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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 268 166
Rank change year-on-year -100 -102 +4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 547 523 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.05% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.35% 7.45% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 406 365 729
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -5.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 8,618 7,022 11,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 14.14% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,890 4,359 6,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -80 480 £55,000 - 448
UK excluding London -72 367 £50,000 -9.09% 225
Work from Home -84 170 £65,000 +36.84% 187
London -88 142 £80,000 +39.13% 255
North of England -24 131 £42,500 -19.05% 46
South East -40 91 £56,250 -2.17% 52
North West -16 59 £49,250 -17.92% 24
Yorkshire -17 41 £42,500 +13.33% 17
South West -69 38 £57,500 +27.78% 17
Midlands -43 36 £54,000 +22.73% 25
East of England -42 32 £50,000 +5.26% 45
North East -41 31 £42,500 -10.53% 5
Wales -66 27 £61,000 -9.63% 5
West Midlands -41 19 £55,000 +41.03% 19
East Midlands -28 17 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland +2 11 £40,000 -46.67% 12
Northern Ireland -78 1 - - 23

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 31 (5.67%) IIS
2 24 (4.39%) Apache
3 20 (3.66%) WordPress
4 13 (2.38%) Confluence
5 10 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.83%) CMS
5 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.65%) Drupal
7 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.91%) JBoss
9 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.73%) nginx
10 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.37%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Elementor
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 289 (52.83%) AWS
2 167 (30.53%) Azure
3 82 (14.99%) GCP
4 55 (10.05%) GitHub
5 29 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 24 (4.39%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.20%) SaaS
9 21 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.84%) Serverless
10 17 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.74%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.93%) DNS
3 13 (2.38%) Broadband
3 13 (2.38%) Firewall
4 11 (2.01%) VPN
5 8 (1.46%) VLAN
5 8 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.28%) DHCP
7 6 (1.10%) VoIP
8 5 (0.91%) HTTP
9 4 (0.73%) Internet
9 4 (0.73%) LAN
9 4 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.73%) SSH
9 4 (0.73%) WAN
10 3 (0.55%) 4G
10 3 (0.55%) 5G
10 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.55%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (34.19%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (28.88%) SQL Server
3 114 (20.84%) Relational Database
4 99 (18.10%) MongoDB
5 67 (12.25%) NoSQL
6 29 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
7 28 (5.12%) Redis
8 26 (4.75%) Power BI
9 25 (4.57%) MariaDB
10 20 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.66%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.47%) Metadata
12 16 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.01%) Big Data
14 10 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.65%) Tableau
16 8 (1.46%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 147 (26.87%) Git
2 47 (8.59%) Claude Code
3 42 (7.68%) GitLab
4 27 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.57%) JIRA
6 14 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.28%) Selenium
8 5 (0.91%) JUnit
8 5 (0.91%) RSpec
9 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.73%) minitest
9 4 (0.73%) Mocha
9 4 (0.73%) Postman
9 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.55%) git-flow
10 3 (0.55%) Maven
10 3 (0.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 125 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 93 (17.00%) Finance
3 90 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.60%) Law
6 33 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.48%) Banking
8 18 (3.29%) Marketing
8 18 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.46%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.46%) Retail
11 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.91%) Legal
13 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Games
14 3 (0.55%) Local Government
14 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 224 (40.95%) Developer
2 155 (28.34%) Senior
3 81 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 72 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 57 (10.42%) PHP Developer
6 52 (9.51%) Lead
7 44 (8.04%) Administrator
8 41 (7.50%) DBA
9 40 (7.31%) Software Developer
10 30 (5.48%) C# Developer
11 29 (5.30%) Database Engineer
11 29 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 28 (5.12%) .NET Developer
13 26 (4.75%) Java Developer
14 22 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (4.02%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.84%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (22.85%) CSS
2 111 (20.29%) HTML
3 99 (18.10%) React
4 90 (16.45%) .NET
5 84 (15.36%) RESTful
6 64 (11.70%) Laravel
7 62 (11.33%) REST
8 58 (10.60%) Terraform
9 53 (9.69%) Vue
10 51 (9.32%) Kafka
11 50 (9.14%) Node.js
12 45 (8.23%) Spring
12 45 (8.23%) Spring Boot
13 40 (7.31%) ASP.NET
14 38 (6.95%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (6.58%) jQuery
16 31 (5.67%) HTML5
17 30 (5.48%) AngularJS
18 29 (5.30%) Hibernate
19 26 (4.75%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.86%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.68%) Replication
4 25 (4.57%) Virtual Team
5 24 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.28%) NHS
12 6 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
12 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.10%) Social Media
13 5 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 163 (29.80%) Linux
2 38 (6.95%) Windows
3 27 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.39%) Ubuntu
5 18 (3.29%) Debian
6 13 (2.38%) CentOS
6 13 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Android
9 3 (0.55%) Unix
10 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.47%) Agile
2 174 (31.81%) CI/CD
3 173 (31.63%) Software Engineering
4 170 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (23.58%) DevOps
6 120 (21.94%) Microservices
7 113 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (19.20%) AI
9 86 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 84 (15.36%) Mentoring
11 76 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (13.53%) Clean Code
13 67 (12.25%) Scrum
14 65 (11.88%) Containerisation
15 61 (11.15%) High Availability
15 61 (11.15%) OOP
16 60 (10.97%) Observability
17 57 (10.42%) Web Development
18 49 (8.96%) Code Quality
18 49 (8.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 192 (35.10%) SQL
2 175 (31.99%) JavaScript
3 139 (25.41%) Python
4 125 (22.85%) PHP
5 97 (17.73%) Java
6 88 (16.09%) C#
7 66 (12.07%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.76%) Shell Script
9 28 (5.12%) Bash
10 23 (4.20%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.11%) C++
11 17 (3.11%) Go
11 17 (3.11%) Ruby
12 12 (2.19%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.10%) Rust
14 5 (0.91%) Perl
14 5 (0.91%) Scala
15 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
15 3 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 63 (11.52%) Degree
2 45 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.73%) HNC
8 4 (0.73%) HND
9 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.07%) QA
2 31 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.28%) WCAG
6 5 (0.91%) HL7
7 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (26.87%) Docker
2 21 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.73%) vSphere
6 3 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.37%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 102 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.68%) Grafana
3 29 (5.30%) Ansible
4 24 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.83%) Nagios
6 7 (1.28%) WSUS
7 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.10%) Puppet
8 4 (0.73%) Kibana
9 3 (0.55%) Rancher
10 2 (0.37%) Argo
10 2 (0.37%) kaniko
10 2 (0.37%) Plesk
11 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.18%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.18%) SCOM
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.97%) Oracle
3 30 (5.48%) Splunk
4 23 (4.20%) Google
5 17 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.56%) VMware
7 10 (1.83%) Dell
7 10 (1.83%) Veeam
8 9 (1.65%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.46%) HP
10 7 (1.28%) Aruba
10 7 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.28%) NetApp
10 7 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.28%) SonicWALL
11 6 (1.10%) Adobe
11 6 (1.10%) Databricks
12 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.73%) TIBCO