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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 226 164
Rank change year-on-year -141 -62 -12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 448 677 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.54% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.66% 9.30% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 360 549 1,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £84,625
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 7,912 7,281 17,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.51% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,823 4,900 12,503
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £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 £77,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £96,539
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 20 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 20 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 -111 413 £54,500 -0.91% 133
UK excluding London -120 305 £50,000 - 115
Work from Home -65 164 £52,130 -0.70% 53
London -58 107 £75,000 +25.00% 31
North of England -58 101 £50,000 -4.76% 44
South East -54 86 £55,000 +10.00% 34
North West -32 48 £55,000 - 24
Midlands -57 45 £42,500 -10.53% 14
Yorkshire -42 40 £49,000 +3.16% 17
South West -89 36 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -40 27 £47,500 +18.75% 10
East Midlands -39 25 £36,250 -9.38% 6
West Midlands -46 20 £47,500 -7.77% 8
North East -39 13 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland -13 5 £58,000 +5.45% 3
Wales -37 3 £35,000 -9.68% 2
Northern Ireland -39 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 19 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.02%) CMS
2 18 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.79%) Apache
3 17 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.35%) nginx
5 14 (3.13%) WordPress
6 11 (2.46%) Confluence
6 11 (2.46%) IIS
7 7 (1.56%) Drupal
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.67%) JBoss
8 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Camunda
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.56%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.68%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Magento
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 210 (46.88%) AWS
2 118 (26.34%) Azure
3 62 (13.84%) GCP
4 43 (9.60%) SaaS
5 30 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.03%) GitHub
6 27 (6.03%) Power Platform
7 24 (5.36%) Serverless
8 16 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.69%) Firewall
2 18 (4.02%) VPN
3 9 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.79%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.79%) SAN
5 7 (1.56%) Broadband
5 7 (1.56%) DNS
5 7 (1.56%) Network Security
5 7 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.12%) VLAN
7 4 (0.89%) VoIP
7 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
8 3 (0.67%) HTTP
8 3 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.67%) MQTT
8 3 (0.67%) RTP
8 3 (0.67%) SSH
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (27.90%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (24.11%) SQL Server
3 72 (16.07%) MongoDB
4 69 (15.40%) NoSQL
5 67 (14.96%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.58%) MariaDB
6 25 (5.58%) Power BI
7 24 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (4.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 16 (3.57%) RDBMS
10 14 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.68%) DynamoDB
12 10 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (2.01%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (1.79%) Big Data
14 8 (1.79%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 100 (22.32%) Git
2 23 (5.13%) GitLab
3 18 (4.02%) JIRA
4 10 (2.23%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.23%) PHPUnit
5 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.12%) JUnit
7 4 (0.89%) Mockito
7 4 (0.89%) NUnit
7 4 (0.89%) Vite
8 3 (0.67%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.67%) Gradle
8 3 (0.67%) Maven
8 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.45%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Ant
10 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 100 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.06%) Finance
3 47 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.36%) Law
6 21 (4.69%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.13%) Banking
7 14 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.13%) Retail
8 11 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.56%) Advertising
9 7 (1.56%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.34%) Marketing
11 5 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.89%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Front Office
14 2 (0.45%) Back Office
14 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 183 (40.85%) Developer
2 103 (22.99%) Senior
3 57 (12.72%) PHP Developer
4 51 (11.38%) Senior Developer
5 41 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 37 (8.26%) Lead
7 35 (7.81%) Software Developer
8 34 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.03%) Administrator
10 26 (5.80%) DBA
11 24 (5.36%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.46%) Analyst
12 20 (4.46%) C# Developer
12 20 (4.46%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 18 (4.02%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) Backend Developer
15 16 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
16 15 (3.35%) C# Software Developer
16 15 (3.35%) Web Developer
17 14 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (23.21%) CSS
2 94 (20.98%) HTML
3 74 (16.52%) Laravel
4 69 (15.40%) React
5 68 (15.18%) RESTful
6 55 (12.28%) Vue
7 51 (11.38%) .NET
8 50 (11.16%) Node.js
9 41 (9.15%) REST
10 35 (7.81%) JSON
11 34 (7.59%) AngularJS
12 28 (6.25%) HTML5
12 28 (6.25%) jQuery
13 27 (6.03%) CSS3
14 25 (5.58%) Kafka
15 22 (4.91%) Spring
16 19 (4.24%) Spring Boot
17 18 (4.02%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.57%) ASP.NET
19 13 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.70%) Replication
3 21 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.13%) NHS
8 13 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.46%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.23%) IoT
11 9 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.34%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 115 (25.67%) Linux
2 26 (5.80%) Windows
3 24 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.35%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.68%) CentOS
6 10 (2.23%) Debian
6 10 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.67%) Android
8 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.13%) Agile
2 97 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 87 (19.42%) Microservices
3 87 (19.42%) Software Engineering
4 85 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 66 (14.73%) DevOps
7 58 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (11.16%) Containerisation
9 49 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.49%) Mentoring
10 47 (10.49%) TDD
11 46 (10.27%) Web Development
12 45 (10.04%) Data Modelling
13 44 (9.82%) AI
14 38 (8.48%) Computer Science
15 36 (8.04%) Analytics
16 34 (7.59%) OOP
17 33 (7.37%) Clean Code
17 33 (7.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (38.39%) SQL
2 150 (33.48%) PHP
3 149 (33.26%) JavaScript
4 87 (19.42%) Python
5 74 (16.52%) Java
6 59 (13.17%) C#
7 43 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.47%) Bash
9 25 (5.58%) PowerShell
10 18 (4.02%) C++
11 14 (3.13%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.13%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.68%) Go
13 10 (2.23%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.79%) Scala
15 7 (1.56%) Korn
16 6 (1.34%) C
17 3 (0.67%) Perl
17 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (13.39%) Degree
2 31 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.23%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.56%) HNC
5 7 (1.56%) HND
6 6 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.67%) RHCE
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.14%) QA
2 29 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.23%) HL7
5 9 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.01%) GDPR
6 7 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.56%) SLA
7 5 (1.12%) WCAG
8 4 (0.89%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (16.96%) Docker
2 31 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.01%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.79%) vSphere
6 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.67%) iptables
8 3 (0.67%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.45%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.03%) Terraform
3 24 (5.36%) Ansible
4 17 (3.79%) Grafana
5 10 (2.23%) Nagios
6 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) Argo
9 4 (0.89%) Rancher
10 3 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.67%) Plesk
10 3 (0.67%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.67%) systemd
10 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Graylog
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.03%) Oracle
3 21 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.35%) VMware
5 13 (2.90%) Google
6 11 (2.46%) Splunk
7 8 (1.79%) Dell
8 7 (1.56%) Adobe
8 7 (1.56%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.56%) Veeam
9 6 (1.34%) Cisco
9 6 (1.34%) Informatica
9 6 (1.34%) SAP
10 5 (1.12%) Meraki
10 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.12%) Synology
10 5 (1.12%) Talend
10 5 (1.12%) WooCommerce
11 4 (0.89%) Databricks
11 4 (0.89%) Fortinet