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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 252 171
Rank change year-on-year -91 -81 +18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 595 603 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.20% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 8.08% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 450 456 969
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - -5.31%
75th Percentile £77,188 £69,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%

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 8,886 7,464 12,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.12% 14.91% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 4,774 8,347
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,575 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £113,842
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 27 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 27 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 -74 527 £55,000 +4.76% 293
UK excluding London -74 407 £50,000 - 153
Work from Home -84 200 £60,000 +26.32% 120
London -60 142 £85,000 +41.67% 171
North of England -32 133 £42,500 -19.05% 51
South East -20 107 £55,000 - 48
North West -25 56 £50,000 -14.53% 35
Midlands -28 52 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -22 45 £42,500 -12.82% 8
South West -75 44 £55,000 +15.79% 14
East of England -46 37 £47,500 - 12
North East -42 32 £42,500 -10.53% 9
East Midlands -8 30 £37,500 -18.92% 4
West Midlands -40 22 £47,500 +18.75% 9
Wales -64 22 £60,000 -5.88% 4
Scotland +7 12 £51,000 -9.33% 9

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 25 (4.20%) IIS
2 24 (4.03%) Apache
3 19 (3.19%) WordPress
4 16 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.69%) Confluence
5 12 (2.02%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.68%) CMS
8 7 (1.18%) Drupal
9 6 (1.01%) 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%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (50.92%) AWS
2 168 (28.24%) Azure
3 89 (14.96%) GCP
4 57 (9.58%) GitHub
5 33 (5.55%) SaaS
6 30 (5.04%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.54%) Amazon S3
8 26 (4.37%) Serverless
9 25 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.18%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.36%) Firewall
2 13 (2.18%) Broadband
3 12 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.68%) VPN
5 9 (1.51%) DNS
6 7 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.01%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.01%) SAN
7 6 (1.01%) VLAN
7 6 (1.01%) VoIP
8 5 (0.84%) LAN
8 5 (0.84%) WAN
9 4 (0.67%) Internet
9 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 4 (0.67%) Network Security
9 4 (0.67%) SSH
9 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.50%) DHCP
10 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (31.76%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (27.23%) SQL Server
3 116 (19.50%) Relational Database
4 90 (15.13%) MongoDB
5 71 (11.93%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.71%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.37%) Power BI
8 21 (3.53%) DynamoDB
9 19 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.03%) Metadata
10 18 (3.03%) Redis
11 17 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.02%) Big Data
14 11 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (1.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 149 (25.04%) Git
2 39 (6.55%) Claude Code
3 38 (6.39%) GitLab
4 31 (5.21%) JIRA
5 26 (4.37%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (1.51%) PHPUnit
10 7 (1.18%) Selenium
11 6 (1.01%) JUnit
12 5 (0.84%) RSpec
13 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.67%) minitest
13 4 (0.67%) Mocha
14 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.50%) git-flow
14 3 (0.50%) Mockito
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.48%) Finance
3 87 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.76%) Law
5 58 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.54%) Banking
8 18 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.52%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.52%) Marketing
10 11 (1.85%) Retail
11 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 4 (0.67%) Advertising
17 3 (0.50%) Games
17 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (42.86%) Developer
2 157 (26.39%) Senior
3 82 (13.78%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.10%) PHP Developer
4 72 (12.10%) Software Engineer
5 59 (9.92%) Lead
6 42 (7.06%) Software Developer
7 37 (6.22%) Administrator
7 37 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (5.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (5.21%) DBA
10 29 (4.87%) C# Developer
10 29 (4.87%) Database Engineer
11 25 (4.20%) .NET Developer
11 25 (4.20%) Java Developer
11 25 (4.20%) Python Engineer
12 22 (3.70%) Backend Developer
12 22 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (3.70%) Web Developer
13 21 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (25.21%) CSS
2 135 (22.69%) HTML
3 106 (17.82%) React
4 88 (14.79%) .NET
5 83 (13.95%) Laravel
6 82 (13.78%) RESTful
7 61 (10.25%) Vue
8 59 (9.92%) Node.js
8 59 (9.92%) REST
9 56 (9.41%) Terraform
10 53 (8.91%) Kafka
11 46 (7.73%) Spring Boot
12 45 (7.56%) jQuery
12 45 (7.56%) Spring
13 38 (6.39%) ASP.NET
13 38 (6.39%) HTML5
14 37 (6.22%) AngularJS
15 31 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (5.04%) CSS3
17 26 (4.37%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.24%) Replication
3 39 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (5.55%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.87%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.53%) Virtual Team
8 20 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.35%) NHS
11 13 (2.18%) Management Information System
12 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.68%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.34%) IoT
16 7 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (1.18%) Social Media
17 6 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
17 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.56%) Linux
2 34 (5.71%) Windows
3 27 (4.54%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.53%) Debian
6 17 (2.86%) CentOS
7 9 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (33.61%) Agile
2 174 (29.24%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (27.73%) Software Engineering
4 124 (20.84%) DevOps
5 119 (20.00%) Microservices
6 110 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 95 (15.97%) AI
9 77 (12.94%) Mentoring
10 76 (12.77%) Clean Code
11 67 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (11.26%) Web Development
12 65 (10.92%) OOP
13 62 (10.42%) Containerisation
14 60 (10.08%) Scrum
15 59 (9.92%) High Availability
16 52 (8.74%) Observability
17 51 (8.57%) Data Modelling
18 48 (8.07%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 208 (34.96%) SQL
2 204 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 160 (26.89%) PHP
4 137 (23.03%) Python
5 103 (17.31%) Java
6 86 (14.45%) C#
7 63 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.21%) Bash
10 19 (3.19%) C++
10 19 (3.19%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.86%) Ruby
12 16 (2.69%) Go
13 13 (2.18%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.01%) Scala
15 5 (0.84%) Korn
15 5 (0.84%) Perl
16 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.67%) Rust
17 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (13.61%) Degree
2 42 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.18%) HNC
6 7 (1.18%) HND
7 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.58%) QA
2 34 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.68%) GDPR
5 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.18%) HL7
7 5 (0.84%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 143 (24.03%) Docker
2 26 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 7 (1.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (17.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.55%) Grafana
3 29 (4.87%) Ansible
4 20 (3.36%) 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%) Kibana
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 72 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.74%) Oracle
3 28 (4.71%) Google
4 25 (4.20%) Splunk
5 23 (3.87%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.03%) VMware
7 17 (2.86%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.85%) Veeam
9 9 (1.51%) Dell
10 7 (1.18%) Adobe
10 7 (1.18%) Cisco
11 6 (1.01%) Databricks
11 6 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.01%) Synology
12 5 (0.84%) Informatica
12 5 (0.84%) Meraki
13 4 (0.67%) IBM
13 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce