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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 269 174
Rank change year-on-year -85 -95 +5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 568 538 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.09% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 7.47% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 420 386 793
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,625 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% +5.00%

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 8,922 7,205 11,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.77% 14.60% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 4,532 7,129
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 17 September 2026.

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 17 September 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 -79 501 £55,000 +4.76% 466
UK excluding London -82 393 £50,000 -3.15% 240
Work from Home -65 191 £61,250 +28.95% 205
London -70 133 £85,000 +41.67% 263
North of England -30 132 £42,500 -19.05% 75
South East -35 99 £55,000 -4.35% 53
North West -24 60 £49,250 -14.35% 40
Midlands -28 52 £41,250 -8.33% 29
South West -72 41 £57,500 +27.78% 27
Yorkshire -30 40 £42,500 +9.68% 24
East of England -48 34 £50,000 +5.26% 20
North East -46 32 £42,500 -10.53% 12
East Midlands -26 31 £37,500 -16.67% 7
Wales -67 25 £60,000 -11.11% 1
West Midlands -32 21 £55,000 +39.24% 22
Scotland +1 9 £41,750 -44.33% 21
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 17

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 30 (5.28%) IIS
2 25 (4.40%) Apache
3 19 (3.35%) WordPress
4 16 (2.82%) Confluence
5 14 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.76%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.76%) CMS
8 7 (1.23%) Drupal
9 5 (0.88%) JBoss
9 5 (0.88%) nginx
10 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.35%) Elementor
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 294 (51.76%) AWS
2 161 (28.35%) Azure
3 83 (14.61%) GCP
4 54 (9.51%) GitHub
5 27 (4.75%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.75%) SaaS
6 24 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (4.23%) Serverless
7 22 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.46%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.17%) Firewall
1 18 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.46%) DNS
3 13 (2.29%) Broadband
4 12 (2.11%) VPN
5 8 (1.41%) VLAN
6 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.06%) DHCP
7 6 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.06%) SSH
7 6 (1.06%) VoIP
8 5 (0.88%) HTTP
8 5 (0.88%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.88%) LAN
8 5 (0.88%) SAN
8 5 (0.88%) WAN
9 4 (0.70%) Internet
10 3 (0.53%) 5G
10 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.53%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (31.69%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (26.76%) SQL Server
3 111 (19.54%) Relational Database
4 91 (16.02%) MongoDB
5 67 (11.80%) NoSQL
6 30 (5.28%) MariaDB
7 24 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.23%) Power BI
8 21 (3.70%) Redis
9 20 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.52%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.17%) Metadata
12 17 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.94%) Big Data
14 9 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.58%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.41%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (25.18%) Git
2 43 (7.57%) Claude Code
3 41 (7.22%) GitLab
4 28 (4.93%) JIRA
5 26 (4.58%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.41%) Selenium
9 5 (0.88%) JUnit
9 5 (0.88%) RSpec
10 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.70%) minitest
10 4 (0.70%) Mocha
10 4 (0.70%) Postman
10 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.53%) git-flow
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.53%) PHPUnit
General
1 123 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 91 (16.02%) Finance
3 86 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.92%) Law
4 62 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.11%) Banking
7 18 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.64%) Marketing
9 13 (2.29%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.41%) Retail
12 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.06%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.53%) Advertising
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 243 (42.78%) Developer
2 150 (26.41%) Senior
3 80 (14.08%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 67 (11.80%) PHP Developer
6 56 (9.86%) Lead
7 39 (6.87%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.16%) Administrator
9 34 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.28%) DBA
12 29 (5.11%) C# Developer
12 29 (5.11%) Database Engineer
13 27 (4.75%) .NET Developer
14 25 (4.40%) Java Developer
15 24 (4.23%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (3.87%) Web Developer
17 21 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
17 21 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (24.30%) CSS
2 125 (22.01%) HTML
3 102 (17.96%) React
4 87 (15.32%) .NET
5 85 (14.96%) RESTful
6 79 (13.91%) Laravel
7 61 (10.74%) REST
8 59 (10.39%) Vue
9 57 (10.04%) Terraform
10 55 (9.68%) Node.js
11 53 (9.33%) Kafka
12 46 (8.10%) Spring Boot
13 45 (7.92%) Spring
14 43 (7.57%) jQuery
15 39 (6.87%) ASP.NET
16 38 (6.69%) HTML5
17 35 (6.16%) AngularJS
17 35 (6.16%) RabbitMQ
18 28 (4.93%) CSS3
19 26 (4.58%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.92%) Replication
3 42 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (7.04%) Product Ownership
6 24 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 23 (4.05%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (2.11%) NHS
11 10 (1.76%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.23%) Social Media
14 6 (1.06%) Culture of Ownership
14 6 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.06%) IoT
15 5 (0.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 170 (29.93%) Linux
2 39 (6.87%) Windows
3 30 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 29 (5.11%) Ubuntu
5 22 (3.87%) Debian
6 14 (2.46%) CentOS
7 12 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.35%) Unix
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (34.33%) Agile
2 171 (30.11%) CI/CD
2 171 (30.11%) Software Engineering
3 169 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (22.36%) DevOps
5 116 (20.42%) Microservices
6 109 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (17.25%) AI
8 93 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 79 (13.91%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.20%) Clean Code
11 72 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (11.62%) Scrum
13 62 (10.92%) OOP
13 62 (10.92%) Web Development
14 60 (10.56%) Containerisation
15 56 (9.86%) High Availability
16 53 (9.33%) Observability
17 49 (8.63%) Data Modelling
18 48 (8.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 196 (34.51%) SQL
2 191 (33.63%) JavaScript
3 143 (25.18%) PHP
4 132 (23.24%) Python
5 95 (16.73%) Java
6 83 (14.61%) C#
7 64 (11.27%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.34%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.46%) Bash
10 21 (3.70%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.99%) Go
11 17 (2.99%) Ruby
12 16 (2.82%) C++
13 13 (2.29%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.06%) Scala
15 5 (0.88%) Korn
15 5 (0.88%) Perl
15 5 (0.88%) Rust
16 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (12.15%) Degree
2 43 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.23%) HNC
6 7 (1.23%) HND
7 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.92%) QA
2 31 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.76%) GDPR
5 7 (1.23%) HL7
5 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.88%) WCAG
7 3 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 145 (25.53%) Docker
2 27 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.58%) vSphere
5 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.34%) Grafana
3 28 (4.93%) Ansible
4 23 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.11%) Nagios
6 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.06%) Puppet
6 6 (1.06%) WSUS
7 4 (0.70%) Kibana
8 3 (0.53%) Galera Cluster
8 3 (0.53%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Rancher
8 3 (0.53%) systemd
8 3 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.35%) kaniko
9 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.86%) Oracle
3 29 (5.11%) Splunk
4 22 (3.87%) Google
5 20 (3.52%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.52%) VMware
6 18 (3.17%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.29%) Veeam
8 11 (1.94%) Dell
9 10 (1.76%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.23%) Adobe
10 7 (1.23%) Cisco
11 6 (1.06%) Aruba
11 6 (1.06%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.06%) Databricks
11 6 (1.06%) HP
11 6 (1.06%) NetApp
11 6 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.06%) SonicWALL
11 6 (1.06%) Synology