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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 146 150
Rank change year-on-year -111 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 488 1,095 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.95% 2.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.25% 10.93% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 359 747 945
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
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 6,728 10,014 10,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 17.87% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 5,729 8,121
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £95,063
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 December 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 23 December 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 -105 443 £55,000 - 800
UK excluding London -138 284 £52,500 +5.00% 779
Work from Home -68 190 £45,900 -12.57% 599
London -8 166 £57,500 -4.17% 78
North of England -70 78 £52,500 - 198
South East -87 55 £60,000 +20.00% 183
East of England -5 51 £50,000 -9.09% 123
Midlands -45 44 £43,000 -2.27% 145
South West -65 44 £58,750 +11.90% 80
North West -34 43 £58,750 +17.50% 99
Yorkshire -25 30 £40,000 -27.27% 90
West Midlands +5 25 £39,000 -29.09% 75
East Midlands -62 15 £45,000 +28.57% 62
Wales -31 10 £67,500 +107.69% 20
North East -6 5 £51,000 -7.27% 10
Northern Ireland -4 1 £50,000 -23.08% 10
Scotland -30 1 £50,000 -9.09% 32

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 20 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.28%) Confluence
3 12 (2.46%) Apache
3 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.25%) nginx
5 10 (2.05%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.43%) IIS
7 6 (1.23%) CMS
8 5 (1.02%) WordPress
9 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.41%) WildFly
11 1 (0.20%) Appian
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) JBoss
11 1 (0.20%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 179 (36.68%) AWS
2 148 (30.33%) Azure
3 67 (13.73%) GCP
4 60 (12.30%) SaaS
5 27 (5.53%) GitHub
6 23 (4.71%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.51%) Serverless
8 15 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.25%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.05%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.02%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.51%) VPN
2 15 (3.07%) Firewall
3 14 (2.87%) FTP
4 9 (1.84%) DNS
4 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.64%) Broadband
5 8 (1.64%) DHCP
6 7 (1.43%) VLAN
6 7 (1.43%) WAN
7 6 (1.23%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.23%) SAN
8 5 (1.02%) Internet
8 5 (1.02%) LAN
8 5 (1.02%) VoIP
8 5 (1.02%) WPA
9 3 (0.61%) MQTT
10 2 (0.41%) RTMP
10 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (35.86%) SQL Server
2 101 (20.70%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (12.09%) MongoDB
4 57 (11.68%) Relational Database
5 41 (8.40%) NoSQL
6 37 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (4.92%) BusinessObjects
8 22 (4.51%) DynamoDB
9 20 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (4.10%) Power BI
9 20 (4.10%) RDBMS
10 19 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (2.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (2.66%) Big Data
14 12 (2.46%) MariaDB
14 12 (2.46%) Pentaho
15 11 (2.25%) DataStage
15 11 (2.25%) Hadoop
15 11 (2.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 70 (14.34%) Git
2 30 (6.15%) JIRA
3 12 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.05%) GitLab
5 9 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.02%) git-flow
7 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.82%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Mocha
8 3 (0.61%) Mockito
8 3 (0.61%) webpack
9 2 (0.41%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.41%) MLflow
9 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.32%) Finance
3 58 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.94%) Law
5 21 (4.30%) Marketing
6 18 (3.69%) Health Technology
7 12 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.46%) Retail
8 8 (1.64%) Front Office
9 7 (1.43%) Automotive
9 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (0.82%) Advertising
11 4 (0.82%) Billing
12 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.41%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.41%) Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 206 (42.21%) Developer
