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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 268 171
Rank change year-on-year -78 -97 +13
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 579 552 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.12% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.52% 7.64% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 433 406 859
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -1.45%

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 8,881 7,221 12,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.95% 14.59% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,024 4,564 7,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,268
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -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 6 September 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 6 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 -75 513 £55,000 +4.76% 227
UK excluding London -79 395 £50,000 -4.76% 123
Work from Home -81 195 £62,500 +31.58% 86
London -73 139 £85,000 +41.67% 132
North of England -49 130 £42,500 -19.05% 41
South East -26 101 £55,000 -6.38% 28
North West -33 56 £50,000 -14.53% 26
Midlands -21 53 £42,500 -8.11% 12
South West -68 45 £55,000 +22.22% 15
Yorkshire -35 42 £42,500 -3.95% 8
East of England -45 33 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North East -49 32 £42,500 -10.53% 9
East Midlands -16 31 £37,500 -18.92% 4
West Midlands -30 22 £47,500 +28.38% 8
Wales -60 22 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Scotland +7 11 £49,750 -33.67% 5

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 27 (4.66%) IIS
2 24 (4.15%) Apache
3 19 (3.28%) WordPress
4 16 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.76%) Confluence
5 11 (1.90%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.73%) CMS
6 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.21%) Drupal
8 5 (0.86%) JBoss
8 5 (0.86%) nginx
9 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.35%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Shopify
2 3 (0.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 295 (50.95%) AWS
2 161 (27.81%) Azure
3 84 (14.51%) GCP
4 55 (9.50%) GitHub
5 32 (5.53%) SaaS
6 29 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.32%) Serverless
9 24 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.25%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.28%) Firewall
2 15 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.25%) Broadband
4 11 (1.90%) DNS
5 10 (1.73%) VPN
6 6 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.04%) SSH
6 6 (1.04%) VLAN
6 6 (1.04%) VoIP
7 5 (0.86%) HTTP
7 5 (0.86%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.86%) LAN
7 5 (0.86%) SAN
7 5 (0.86%) WAN
7 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.69%) DHCP
8 4 (0.69%) Internet
8 4 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
9 3 (0.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (32.12%) PostgreSQL
2 153 (26.42%) SQL Server
3 114 (19.69%) Relational Database
4 90 (15.54%) MongoDB
5 69 (11.92%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.87%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (4.32%) Power BI
9 23 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 20 (3.45%) Redis
11 19 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (3.11%) Metadata
13 17 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.90%) Big Data
16 9 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
17 8 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
17 8 (1.38%) Data Lake
18 7 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 143 (24.70%) Git
2 41 (7.08%) GitLab
3 40 (6.91%) Claude Code
4 28 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 28 (4.84%) JIRA
5 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.55%) Selenium
9 6 (1.04%) JUnit
10 5 (0.86%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.86%) RSpec
11 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.69%) minitest
11 4 (0.69%) Mocha
12 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.52%) git-flow
12 3 (0.52%) Mockito
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 95 (16.41%) Finance
3 83 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.88%) Law
5 59 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.49%) Banking
8 18 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.59%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.42%) Marketing
11 10 (1.73%) Retail
11 10 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.04%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.86%) Legal
16 3 (0.52%) Advertising
16 3 (0.52%) Games
16 3 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 247 (42.66%) Developer
2 153 (26.42%) Senior
3 81 (13.99%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.44%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.92%) PHP Developer
6 59 (10.19%) Lead
7 37 (6.39%) Software Developer
8 36 (6.22%) Administrator
9 35 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.35%) DBA
12 29 (5.01%) Database Engineer
13 27 (4.66%) C# Developer
14 26 (4.49%) .NET Developer
15 25 (4.32%) Java Developer
15 25 (4.32%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (3.80%) Web Developer
17 21 (3.63%) Backend Developer
17 21 (3.63%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (24.53%) CSS
2 130 (22.45%) HTML
3 103 (17.79%) React
4 86 (14.85%) .NET
5 82 (14.16%) RESTful
6 79 (13.64%) Laravel
7 60 (10.36%) REST
8 57 (9.84%) Vue
9 55 (9.50%) Node.js
9 55 (9.50%) Terraform
10 54 (9.33%) Kafka
11 45 (7.77%) Spring Boot
12 44 (7.60%) Spring
13 43 (7.43%) jQuery
14 39 (6.74%) ASP.NET
15 37 (6.39%) HTML5
16 36 (6.22%) AngularJS
17 33 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
18 29 (5.01%) CSS3
19 26 (4.49%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.12%) Replication
3 37 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (5.87%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.63%) Virtual Team
7 16 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.42%) NHS
9 11 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.38%) IoT
13 7 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.21%) Social Media
14 6 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
14 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (28.84%) Linux
2 35 (6.04%) Windows
3 28 (4.84%) Ubuntu
4 26 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.80%) Debian
6 15 (2.59%) CentOS
7 10 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.52%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.35%) Unix
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (33.33%) Agile
2 171 (29.53%) CI/CD
3 166 (28.67%) Software Engineering
4 160 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (21.42%) DevOps
6 114 (19.69%) Microservices
7 108 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 96 (16.58%) AI
10 77 (13.30%) Mentoring
11 74 (12.78%) Clean Code
12 70 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (10.88%) Web Development
14 61 (10.54%) OOP
14 61 (10.54%) Scrum
15 60 (10.36%) Containerisation
16 58 (10.02%) High Availability
17 52 (8.98%) Observability
18 49 (8.46%) Data Modelling
19 47 (8.12%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 200 (34.54%) SQL
2 196 (33.85%) JavaScript
3 151 (26.08%) PHP
4 136 (23.49%) Python
5 98 (16.93%) Java
6 81 (13.99%) C#
7 62 (10.71%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.22%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.35%) Bash
10 20 (3.45%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.94%) Go
11 17 (2.94%) Ruby
12 16 (2.76%) C++
13 12 (2.07%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.04%) Scala
15 5 (0.86%) Korn
15 5 (0.86%) Perl
15 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.86%) Rust
16 3 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 71 (12.26%) Degree
2 42 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.21%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.21%) HNC
6 7 (1.21%) HND
7 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.50%) QA
2 33 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.73%) GDPR
5 8 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.21%) HL7
7 5 (0.86%) WCAG
8 4 (0.69%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 144 (24.87%) Docker
2 26 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.73%) vSphere
5 6 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 106 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.04%) Grafana
3 28 (4.84%) Ansible
4 22 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.25%) Nagios
6 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.04%) Puppet
7 4 (0.69%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.69%) WSUS
8 3 (0.52%) Plesk
8 3 (0.52%) systemd
9 2 (0.35%) kaniko
9 2 (0.35%) Kibana
9 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.33%) Oracle
3 25 (4.32%) Google
3 25 (4.32%) Splunk
4 21 (3.63%) Red Hat
5 18 (3.11%) VMware
6 17 (2.94%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.90%) Rapid7
7 11 (1.90%) Veeam
8 9 (1.55%) Dell
9 7 (1.21%) Adobe
9 7 (1.21%) Cisco
10 6 (1.04%) Databricks
10 6 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.04%) Synology
11 5 (0.86%) Meraki
12 4 (0.69%) Aruba
12 4 (0.69%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.69%) SonicWALL
12 4 (0.69%) TIBCO