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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 279 167
Rank change year-on-year -94 -112 -3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 550 508 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.04% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.32% 7.33% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 404 356 700
10th Percentile £36,575 £25,625 £31,250
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

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 8,697 6,928 11,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.12% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,909 4,312 6,359
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,025 £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 13 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 13 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 -96 484 £55,000 - 388
UK excluding London -95 365 £50,000 -9.09% 188
Work from Home -95 171 £65,000 +33.33% 166
London -65 148 £80,000 +39.13% 210
North of England -18 131 £42,500 -19.05% 52
South East -33 90 £57,500 -2.13% 45
North West -23 59 £49,250 -17.92% 26
Yorkshire -18 41 £42,500 +13.33% 18
Midlands -57 37 £54,000 +30.91% 24
South West -72 37 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East of England -44 31 £50,000 +5.26% 29
North East -50 31 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Wales -63 27 £62,000 -8.15% 4
West Midlands -46 19 £55,000 +41.03% 17
East Midlands -27 18 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Scotland +6 10 £40,000 -46.67% 9
Northern Ireland -74 2 - - 11

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 31 (5.64%) IIS
2 24 (4.36%) Apache
3 20 (3.64%) WordPress
4 12 (2.18%) CMS
4 12 (2.18%) Confluence
5 10 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.82%) Drupal
5 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.91%) JBoss
8 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.73%) nginx
9 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Elementor
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 288 (52.36%) AWS
2 165 (30.00%) Azure
3 83 (15.09%) GCP
4 55 (10.00%) GitHub
5 29 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 25 (4.55%) SaaS
7 24 (4.36%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.82%) Serverless
9 17 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.55%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.36%) Entra ID
14 12 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 19 (3.45%) DNS
3 13 (2.36%) Broadband
3 13 (2.36%) VPN
4 11 (2.00%) Firewall
5 9 (1.64%) VLAN
5 9 (1.64%) 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 (0.55%) 4G
10 3 (0.55%) 5G
10 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.55%) SSL
11 2 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (34.91%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (28.36%) SQL Server
3 113 (20.55%) Relational Database
4 101 (18.36%) MongoDB
5 67 (12.18%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.64%) Redis
7 28 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (4.73%) MariaDB
8 26 (4.73%) Power BI
9 20 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.45%) Metadata
11 16 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.00%) Big Data
13 10 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.82%) Tableau
14 9 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 153 (27.82%) Git
2 47 (8.55%) Claude Code
3 41 (7.45%) GitLab
4 27 (4.91%) Jenkins
5 25 (4.55%) JIRA
6 14 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.55%) 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 (0.55%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 124 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.91%) Finance
3 91 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 58 (10.55%) Law
6 33 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.82%) Banking
8 21 (3.82%) Marketing
9 18 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.45%) Retail
12 7 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Legal
13 5 (0.91%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.55%) Games
15 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.55%) Publishing
15 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (41.09%) Developer
2 158 (28.73%) Senior
3 83 (15.09%) Senior Developer
4 72 (13.09%) Software Engineer
5 57 (10.36%) PHP Developer
6 52 (9.45%) Lead
7 48 (8.73%) Administrator
8 44 (8.00%) DBA
9 39 (7.09%) Software Developer
10 29 (5.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (5.09%) Database Engineer
12 27 (4.91%) .NET Developer
12 27 (4.91%) C# Developer
12 27 (4.91%) Java Developer
13 22 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.82%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.82%) Senior Software Developer
15 18 (3.27%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (22.73%) CSS
2 112 (20.36%) HTML
3 99 (18.00%) React
4 89 (16.18%) .NET
5 85 (15.45%) RESTful
6 66 (12.00%) Laravel
7 65 (11.82%) REST
8 59 (10.73%) Terraform
9 52 (9.45%) Vue
10 51 (9.27%) Kafka
11 50 (9.09%) Node.js
12 46 (8.36%) Spring
12 46 (8.36%) Spring Boot
13 39 (7.09%) ASP.NET
13 39 (7.09%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (6.36%) jQuery
15 33 (6.00%) HTML5
16 30 (5.45%) Hibernate
17 29 (5.27%) AngularJS
18 26 (4.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.82%) Replication
4 26 (4.73%) Virtual Team
5 25 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.64%) 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
12 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 162 (29.45%) Linux
2 38 (6.91%) Windows
3 27 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.55%) Ubuntu
5 17 (3.09%) Debian
6 14 (2.55%) 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 (0.55%) Android
10 3 (0.55%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.27%) Agile
2 175 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 173 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
3 173 (31.45%) Software Engineering
4 131 (23.82%) DevOps
5 120 (21.82%) Microservices
6 115 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (19.27%) AI
8 88 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 86 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 78 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (13.64%) Clean Code
12 68 (12.36%) Scrum
13 65 (11.82%) Containerisation
14 63 (11.45%) High Availability
14 63 (11.45%) Observability
15 59 (10.73%) OOP
16 57 (10.36%) Web Development
17 51 (9.27%) Event-Driven
18 50 (9.09%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 191 (34.73%) SQL
2 177 (32.18%) JavaScript
3 139 (25.27%) Python
4 126 (22.91%) PHP
5 95 (17.27%) Java
6 85 (15.45%) C#
7 66 (12.00%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.73%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.27%) Bash
10 23 (4.18%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.09%) Ruby
12 15 (2.73%) C++
12 15 (2.73%) Go
13 12 (2.18%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.09%) Rust
15 5 (0.91%) Perl
15 5 (0.91%) Scala
16 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.55%) SOQL
16 3 (0.55%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 60 (10.91%) Degree
2 44 (8.00%) 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 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.55%) HNC
6 3 (0.55%) 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 (12.73%) QA
2 31 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.64%) 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 (27.09%) Docker
2 20 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.55%) 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 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.36%) Grafana
3 29 (5.27%) Ansible
4 26 (4.73%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.82%) 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%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.27%) Oracle
3 32 (5.82%) Splunk
4 26 (4.73%) Google
5 16 (2.91%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.73%) VMware
7 10 (1.82%) Dell
7 10 (1.82%) Veeam
8 9 (1.64%) HP
8 9 (1.64%) 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%) Databricks
11 5 (0.91%) Adobe
11 5 (0.91%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.73%) Informatica