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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 214 159
Rank change year-on-year -136 -55 -6
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 433 696 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.60% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.53% 9.31% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 341 581 1,555
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 7,824 7,479 17,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 17.22% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 5,063 12,536
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -125 399 £55,000 - 138
UK excluding London -133 298 £50,000 - 118
Work from Home -61 161 £52,130 -0.70% 75
London -70 100 £75,000 +20.00% 32
South East -64 86 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North of England -94 81 £50,000 -4.76% 43
Midlands -52 46 £42,500 -10.53% 10
North West -56 44 £55,000 - 20
South West -77 42 £56,250 -6.25% 9
East of England -29 33 £50,000 +21.21% 10
Yorkshire -58 28 £50,000 +5.26% 20
East Midlands -39 25 £37,500 -11.76% 6
West Midlands -38 21 £46,250 -13.15% 4
North East -37 9 £47,500 -11.63% 3
Scotland -24 5 £58,000 +5.45% 2
Wales -43 3 £35,000 -6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -37 2 £62,500 -26.47%

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 20 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.39%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.93%) CMS
4 16 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.70%) nginx
5 15 (3.46%) Apache
6 11 (2.54%) WordPress
7 10 (2.31%) Confluence
8 8 (1.85%) IIS
9 5 (1.15%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.92%) Drupal
11 3 (0.69%) JBoss
11 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.23%) Camunda
13 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.85%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.77%) Shopify
2 3 (0.69%) Magento
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (46.42%) AWS
2 113 (26.10%) Azure
3 68 (15.70%) GCP
4 45 (10.39%) SaaS
5 32 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.24%) Power Platform
7 26 (6.00%) GitHub
8 25 (5.77%) Serverless
9 17 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.85%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.85%) Firewall
2 18 (4.16%) VPN
3 9 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.85%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.85%) SAN
5 7 (1.62%) Broadband
5 7 (1.62%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) Network Security
6 6 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.15%) VLAN
8 4 (0.92%) HTTP
8 4 (0.92%) MQTT
8 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.69%) DHCP
9 3 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (0.69%) RTP
9 3 (0.69%) SSH
9 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.69%) VoIP
9 3 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (26.10%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (24.02%) SQL Server
3 64 (14.78%) Relational Database
4 63 (14.55%) NoSQL
5 62 (14.32%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.77%) Power BI
7 23 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 17 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.93%) MariaDB
10 15 (3.46%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.23%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.85%) Big Data
15 8 (1.85%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.62%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (22.63%) Git
2 21 (4.85%) GitLab
3 17 (3.93%) JIRA
4 11 (2.54%) PHPUnit
5 10 (2.31%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.31%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.15%) JUnit
6 5 (1.15%) Vite
7 4 (0.92%) Mockito
7 4 (0.92%) NUnit
8 3 (0.69%) Gradle
8 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.46%) JMeter
9 2 (0.46%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.46%) Selenium
9 2 (0.46%) Subversion
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 96 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.63%) Finance
3 48 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.85%) Law
5 20 (4.62%) Health Technology
6 18 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.23%) Retail
8 12 (2.77%) Banking
9 11 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.62%) Advertising
10 7 (1.62%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.15%) Marketing
13 4 (0.92%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Front Office
15 2 (0.46%) Back Office
15 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 176 (40.65%) Developer
2 97 (22.40%) Senior
3 57 (13.16%) PHP Developer
4 46 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 34 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (7.39%) Lead
7 31 (7.16%) Software Developer
7 31 (7.16%) Software Engineer
8 26 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 22 (5.08%) Administrator
9 22 (5.08%) Analyst
10 21 (4.85%) DBA
11 20 (4.62%) Backend Developer
11 20 (4.62%) C# Developer
12 19 (4.39%) Senior Backend Developer
13 18 (4.16%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.93%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 16 (3.70%) SQL Developer
16 15 (3.46%) C# Software Developer
17 14 (3.23%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (23.09%) CSS
2 90 (20.79%) HTML
3 74 (17.09%) Laravel
4 67 (15.47%) React
5 56 (12.93%) RESTful
6 47 (10.85%) Vue
7 42 (9.70%) Node.js
8 41 (9.47%) .NET
8 41 (9.47%) REST
9 32 (7.39%) JSON
10 29 (6.70%) AngularJS
10 29 (6.70%) jQuery
11 24 (5.54%) Kafka
12 23 (5.31%) HTML5
13 22 (5.08%) CSS3
14 21 (4.85%) Spring
15 18 (4.16%) Spring Boot
16 16 (3.70%) .NET Core
17 15 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (3.46%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.54%) Replication
4 19 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.16%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.46%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.23%) NHS
8 13 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (2.77%) IoT
9 12 (2.77%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.54%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.39%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.15%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 113 (26.10%) Linux
2 28 (6.47%) Windows
3 23 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.77%) CentOS
6 10 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.08%) Debian
8 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.69%) Android
9 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.46%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (30.95%) Agile
2 101 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 82 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (18.48%) Microservices
5 73 (16.86%) Software Engineering
6 68 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (15.47%) DevOps
8 61 (14.09%) Business Intelligence
9 51 (11.78%) Containerisation
10 46 (10.62%) TDD
11 44 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (10.16%) Data Modelling
12 43 (9.93%) Mentoring
13 41 (9.47%) Web Development
14 40 (9.24%) OOP
15 38 (8.78%) AI
16 37 (8.55%) Computer Science
17 36 (8.31%) Analytics
17 36 (8.31%) Data Pipeline
18 34 (7.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (39.72%) SQL
2 149 (34.41%) PHP
3 131 (30.25%) JavaScript
4 82 (18.94%) Python
5 69 (15.94%) Java
6 56 (12.93%) C#
7 48 (11.09%) TypeScript
8 32 (7.39%) Bash
9 25 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.62%) C++
11 14 (3.23%) PL/SQL
12 12 (2.77%) Go
13 10 (2.31%) T-SQL
14 9 (2.08%) Scala
14 9 (2.08%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.62%) Korn
16 6 (1.39%) C
17 3 (0.69%) VBA
18 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
19 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (13.63%) Degree
2 31 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.39%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.39%) HNC
6 6 (1.39%) HND
6 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.69%) RHCE
10 2 (0.46%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.39%) QA
2 29 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.31%) HL7
5 9 (2.08%) GDPR
6 8 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.62%) SLA
8 4 (0.92%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.69%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (18.24%) Docker
2 32 (7.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.85%) vSphere
6 5 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.69%) iptables
8 3 (0.69%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.46%) Samba
10 1 (0.23%) Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.16%) Terraform
3 26 (6.00%) Ansible
4 17 (3.93%) Grafana
5 10 (2.31%) Nagios
6 7 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.62%) Puppet
7 6 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.15%) Argo
9 4 (0.92%) Rancher
10 3 (0.69%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.69%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.69%) systemd
10 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.46%) Plesk
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Graylog
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.47%) Oracle
3 21 (4.85%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.46%) VMware
5 13 (3.00%) Google
6 10 (2.31%) Splunk
7 8 (1.85%) Dell
7 8 (1.85%) SAP
8 7 (1.62%) Informatica
8 7 (1.62%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.62%) Veeam
9 6 (1.39%) Adobe
9 6 (1.39%) Cisco
9 6 (1.39%) Talend
10 5 (1.15%) Databricks
10 5 (1.15%) Meraki
10 5 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.15%) Synology
11 4 (0.92%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.92%) WooCommerce