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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 252 168
Rank change year-on-year -96 -84 +15
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 582 594 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.19% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.59% 8.07% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 437 447 924
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -4.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,625 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% +0.96%

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 8,829 7,363 12,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.03% 14.77% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,717 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £37,250
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 £106,250 £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 2 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 2 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 -66 516 £55,000 +4.76% 331
UK excluding London -84 396 £50,000 -1.23% 179
Work from Home -85 195 £62,500 +31.58% 135
London -61 141 £85,000 +41.67% 200
North of England -34 131 £42,500 -19.05% 60
South East -32 102 £56,250 +2.27% 43
North West -28 56 £50,000 -13.79% 37
Midlands -37 53 £42,500 -10.53% 16
South West -73 45 £55,000 +15.79% 19
Yorkshire -34 43 £42,500 -12.82% 10
North East -40 32 £42,500 -10.53% 14
East of England -41 32 £50,000 +5.26% 10
East Midlands -15 31 £37,500 -18.92% 6
West Midlands -32 22 £47,500 +15.15% 10
Wales -68 22 £60,000 -5.88% 6
Scotland 0 11 £49,750 -11.56% 12

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 (4.47%) IIS
2 24 (4.12%) Apache
3 19 (3.26%) WordPress
4 16 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.75%) Confluence
5 12 (2.06%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.72%) CMS
8 7 (1.20%) Drupal
9 6 (1.03%) nginx
10 5 (0.86%) JBoss
11 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Shopify
2 3 (0.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 297 (51.03%) AWS
2 162 (27.84%) Azure
3 86 (14.78%) GCP
4 55 (9.45%) GitHub
5 32 (5.50%) SaaS
6 30 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.81%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.30%) Serverless
9 24 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.23%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.26%) Firewall
2 13 (2.23%) Broadband
2 13 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.72%) DNS
3 10 (1.72%) VPN
4 7 (1.20%) VLAN
5 6 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (1.03%) VoIP
6 5 (0.86%) iSCSI
6 5 (0.86%) LAN
6 5 (0.86%) SAN
6 5 (0.86%) WAN
6 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.69%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) Internet
7 4 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.69%) MQTT
7 4 (0.69%) SSH
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (31.79%) PostgreSQL
2 153 (26.29%) SQL Server
3 114 (19.59%) Relational Database
4 89 (15.29%) MongoDB
5 68 (11.68%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.84%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.47%) Power BI
8 24 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.61%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.09%) Metadata
11 18 (3.09%) Redis
12 17 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.06%) Big Data
14 9 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.37%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 144 (24.74%) Git
2 39 (6.70%) Claude Code
2 39 (6.70%) GitLab
3 28 (4.81%) JIRA
4 26 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.23%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (1.20%) PHPUnit
8 7 (1.20%) Selenium
9 6 (1.03%) JUnit
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
1 126 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.84%) Finance
3 84 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.00%) Law
5 59 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.64%) Banking
8 18 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.58%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.58%) Marketing
10 10 (1.72%) Retail
11 8 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.03%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.86%) Legal
15 3 (0.52%) Advertising
15 3 (0.52%) Games
15 3 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (42.27%) Developer
2 153 (26.29%) Senior
3 81 (13.92%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.37%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.86%) PHP Developer
6 59 (10.14%) Lead
7 37 (6.36%) Administrator
7 37 (6.36%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (5.33%) DBA
11 29 (4.98%) Database Engineer
12 26 (4.47%) C# Developer
13 25 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 25 (4.30%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.30%) Python Engineer
14 22 (3.78%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (3.78%) Web Developer
15 21 (3.61%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.05%) CSS
2 128 (21.99%) HTML
3 103 (17.70%) React
4 85 (14.60%) .NET
5 81 (13.92%) Laravel
6 80 (13.75%) RESTful
7 58 (9.97%) REST
7 58 (9.97%) Vue
8 56 (9.62%) Node.js
8 56 (9.62%) Terraform
9 52 (8.93%) Kafka
10 45 (7.73%) Spring Boot
11 44 (7.56%) Spring
12 42 (7.22%) jQuery
13 38 (6.53%) ASP.NET
14 37 (6.36%) HTML5
15 36 (6.19%) AngularJS
16 31 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (4.98%) CSS3
18 26 (4.47%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.11%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.08%) Replication
3 38 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (6.01%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (3.61%) Virtual Team
8 16 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.41%) NHS
10 11 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.37%) IoT
13 7 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.20%) Social Media
14 6 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
14 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (28.52%) Linux
2 35 (6.01%) Windows
3 28 (4.81%) Ubuntu
4 26 (4.47%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.78%) Debian
6 16 (2.75%) CentOS
7 10 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.52%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (33.16%) Agile
2 171 (29.38%) CI/CD
3 165 (28.35%) Software Engineering
4 161 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (21.13%) DevOps
6 115 (19.76%) Microservices
7 110 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 96 (16.49%) AI
10 77 (13.23%) Mentoring
11 74 (12.71%) Clean Code
12 68 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (10.82%) Web Development
14 62 (10.65%) OOP
15 61 (10.48%) Containerisation
16 59 (10.14%) Scrum
17 58 (9.97%) High Availability
18 52 (8.93%) Observability
19 51 (8.76%) Data Modelling
20 46 (7.90%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 201 (34.54%) SQL
2 196 (33.68%) JavaScript
3 154 (26.46%) PHP
4 136 (23.37%) Python
5 99 (17.01%) Java
6 80 (13.75%) C#
7 61 (10.48%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.84%) Shell Script
9 30 (5.15%) Bash
10 19 (3.26%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.92%) Go
11 17 (2.92%) Ruby
12 16 (2.75%) C++
13 12 (2.06%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.03%) 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%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 71 (12.20%) Degree
2 42 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.20%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.20%) HNC
6 7 (1.20%) 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 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.62%) QA
2 34 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.72%) GDPR
5 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.20%) HL7
7 5 (0.86%) WCAG
8 4 (0.69%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (24.40%) Docker
2 26 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.72%) vSphere
5 6 (1.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.03%) 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 (18.21%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.67%) Grafana
3 29 (4.98%) Ansible
4 20 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.41%) Nagios
6 6 (1.03%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.03%) 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%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.52%) systemd
9 2 (0.34%) kaniko
9 2 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.28%) Oracle
3 25 (4.30%) Google
3 25 (4.30%) Splunk
4 22 (3.78%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.26%) VMware
6 17 (2.92%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.06%) Veeam
8 11 (1.89%) Rapid7
9 9 (1.55%) Dell
10 7 (1.20%) Adobe
10 7 (1.20%) Cisco
11 6 (1.03%) Databricks
11 6 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.03%) Synology
12 5 (0.86%) Informatica
12 5 (0.86%) Meraki
13 4 (0.69%) HP
13 4 (0.69%) IBM
13 4 (0.69%) NetApp