2.72%) FTP
3 9 (1.88%) DNS
3 9 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.67%) Broadband
4 8 (1.67%) DHCP
4 8 (1.67%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.67%) SAN
5 7 (1.46%) VLAN
5 7 (1.46%) WAN
6 5 (1.05%) Internet
6 5 (1.05%) LAN
6 5 (1.05%) VoIP
6 5 (1.05%) WPA
7 3 (0.63%) MQTT
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.42%) OSPF
8 2 (0.42%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (37.66%) SQL Server
2 108 (22.59%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (11.92%) MongoDB
4 56 (11.72%) Relational Database
5 39 (8.16%) NoSQL
6 38 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (4.81%) BusinessObjects
7 23 (4.81%) DynamoDB
8 21 (4.39%) Power BI
9 18 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (3.56%) RDBMS
11 15 (3.14%) Big Data
12 14 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (2.72%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (2.72%) Hadoop
13 13 (2.72%) Neo4j
14 12 (2.51%) MariaDB
14 12 (2.51%) Pentaho
15 11 (2.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (15.69%) Git
2 31 (6.49%) JIRA
3 11 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.67%) GitLab
5 6 (1.26%) git-flow
6 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.63%) Gradle
8 3 (0.63%) JUnit
8 3 (0.63%) Maven
8 3 (0.63%) Mocha
8 3 (0.63%) Mockito
8 3 (0.63%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.63%) webpack
9 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.42%) JMeter
9 2 (0.42%) MLflow
9 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 146 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 72 (15.06%) Finance
3 55 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.53%) Law
5 26 (5.44%) Marketing
6 14 (2.93%) Health Technology
6 14 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.30%) Retail
8 9 (1.88%) Front Office
8 9 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.46%) Automotive
10 5 (1.05%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.84%) Billing
11 4 (0.84%) Games
12 3 (0.63%) Advertising
12 3 (0.63%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.42%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (41.84%) Developer
2 74 (15.48%) Senior
3 53 (11.09%) Consultant
4 46 (9.62%) Software Developer
5 44 (9.21%) Lead
5 44 (9.21%) PHP Developer
6 37 (7.74%) Analyst
7 35 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 33 (6.90%) Graduate
8 33 (6.90%) Graduate Developer
9 30 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (6.07%) Applications Support
11 27 (5.65%) Data Engineer
11 27 (5.65%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.81%) IT Graduate
12 23 (4.81%) Support Analyst
13 22 (4.60%) C# Developer
14 20 (4.18%) Support Engineer
15 17 (3.56%) SQL Developer
16 16 (3.35%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (23.22%) CSS
2 93 (19.46%) HTML
3 74 (15.48%) React
4 68 (14.23%) .NET
5 47 (9.83%) Laravel
6 44 (9.21%) REST
7 40 (8.37%) jQuery
8 36 (7.53%) RESTful
9 34 (7.11%) ASP.NET
10 32 (6.69%) Node.js
11 27 (5.65%) AngularJS
12 26 (5.44%) Symfony
13 25 (5.23%) JSON
13 25 (5.23%) Vue
14 20 (4.18%) HTML5
15 18 (3.77%) Kafka
15 18 (3.77%) Web Services
16 16 (3.35%) CakePHP
16 16 (3.35%) CodeIgniter
16 16 (3.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.88%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.07%) Management Information System
4 24 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.35%) NHS
6 16 (3.35%) Virtual Team
7 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.09%) IoT
10 9 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.67%) Social Media
12 7 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.26%) Clustering
14 5 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (1.05%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.78%) Linux
2 47 (9.83%) Windows
3 30 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.30%) Unix
5 6 (1.26%) CentOS
5 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.05%) Android
7 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.84%) VMS
8 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.63%) Rocky
8 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.42%) Solaris
9 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (34.10%) Agile
2 152 (31.80%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (22.18%) OO
4 102 (21.34%) OOP
5 100 (20.92%) CI/CD
6 73 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (15.27%) Software Engineering
7 71 (14.85%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (14.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 61 (12.76%) Mentoring
10 60 (12.55%) AI
11 58 (12.13%) MVC
12 57 (11.92%) ETL
13 53 (11.09%) Microservices
14 52 (10.88%) Computer Science
15 51 (10.67%) Containerisation
15 51 (10.67%) Data Modelling
15 51 (10.67%) DevOps
16 41 (8.58%) Test Automation
17 40 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 205 (42.89%) SQL
2 143 (29.92%) JavaScript
2 143 (29.92%) PHP
3 113 (23.64%) Python
4 82 (17.15%) C#
5 73 (15.27%) Java
6 72 (15.06%) TypeScript
7 44 (9.21%) Delphi
7 44 (9.21%) Pascal
8 36 (7.53%) C++
9 19 (3.97%) Bash
10 14 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.88%) Scala
12 9 (1.88%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.46%) R
14 6 (1.26%) Go
14 6 (1.26%) Korn
14 6 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (15.48%) Degree
2 51 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.97%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.63%) MCSE
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) CCNA
10 2 (0.42%) CCNP
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.42%) HNC
10 2 (0.42%) HND
10 2 (0.42%) MCSA
11 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.60%) QA
2 14 (2.93%) SLA
3 13 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.30%) HL7
5 8 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.05%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) PSD2
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (17.78%) Docker
2 19 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 7 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.42%) NFS
6 2 (0.42%) pfSense
6 2 (0.42%) Samba
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 62 (12.97%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.81%) Ansible
2 23 (4.81%) Terraform
3 7 (1.46%) Grafana
4 5 (1.05%) Argo
4 5 (1.05%) Autotask
4 5 (1.05%) Nagios
4 5 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.63%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) logstash
6 2 (0.42%) Oozie
6 2 (0.42%) Plesk
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.21%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Rancher
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (19.46%) Oracle
2 64 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.97%) Informatica
3 19 (3.97%) SAP
4 16 (3.35%) Talend
5 14 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.72%) Databricks
7 11 (2.30%) Splunk
8 10 (2.09%) VMware
9 8 (1.67%) Dell
9 8 (1.67%) Google
9 8 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.05%) Datto
11 5 (1.05%) Palantir
11 5 (1.05%) RedGate
12 3 (0.63%) Apple
12 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.63%) Zend