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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 159 157
Rank change year-on-year -92 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 520 1,190 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.73% 2.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.58% 10.82% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 383 774 984
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £35,325
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £87,500
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 6,859 11,000 11,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.91% 16.00% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,503 6,345 8,812
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -96 458 £52,500 -4.55% 221
UK excluding London -108 315 £52,500 +5.00% 201
Work from Home -40 223 £45,000 -14.29% 131
London -9 162 £55,000 -8.33% 45
North of England -67 79 £52,500 - 40
South East -75 66 £60,000 +18.81% 76
Midlands -16 53 £42,500 -1.73% 39
East of England -16 52 £50,000 - 14
South West -53 42 £56,250 +12.50% 29
North West -41 40 £60,000 +14.29% 26
West Midlands +18 31 £39,000 -13.33% 29
Yorkshire -16 28 £37,500 -31.82% 13
Wales -9 18 £67,500 +107.69% 1
East Midlands -24 18 £45,000 +20.00% 10
North East +5 11 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Scotland -11 5 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland +6 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2

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 17 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.08%) Confluence
3 14 (2.69%) Apache Solr
3 14 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.50%) Apache
4 13 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.31%) CMS
5 12 (2.31%) IIS
6 10 (1.92%) WordPress
7 9 (1.73%) nginx
8 5 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.38%) Appian
9 2 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) WildFly
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.96%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.77%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 187 (35.96%) AWS
2 166 (31.92%) Azure
3 53 (10.19%) GCP
3 53 (10.19%) SaaS
4 37 (7.12%) GitHub
5 26 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 25 (4.81%) Serverless
7 19 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.08%) Cloudflare
9 12 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (1.73%) npm
13 7 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.65%) Firewall
2 15 (2.88%) VPN
3 13 (2.50%) FTP
4 11 (2.12%) SAN
5 10 (1.92%) DNS
5 10 (1.92%) iSCSI
5 10 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.54%) Broadband
6 8 (1.54%) DHCP
7 7 (1.35%) VLAN
7 7 (1.35%) WAN
8 6 (1.15%) Internet
9 5 (0.96%) LAN
9 5 (0.96%) VoIP
9 5 (0.96%) WPA
10 3 (0.58%) MQTT
11 2 (0.38%) SSL
11 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (38.27%) SQL Server
2 116 (22.31%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (12.31%) Relational Database
4 54 (10.38%) MongoDB
5 38 (7.31%) NoSQL
6 32 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (4.62%) BusinessObjects
9 22 (4.23%) Power BI
10 21 (4.04%) DynamoDB
11 17 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (2.69%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (2.50%) MariaDB
14 11 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (2.12%) Big Data
14 11 (2.12%) Tableau
15 10 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.92%) Redis
16 9 (1.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (19.04%) Git
2 37 (7.12%) JIRA
3 10 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.54%) git-flow
4 8 (1.54%) GitLab
5 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.96%) NUnit
7 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.96%) webpack
8 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.77%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.77%) Mocha
8 4 (0.77%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.38%) Mockito
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.46%) Finance
3 58 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.08%) Law
5 33 (6.35%) Marketing
6 27 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.69%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.50%) Retail
9 12 (2.31%) Games
10 8 (1.54%) Automotive
10 8 (1.54%) Front Office
11 5 (0.96%) Banking
12 4 (0.77%) Advertising
12 4 (0.77%) Billing
12 4 (0.77%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.58%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 238 (45.77%) Developer
2 89 (17.12%) Senior
3 51 (9.81%) Consultant
3 51 (9.81%) PHP Developer
4 47 (9.04%) Senior Developer
5 45 (8.65%) Graduate
5 45 (8.65%) Graduate Developer
5 45 (8.65%) Lead
6 43 (8.27%) Software Developer
7 38 (7.31%) Analyst
8 37 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (6.92%) Software Engineer
10 34 (6.54%) IT Graduate
11 28 (5.38%) Applications Support
11 28 (5.38%) C# Developer
12 23 (4.42%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.42%) Support Analyst
13 22 (4.23%) SQL Developer
14 19 (3.65%) Support Engineer
15 17 (3.27%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (27.50%) CSS
2 115 (22.12%) HTML
3 86 (16.54%) .NET
4 82 (15.77%) React
5 54 (10.38%) REST
6 53 (10.19%) Laravel
7 51 (9.81%) jQuery
8 49 (9.42%) ASP.NET
9 44 (8.46%) RESTful
10 37 (7.12%) Node.js
11 35 (6.73%) Vue
12 31 (5.96%) AngularJS
13 30 (5.77%) HTML5
13 30 (5.77%) Symfony
14 24 (4.62%) JSON
15 22 (4.23%) Kafka
16 20 (3.85%) Web Services
17 18 (3.46%) LAMP
18 17 (3.27%) CSS3
19 16 (3.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 30 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 28 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.69%) NHS
8 13 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.12%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.12%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.92%) IoT
11 10 (1.92%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.92%) Linux
2 50 (9.62%) Windows
3 30 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.88%) Unix
5 13 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.15%) CentOS
8 4 (0.77%) Android
8 4 (0.77%) VMS
9 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.58%) Rocky
9 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (36.15%) Agile
2 178 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (23.08%) OO
4 117 (22.50%) OOP
5 102 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 86 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (15.77%) Software Engineering
8 77 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 74 (14.23%) MVC
10 72 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 69 (13.27%) Computer Science
12 65 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
13 62 (11.92%) AI
14 58 (11.15%) Microservices
15 57 (10.96%) ETL
16 52 (10.00%) DevOps
17 51 (9.81%) Containerisation
18 47 (9.04%) Data Modelling
19 45 (8.65%) User Experience
20 43 (8.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 222 (42.69%) SQL
2 173 (33.27%) JavaScript
3 163 (31.35%) PHP
4 112 (21.54%) Python
5 98 (18.85%) C#
6 91 (17.50%) Java
7 79 (15.19%) TypeScript
8 47 (9.04%) C++
9 44 (8.46%) Delphi
9 44 (8.46%) Pascal
10 21 (4.04%) Bash
11 16 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.69%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.12%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.54%) Korn
14 8 (1.54%) Scala
15 7 (1.35%) R
16 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (17.69%) Degree
2 66 (12.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.27%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.12%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.58%) MCSE
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CCNA
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) HNC
11 2 (0.38%) HND
11 2 (0.38%) MCSA
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.88%) QA
2 14 (2.69%) SLA
3 13 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.73%) HL7
5 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) COBIT
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 93 (17.88%) Docker
2 22 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) HDFS
6 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 2 (0.38%) pfSense
6 2 (0.38%) Samba
6 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.38%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 68 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.58%) Terraform
3 26 (5.00%) Ansible
4 7 (1.35%) Grafana
5 5 (0.96%) Autotask
5 5 (0.96%) Nagios
5 5 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.77%) Argo
7 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.38%) logstash
8 2 (0.38%) Oozie
8 2 (0.38%) Plesk
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 89 (17.12%) Oracle
2 71 (13.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.65%) SAP
4 17 (3.27%) Google
5 16 (3.08%) Informatica
6 15 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.50%) Splunk
7 13 (2.50%) Talend
8 11 (2.12%) Databricks
8 11 (2.12%) Dell
9 10 (1.92%) VMware
10 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.35%) Rollbar
12 6 (1.15%) Adobe
12 6 (1.15%) RedGate
13 5 (0.96%) Datto
13 5 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.77%) WooCommerce