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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 250 175
Rank change year-on-year -88 -75 -22
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 562 633 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.29% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.46% 8.30% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 437 503 1,196
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
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 £91,000 £82,000 £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 8,704 7,622 14,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 15.52% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,828 4,911 10,240
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -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 23 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 23 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 -95 500 £54,000 +2.86% 142
UK excluding London -74 388 £50,000 -2.44% 98
Work from Home -60 211 £52,500 +4.48% 71
North of England -29 129 £50,000 -4.76% 36
London -53 127 £85,000 +36.00% 57
South East -23 103 £55,000 +10.00% 33
North West -29 54 £52,315 -4.88% 21
Midlands -34 54 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -15 47 £42,500 -10.53% 6
South West -72 41 £52,500 -8.70% 6
East of England -30 34 £47,500 - 6
East Midlands -15 30 £37,500 -18.92% 3
North East -43 28 £46,250 -2.63% 9
West Midlands -40 24 £47,500 +18.75% 8
Wales -53 17 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Scotland +14 10 £51,000 -15.00% 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 24 (4.27%) Apache
2 20 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.38%) WordPress
4 18 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.20%) IIS
5 16 (2.85%) Confluence
6 15 (2.67%) CMS
7 13 (2.31%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.60%) nginx
9 7 (1.25%) Drupal
10 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.71%) JBoss
10 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.53%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 299 (53.20%) AWS
2 170 (30.25%) Azure
3 75 (13.35%) GCP
4 46 (8.19%) GitHub
5 40 (7.12%) SaaS
6 35 (6.23%) Power Platform
7 29 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.80%) Serverless
9 26 (4.63%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
14 16 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (1.96%) Entra ID
18 10 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.91%) Firewall
2 13 (2.31%) Broadband
3 11 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.96%) VPN
4 9 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.42%) DNS
5 8 (1.42%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.42%) SAN
5 8 (1.42%) VoIP
6 6 (1.07%) VLAN
7 5 (0.89%) LAN
7 5 (0.89%) Network Security
7 5 (0.89%) WAN
8 4 (0.71%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.71%) MQTT
8 4 (0.71%) 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
1 186 (33.10%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (25.62%) SQL Server
3 98 (17.44%) Relational Database
4 95 (16.90%) MongoDB
5 80 (14.23%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.69%) Power BI
7 31 (5.52%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 17 (3.02%) Metadata
12 16 (2.85%) Redis
13 14 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.49%) Big Data
14 12 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (1.60%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 130 (23.13%) Git
2 35 (6.23%) GitLab
3 34 (6.05%) JIRA
4 30 (5.34%) Claude Code
5 18 (3.20%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.78%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.07%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) RSpec
9 5 (0.89%) Selenium
10 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.71%) minitest
10 4 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.53%) Mocha
11 3 (0.53%) Mockito
11 3 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.36%) Gradle
12 2 (0.36%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 124 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.01%) Finance
3 69 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.23%) Law
6 23 (4.09%) Banking
7 18 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.67%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.78%) Marketing
11 10 (1.78%) Retail
12 6 (1.07%) Advertising
12 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.89%) Legal
14 3 (0.53%) Local Government
14 3 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 239 (42.53%) Developer
2 137 (24.38%) Senior
3 69 (12.28%) Software Engineer
4 67 (11.92%) Senior Developer
5 66 (11.74%) PHP Developer
6 51 (9.07%) Lead
7 41 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (7.12%) Software Developer
9 37 (6.58%) Administrator
10 31 (5.52%) DBA
11 27 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.45%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.27%) Web Developer
14 23 (4.09%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.74%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.74%) Java Developer
16 20 (3.56%) PHP Laravel Developer
17 19 (3.38%) Backend Developer
17 19 (3.38%) Database Engineer
17 19 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (24.20%) CSS
2 117 (20.82%) HTML
3 98 (17.44%) React
4 90 (16.01%) RESTful
5 82 (14.59%) Laravel
6 70 (12.46%) .NET
7 69 (12.28%) Node.js
8 63 (11.21%) Vue
9 60 (10.68%) REST
10 41 (7.30%) jQuery
10 41 (7.30%) Spring
11 40 (7.12%) Kafka
12 39 (6.94%) Spring Boot
13 32 (5.69%) HTML5
13 32 (5.69%) JSON
14 31 (5.52%) AngularJS
15 28 (4.98%) CSS3
16 27 (4.80%) ASP.NET
17 21 (3.74%) Flask
18 20 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.76%) Replication
3 35 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.02%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.31%) NHS
9 11 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.42%) IoT
12 5 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.89%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 145 (25.80%) Linux
2 32 (5.69%) Windows
3 29 (5.16%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.02%) Debian
6 16 (2.85%) CentOS
7 9 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (34.34%) Agile
2 155 (27.58%) CI/CD
3 148 (26.33%) Software Engineering
4 129 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (21.71%) Microservices
6 102 (18.15%) DevOps
6 102 (18.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (17.08%) AI
8 80 (14.23%) Mentoring
9 77 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (10.68%) Data Modelling
10 60 (10.68%) Web Development
11 58 (10.32%) Clean Code
11 58 (10.32%) Containerisation
12 53 (9.43%) TDD
13 52 (9.25%) OOP
14 49 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (8.72%) Computer Science
15 48 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (8.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 207 (36.83%) SQL
2 196 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 159 (28.29%) PHP
4 125 (22.24%) Python
5 101 (17.97%) Java
6 76 (13.52%) C#
7 49 (8.72%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.69%) Bash
9 24 (4.27%) C++
10 22 (3.91%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.56%) Shell Script
12 18 (3.20%) Ruby
13 12 (2.14%) VB.NET
14 11 (1.96%) Go
15 10 (1.78%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.07%) Korn
16 6 (1.07%) Scala
17 4 (0.71%) C
17 4 (0.71%) Perl
17 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (14.06%) Degree
2 36 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) HNC
6 7 (1.25%) HND
7 6 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.53%) RHCE
10 2 (0.36%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.01%) QA
2 41 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.14%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) HL7
5 7 (1.25%) SLA
6 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.89%) WCAG
7 4 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 124 (22.06%) Docker
2 33 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.78%) vSphere
5 9 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
7 3 (0.53%) 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 (16.73%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.47%) Terraform
3 25 (4.45%) Ansible
3 25 (4.45%) Grafana
4 14 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.14%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
7 4 (0.71%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.53%) systemd
8 3 (0.53%) WSUS
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.05%) Oracle
3 23 (4.09%) Red Hat
4 22 (3.91%) Google
5 20 (3.56%) Splunk
6 18 (3.20%) VMware
7 16 (2.85%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.96%) Dell
8 11 (1.96%) Veeam
9 10 (1.78%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.25%) Adobe
10 7 (1.25%) Cisco
11 6 (1.07%) Databricks
11 6 (1.07%) Synology
12 5 (0.89%) Meraki
12 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.71%) Informatica
13 4 (0.71%) WooCommerce
14 3 (0.53%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.53%) Xamarin