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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 280 168
Rank change year-on-year -96 -112 -3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 551 507 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.03% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 7.31% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 405 354 716
10th Percentile £36,600 £25,375 £31,375
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% -4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £64,063
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% -1.48%

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 8,648 6,936 11,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.33% 14.11% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 4,310 6,429
10th Percentile £36,750 £32,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 12 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 12 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 -86 484 £55,000 - 377
UK excluding London -86 366 £50,000 -9.09% 188
Work from Home -88 171 £65,000 +33.33% 168
London -76 148 £80,000 +39.13% 203
North of England -12 131 £42,500 -19.05% 48
South East -40 89 £57,500 -2.13% 44
North West -19 59 £49,250 -17.92% 24
Yorkshire -25 41 £42,500 +13.33% 18
Midlands -45 38 £54,000 +26.32% 26
South West -71 37 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East of England -46 31 £50,000 +5.26% 26
North East -48 31 £42,500 -10.53% 6
Wales -59 27 £62,000 -8.15% 4
West Midlands -42 20 £55,000 +41.03% 18
East Midlands -25 18 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland +7 11 £40,000 -46.67% 9
Northern Ireland -72 2 - - 17

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 32 (5.81%) IIS
2 24 (4.36%) Apache
3 20 (3.63%) WordPress
4 12 (2.18%) Confluence
5 11 (2.00%) CMS
6 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.81%) Drupal
6 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.91%) JBoss
9 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.73%) nginx
10 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Elementor
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 288 (52.27%) AWS
2 166 (30.13%) Azure
3 83 (15.06%) GCP
4 55 (9.98%) GitHub
5 30 (5.44%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 25 (4.54%) SaaS
7 24 (4.36%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.81%) Serverless
9 17 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.54%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.36%) Entra ID
14 12 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.99%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.45%) DNS
3 13 (2.36%) Broadband
3 13 (2.36%) VPN
4 11 (2.00%) Firewall
5 9 (1.63%) VLAN
5 9 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.45%) DHCP
7 6 (1.09%) VoIP
8 5 (0.91%) HTTP
9 4 (0.73%) Internet
9 4 (0.73%) LAN
9 4 (0.73%) SSH
9 4 (0.73%) WAN
10 3 (0.54%) 4G
10 3 (0.54%) 5G
10 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.54%) SSL
11 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (28.49%) SQL Server
3 113 (20.51%) Relational Database
4 101 (18.33%) MongoDB
5 67 (12.16%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.63%) Redis
7 28 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (4.90%) Power BI
9 25 (4.54%) MariaDB
10 20 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.45%) Metadata
12 16 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 16 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.00%) Big Data
14 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.81%) Tableau
15 9 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (27.77%) Git
2 47 (8.53%) Claude Code
3 41 (7.44%) GitLab
4 27 (4.90%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.54%) JIRA
6 14 (2.54%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.27%) Selenium
9 5 (0.91%) JUnit
9 5 (0.91%) Postman
9 5 (0.91%) RSpec
10 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.73%) minitest
10 4 (0.73%) Mocha
10 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.54%) git-flow
11 3 (0.54%) Maven
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
General
1 126 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.88%) Finance
3 92 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.53%) Law
6 33 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.81%) Banking
8 21 (3.81%) Marketing
9 18 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.45%) Retail
12 7 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.91%) Legal
15 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.54%) Games
16 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 225 (40.83%) Developer
2 158 (28.68%) Senior
3 83 (15.06%) Senior Developer
4 72 (13.07%) Software Engineer
5 56 (10.16%) PHP Developer
6 52 (9.44%) Lead
7 48 (8.71%) Administrator
8 45 (8.17%) DBA
9 39 (7.08%) Software Developer
10 29 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (5.08%) Database Engineer
12 27 (4.90%) .NET Developer
12 27 (4.90%) C# Developer
12 27 (4.90%) Java Developer
13 22 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.81%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.81%) Senior Software Developer
15 18 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (22.69%) CSS
2 112 (20.33%) HTML
3 99 (17.97%) React
4 89 (16.15%) .NET
5 85 (15.43%) RESTful
6 65 (11.80%) Laravel
6 65 (11.80%) REST
7 59 (10.71%) Terraform
8 51 (9.26%) Kafka
8 51 (9.26%) Vue
9 50 (9.07%) Node.js
10 46 (8.35%) Spring
10 46 (8.35%) Spring Boot
11 39 (7.08%) ASP.NET
11 39 (7.08%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (6.35%) jQuery
13 33 (5.99%) HTML5
14 30 (5.44%) Hibernate
15 29 (5.26%) AngularJS
16 27 (4.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.99%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.80%) Replication
4 26 (4.72%) Virtual Team
5 25 (4.54%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
11 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.09%) NHS
11 6 (1.09%) Social Media
12 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 162 (29.40%) Linux
2 39 (7.08%) Windows
3 28 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.54%) Ubuntu
5 17 (3.09%) Debian
6 14 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.36%) CentOS
8 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.54%) Android
10 3 (0.54%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.21%) Agile
2 175 (31.76%) CI/CD
3 173 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
3 173 (31.40%) Software Engineering
4 130 (23.59%) DevOps
5 120 (21.78%) Microservices
6 115 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (19.24%) AI
8 88 (15.97%) Mentoring
9 86 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 78 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (13.61%) Clean Code
12 68 (12.34%) Scrum
13 65 (11.80%) Containerisation
14 63 (11.43%) High Availability
14 63 (11.43%) Observability
15 59 (10.71%) OOP
16 57 (10.34%) Web Development
17 51 (9.26%) Event-Driven
18 50 (9.07%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.85%) SQL
2 177 (32.12%) JavaScript
3 139 (25.23%) Python
4 126 (22.87%) PHP
5 95 (17.24%) Java
6 85 (15.43%) C#
7 66 (11.98%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.72%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.26%) Bash
10 23 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.09%) Ruby
12 15 (2.72%) C++
12 15 (2.72%) Go
13 12 (2.18%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.09%) Rust
15 5 (0.91%) Perl
15 5 (0.91%) Scala
16 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.54%) SOQL
16 3 (0.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 60 (10.89%) Degree
2 44 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.36%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
5 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.54%) HNC
6 3 (0.54%) HND
7 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.70%) QA
2 31 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.63%) GDPR
5 8 (1.45%) WCAG
6 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) HL7
8 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 149 (27.04%) Docker
2 20 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.54%) vSphere
6 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.36%) Firmware
6 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) iptables
7 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 103 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.35%) Grafana
3 29 (5.26%) Ansible
4 26 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.81%) Nagios
6 8 (1.45%) WSUS
7 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.09%) Puppet
8 5 (0.91%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Plesk
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.25%) Oracle
3 32 (5.81%) Splunk
4 26 (4.72%) Google
5 16 (2.90%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.90%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.72%) VMware
7 10 (1.81%) Dell
7 10 (1.81%) Veeam
8 9 (1.63%) HP
8 9 (1.63%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.45%) Aruba
9 8 (1.45%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.45%) NetApp
9 8 (1.45%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.45%) SonicWALL
10 6 (1.09%) Adobe
10 6 (1.09%) Databricks
11 5 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.91%) WooCommerce