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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 159 156
Rank change year-on-year -90 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 529 1,185 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.76% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.64% 10.85% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 391 768 971
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,125 £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 6,921 10,924 10,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.90% 16.26% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,518 6,281 8,645
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 £113,500 £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 26 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 26 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 -92 468 £52,500 -4.55% 238
UK excluding London -104 319 £52,500 +5.00% 216
Work from Home -33 227 £45,000 -14.29% 145
London -4 167 £57,500 -4.17% 52
North of England -50 82 £52,500 - 42
South East -76 67 £60,000 +15.94% 85
East of England -17 53 £50,000 - 21
Midlands -31 53 £42,500 -3.41% 40
North West -36 43 £58,750 +11.90% 27
South West -53 42 £56,250 +12.50% 25
West Midlands +21 31 £39,000 -15.68% 29
Yorkshire -16 28 £37,500 -31.82% 13
Wales -9 18 £67,500 +107.69% 1
East Midlands -27 18 £45,000 +20.00% 11
North East +8 11 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Scotland -21 4 £75,000 +36.36% 5
Northern Ireland +5 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2

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 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.02%) Confluence
3 14 (2.65%) Apache Solr
4 13 (2.46%) Apache
4 13 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.27%) CMS
5 12 (2.27%) IIS
6 10 (1.89%) WordPress
7 9 (1.70%) nginx
8 5 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.38%) Appian
9 2 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) WildFly
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.95%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 192 (36.29%) AWS
2 170 (32.14%) Azure
3 56 (10.59%) GCP
4 54 (10.21%) SaaS
5 36 (6.81%) GitHub
6 27 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.91%) Serverless
8 19 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.02%) Cloudflare
10 13 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.70%) npm
15 8 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (0.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.59%) Firewall
2 15 (2.84%) VPN
3 13 (2.46%) FTP
4 11 (2.08%) SAN
5 10 (1.89%) DNS
5 10 (1.89%) iSCSI
5 10 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.51%) Broadband
6 8 (1.51%) DHCP
7 7 (1.32%) VLAN
7 7 (1.32%) WAN
8 6 (1.13%) Internet
9 5 (0.95%) LAN
9 5 (0.95%) VoIP
9 5 (0.95%) WPA
10 3 (0.57%) MQTT
11 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.38%) RTMP
11 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 118 (22.31%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (12.48%) Relational Database
4 55 (10.40%) MongoDB
5 39 (7.37%) NoSQL
6 34 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (4.73%) BusinessObjects
7 25 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 23 (4.35%) Power BI
9 18 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (3.02%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.46%) Electronic Patient Records
11 13 (2.46%) MariaDB
12 12 (2.27%) Big Data
12 12 (2.27%) Tableau
13 11 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.89%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (19.28%) Git
2 37 (6.99%) JIRA
3 11 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.70%) GitLab
5 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.51%) git-flow
6 6 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.95%) NUnit
7 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.95%) webpack
8 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.76%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.76%) Mocha
8 4 (0.76%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.38%) Gradle
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 174 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 97 (18.34%) Finance
3 60 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.13%) Law
5 35 (6.62%) Marketing
6 27 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.65%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.46%) Retail
9 12 (2.27%) Games
10 8 (1.51%) Automotive
10 8 (1.51%) Front Office
11 5 (0.95%) Banking
11 5 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.76%) Advertising
12 4 (0.76%) Billing
13 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.57%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 242 (45.75%) Developer
2 90 (17.01%) Senior
3 53 (10.02%) PHP Developer
4 51 (9.64%) Consultant
5 48 (9.07%) Lead
5 48 (9.07%) Senior Developer
6 45 (8.51%) Graduate
6 45 (8.51%) Graduate Developer
7 44 (8.32%) Software Developer
8 38 (7.18%) Analyst
9 37 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (6.81%) Software Engineer
11 34 (6.43%) IT Graduate
12 28 (5.29%) Applications Support
12 28 (5.29%) C# Developer
13 25 (4.73%) Data Engineer
14 23 (4.35%) Support Analyst
15 22 (4.16%) SQL Developer
16 19 (3.59%) Support Engineer
17 17 (3.21%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (27.03%) CSS
2 117 (22.12%) HTML
3 87 (16.45%) .NET
4 81 (15.31%) React
5 55 (10.40%) REST
6 53 (10.02%) Laravel
7 51 (9.64%) jQuery
8 50 (9.45%) ASP.NET
9 44 (8.32%) RESTful
10 38 (7.18%) Node.js
11 35 (6.62%) Vue
12 32 (6.05%) AngularJS
13 30 (5.67%) HTML5
13 30 (5.67%) Symfony
14 24 (4.54%) JSON
15 23 (4.35%) Kafka
16 20 (3.78%) Web Services
17 18 (3.40%) LAMP
18 17 (3.21%) CSS3
18 17 (3.21%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.83%) Legacy Systems
2 40 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 30 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.59%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.84%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.65%) NHS
8 13 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.08%) IoT
10 11 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.89%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.51%) Social Media
13 7 (1.32%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.64%) Linux
2 50 (9.45%) Windows
3 30 (5.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.84%) Unix
5 13 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.13%) CentOS
8 4 (0.76%) Android
8 4 (0.76%) VMS
9 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.57%) Rocky
9 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (36.11%) Agile
2 180 (34.03%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (22.68%) OO
4 118 (22.31%) OOP
5 107 (20.23%) CI/CD
6 88 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 83 (15.69%) Software Engineering
8 77 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 75 (14.18%) MVC
10 72 (13.61%) Mentoring
11 69 (13.04%) Computer Science
12 68 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (11.91%) AI
14 59 (11.15%) ETL
15 58 (10.96%) Microservices
16 53 (10.02%) DevOps
17 51 (9.64%) Containerisation
18 49 (9.26%) Data Modelling
19 45 (8.51%) User Experience
20 44 (8.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 225 (42.53%) SQL
2 174 (32.89%) JavaScript
3 168 (31.76%) PHP
4 116 (21.93%) Python
5 100 (18.90%) C#
6 91 (17.20%) Java
7 80 (15.12%) TypeScript
8 47 (8.88%) C++
9 44 (8.32%) Delphi
9 44 (8.32%) Pascal
10 21 (3.97%) Bash
11 16 (3.02%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.65%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.08%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.70%) Scala
15 8 (1.51%) Korn
16 7 (1.32%) R
17 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
17 6 (1.13%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (17.39%) Degree
2 66 (12.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.57%) MCSE
10 3 (0.57%) 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 (12.67%) QA
2 14 (2.65%) SLA
3 13 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.70%) HL7
5 8 (1.51%) 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 (18.15%) Docker
2 22 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.95%) 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 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.48%) Terraform
3 26 (4.91%) Ansible
4 7 (1.32%) Grafana
5 5 (0.95%) Autotask
5 5 (0.95%) Nagios
5 5 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.76%) Argo
7 3 (0.57%) Kibana
7 3 (0.57%) 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 90 (17.01%) Oracle
2 72 (13.61%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.78%) SAP
4 17 (3.21%) Google
4 17 (3.21%) Informatica
5 15 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.65%) Talend
7 13 (2.46%) Splunk
8 12 (2.27%) Databricks
9 11 (2.08%) Dell
10 10 (1.89%) VMware
11 9 (1.70%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.32%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.32%) Rollbar
13 6 (1.13%) Adobe
13 6 (1.13%) RedGate
14 5 (0.95%) Datto
14 5 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.76%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.76%) WooCommerce