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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 248 180
Rank change year-on-year -88 -68 -24
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 597 629 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.69% 8.26% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 456 487 1,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.06%
75th Percentile £74,763 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,425 £51,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +0.83% -1.92%

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 8,927 7,612 13,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.53% 15.35% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,001 4,877 8,725
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,327
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 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 6 August 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 -88 532 £55,000 +4.76% 188
UK excluding London -75 409 £50,000 -2.77% 117
Work from Home -70 214 £54,000 +8.00% 89
London -68 141 £85,000 +36.00% 91
North of England -22 135 £47,500 -9.52% 33
South East -27 116 £55,000 +2.33% 39
North West -20 56 £52,130 -10.12% 21
Midlands -39 53 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -8 48 £42,500 -12.37% 7
South West -76 38 £53,750 +4.17% 9
East of England -43 37 £47,500 - 9
North East -36 31 £43,750 -7.89% 5
East Midlands -4 30 £37,500 -21.05% 3
West Midlands -37 23 £51,250 +24.24% 10
Wales -56 18 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +23 12 £51,000 -15.00% 8

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 26 (4.36%) Apache
2 21 (3.52%) IIS
3 20 (3.35%) WordPress
4 18 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.68%) Confluence
6 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (2.18%) Apache Spark
8 11 (1.84%) CMS
9 7 (1.17%) Drupal
9 7 (1.17%) nginx
10 5 (0.84%) JBoss
11 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.17%) Moodle
14 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 319 (53.43%) AWS
2 177 (29.65%) Azure
3 84 (14.07%) GCP
4 52 (8.71%) GitHub
5 34 (5.70%) SaaS
6 31 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.86%) Serverless
8 26 (4.36%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 23 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.01%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.84%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.69%) Firewall
2 13 (2.18%) Broadband
3 11 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.84%) VPN
4 9 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.34%) DNS
5 8 (1.34%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.34%) SAN
6 6 (1.01%) VLAN
6 6 (1.01%) VoIP
7 5 (0.84%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) Network Security
7 5 (0.84%) WAN
8 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) DHCP
9 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.50%) Internet
9 3 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (32.66%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (26.80%) SQL Server
3 110 (18.43%) Relational Database
4 92 (15.41%) MongoDB
5 76 (12.73%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.70%) MariaDB
7 27 (4.52%) Power BI
8 26 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.02%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.02%) Metadata
10 18 (3.02%) Redis
11 16 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (2.18%) Big Data
14 9 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 140 (23.45%) Git
2 37 (6.20%) GitLab
3 35 (5.86%) Claude Code
4 33 (5.53%) JIRA
5 21 (3.52%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.68%) PHPUnit
8 7 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.01%) JUnit
9 6 (1.01%) Selenium
9 6 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.84%) RSpec
11 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) minitest
11 4 (0.67%) Mocha
12 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.50%) Mockito
12 3 (0.50%) NUnit
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.42%) Finance
3 77 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.88%) Law
6 28 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.85%) Banking
8 18 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.51%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.35%) Marketing
11 12 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.84%) Retail
13 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 4 (0.67%) Advertising
17 3 (0.50%) Local Government
18 2 (0.34%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 255 (42.71%) Developer
2 152 (25.46%) Senior
3 78 (13.07%) Senior Developer
4 76 (12.73%) Software Engineer
5 73 (12.23%) PHP Developer
6 61 (10.22%) Lead
7 44 (7.37%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.20%) Administrator
9 36 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.19%) C# Developer
10 31 (5.19%) DBA
11 30 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.19%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.19%) Web Developer
13 24 (4.02%) Database Engineer
14 22 (3.69%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.69%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.52%) Backend Developer
15 21 (3.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (24.96%) CSS
2 129 (21.61%) HTML
3 103 (17.25%) React
4 88 (14.74%) RESTful
5 85 (14.24%) .NET
5 85 (14.24%) Laravel
6 64 (10.72%) Vue
7 63 (10.55%) Node.js
7 63 (10.55%) REST
8 46 (7.71%) Kafka
9 45 (7.54%) jQuery
10 39 (6.53%) Spring
10 39 (6.53%) Spring Boot
11 36 (6.03%) HTML5
12 35 (5.86%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.70%) ASP.NET
14 29 (4.86%) CSS3
15 27 (4.52%) JSON
16 24 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (3.69%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.22%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.37%) Replication
3 35 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.85%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.35%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.35%) NHS
10 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.17%) IoT
13 7 (1.17%) Social Media
14 5 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 154 (25.80%) Linux
2 34 (5.70%) Windows
3 27 (4.52%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.18%) Debian
6 18 (3.02%) CentOS
7 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (34.51%) Agile
2 165 (27.64%) CI/CD
3 162 (27.14%) Software Engineering
4 150 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.77%) Microservices
6 111 (18.59%) DevOps
7 101 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (16.42%) AI
9 96 (16.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 84 (14.07%) Mentoring
11 72 (12.06%) Clean Code
12 68 (11.39%) Web Development
13 64 (10.72%) OOP
14 58 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (9.38%) Containerisation
16 55 (9.21%) TDD
17 54 (9.05%) Data Modelling
17 54 (9.05%) High Availability
17 54 (9.05%) Scrum
18 53 (8.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 220 (36.85%) SQL
2 207 (34.67%) JavaScript
3 165 (27.64%) PHP
4 132 (22.11%) Python
5 107 (17.92%) Java
6 90 (15.08%) C#
7 55 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.53%) Bash
9 27 (4.52%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.69%) C++
11 18 (3.02%) Ruby
12 17 (2.85%) PowerShell
13 15 (2.51%) VB.NET
14 14 (2.35%) Go
15 7 (1.17%) Scala
16 6 (1.01%) Korn
17 5 (0.84%) Perl
18 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (14.57%) Degree
2 39 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 35 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.18%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.17%) HNC
6 7 (1.17%) HND
7 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.50%) RHCE
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.34%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.38%) QA
2 37 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.84%) GDPR
5 10 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.17%) HL7
7 6 (1.01%) SLA
8 5 (0.84%) WCAG
9 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 136 (22.78%) Docker
2 30 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 9 (1.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.04%) Terraform
3 28 (4.69%) Ansible
3 28 (4.69%) Grafana
4 15 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.35%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.50%) Plesk
8 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.50%) systemd
8 3 (0.50%) WSUS
9 2 (0.34%) kaniko
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 70 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.54%) Oracle
3 27 (4.52%) Google
4 24 (4.02%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.52%) Splunk
6 18 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 18 (3.02%) VMware
7 11 (1.84%) Dell
7 11 (1.84%) Rapid7
7 11 (1.84%) Veeam
8 7 (1.17%) Adobe
8 7 (1.17%) Cisco
9 6 (1.01%) Databricks
9 6 (1.01%) Synology
10 5 (0.84%) Informatica
10 5 (0.84%) Meraki
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) IBM
11 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce