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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 152 148
Rank change year-on-year -108 -4 +26
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 486 1,111 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.90% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.29% 10.82% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 359 758 954
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,375 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 6,671 10,272 10,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 17.61% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 5,945 8,289
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,555 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 -107 439 £55,000 - 204
UK excluding London -135 285 £52,500 +5.00% 177
Work from Home -58 194 £46,700 -11.05% 121
London +11 162 £60,000 - 48
North of England -69 78 £52,500 - 54
South East -83 57 £60,000 +20.00% 48
East of England -14 50 £50,000 - 17
South West -61 44 £58,750 +11.90% 25
Midlands -46 43 £42,750 +0.59% 25
North West -38 42 £56,250 +12.50% 32
Yorkshire -20 31 £39,750 -27.73% 20
West Midlands -5 24 £39,000 -26.76% 16
East Midlands -52 15 £45,000 +28.57% 9
Wales -27 11 £67,500 +107.69% 3
North East -14 5 £51,000 -7.27% 3
Northern Ireland -5 1 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Scotland -21 1 £50,000 -9.09% 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 20 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.29%) Confluence
3 13 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.47%) Apache
4 12 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.06%) Apache Solr
5 10 (2.06%) nginx
6 7 (1.44%) IIS
7 6 (1.23%) CMS
8 5 (1.03%) WordPress
9 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.41%) WildFly
11 1 (0.21%) Appian
11 1 (0.21%) Camunda
11 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.21%) JBoss
11 1 (0.21%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 178 (36.63%) AWS
2 150 (30.86%) Azure
3 65 (13.37%) GCP
4 58 (11.93%) SaaS
5 29 (5.97%) GitHub
6 23 (4.73%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.12%) Serverless
8 15 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.85%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.23%) npm
15 5 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.32%) VPN
2 16 (3.29%) Firewall
3 14 (2.88%) FTP
4 9 (1.85%) DNS
4 9 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.65%) Broadband
5 8 (1.65%) DHCP
6 7 (1.44%) iSCSI
6 7 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (1.44%) SAN
6 7 (1.44%) VLAN
6 7 (1.44%) WAN
7 5 (1.03%) Internet
7 5 (1.03%) LAN
7 5 (1.03%) VoIP
7 5 (1.03%) WPA
8 3 (0.62%) MQTT
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.41%) Network Security
9 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (36.42%) SQL Server
2 105 (21.60%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (12.14%) MongoDB
4 55 (11.32%) Relational Database
5 40 (8.23%) NoSQL
6 37 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (4.73%) BusinessObjects
8 22 (4.53%) DynamoDB
9 20 (4.12%) Power BI
10 19 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (3.91%) RDBMS
11 18 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 18 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.67%) Big Data
12 13 (2.67%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (2.47%) MariaDB
13 12 (2.47%) Pentaho
14 11 (2.26%) DataStage
14 11 (2.26%) Hadoop
14 11 (2.26%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 73 (15.02%) Git
2 33 (6.79%) JIRA
3 12 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.85%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.03%) git-flow
6 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.82%) PHPUnit
7 3 (0.62%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.62%) Gradle
7 3 (0.62%) JUnit
7 3 (0.62%) Maven
7 3 (0.62%) Mocha
7 3 (0.62%) Mockito
7 3 (0.62%) webpack
8 2 (0.41%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.41%) JMeter
8 2 (0.41%) MLflow
8 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.37%) Finance
3 58 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.17%) Law
5 21 (4.32%) Marketing
6 16 (3.29%) Health Technology
7 12 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.26%) Retail
9 9 (1.85%) Front Office
10 8 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.44%) Automotive
11 7 (1.44%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.03%) Games
13 4 (0.82%) Billing
14 3 (0.62%) Advertising
14 3 (0.62%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.41%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (43.21%) Developer
2 79 (16.26%) Senior
3 54 (11.11%) Consultant
4 52 (10.70%) PHP Developer
5 48 (9.88%) Software Developer
