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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 153 145
Rank change year-on-year -173 -8 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 419 901 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.95% 2.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.01% 10.38% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 312 674 1,494
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £80,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -7.41%

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 6,974 8,678 15,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 18.74% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 5,237 12,032
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -138 388 £55,000 - 178
UK excluding London -168 259 £50,500 +1.00% 166
Work from Home -89 166 £52,130 -0.70% 117
London -27 126 £62,500 +4.17% 38
North of England -91 69 £52,130 -0.70% 40
South East -82 68 £55,000 +10.00% 41
Midlands -62 42 £40,000 - 22
East of England +1 41 £50,000 +11.11% 19
North West -50 38 £55,000 +4.76% 24
South West -68 34 £60,000 +2.13% 29
West Midlands -18 27 £39,000 -22.00% 19
Yorkshire -60 27 £50,000 +3.63% 8
East Midlands -59 15 £40,000 +14.29% 3
North East -29 4 £51,565 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland -28 3 £62,500 -3.85%
Scotland -47 2 £65,000 +18.18% 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 18 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.82%) nginx
4 12 (2.86%) Apache
4 12 (2.86%) CMS
5 8 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.67%) IIS
7 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.43%) Confluence
8 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.72%) WordPress
10 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.24%) Camunda
11 1 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.19%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (44.63%) AWS
2 116 (27.68%) Azure
3 63 (15.04%) GCP
4 52 (12.41%) SaaS
5 31 (7.40%) GitHub
6 26 (6.21%) Serverless
7 25 (5.97%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.86%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.25%) VPN
2 10 (2.39%) Firewall
3 8 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.67%) DNS
4 7 (1.67%) FTP
4 7 (1.67%) Network Security
5 6 (1.43%) DHCP
5 6 (1.43%) VLAN
6 5 (1.19%) HTTP
6 5 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.72%) Broadband
7 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.72%) MQTT
7 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) SAN
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) WAN
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (27.92%) SQL Server
2 94 (22.43%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (15.04%) MongoDB
4 57 (13.60%) Relational Database
5 51 (12.17%) NoSQL
6 32 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.49%) Power BI
8 19 (4.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 19 (4.53%) BusinessObjects
9 18 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.30%) DynamoDB
10 17 (4.06%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (3.10%) Electronic Patient Records
12 13 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.63%) Big Data
14 10 (2.39%) Tableau
15 8 (1.91%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.91%) MariaDB
15 8 (1.91%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 83 (19.81%) Git
2 21 (5.01%) JIRA
3 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.39%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.39%) PHPUnit
5 9 (2.15%) GitLab
6 5 (1.19%) git-flow
6 5 (1.19%) Vite
7 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.72%) Gradle
7 3 (0.72%) JMeter
7 3 (0.72%) JUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.72%) NUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.72%) Subversion
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Mockito
8 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (12.17%) Finance
4 24 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.30%) Law
6 15 (3.58%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.10%) Retail
8 10 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.39%) Marketing
9 6 (1.43%) Automotive
9 6 (1.43%) Banking
10 5 (1.19%) Advertising
11 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.95%) Billing
11 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.72%) Front Office
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 177 (42.24%) Developer
2 86 (20.53%) Senior
3 48 (11.46%) PHP Developer
4 46 (10.98%) Senior Developer
5 39 (9.31%) Software Developer
6 31 (7.40%) Consultant
7 30 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 29 (6.92%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.68%) Data Engineer
10 24 (5.73%) Applications Support
10 24 (5.73%) C# Developer
11 22 (5.25%) Lead
12 21 (5.01%) Analyst
13 20 (4.77%) Backend Developer
14 19 (4.53%) Graduate
14 19 (4.53%) Graduate Developer
14 19 (4.53%) Graduate Software Developer
14 19 (4.53%) SQL Developer
14 19 (4.53%) Support Engineer
15 17 (4.06%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.81%) CSS
2 71 (16.95%) HTML
3 70 (16.71%) React
4 59 (14.08%) Laravel
5 51 (12.17%) .NET
6 46 (10.98%) RESTful
7 42 (10.02%) REST
8 41 (9.79%) Node.js
9 40 (9.55%) Vue
10 28 (6.68%) AngularJS
10 28 (6.68%) JSON
11 24 (5.73%) jQuery
12 19 (4.53%) Symfony
13 17 (4.06%) .NET Core
13 17 (4.06%) Kafka
13 17 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.06%) Web Services
14 16 (3.82%) Spring
15 14 (3.34%) LAMP
15 14 (3.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.68%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.34%) NHS
6 13 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.63%) IoT
9 10 (2.39%) Replication
10 8 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.19%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.48%) Linux
2 22 (5.25%) Windows
3 14 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.39%) CentOS
5 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.43%) Android
6 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.95%) Debian
7 4 (0.95%) Rocky
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (33.65%) Agile
2 100 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (23.39%) CI/CD
4 71 (16.95%) Software Engineering
5 67 (15.99%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (15.99%) Microservices
5 67 (15.99%) OOP
6 65 (15.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (14.32%) DevOps
8 55 (13.13%) Data Modelling
9 52 (12.41%) Mentoring
10 50 (11.93%) OO
11 49 (11.69%) Containerisation
12 47 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 46 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (10.98%) ETL
14 41 (9.79%) TDD
15 40 (9.55%) Computer Science
16 38 (9.07%) AI
17 36 (8.59%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 186 (44.39%) SQL
2 142 (33.89%) PHP
3 123 (29.36%) JavaScript
4 83 (19.81%) Python
5 67 (15.99%) C#
5 67 (15.99%) Java
6 63 (15.04%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.21%) C++
7 26 (6.21%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.01%) Bash
8 21 (5.01%) Delphi
8 21 (5.01%) Pascal
9 14 (3.34%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.39%) Go
10 10 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.15%) Scala
12 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.43%) C
14 4 (0.95%) Perl
15 3 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 55 (13.13%) Degree
2 36 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.49%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.58%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.72%) RHCE
10 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.48%) MCSE
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) MCSA
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.22%) QA
2 16 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.10%) HL7
5 12 (2.86%) SLA
6 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.67%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (17.18%) Docker
2 20 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.48%) NFS
6 2 (0.48%) Samba
6 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 53 (12.65%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.92%) Ansible
3 28 (6.68%) Terraform
4 12 (2.86%) Grafana
5 9 (2.15%) Nagios
6 8 (1.91%) Argo
7 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.72%) Puppet
8 3 (0.72%) Rancher
9 2 (0.48%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.48%) Plesk
9 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (13.60%) Oracle
2 46 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.06%) SAP
4 11 (2.63%) Google
4 11 (2.63%) Informatica
4 11 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.39%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.39%) Talend
6 9 (2.15%) VMware
7 8 (1.91%) Databricks
8 6 (1.43%) Splunk
9 5 (1.19%) Palantir
10 4 (0.95%) Apple
10 4 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.95%) Zend
11 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.72%) BT
11 3 (0.72%) Dell
11 3 (0.72%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.72%) WooCommerce