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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 245 166
Rank change year-on-year -103 -79 -20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 532 641 1,720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.32% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.17% 8.42% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 413 503 1,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -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 8,627 7,609 16,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.83% 15.61% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 4,919 11,901
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 9 July 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 9 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 -86 475 £55,000 +4.76% 118
UK excluding London -96 364 £50,500 +1.00% 99
Work from Home -63 205 £54,000 +5.11% 49
North of England -37 124 £50,000 -3.61% 29
London -42 121 £85,000 +34.92% 46
South East -64 93 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Midlands -35 55 £42,500 -5.56% 8
North West -30 53 £55,000 - 15
Yorkshire -23 47 £42,500 +13.33% 3
South West -73 40 £53,750 -6.52% 12
East Midlands -19 30 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -42 30 £47,500 - 9
West Midlands -33 25 £51,250 +28.13% 6
North East -38 24 £47,500 - 11
Scotland 0 10 £51,000 -11.30% 8
Wales -56 10 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Northern Ireland -63 2 £62,500 - 5

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 (3.95%) Apache
2 20 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.57%) WordPress
4 18 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (3.01%) CMS
6 14 (2.63%) Confluence
6 14 (2.63%) IIS
7 12 (2.26%) Apache Spark
8 10 (1.88%) nginx
9 7 (1.32%) Drupal
10 4 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.75%) JBoss
10 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.38%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.19%) Moodle
13 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.38%) Elementor
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Shopify
2 3 (0.56%) Magento
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 278 (52.26%) AWS
2 154 (28.95%) Azure
3 63 (11.84%) GCP
4 43 (8.08%) GitHub
4 43 (8.08%) SaaS
5 34 (6.39%) Power Platform
6 31 (5.83%) Serverless
7 30 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (4.70%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (1.88%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.14%) Firewall
2 13 (2.44%) Broadband
3 11 (2.07%) VPN
4 10 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.50%) DNS
6 8 (1.50%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.50%) SAN
6 8 (1.50%) VoIP
7 7 (1.32%) Network Security
8 6 (1.13%) VLAN
9 5 (0.94%) LAN
9 5 (0.94%) WAN
10 4 (0.75%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.75%) MQTT
10 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.56%) DHCP
11 3 (0.56%) HTTP
11 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (31.39%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 94 (17.67%) MongoDB
4 88 (16.54%) Relational Database
5 76 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.83%) Power BI
7 29 (5.45%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (2.82%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.82%) Metadata
12 13 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (2.26%) Redis
14 11 (2.07%) Big Data
15 9 (1.69%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (22.74%) Git
2 31 (5.83%) GitLab
3 30 (5.64%) JIRA
4 27 (5.08%) Claude Code
5 15 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.69%) PHPUnit
7 5 (0.94%) JUnit
8 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.75%) Selenium
9 3 (0.56%) Mocha
9 3 (0.56%) Mockito
9 3 (0.56%) NUnit
9 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.38%) Gradle
10 2 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.38%) Subversion
10 2 (0.38%) Vite
10 2 (0.38%) YouTrack
General
1 122 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 84 (15.79%) Finance
3 57 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.45%) Law
6 20 (3.76%) Banking
7 18 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.82%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.07%) Retail
10 9 (1.69%) Marketing
11 6 (1.13%) Advertising
11 6 (1.13%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.94%) Legal
12 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 211 (39.66%) Developer
2 128 (24.06%) Senior
3 64 (12.03%) Software Engineer
4 60 (11.28%) PHP Developer
5 56 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.83%) Lead
7 42 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.58%) Administrator
9 33 (6.20%) Software Developer
10 32 (6.02%) DBA
11 25 (4.70%) Python Engineer
12 24 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) C# Developer
14 20 (3.76%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.57%) Analyst
15 19 (3.57%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 19 (3.57%) Web Developer
16 18 (3.38%) Java Developer
16 18 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (23.68%) CSS
2 105 (19.74%) HTML
3 90 (16.92%) React
4 86 (16.17%) RESTful
5 77 (14.47%) Laravel
6 71 (13.35%) Node.js
7 65 (12.22%) .NET
8 60 (11.28%) REST
9 58 (10.90%) Vue
10 37 (6.95%) jQuery
11 36 (6.77%) Spring
12 34 (6.39%) Kafka
13 33 (6.20%) AngularJS
13 33 (6.20%) JSON
13 33 (6.20%) Spring Boot
14 31 (5.83%) HTML5
15 27 (5.08%) CSS3
16 23 (4.32%) ASP.NET
17 22 (4.14%) Flask
18 15 (2.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.33%) Replication
3 32 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.82%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.44%) NHS
10 11 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.88%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.50%) IoT
13 8 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (0.94%) PropTech
15 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.94%) Linux
2 30 (5.64%) Windows
3 27 (5.08%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.51%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.82%) Debian
6 14 (2.63%) CentOS
7 9 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.56%) Android
11 2 (0.38%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (34.02%) Agile
2 142 (26.69%) CI/CD
3 136 (25.56%) Software Engineering
4 119 (22.37%) Microservices
5 117 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (17.48%) DevOps
8 86 (16.17%) AI
9 74 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (13.72%) Mentoring
11 63 (11.84%) Data Modelling
12 59 (11.09%) Containerisation
13 55 (10.34%) Clean Code
14 51 (9.59%) Web Development
15 50 (9.40%) TDD
16 48 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (9.02%) Computer Science
17 45 (8.46%) Analytics
17 45 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 42 (7.89%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 197 (37.03%) SQL
2 181 (34.02%) JavaScript
3 152 (28.57%) PHP
4 120 (22.56%) Python
5 101 (18.98%) Java
6 73 (13.72%) C#
7 47 (8.83%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.02%) Bash
9 25 (4.70%) C++
9 25 (4.70%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.76%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.63%) Go
12 13 (2.44%) Ruby
13 11 (2.07%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.32%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.13%) C
15 6 (1.13%) Korn
16 5 (0.94%) Scala
17 4 (0.75%) Perl
17 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (14.47%) Degree
2 35 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.32%) HNC
7 7 (1.32%) HND
8 6 (1.13%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.56%) RHCE
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.52%) Data Quality
1 40 (7.52%) QA
2 21 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.26%) GDPR
5 7 (1.32%) HL7
5 7 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.32%) SLA
6 5 (0.94%) WCAG
7 4 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 115 (21.62%) Docker
2 34 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.88%) vSphere
5 9 (1.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.56%) iptables
7 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.38%) Samba
8 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.52%) Terraform
3 29 (5.45%) Ansible
4 24 (4.51%) Grafana
5 12 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.07%) Nagios
7 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.32%) Puppet
8 4 (0.75%) Argo
8 4 (0.75%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.56%) Plesk
9 3 (0.56%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.56%) Rancher
9 3 (0.56%) systemd
10 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.38%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) Graylog
11 1 (0.19%) Podman
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.20%) Oracle
3 21 (3.95%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.38%) Splunk
5 17 (3.20%) VMware
6 14 (2.63%) Google
7 13 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.88%) Dell
8 10 (1.88%) Veeam
9 9 (1.69%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.32%) Adobe
10 7 (1.32%) Cisco
11 6 (1.13%) Synology
12 5 (0.94%) Databricks
12 5 (0.94%) Meraki
13 4 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.75%) WooCommerce
14 3 (0.56%) Informatica
14 3 (0.56%) Xamarin