6 40 (8.23%) Lead
6 40 (8.23%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.82%) Analyst
8 33 (6.79%) Graduate
8 33 (6.79%) Graduate Developer
9 31 (6.38%) Applications Support
10 30 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (5.56%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.73%) IT Graduate
12 23 (4.73%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.73%) Support Analyst
13 22 (4.53%) C# Developer
14 21 (4.32%) Support Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Backend Developer
16 17 (3.50%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (23.05%) CSS
2 95 (19.55%) HTML
3 74 (15.23%) React
4 68 (13.99%) .NET
5 51 (10.49%) Laravel
6 43 (8.85%) REST
7 40 (8.23%) jQuery
8 37 (7.61%) RESTful
9 34 (7.00%) ASP.NET
10 33 (6.79%) Node.js
11 29 (5.97%) AngularJS
11 29 (5.97%) Symfony
12 27 (5.56%) JSON
13 25 (5.14%) Vue
14 20 (4.12%) HTML5
15 19 (3.91%) Web Services
16 17 (3.50%) SOAP
17 16 (3.29%) CakePHP
17 16 (3.29%) CodeIgniter
17 16 (3.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.91%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.73%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.50%) NHS
6 16 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 15 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.67%) IoT
9 10 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.65%) Social Media
12 7 (1.44%) Clustering
13 5 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.03%) Legacy Code
13 5 (1.03%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 87 (17.90%) Linux
2 44 (9.05%) Windows
3 28 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.44%) Unix
6 6 (1.23%) CentOS
7 5 (1.03%) Android
7 5 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.82%) VMS
9 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.62%) Rocky
9 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (32.72%) Agile
2 152 (31.28%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (21.60%) OO
4 103 (21.19%) OOP
5 97 (19.96%) CI/CD
6 73 (15.02%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (13.99%) Software Engineering
8 67 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 60 (12.35%) MVC
10 59 (12.14%) Mentoring
11 57 (11.73%) ETL
12 56 (11.52%) DevOps
13 55 (11.32%) AI
14 54 (11.11%) Microservices
15 52 (10.70%) Computer Science
15 52 (10.70%) Data Modelling
16 48 (9.88%) Containerisation
17 40 (8.23%) Analytics
18 39 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (42.39%) SQL
2 153 (31.48%) PHP
3 144 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 108 (22.22%) Python
5 82 (16.87%) C#
6 75 (15.43%) TypeScript
7 68 (13.99%) Java
8 44 (9.05%) Delphi
8 44 (9.05%) Pascal
9 36 (7.41%) C++
10 16 (3.29%) Bash
11 14 (2.88%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.85%) Scala
12 9 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.65%) Go
13 8 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.03%) Korn
14 5 (1.03%) Perl
14 5 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (15.02%) Degree
2 51 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.62%) MCSE
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.41%) CCNA
10 2 (0.41%) CCNP
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.41%) HNC
10 2 (0.41%) HND
10 2 (0.41%) MCSA
11 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.96%) QA
2 14 (2.88%) SLA
3 13 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.47%) HL7
5 7 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.03%) GDPR
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) PSD2
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (16.67%) Docker
2 18 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 7 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) NFS
5 2 (0.41%) pfSense
5 2 (0.41%) Samba
5 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 64 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.14%) Terraform
3 23 (4.73%) Ansible
4 8 (1.65%) Grafana
5 6 (1.23%) Nagios
5 6 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.03%) Argo
6 5 (1.03%) Autotask
7 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.41%) Plesk
7 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 2 (0.41%) Rancher
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 93 (19.14%) Oracle
2 61 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.91%) SAP
4 17 (3.50%) Informatica
5 16 (3.29%) Talend
6 13 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.47%) Databricks
8 10 (2.06%) Splunk
8 10 (2.06%) VMware
9 9 (1.85%) Google
10 7 (1.44%) Dell
10 7 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.03%) Datto
11 5 (1.03%) Palantir
11 5 (1.03%) RedGate
12 4 (0.82%) Zend
13 3 (0.62%) Adobe
13 3 (0.62%) Apple
13 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow