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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 227 167
Rank change year-on-year -131 -60 -21
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 464 649 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.46% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 8.79% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 374 510 1,504
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8,044 7,380 17,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 16.56% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 4,765 12,646
10th Percentile £35,675 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -123 421 £55,000 +4.76% 475
UK excluding London -119 315 £50,000 - 593
Work from Home -64 178 £53,250 +1.43% 551
London -78 108 £77,500 +29.17% 37
North of England -49 104 £50,000 -4.76% 131
South East -45 89 £55,000 +10.00% 123
Midlands -37 49 £42,500 -5.56% 69
Yorkshire -31 44 £42,500 -10.53% 44
North West -37 42 £55,000 - 59
South West -76 33 £55,000 -4.35% 47
East Midlands -28 27 £37,500 -16.67% 39
East of England -38 27 £46,250 +23.33% 86
West Midlands -32 22 £47,500 +11.76% 30
North East -46 18 £47,500 - 28
Wales -50 6 £40,000 -21.95% 39
Scotland -7 5 £58,000 +0.87% 73
Northern Ireland -33 2 £62,500 -26.47% 41

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 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.88%) CMS
1 18 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.66%) Apache
2 17 (3.66%) WordPress
3 14 (3.02%) Confluence
4 13 (2.80%) nginx
5 11 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.37%) IIS
6 7 (1.51%) Drupal
7 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.65%) JBoss
8 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.51%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (48.71%) AWS
2 128 (27.59%) Azure
3 52 (11.21%) GCP
4 43 (9.27%) SaaS
5 37 (7.97%) GitHub
6 32 (6.90%) Serverless
7 31 (6.68%) Power Platform
8 30 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.17%) Firewall
2 14 (3.02%) VPN
3 12 (2.59%) Broadband
4 10 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.72%) DNS
6 8 (1.72%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.72%) Network Security
6 8 (1.72%) SAN
7 7 (1.51%) VoIP
8 6 (1.29%) VLAN
9 5 (1.08%) LAN
9 5 (1.08%) WAN
10 4 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.86%) MQTT
10 4 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.65%) RTP
11 3 (0.65%) SSH
11 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (30.82%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (24.14%) SQL Server
3 80 (17.24%) MongoDB
4 72 (15.52%) NoSQL
5 66 (14.22%) Relational Database
6 28 (6.03%) Power BI
7 27 (5.82%) MariaDB
8 23 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.37%) Redis
11 11 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.94%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.72%) Metadata
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (1.51%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (23.49%) Git
2 28 (6.03%) GitLab
2 28 (6.03%) JIRA
3 12 (2.59%) Claude Code
4 11 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.94%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.08%) JUnit
7 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.86%) NUnit
7 4 (0.86%) Selenium
7 4 (0.86%) Vite
8 3 (0.65%) Mocha
8 3 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 113 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.73%) Finance
3 50 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.96%) Law
6 18 (3.88%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.66%) Banking
8 14 (3.02%) Retail
9 11 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.51%) Marketing
11 6 (1.29%) Advertising
11 6 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.29%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.08%) Legal
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
14 3 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 182 (39.22%) Developer
2 110 (23.71%) Senior
3 54 (11.64%) Software Engineer
4 52 (11.21%) Senior Developer
5 50 (10.78%) PHP Developer
6 36 (7.76%) Lead
7 33 (7.11%) Software Developer
8 32 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (6.68%) Administrator
10 29 (6.25%) DBA
11 21 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) C# Developer
13 19 (4.09%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 18 (3.88%) Analyst
15 16 (3.45%) Graduate
15 16 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
15 16 (3.45%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.45%) Web Developer
16 15 (3.23%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (25.00%) CSS
2 95 (20.47%) HTML
3 76 (16.38%) React
3 76 (16.38%) RESTful
4 69 (14.87%) Laravel
5 62 (13.36%) Node.js
6 60 (12.93%) .NET
7 56 (12.07%) Vue
8 48 (10.34%) REST
9 34 (7.33%) jQuery
10 32 (6.90%) JSON
11 30 (6.47%) AngularJS
11 30 (6.47%) HTML5
12 27 (5.82%) CSS3
12 27 (5.82%) Spring
13 26 (5.60%) Kafka
14 24 (5.17%) Spring Boot
15 18 (3.88%) ASP.NET
16 17 (3.66%) .NET Core
17 13 (2.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.56%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.90%) Replication
3 25 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.80%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.80%) NHS
7 11 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.16%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.72%) IoT
9 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.08%) PropTech
11 5 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 126 (27.16%) Linux
2 29 (6.25%) Windows
3 24 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.74%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.80%) CentOS
5 13 (2.80%) Debian
6 9 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.86%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (34.05%) Agile
2 115 (24.78%) CI/CD
3 105 (22.63%) Software Engineering
4 98 (21.12%) Microservices
5 97 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 75 (16.16%) DevOps
8 63 (13.58%) AI
9 59 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 53 (11.42%) Containerisation
12 48 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (10.13%) Computer Science
14 45 (9.70%) Web Development
15 44 (9.48%) Data Modelling
16 43 (9.27%) TDD
17 41 (8.84%) Clean Code
18 35 (7.54%) OOP
18 35 (7.54%) Open Source
19 33 (7.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 178 (38.36%) SQL
2 162 (34.91%) JavaScript
3 141 (30.39%) PHP
4 94 (20.26%) Python
5 85 (18.32%) Java
6 69 (14.87%) C#
7 40 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.90%) Bash
9 25 (5.39%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.17%) C++
11 15 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.37%) Go
12 11 (2.37%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.16%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.16%) Ruby
14 7 (1.51%) Korn
15 6 (1.29%) C
16 5 (1.08%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.86%) Perl
17 4 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (15.95%) Degree
2 34 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.51%) HNC
6 7 (1.51%) HND
7 6 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.19%) QA
2 31 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.37%) GDPR
6 7 (1.51%) HL7
6 7 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.51%) SLA
7 5 (1.08%) WCAG
8 4 (0.86%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 90 (19.40%) Docker
2 33 (7.11%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.16%) vSphere
5 9 (1.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.65%) iptables
8 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.82%) Terraform
3 24 (5.17%) Ansible
4 19 (4.09%) Grafana
5 10 (2.16%) Nagios
6 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.51%) Puppet
8 4 (0.86%) Argo
8 4 (0.86%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.65%) Plesk
9 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.65%) systemd
10 2 (0.43%) Rancher
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Podman
11 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.39%) Oracle
3 21 (4.53%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.66%) VMware
5 14 (3.02%) Splunk
6 13 (2.80%) Google
7 10 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.72%) Dell
8 8 (1.72%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.72%) Veeam
9 7 (1.51%) Cisco
10 6 (1.29%) Adobe
10 6 (1.29%) Synology
10 6 (1.29%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.08%) Meraki
12 4 (0.86%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.65%) BT
13 3 (0.65%) Mitel
13 3 (0.65%) SAP