MySQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 174 163
Rank change year-on-year -102 -11 -76
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 650 1,594 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.59% 2.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.20% 9.62% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 505 1,309 1,202
10th Percentile £28,650 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

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 7,931 16,571 17,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.19% 16.57% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,945 11,120 12,278
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -5.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL.

Salary trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 18 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 18 July 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 -107 577 £52,500 - 494
UK excluding London -91 468 £50,000 - 346
Work from Home -62 294 £50,000 -9.09% 297
London +15 148 £62,500 -5.30% 190
North of England -118 133 £52,500 - 114
South East -50 116 £50,000 -1.96% 93
North West -94 81 £55,000 - 78
Midlands -40 69 £47,500 -5.00% 42
East of England -40 57 £47,500 - 31
South West -9 54 £57,500 +15.00% 37
West Midlands -8 42 £40,000 -23.81% 22
Yorkshire -51 34 £47,500 - 28
East Midlands -16 21 £46,250 +8.82% 20
Wales +27 19 £60,000 +20.00% 13
North East +12 18 £47,500 -27.18% 8
Scotland +45 17 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Northern Ireland +36 4 - - 10
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 1

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (5.85%) Confluence
2 27 (4.15%) WordPress
3 23 (3.54%) CMS
4 20 (3.08%) Apache
5 14 (2.15%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.69%) Apache Solr
6 11 (1.69%) IIS
7 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.54%) nginx
8 6 (0.92%) SAS
8 6 (0.92%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.62%) Drupal
11 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.31%) Appian
12 2 (0.31%) Camunda
13 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.46%) SPSS
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Magento
2 6 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.62%) Relativity
3 4 (0.62%) Ringtail
3 4 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 3 (0.46%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Odoo
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 306 (47.08%) AWS
2 183 (28.15%) Azure
3 90 (13.85%) GCP
4 53 (8.15%) SaaS
5 43 (6.62%) GitHub
6 37 (5.69%) Power Platform
7 36 (5.54%) Serverless
8 27 (4.15%) Cloudflare
9 24 (3.69%) PaaS
10 23 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (3.38%) IaaS
12 19 (2.92%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (2.77%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (2.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.08%) Firewall
2 26 (4.00%) DNS
3 25 (3.85%) VPN
4 18 (2.77%) WAN
5 16 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.00%) FTP
7 11 (1.69%) Internet
8 10 (1.54%) SAN
9 8 (1.23%) iSCSI
9 8 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.77%) VLAN
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
11 4 (0.62%) SMS
12 3 (0.46%) Broadband
12 3 (0.46%) DHCP
12 3 (0.46%) Multicast
12 3 (0.46%) PuTTY
12 3 (0.46%) SSL
12 3 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (24.15%) SQL Server
2 131 (20.15%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (13.38%) Relational Database
4 64 (9.85%) MongoDB
5 55 (8.46%) NoSQL
6 37 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (5.23%) Power BI
8 22 (3.38%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.38%) Redis
9 19 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.92%) RDBMS
10 16 (2.46%) Big Data
10 16 (2.46%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.15%) MariaDB
12 12 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (1.85%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.69%) Apache Hive
13 11 (1.69%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 194 (29.85%) Git
2 55 (8.46%) JIRA
3 23 (3.54%) Bitbucket
4 16 (2.46%) GitLab
5 14 (2.15%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.69%) NUnit
6 11 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.54%) Jasmine
7 10 (1.54%) PHPUnit
8 8 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.23%) webpack
9 7 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.08%) Maven
10 6 (0.92%) git-flow
10 6 (0.92%) Gradle
10 6 (0.92%) Selenium
11 5 (0.77%) JMeter
11 5 (0.77%) Mocha
11 5 (0.77%) Postman
12 4 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 180 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 150 (23.08%) Finance
3 49 (7.54%) Marketing
4 43 (6.62%) Law
5 41 (6.31%) Games
6 38 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.69%) Retail
9 21 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.31%) Health Technology
12 12 (1.85%) Banking
13 11 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.23%) Advertising
