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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 246 172
Rank change year-on-year -95 -74 -21
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 554 631 1,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.28% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.40% 8.30% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 432 502 1,214
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,688 £40,250
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 £92,500 £82,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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 8,661 7,600 15,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 15.46% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,806 4,895 10,375
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 £81,250 £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 22 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 22 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 -75 493 £54,000 +2.86% 130
UK excluding London -81 382 £50,000 -2.44% 91
Work from Home -58 209 £52,500 +4.48% 62
North of England -26 127 £50,000 -4.76% 29
London -52 125 £85,000 +36.00% 53
South East -32 102 £55,000 +10.00% 33
Midlands -28 53 £42,500 -10.53% 11
North West -32 53 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Yorkshire -24 47 £42,500 -10.53% 6
South West -80 40 £52,500 -8.70% 7
East of England -29 34 £47,500 - 6
East Midlands -14 29 £37,500 -18.92% 3
North East -42 27 £46,250 -2.63% 8
West Midlands -25 24 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Wales -60 16 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Scotland +10 10 £51,000 -15.00% 4

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 (4.33%) Apache
2 21 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.43%) WordPress
4 18 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (3.07%) IIS
6 16 (2.89%) Confluence
7 15 (2.71%) CMS
8 13 (2.35%) Apache Spark
9 9 (1.62%) nginx
10 7 (1.26%) Drupal
11 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.72%) JBoss
11 4 (0.72%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.18%) Moodle
14 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Shopify
2 3 (0.54%) Magento
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 296 (53.43%) AWS
2 170 (30.69%) Azure
3 75 (13.54%) GCP
4 45 (8.12%) GitHub
5 41 (7.40%) SaaS
6 35 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (5.05%) Serverless
9 27 (4.87%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
13 15 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.99%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.97%) Firewall
2 13 (2.35%) Broadband
3 11 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.99%) VPN
4 9 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.44%) DNS
5 8 (1.44%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.44%) SAN
5 8 (1.44%) VoIP
6 6 (1.08%) Network Security
6 6 (1.08%) VLAN
7 5 (0.90%) LAN
7 5 (0.90%) WAN
8 4 (0.72%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.72%) MQTT
8 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.54%) DHCP
9 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.54%) Internet
9 3 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (33.21%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (25.63%) SQL Server
3 96 (17.33%) Relational Database
4 94 (16.97%) MongoDB
5 79 (14.26%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.78%) Power BI
7 31 (5.60%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (3.07%) DynamoDB
11 17 (3.07%) Metadata
11 17 (3.07%) Redis
12 15 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.53%) Big Data
14 13 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.62%) RDBMS
17 7 (1.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 127 (22.92%) Git
2 36 (6.50%) GitLab
3 33 (5.96%) JIRA
4 29 (5.23%) Claude Code
5 17 (3.07%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.81%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.90%) JUnit
8 5 (0.90%) RSpec
8 5 (0.90%) Selenium
9 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.72%) minitest
10 3 (0.54%) Mocha
10 3 (0.54%) Mockito
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.36%) Maven
11 2 (0.36%) NUnit
11 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.25%) Finance
3 67 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.96%) Law
6 23 (4.15%) Banking
7 17 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.71%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.81%) Marketing
10 10 (1.81%) Retail
11 6 (1.08%) Advertising
11 6 (1.08%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.90%) Legal
12 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.54%) Local Government
13 3 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 231 (41.70%) Developer
2 136 (24.55%) Senior
3 67 (12.09%) Software Engineer
4 64 (11.55%) Senior Developer
5 63 (11.37%) PHP Developer
6 50 (9.03%) Lead
7 41 (7.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (6.86%) Software Developer
9 37 (6.68%) Administrator
10 31 (5.60%) DBA
11 26 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.51%) Python Engineer
13 22 (3.97%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.97%) Web Developer
14 21 (3.79%) Data Engineer
15 20 (3.61%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.61%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 19 (3.43%) Analyst
16 19 (3.43%) Database Engineer
16 19 (3.43%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (23.47%) CSS
2 111 (20.04%) HTML
3 94 (16.97%) React
4 90 (16.25%) RESTful
5 79 (14.26%) Laravel
6 69 (12.45%) Node.js
7 67 (12.09%) .NET
8 62 (11.19%) REST
8 62 (11.19%) Vue
9 40 (7.22%) jQuery
9 40 (7.22%) Kafka
10 39 (7.04%) Spring
11 37 (6.68%) Spring Boot
12 33 (5.96%) JSON
13 31 (5.60%) HTML5
14 30 (5.42%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.87%) CSS3
16 26 (4.69%) ASP.NET
17 21 (3.79%) Flask
18 19 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.86%) Replication
3 35 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.53%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.35%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.35%) NHS
10 11 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.81%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.44%) IoT
13 5 (0.90%) PropTech
13 5 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 144 (25.99%) Linux
2 31 (5.60%) Windows
3 29 (5.23%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.33%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.07%) CentOS
6 16 (2.89%) Debian
7 9 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (34.30%) Agile
2 155 (27.98%) CI/CD
3 145 (26.17%) Software Engineering
4 126 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (22.20%) Microservices
6 101 (18.23%) DevOps
6 101 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 95 (17.15%) AI
8 79 (14.26%) Mentoring
9 76 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (11.19%) Data Modelling
11 59 (10.65%) Containerisation
12 55 (9.93%) Clean Code
12 55 (9.93%) Web Development
13 53 (9.57%) TDD
14 49 (8.84%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (8.84%) Computer Science
14 49 (8.84%) OOP
15 48 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (8.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 207 (37.36%) SQL
2 191 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 156 (28.16%) PHP
4 125 (22.56%) Python
5 99 (17.87%) Java
6 74 (13.36%) C#
7 47 (8.48%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.96%) Bash
9 23 (4.15%) C++
9 23 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.25%) Ruby
12 11 (1.99%) Go
12 11 (1.99%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.81%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.08%) Korn
14 6 (1.08%) Scala
15 4 (0.72%) C
15 4 (0.72%) Perl
15 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (14.08%) Degree
2 35 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.26%) HNC
6 7 (1.26%) HND
7 6 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.54%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.54%) RHCE
10 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.12%) QA
2 42 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.17%) GDPR
6 7 (1.26%) HL7
6 7 (1.26%) SLA
7 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.90%) WCAG
9 4 (0.72%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 125 (22.56%) Docker
2 34 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.81%) vSphere
5 9 (1.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.54%) iptables
7 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.36%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.76%) Terraform
3 26 (4.69%) Ansible
3 26 (4.69%) Grafana
4 13 (2.35%) Nagios
4 13 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.08%) Puppet
6 4 (0.72%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (0.72%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.54%) Argo
7 3 (0.54%) Plesk
7 3 (0.54%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.54%) systemd
7 3 (0.54%) WSUS
8 2 (0.36%) Rancher
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.18%) Graylog
9 1 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.96%) Oracle
3 23 (4.15%) Red Hat
4 22 (3.97%) Google
5 20 (3.61%) Splunk
6 18 (3.25%) VMware
7 16 (2.89%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.99%) Dell
8 11 (1.99%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.99%) Veeam
9 7 (1.26%) Adobe
9 7 (1.26%) Cisco
10 6 (1.08%) Databricks
10 6 (1.08%) Synology
11 5 (0.90%) Meraki
11 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.72%) Informatica
12 4 (0.72%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.54%) Aruba
13 3 (0.54%) OneLogin