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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 245 176
Rank change year-on-year -79 -69 -23
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 569 633 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.29% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.51% 8.33% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 442 504 1,153
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £89,815 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% +4.10% -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 8,736 7,596 14,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 15.47% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 4,900 10,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -79 507 £54,000 +2.86% 126
UK excluding London -70 394 £50,000 -3.94% 95
Work from Home -64 212 £52,500 +4.48% 66
North of England -37 129 £50,000 -4.76% 31
London -49 128 £85,000 +36.00% 44
South East -11 109 £55,000 +4.76% 36
North West -33 54 £52,130 -5.22% 18
Midlands -37 54 £42,500 -8.11% 11
Yorkshire -17 47 £42,500 -10.53% 6
South West -74 41 £52,500 -8.70% 7
East of England -35 34 £47,500 - 6
East Midlands -14 30 £37,500 -18.92% 3
North East -37 28 £46,250 -2.63% 7
West Midlands -43 24 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Wales -57 17 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Scotland +9 10 £51,000 -15.00% 3

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 24 (4.22%) Apache
2 20 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.34%) WordPress
4 18 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.16%) IIS
5 16 (2.81%) Confluence
6 15 (2.64%) CMS
7 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.58%) nginx
9 7 (1.23%) Drupal
10 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.70%) JBoss
10 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.53%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.70%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.35%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (53.25%) AWS
2 173 (30.40%) Azure
3 78 (13.71%) GCP
4 47 (8.26%) GitHub
5 40 (7.03%) SaaS
6 35 (6.15%) Power Platform
7 29 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.75%) Serverless
9 26 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (3.16%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (1.93%) Entra ID
18 10 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.87%) Firewall
2 13 (2.28%) Broadband
3 11 (1.93%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.93%) VPN
4 9 (1.58%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.41%) DNS
5 8 (1.41%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.41%) SAN
5 8 (1.41%) VoIP
6 6 (1.05%) VLAN
7 5 (0.88%) LAN
7 5 (0.88%) Network Security
7 5 (0.88%) WAN
8 4 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.70%) MQTT
8 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.53%) DHCP
9 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.53%) Internet
9 3 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (32.86%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (25.48%) SQL Server
3 99 (17.40%) Relational Database
4 95 (16.70%) MongoDB
5 80 (14.06%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.62%) Power BI
7 31 (5.45%) MariaDB
8 24 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (2.99%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.99%) Metadata
12 16 (2.81%) Redis
13 14 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.46%) Big Data
14 13 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (1.58%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 134 (23.55%) Git
2 35 (6.15%) GitLab
3 34 (5.98%) JIRA
4 31 (5.45%) Claude Code
5 18 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.93%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.05%) JUnit
8 6 (1.05%) Selenium
9 5 (0.88%) RSpec
10 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.70%) minitest
10 4 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.53%) Mocha
11 3 (0.53%) Mockito
11 3 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.35%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.35%) Maven
12 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.34%) Finance
3 71 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 37 (6.50%) Law
6 23 (4.04%) Banking
7 20 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.64%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.93%) Marketing
10 11 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.76%) Retail
12 7 (1.23%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.05%) Advertising
13 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Legal
15 3 (0.53%) Local Government
15 3 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 243 (42.71%) Developer
2 142 (24.96%) Senior
3 71 (12.48%) Senior Developer
3 71 (12.48%) Software Engineer
4 67 (11.78%) PHP Developer
5 52 (9.14%) Lead
6 41 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (7.21%) Software Developer
7 37 (6.50%) Administrator
8 31 (5.45%) DBA
9 28 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.39%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.22%) C# Developer
11 24 (4.22%) Web Developer
12 21 (3.69%) Backend Developer
12 21 (3.69%) Data Engineer
12 21 (3.69%) Java Developer
13 20 (3.51%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 19 (3.34%) Analyst
14 19 (3.34%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (24.43%) CSS
2 120 (21.09%) HTML
3 98 (17.22%) React
4 90 (15.82%) RESTful
5 83 (14.59%) Laravel
6 71 (12.48%) .NET
7 69 (12.13%) Node.js
8 65 (11.42%) Vue
9 60 (10.54%) REST
10 42 (7.38%) jQuery
11 41 (7.21%) Kafka
11 41 (7.21%) Spring
12 39 (6.85%) Spring Boot
13 34 (5.98%) HTML5
14 32 (5.62%) AngularJS
14 32 (5.62%) JSON
15 28 (4.92%) CSS3
16 27 (4.75%) ASP.NET
17 21 (3.69%) Flask
18 20 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.68%) Replication
3 35 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.46%) NHS
8 13 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.76%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.41%) IoT
13 5 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 147 (25.83%) Linux
2 32 (5.62%) Windows
3 29 (5.10%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.99%) Debian
6 16 (2.81%) CentOS
7 9 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (34.80%) Agile
2 158 (27.77%) CI/CD
3 151 (26.54%) Software Engineering
4 132 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (21.97%) Microservices
6 104 (18.28%) DevOps
7 102 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (16.87%) AI
9 80 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (14.06%) Mentoring
10 61 (10.72%) Clean Code
10 61 (10.72%) Web Development
11 60 (10.54%) Data Modelling
12 59 (10.37%) Containerisation
13 55 (9.67%) OOP
13 55 (9.67%) TDD
14 50 (8.79%) Computer Science
14 50 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (8.79%) Scrum
15 49 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 208 (36.56%) SQL
2 199 (34.97%) JavaScript
3 162 (28.47%) PHP
4 126 (22.14%) Python
5 103 (18.10%) Java
6 77 (13.53%) C#
7 49 (8.61%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.62%) Bash
9 24 (4.22%) C++
10 23 (4.04%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.51%) Shell Script
12 18 (3.16%) Ruby
13 12 (2.11%) Go
13 12 (2.11%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.76%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.05%) Korn
15 6 (1.05%) Scala
16 4 (0.70%) C
16 4 (0.70%) Perl
16 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (14.06%) Degree
2 37 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 34 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.23%) HNC
6 7 (1.23%) HND
7 6 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.53%) RHCE
10 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.26%) QA
2 41 (7.21%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.11%) GDPR
6 7 (1.23%) HL7
6 7 (1.23%) SLA
7 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.88%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 129 (22.67%) Docker
2 33 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.76%) vSphere
5 9 (1.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
7 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.35%) Samba
9 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.56%) Terraform
3 26 (4.57%) Grafana
4 25 (4.39%) Ansible
5 14 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.11%) Nagios
7 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.05%) Puppet
8 4 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.53%) Argo
9 3 (0.53%) Plesk
9 3 (0.53%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.53%) systemd
9 3 (0.53%) WSUS
10 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) Graylog
11 1 (0.18%) kaniko
11 1 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 66 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.15%) Oracle
3 23 (4.04%) Google
3 23 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 20 (3.51%) Splunk
5 18 (3.16%) VMware
6 16 (2.81%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.93%) Dell
7 11 (1.93%) Veeam
8 10 (1.76%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 7 (1.23%) Cisco
10 6 (1.05%) Databricks
10 6 (1.05%) Synology
11 5 (0.88%) Meraki
11 5 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.70%) Informatica
12 4 (0.70%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.53%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.53%) Xamarin