16 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
18 6 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 313 (48.15%) Developer
2 140 (21.54%) Senior
3 84 (12.92%) PHP Developer
4 83 (12.77%) Software Engineer
5 76 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 66 (10.15%) Senior Developer
7 53 (8.15%) Lead
8 45 (6.92%) Graduate
8 45 (6.92%) Graduate Developer
9 44 (6.77%) IT Graduate
10 39 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (5.08%) Analyst
12 27 (4.15%) C# Developer
12 27 (4.15%) Web Developer
13 25 (3.85%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.23%) Architect
14 21 (3.23%) SQL Developer
15 20 (3.08%) Junior
15 20 (3.08%) Junior Developer
15 20 (3.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (30.62%) CSS
2 175 (26.92%) HTML
3 135 (20.77%) React
4 103 (15.85%) .NET
5 99 (15.23%) Laravel
6 80 (12.31%) Node.js
7 70 (10.77%) REST
8 69 (10.62%) jQuery
9 68 (10.46%) RESTful
10 66 (10.15%) Vue
11 60 (9.23%) ASP.NET
12 51 (7.85%) LAMP
13 48 (7.38%) AngularJS
14 42 (6.46%) HTML5
15 39 (6.00%) Spring Boot
15 39 (6.00%) Web Services
16 36 (5.54%) Kafka
17 34 (5.23%) Spring
18 31 (4.77%) CSS3
19 30 (4.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.08%) Mobile App
2 31 (4.77%) NHS
3 29 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 25 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.92%) Virtual Team
8 18 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.00%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.00%) IoT
11 11 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.69%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.38%) Online Games
12 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (17.08%) Linux
2 48 (7.38%) Windows
3 18 (2.77%) Unix
4 13 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.23%) CentOS
6 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Android
8 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.46%) Rocky
10 2 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (38.46%) Agile
2 194 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
3 136 (20.92%) Software Engineering
4 132 (20.31%) CI/CD
5 117 (18.00%) OOP
6 110 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (16.46%) MVC
8 83 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 83 (12.77%) OO
9 81 (12.46%) Computer Science
9 81 (12.46%) E-Commerce
10 79 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (12.15%) Microservices
11 71 (10.92%) Analytics
12 70 (10.77%) Web Development
13 68 (10.46%) DevOps
13 68 (10.46%) User Experience
14 65 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 53 (8.15%) Roadmaps
15 53 (8.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 266 (40.92%) JavaScript
2 241 (37.08%) SQL
3 238 (36.62%) PHP
4 147 (22.62%) Python
5 138 (21.23%) Java
6 103 (15.85%) C#
6 103 (15.85%) TypeScript
7 50 (7.69%) C++
8 37 (5.69%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.92%) Bash
10 24 (3.69%) PL/SQL
11 17 (2.62%) Go
12 16 (2.46%) Bicep
13 14 (2.15%) T-SQL
14 13 (2.00%) R
15 12 (1.85%) Ruby
15 12 (1.85%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.38%) Scala
17 8 (1.23%) Korn
18 7 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 99 (15.23%) Degree
2 65 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.69%) Azure Certification
3 24 (3.69%) DBS Check
4 21 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CCNA
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.23%) QA
2 12 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.38%) GDPR
4 8 (1.23%) HL7
5 3 (0.46%) WCAG
6 2 (0.31%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.15%) COBIT
7 1 (0.15%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 116 (17.85%) Docker
2 17 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.62%) vSphere
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.46%) HDFS
7 3 (0.46%) KVM
7 3 (0.46%) LXC
7 3 (0.46%) Xen
8 2 (0.31%) Samba
9 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.15%) Corosync
9 1 (0.15%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 66 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 44 (6.77%) Terraform
3 33 (5.08%) Ansible
4 21 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.23%) Grafana
6 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.77%) Kibana
8 4 (0.62%) logstash
8 4 (0.62%) Puppet
9 3 (0.46%) Nagios
9 3 (0.46%) Oozie
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.31%) Autotask
10 2 (0.31%) CFEngine
10 2 (0.31%) Kubespray
10 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Argo
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 74 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.69%) Oracle
3 36 (5.54%) Google
4 26 (4.00%) Databricks
5 16 (2.46%) Meraki
6 14 (2.15%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.15%) Rollbar
6 14 (2.15%) VMware
7 13 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.00%) SAP
8 11 (1.69%) Adobe
8 11 (1.69%) Informatica
8 11 (1.69%) Splunk
9 10 (1.54%) Twitter
10 9 (1.38%) Dell
10 9 (1.38%) Talend
11 8 (1.23%) WooCommerce
12 6 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.77%) Sage