MySQL Job Trends

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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 157 143
Rank change year-on-year -170 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 416 859 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.95% 2.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.07% 10.40% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 312 670 1,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,133 £80,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -7.41%

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 6,855 8,261 15,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 18.74% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 5,200 12,242
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -145 384 £55,000 - 209
UK excluding London -154 261 £51,000 +2.00% 200
Work from Home -99 165 £52,130 -0.70% 134
London -53 121 £62,500 +4.17% 37
South East -96 70 £55,000 +10.00% 56
North of England -89 69 £52,130 -0.70% 42
Midlands -65 42 £40,000 - 31
East of England -5 40 £50,000 +25.00% 25
North West -53 38 £55,000 +4.76% 26
South West -76 34 £60,000 - 29
West Midlands -14 27 £39,000 -22.00% 23
Yorkshire -58 27 £50,000 +2.04% 9
East Midlands -59 15 £40,000 +14.29% 8
North East -29 4 £51,565 -6.25% 7
Northern Ireland -28 3 £62,500 -3.85%
Scotland -41 3 £65,000 +18.18% 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 18 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.61%) nginx
4 12 (2.88%) CMS
5 11 (2.64%) Apache
6 8 (1.92%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.68%) IIS
8 6 (1.44%) Confluence
9 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.48%) WordPress
12 1 (0.24%) Camunda
12 1 (0.24%) JBoss
12 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
12 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.20%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.92%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 186 (44.71%) AWS
2 115 (27.64%) Azure
3 63 (15.14%) GCP
4 52 (12.50%) SaaS
5 31 (7.45%) GitHub
6 26 (6.25%) Serverless
7 25 (6.01%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.88%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.68%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.05%) VPN
2 9 (2.16%) Firewall
3 7 (1.68%) DNS
3 7 (1.68%) Network Security
3 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.44%) DHCP
4 6 (1.44%) FTP
5 5 (1.20%) HTTP
5 5 (1.20%) VLAN
6 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) SAN
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.48%) MQTT
8 2 (0.48%) PBX
8 2 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (27.88%) SQL Server
2 93 (22.36%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (15.14%) MongoDB
4 57 (13.70%) Relational Database
5 52 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 33 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.53%) Power BI
8 20 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 19 (4.57%) BusinessObjects
10 18 (4.33%) RDBMS
11 17 (4.09%) DynamoDB
12 15 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (2.40%) Big Data
14 10 (2.40%) Tableau
15 7 (1.68%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.68%) Pentaho
15 7 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 84 (20.19%) Git
2 21 (5.05%) JIRA
3 11 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.64%) PHPUnit
4 10 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.92%) GitLab
6 5 (1.20%) git-flow
6 5 (1.20%) Vite
7 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.72%) Gradle
7 3 (0.72%) JMeter
7 3 (0.72%) JUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Maven
7 3 (0.72%) NUnit
7 3 (0.72%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.72%) Subversion
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Mockito
9 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.02%) Finance
4 24 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.09%) Law
6 16 (3.85%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.13%) Retail
8 10 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.40%) Marketing
9 5 (1.20%) Advertising
9 5 (1.20%) Automotive
9 5 (1.20%) Banking
10 4 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.96%) Billing
10 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.72%) Front Office
11 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 177 (42.55%) Developer
2 84 (20.19%) Senior
3 47 (11.30%) PHP Developer
4 46 (11.06%) Senior Developer
5 38 (9.13%) Software Developer
6 31 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (7.21%) Consultant
8 29 (6.97%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.73%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.53%) Applications Support
10 23 (5.53%) C# Developer
11 22 (5.29%) Lead
12 20 (4.81%) Analyst
12 20 (4.81%) Backend Developer
13 19 (4.57%) Graduate
13 19 (4.57%) Graduate Developer
13 19 (4.57%) Graduate Software Developer
13 19 (4.57%) SQL Developer
14 18 (4.33%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.95%) CSS
2 71 (17.07%) HTML
3 70 (16.83%) React
4 59 (14.18%) Laravel
5 50 (12.02%) .NET
6 46 (11.06%) RESTful
7 43 (10.34%) REST
8 41 (9.86%) Node.js
8 41 (9.86%) Vue
9 28 (6.73%) JSON
10 27 (6.49%) AngularJS
11 24 (5.77%) jQuery
12 19 (4.57%) Symfony
13 17 (4.09%) .NET Core
13 17 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.09%) Spring
13 17 (4.09%) Web Services
14 16 (3.85%) Kafka
15 14 (3.37%) Spring Boot
15 14 (3.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.37%) NHS
6 13 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.13%) Replication
7 12 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.40%) IoT
10 7 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.63%) Linux
2 22 (5.29%) Windows
3 14 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.40%) CentOS
5 7 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.44%) Android
6 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.96%) Debian
7 4 (0.96%) Rocky
7 4 (0.96%) VMS
7 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (33.89%) Agile
2 99 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (23.32%) CI/CD
4 69 (16.59%) Microservices
4 69 (16.59%) Software Engineering
5 66 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
6 65 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (15.63%) OOP
7 59 (14.18%) DevOps
8 54 (12.98%) Data Modelling
9 52 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 50 (12.02%) Containerisation
11 49 (11.78%) OO
12 47 (11.30%) ETL
13 46 (11.06%) Test Automation
14 45 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (9.86%) TDD
16 39 (9.38%) Computer Science
17 37 (8.89%) AI
18 36 (8.65%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 183 (43.99%) SQL
2 140 (33.65%) PHP
3 123 (29.57%) JavaScript
4 82 (19.71%) Python
5 67 (16.11%) Java
6 66 (15.87%) C#
7 62 (14.90%) TypeScript
8 26 (6.25%) C++
8 26 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 21 (5.05%) Bash
10 20 (4.81%) Delphi
10 20 (4.81%) Pascal
11 14 (3.37%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.40%) Go
12 10 (2.40%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.92%) Scala
14 7 (1.68%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.44%) C
16 3 (0.72%) Perl
16 3 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (13.46%) Degree
2 35 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.48%) MCSE
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) HNC
10 1 (0.24%) HND
10 1 (0.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.06%) QA
2 16 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.13%) HL7
5 11 (2.64%) SLA
6 8 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.68%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (17.07%) Docker
2 20 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.48%) Samba
6 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.73%) Ansible
2 28 (6.73%) Terraform
3 11 (2.64%) Grafana
4 9 (2.16%) Nagios
5 8 (1.92%) Argo
6 5 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.72%) Puppet
7 3 (0.72%) Rancher
8 2 (0.48%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.48%) Plesk
8 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.24%) Graylog
9 1 (0.24%) Podman
9 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (13.22%) Oracle
2 48 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.09%) SAP
4 13 (3.13%) Google
5 11 (2.64%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.40%) Informatica
7 9 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.16%) Talend
7 9 (2.16%) VMware
8 8 (1.92%) Databricks
9 6 (1.44%) Splunk
10 5 (1.20%) Palantir
11 4 (0.96%) Apple
11 4 (0.96%) Zend
12 3 (0.72%) BT
12 3 (0.72%) Dell
12 3 (0.72%) Mitel
12 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.72%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.72%) RedGate