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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 189 154
Rank change year-on-year -172 -35 -1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 429 715 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.71% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 9.71% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 342 601 1,580
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.66%

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 7,824 7,365 17,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.87% 17.59% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,597 5,167 12,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,392 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -147 393 £55,000 - 151
UK excluding London -152 293 £50,000 - 143
Work from Home -95 159 £50,000 -4.76% 93
London -65 100 £75,000 +25.00% 41
South East -76 80 £55,000 +10.00% 55
North of England -106 74 £50,000 -4.76% 29
Midlands -66 48 £42,500 -10.53% 12
South West -88 41 £53,750 -6.52% 15
East of England -49 40 £50,000 +21.21% 20
North West -63 40 £55,000 +2.33% 16
East Midlands -71 26 £37,500 -11.76% 6
Yorkshire -76 26 £50,000 +2.04% 10
West Midlands -30 22 £47,500 -7.77% 6
North East -39 8 £49,250 -8.37% 3
Scotland -43 5 £58,000 +5.45% 6
Northern Ireland -37 3 £62,500 -26.47% 4
Wales -44 2 £40,000 +14.29% 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 21 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.50%) nginx
4 13 (3.03%) Apache
4 13 (3.03%) CMS
5 10 (2.33%) Confluence
6 6 (1.40%) IIS
6 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.17%) WordPress
8 3 (0.70%) JBoss
9 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.23%) Camunda
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Shopify
2 3 (0.70%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (45.45%) AWS
2 116 (27.04%) Azure
3 68 (15.85%) GCP
4 46 (10.72%) SaaS
5 30 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.29%) Power Platform
7 26 (6.06%) GitHub
8 24 (5.59%) Serverless
9 16 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.80%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.86%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.20%) Firewall
1 18 (4.20%) VPN
2 7 (1.63%) iSCSI
2 7 (1.63%) Network Security
2 7 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (1.63%) SAN
3 6 (1.40%) DNS
3 6 (1.40%) FTP
4 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.17%) VLAN
5 4 (0.93%) HTTP
5 4 (0.93%) MQTT
6 3 (0.70%) DHCP
6 3 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.70%) RTP
6 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.70%) VoIP
6 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (26.81%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (23.54%) SQL Server
3 61 (14.22%) NoSQL
4 56 (13.05%) Relational Database
5 55 (12.82%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.83%) Power BI
7 23 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (4.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.26%) DynamoDB
11 14 (3.26%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (2.56%) MariaDB
12 11 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (2.10%) Big Data
15 8 (1.86%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 91 (21.21%) Git
2 19 (4.43%) JIRA
3 13 (3.03%) GitLab
4 11 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.56%) PHPUnit
5 10 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.17%) Vite
7 4 (0.93%) Gradle
7 4 (0.93%) JUnit
7 4 (0.93%) Maven
7 4 (0.93%) NUnit
8 3 (0.70%) Mockito
8 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.70%) Subversion
9 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.47%) JMeter
9 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.47%) Selenium
10 1 (0.23%) Ant
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 91 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.69%) Finance
3 48 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.66%) Health Technology
5 19 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.20%) Law
7 14 (3.26%) Retail
8 11 (2.56%) Banking
9 10 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.63%) Advertising
11 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.40%) Marketing
12 5 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.17%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Front Office
13 3 (0.70%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (41.72%) Developer
2 87 (20.28%) Senior
3 60 (13.99%) PHP Developer
4 42 (9.79%) Senior Developer
5 34 (7.93%) Data Engineer
5 34 (7.93%) Lead
5 34 (7.93%) Software Developer
6 31 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (7.23%) Software Engineer
7 23 (5.36%) C# Developer
8 20 (4.66%) Backend Developer
8 20 (4.66%) SQL Developer
9 19 (4.43%) Analyst
9 19 (4.43%) Senior Backend Developer
9 19 (4.43%) Support Engineer
10 18 (4.20%) Administrator
10 18 (4.20%) DBA
10 18 (4.20%) Graduate
10 18 (4.20%) Graduate Developer
10 18 (4.20%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (23.08%) CSS
2 90 (20.98%) HTML
3 72 (16.78%) Laravel
4 67 (15.62%) React
5 55 (12.82%) RESTful
6 44 (10.26%) Vue
7 41 (9.56%) Node.js
7 41 (9.56%) REST
8 38 (8.86%) .NET
9 32 (7.46%) JSON
10 31 (7.23%) jQuery
11 27 (6.29%) AngularJS
12 24 (5.59%) Kafka
13 22 (5.13%) Spring
14 19 (4.43%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.96%) XML
16 16 (3.73%) HTML5
16 16 (3.73%) Symfony
16 16 (3.73%) Web Services
17 15 (3.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.43%) Replication
4 17 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.50%) NHS
5 15 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.03%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.56%) IoT
10 10 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 105 (24.48%) Linux
2 25 (5.83%) Windows
3 19 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.26%) CentOS
4 14 (3.26%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.10%) Debian
7 4 (0.93%) Rocky
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.70%) Android
8 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.93%) Agile
2 93 (21.68%) CI/CD
3 84 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
5 68 (15.85%) Microservices
6 63 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (14.45%) Software Engineering
8 61 (14.22%) DevOps
9 52 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 47 (10.96%) Mentoring
10 47 (10.96%) TDD
11 46 (10.72%) OOP
12 43 (10.02%) Data Modelling
13 41 (9.56%) AI
14 40 (9.32%) Computer Science
14 40 (9.32%) ETL
15 39 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (9.09%) Data Engineering
16 37 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
17 36 (8.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 194 (45.22%) SQL
2 147 (34.27%) PHP
3 127 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 88 (20.51%) Python
5 74 (17.25%) Java
6 59 (13.75%) C#
7 51 (11.89%) TypeScript
8 30 (6.99%) Bash
9 24 (5.59%) C++
9 24 (5.59%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.26%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.03%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.80%) Go
13 10 (2.33%) Scala
14 7 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.40%) C
15 6 (1.40%) Korn
16 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.70%) VBA
17 2 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (14.22%) Degree
2 35 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.93%) HNC
7 4 (0.93%) HND
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.70%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.59%) QA
3 17 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.56%) HL7
5 9 (2.10%) GDPR
6 7 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (16.55%) Docker
2 30 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (1.63%) vSphere
6 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.47%) iptables
8 2 (0.47%) Samba
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.99%) Terraform
3 26 (6.06%) Ansible
4 16 (3.73%) Grafana
5 13 (3.03%) Nagios
6 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.17%) Argo
7 5 (1.17%) Puppet
8 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.93%) Rancher
9 3 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.47%) systemd
11 1 (0.23%) Graylog
11 1 (0.23%) Plesk
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.76%) Oracle
3 20 (4.66%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.03%) Google
4 13 (3.03%) VMware
5 11 (2.56%) SAP
6 9 (2.10%) Informatica
6 9 (2.10%) Splunk
7 8 (1.86%) Databricks
7 8 (1.86%) Talend
8 7 (1.63%) Dell
8 7 (1.63%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.40%) Adobe
9 6 (1.40%) Veeam
10 5 (1.17%) Cisco
10 5 (1.17%) Palantir
11 4 (0.93%) Apple
11 4 (0.93%) Meraki
11 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.93%) Synology