2 81 (16.60%) Senior
3 55 (11.27%) Consultant
4 53 (10.86%) PHP Developer
5 47 (9.63%) Software Developer
6 41 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 40 (8.20%) Lead
8 38 (7.79%) Analyst
9 33 (6.76%) Graduate
9 33 (6.76%) Graduate Developer
10 31 (6.35%) Applications Support
11 30 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (5.74%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.71%) IT Graduate
13 23 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 22 (4.51%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.51%) Support Analyst
14 22 (4.51%) Support Engineer
15 20 (4.10%) Backend Developer
16 17 (3.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (22.54%) CSS
2 94 (19.26%) HTML
3 72 (14.75%) .NET
4 71 (14.55%) React
5 50 (10.25%) Laravel
6 44 (9.02%) REST
7 40 (8.20%) jQuery
8 36 (7.38%) RESTful
9 34 (6.97%) ASP.NET
10 33 (6.76%) Node.js
11 29 (5.94%) AngularJS
11 29 (5.94%) JSON
12 27 (5.53%) Symfony
13 25 (5.12%) Vue
14 20 (4.10%) Web Services
15 19 (3.89%) HTML5
16 17 (3.48%) SOAP
17 16 (3.28%) Kafka
18 15 (3.07%) CakePHP
18 15 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.66%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.69%) NHS
6 17 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.66%) IoT
9 11 (2.25%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.64%) Social Media
12 7 (1.43%) Clustering
13 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.02%) Legacy Code
13 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 89 (18.24%) Linux
2 43 (8.81%) Windows
3 28 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.43%) CentOS
5 7 (1.43%) Unix
6 6 (1.23%) Android
7 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.82%) VMS
8 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.61%) Rocky
9 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (31.35%) Agile
2 152 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (21.31%) OO
4 103 (21.11%) OOP
5 98 (20.08%) CI/CD
6 75 (15.37%) Business Intelligence
7 73 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (13.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 68 (13.93%) Software Engineering
9 60 (12.30%) Mentoring
10 59 (12.09%) DevOps
10 59 (12.09%) MVC
11 58 (11.89%) ETL
12 54 (11.07%) Data Modelling
12 54 (11.07%) Microservices
13 53 (10.86%) AI
13 53 (10.86%) Computer Science
14 51 (10.45%) Containerisation
15 41 (8.40%) Analytics
16 40 (8.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 207 (42.42%) SQL
2 150 (30.74%) PHP
3 139 (28.48%) JavaScript
4 107 (21.93%) Python
5 86 (17.62%) C#
6 75 (15.37%) TypeScript
7 67 (13.73%) Java
8 44 (9.02%) Delphi
8 44 (9.02%) Pascal
9 36 (7.38%) C++
10 16 (3.28%) Bash
11 15 (3.07%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.84%) Scala
13 9 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.64%) Go
14 8 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.02%) Perl
15 5 (1.02%) R
16 4 (0.82%) Korn
Qualifications
1 73 (14.96%) Degree
2 52 (10.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.61%) MCSE
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) CCNA
10 2 (0.41%) CCNP
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.41%) HNC
10 2 (0.41%) HND
10 2 (0.41%) MCSA
11 1 (0.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.70%) QA
2 14 (2.87%) HL7
2 14 (2.87%) SLA
3 13 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.41%) PSD2
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (16.80%) Docker
2 17 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) NFS
6 2 (0.41%) pfSense
6 2 (0.41%) Samba
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 64 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.53%) Terraform
3 24 (4.92%) Ansible
4 9 (1.84%) Grafana
5 7 (1.43%) Nagios
6 6 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) Argo
7 5 (1.02%) Autotask
8 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.41%) Plesk
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 1 (0.20%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (19.06%) Oracle
2 60 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.10%) SAP
4 17 (3.48%) Informatica
5 16 (3.28%) Talend
6 13 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.25%) Databricks
8 10 (2.05%) Google
8 10 (2.05%) Splunk
8 10 (2.05%) VMware
9 7 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.23%) Dell
11 5 (1.02%) Datto
11 5 (1.02%) Palantir
11 5 (1.02%) RedGate
12 4 (0.82%) Zend
13 3 (0.61%) Adobe
13 3 (0.61%) Apple
13 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow