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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 251 177
Rank change year-on-year -82 -74 -27
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 593 628 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.62% 8.23% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 457 491 1,007
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -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 8,957 7,629 13,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 15.37% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,987 4,920 8,779
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -80 529 £54,000 +2.86% 148
UK excluding London -64 412 £50,000 - 122
Work from Home -58 214 £52,500 +5.00% 69
North of England -25 136 £47,500 -9.52% 31
London -57 136 £85,000 +36.00% 50
South East -14 117 £55,000 +4.76% 38
North West -24 57 £52,130 -9.34% 18
Midlands -31 54 £42,500 -10.53% 16
Yorkshire -17 49 £42,500 -12.82% 8
South West -78 40 £52,500 +1.74% 11
East of England -43 35 £47,500 - 8
East Midlands -18 30 £37,500 -21.05% 4
North East -40 30 £43,750 -7.89% 5
West Midlands -45 24 £47,500 +15.15% 12
Wales -65 18 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Scotland +4 12 £51,000 -11.30% 7

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 (4.38%) Apache
2 20 (3.37%) IIS
2 20 (3.37%) WordPress
3 19 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (2.70%) Confluence
6 13 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 12 (2.02%) CMS
8 7 (1.18%) Drupal
8 7 (1.18%) nginx
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 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 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 314 (52.95%) AWS
2 178 (30.02%) Azure
3 85 (14.33%) GCP
4 47 (7.93%) GitHub
5 37 (6.24%) SaaS
6 33 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.06%) Serverless
8 26 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 18 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.02%) OpenShift
18 11 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.71%) Firewall
2 13 (2.19%) Broadband
3 11 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.85%) VPN
4 9 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.35%) DNS
5 8 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.35%) SAN
6 7 (1.18%) VoIP
7 6 (1.01%) VLAN
8 5 (0.84%) LAN
8 5 (0.84%) Network Security
8 5 (0.84%) WAN
9 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.51%) DHCP
10 3 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.51%) Internet
10 3 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (32.88%) PostgreSQL
2 159 (26.81%) SQL Server
3 109 (18.38%) Relational Database
4 94 (15.85%) MongoDB
5 78 (13.15%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.56%) MariaDB
7 29 (4.89%) Power BI
8 26 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.04%) Metadata
11 17 (2.87%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.87%) Redis
12 15 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (2.36%) Big Data
14 10 (1.69%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 139 (23.44%) Git
2 36 (6.07%) GitLab
3 34 (5.73%) Claude Code
3 34 (5.73%) JIRA
4 21 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.69%) PHPUnit
7 6 (1.01%) JUnit
7 6 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (1.01%) Selenium
8 5 (0.84%) RSpec
8 5 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.67%) minitest
10 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.51%) Maven
10 3 (0.51%) Mocha
10 3 (0.51%) Mockito
10 3 (0.51%) NUnit
10 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 128 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 100 (16.86%) Finance
3 75 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.43%) Law
6 25 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.05%) Banking
8 18 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.53%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.36%) Marketing
11 12 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.85%) Retail
13 7 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.01%) Advertising
14 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 3 (0.51%) Local Government
16 3 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 252 (42.50%) Developer
2 150 (25.30%) Senior
3 76 (12.82%) Senior Developer
4 75 (12.65%) Software Engineer
5 71 (11.97%) PHP Developer
6 59 (9.95%) Lead
7 44 (7.42%) Software Developer
8 38 (6.41%) Administrator
8 38 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.40%) DBA
10 30 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (4.72%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.22%) Database Engineer
12 25 (4.22%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.05%) Web Developer
14 23 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.88%) Java Developer
15 22 (3.71%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.54%) .NET Developer
16 21 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (24.79%) CSS
2 128 (21.59%) HTML
3 102 (17.20%) React
4 90 (15.18%) RESTful
5 84 (14.17%) Laravel
6 79 (13.32%) .NET
7 64 (10.79%) Node.js
7 64 (10.79%) REST
7 64 (10.79%) Vue
8 44 (7.42%) jQuery
8 44 (7.42%) Kafka
9 42 (7.08%) Spring
10 40 (6.75%) Spring Boot
11 36 (6.07%) HTML5
12 35 (5.90%) AngularJS
13 32 (5.40%) ASP.NET
14 29 (4.89%) CSS3
14 29 (4.89%) JSON
15 22 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
16 21 (3.54%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.59%) Replication
3 34 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.87%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.36%) NHS
10 13 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.19%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.35%) IoT
14 7 (1.18%) Social Media
15 5 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 155 (26.14%) Linux
2 34 (5.73%) Windows
3 28 (4.72%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.04%) CentOS
5 18 (3.04%) Debian
6 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.51%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (34.40%) Agile
2 163 (27.49%) CI/CD
3 158 (26.64%) Software Engineering
4 147 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.91%) Microservices
6 109 (18.38%) DevOps
7 99 (16.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (16.36%) AI
9 96 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 68 (11.47%) Clean Code
12 64 (10.79%) Web Development
13 62 (10.46%) OOP
14 57 (9.61%) Containerisation
14 57 (9.61%) Data Modelling
15 56 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (9.27%) TDD
17 54 (9.11%) Computer Science
17 54 (9.11%) Scrum
18 53 (8.94%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 221 (37.27%) SQL
2 207 (34.91%) JavaScript
3 163 (27.49%) PHP
4 133 (22.43%) Python
5 107 (18.04%) Java
6 86 (14.50%) C#
7 54 (9.11%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.73%) Bash
9 27 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 24 (4.05%) C++
11 20 (3.37%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.04%) Ruby
13 14 (2.36%) Go
13 14 (2.36%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.01%) Korn
15 6 (1.01%) Scala
16 5 (0.84%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (14.50%) Degree
2 39 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.18%) HNC
6 7 (1.18%) HND
7 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.51%) 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 (8.43%) QA
2 39 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.85%) GDPR
6 7 (1.18%) HL7
6 7 (1.18%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 137 (23.10%) Docker
2 32 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.69%) vSphere
5 9 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) iptables
7 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 102 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.09%) Terraform
3 28 (4.72%) Ansible
3 28 (4.72%) Grafana
4 15 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.36%) 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 (0.51%) Plesk
8 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.51%) systemd
8 3 (0.51%) WSUS
9 2 (0.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.34%) kaniko
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Podman
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.25%) Oracle
3 25 (4.22%) Google
4 23 (3.88%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.54%) Splunk
6 18 (3.04%) VMware
7 17 (2.87%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.85%) Dell
8 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.85%) Veeam
9 7 (1.18%) Adobe
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco
10 6 (1.01%) Databricks
10 6 (1.01%) Synology
11 5 (0.84%) Informatica
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
11 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.67%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce