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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 272 176
Rank change year-on-year -87 -96 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 571 543 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.09% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.42% 7.49% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 425 394 814
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,625 £51,250
% change year-on-year -3.15% +0.73% +2.50%

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 8,898 7,245 12,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.84% 14.58% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,041 4,548 7,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
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 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 11 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 11 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 -81 505 £55,000 +4.76% 236
UK excluding London -83 391 £50,000 -3.15% 122
Work from Home -62 193 £62,500 +31.58% 150
London -68 136 £85,000 +41.67% 132
North of England -19 131 £42,500 -19.05% 38
South East -32 97 £55,000 -4.35% 30
North West -29 57 £50,000 -13.79% 22
Midlands -35 53 £42,500 -10.53% 14
South West -72 43 £55,000 +22.22% 17
Yorkshire -35 41 £42,500 +9.68% 11
North East -37 33 £42,500 -10.53% 6
East of England -46 33 £50,000 +5.26% 11
East Midlands -21 31 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Wales -64 24 £60,000 -11.11% 2
West Midlands -27 22 £47,500 +15.15% 11
Scotland +9 10 £48,500 -35.33% 7

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 28 (4.90%) IIS
2 25 (4.38%) Apache
3 19 (3.33%) WordPress
4 16 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.80%) Confluence
5 11 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.75%) CMS
7 7 (1.23%) Drupal
8 5 (0.88%) JBoss
8 5 (0.88%) nginx
9 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.70%) 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 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.35%) Elementor
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 295 (51.66%) AWS
2 159 (27.85%) Azure
3 83 (14.54%) GCP
4 54 (9.46%) GitHub
5 29 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 29 (5.08%) SaaS
6 28 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 25 (4.38%) Serverless
8 23 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.03%) GitHub Copilot
9 20 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.28%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.33%) Firewall
2 16 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.28%) Broadband
4 12 (2.10%) DNS
5 11 (1.93%) VPN
6 7 (1.23%) VLAN
7 6 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.05%) SSH
7 6 (1.05%) VoIP
7 6 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.88%) DHCP
8 5 (0.88%) HTTP
8 5 (0.88%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.88%) LAN
8 5 (0.88%) SAN
8 5 (0.88%) WAN
9 4 (0.70%) Internet
9 4 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.70%) MQTT
10 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (32.05%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (26.62%) SQL Server
3 113 (19.79%) Relational Database
4 90 (15.76%) MongoDB
5 69 (12.08%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.78%) MariaDB
7 25 (4.38%) Power BI
8 24 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.68%) Redis
10 20 (3.50%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (3.15%) Metadata
13 17 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.93%) Big Data
15 10 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.58%) Electronic Patient Records
17 8 (1.40%) Data Lake
18 7 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
19 6 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 142 (24.87%) Git
2 40 (7.01%) Claude Code
2 40 (7.01%) GitLab
3 28 (4.90%) JIRA
4 27 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.10%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.58%) Selenium
9 6 (1.05%) JUnit
10 5 (0.88%) RSpec
11 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.70%) minitest
11 4 (0.70%) Mocha
11 4 (0.70%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.53%) git-flow
12 3 (0.53%) Maven
12 3 (0.53%) Mockito
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.29%) Finance
3 85 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.03%) Law
5 61 (10.68%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.73%) Banking
8 18 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.45%) Marketing
10 13 (2.28%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.75%) Retail
11 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.88%) Legal
16 3 (0.53%) Advertising
16 3 (0.53%) Local Government
16 3 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (42.73%) Developer
2 151 (26.44%) Senior
3 79 (13.84%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 68 (11.91%) PHP Developer
6 58 (10.16%) Lead
7 37 (6.48%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.13%) Administrator
9 33 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (5.25%) DBA
12 29 (5.08%) Database Engineer
13 27 (4.73%) C# Developer
13 27 (4.73%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.38%) .NET Developer
14 25 (4.38%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (3.85%) Web Developer
16 21 (3.68%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 21 (3.68%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.52%) CSS
2 128 (22.42%) HTML
3 102 (17.86%) React
4 84 (14.71%) .NET
4 84 (14.71%) RESTful
5 77 (13.49%) Laravel
6 59 (10.33%) REST
7 56 (9.81%) Vue
8 55 (9.63%) Kafka
8 55 (9.63%) Node.js
8 55 (9.63%) Terraform
9 46 (8.06%) Spring Boot
10 45 (7.88%) Spring
11 43 (7.53%) jQuery
12 38 (6.65%) ASP.NET
13 37 (6.48%) HTML5
14 36 (6.30%) AngularJS
15 35 (6.13%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (5.08%) CSS3
17 26 (4.55%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.71%) Replication
3 39 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.83%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (6.48%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 21 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.10%) NHS
9 11 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.40%) IoT
12 7 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.23%) Social Media
13 6 (1.05%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (28.90%) Linux
2 36 (6.30%) Windows
3 29 (5.08%) Ubuntu
4 27 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.85%) Debian
6 14 (2.45%) CentOS
7 11 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.35%) Unix
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (34.15%) Agile
2 172 (30.12%) CI/CD
3 166 (29.07%) Software Engineering
4 163 (28.55%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (22.07%) DevOps
6 114 (19.96%) Microservices
7 108 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (16.99%) AI
9 94 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 78 (13.66%) Mentoring
11 74 (12.96%) Clean Code
12 70 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (11.03%) Scrum
14 62 (10.86%) Web Development
15 61 (10.68%) OOP
16 60 (10.51%) Containerisation
17 57 (9.98%) High Availability
18 54 (9.46%) Observability
19 49 (8.58%) Data Modelling
20 47 (8.23%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 199 (34.85%) SQL
2 193 (33.80%) JavaScript
3 147 (25.74%) PHP
4 134 (23.47%) Python
5 98 (17.16%) Java
6 80 (14.01%) C#
7 62 (10.86%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.30%) Shell Script
9 30 (5.25%) Bash
10 20 (3.50%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.98%) Go
11 17 (2.98%) Ruby
12 16 (2.80%) C++
13 12 (2.10%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.05%) Scala
15 5 (0.88%) Korn
15 5 (0.88%) Perl
15 5 (0.88%) Rust
16 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 69 (12.08%) Degree
2 42 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.23%) HNC
6 7 (1.23%) HND
7 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.98%) QA
2 33 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.75%) GDPR
5 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.23%) HL7
7 5 (0.88%) WCAG
8 3 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 144 (25.22%) Docker
2 27 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.75%) vSphere
5 6 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 104 (18.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.13%) Grafana
3 27 (4.73%) Ansible
4 22 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.10%) Nagios
6 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.05%) Puppet
7 5 (0.88%) WSUS
8 4 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.53%) Kibana
9 3 (0.53%) Plesk
9 3 (0.53%) systemd
10 2 (0.35%) kaniko
10 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.35%) Rancher
11 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.46%) Oracle
3 26 (4.55%) Splunk
4 23 (4.03%) Google
5 20 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.33%) VMware
7 17 (2.98%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.10%) Veeam
9 10 (1.75%) Dell
9 10 (1.75%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.23%) Adobe
10 7 (1.23%) Cisco
11 6 (1.05%) Databricks
11 6 (1.05%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.05%) Synology
12 5 (0.88%) CheckPoint
12 5 (0.88%) Meraki
12 5 (0.88%) NetApp
12 5 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.88%) SonicWALL