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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 244 176
Rank change year-on-year -92 -68 +11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 596 606 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.21% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.71% 8.12% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 451 459 965
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.93% -5.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%

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 8,878 7,459 12,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.15% 14.93% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,989 4,779 8,366
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £113,750
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -76 528 £55,000 +4.76% 85
UK excluding London -83 407 £50,000 - 73
Work from Home -68 200 £60,000 +26.32% 37
London -61 143 £85,000 +36.00% 20
North of England -35 133 £42,500 -19.05% 27
South East -28 107 £55,000 - 20
North West -21 56 £50,000 -14.53% 20
Midlands -35 52 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Yorkshire -23 45 £42,500 -12.82% 4
South West -76 44 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England -41 37 £47,500 - 7
North East -45 32 £42,500 -10.53% 4
East Midlands -9 30 £37,500 -21.05% 1
West Midlands -36 22 £47,500 +18.75% 7
Wales -59 22 £60,000 -5.88% 2
Scotland +4 12 £51,000 -9.33% 3

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 24 (4.03%) Apache
1 24 (4.03%) IIS
2 19 (3.19%) WordPress
3 16 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.68%) Confluence
4 12 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.68%) CMS
7 7 (1.17%) Drupal
8 6 (1.01%) nginx
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 305 (51.17%) AWS
2 169 (28.36%) Azure
3 89 (14.93%) GCP
4 57 (9.56%) GitHub
5 33 (5.54%) SaaS
6 30 (5.03%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.53%) Amazon S3
7 27 (4.53%) Serverless
8 25 (4.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 23 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.18%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.36%) Firewall
2 13 (2.18%) Broadband
3 12 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.68%) VPN
5 9 (1.51%) DNS
6 7 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.01%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.01%) SAN
7 6 (1.01%) VLAN
7 6 (1.01%) VoIP
8 5 (0.84%) LAN
8 5 (0.84%) WAN
9 4 (0.67%) Internet
9 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 4 (0.67%) Network Security
9 4 (0.67%) SSH
9 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.50%) DHCP
10 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (27.18%) SQL Server
3 116 (19.46%) Relational Database
4 90 (15.10%) MongoDB
5 71 (11.91%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.70%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.36%) Power BI
8 21 (3.52%) DynamoDB
9 19 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (3.02%) Metadata
10 18 (3.02%) Redis
11 17 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.01%) Big Data
14 11 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (1.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 149 (25.00%) Git
2 38 (6.38%) Claude Code
2 38 (6.38%) GitLab
3 31 (5.20%) JIRA
4 26 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (1.51%) PHPUnit
7 9 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (1.17%) Selenium
9 6 (1.01%) JUnit
10 5 (0.84%) RSpec
11 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) minitest
11 4 (0.67%) Mocha
12 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.50%) git-flow
12 3 (0.50%) Mockito
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 105 (17.62%) Finance
3 86 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.74%) Law
5 58 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.53%) Banking
8 18 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.52%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.52%) Marketing
10 11 (1.85%) Retail
11 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.84%) Legal
16 4 (0.67%) Advertising
17 3 (0.50%) Games
17 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (42.79%) Developer
2 157 (26.34%) Senior
3 82 (13.76%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.08%) PHP Developer
4 72 (12.08%) Software Engineer
5 60 (10.07%) Lead
6 42 (7.05%) Software Developer
7 37 (6.21%) Administrator
7 37 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (5.20%) DBA
10 29 (4.87%) C# Developer
10 29 (4.87%) Database Engineer
11 25 (4.19%) .NET Developer
11 25 (4.19%) Java Developer
11 25 (4.19%) Python Engineer
12 23 (3.86%) Web Developer
13 22 (3.69%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (25.00%) CSS
2 134 (22.48%) HTML
3 106 (17.79%) React
4 89 (14.93%) .NET
5 83 (13.93%) Laravel
6 82 (13.76%) RESTful
7 62 (10.40%) Vue
8 60 (10.07%) REST
9 59 (9.90%) Node.js
10 56 (9.40%) Terraform
11 53 (8.89%) Kafka
12 46 (7.72%) Spring Boot
13 45 (7.55%) Spring
14 44 (7.38%) jQuery
15 38 (6.38%) AngularJS
15 38 (6.38%) ASP.NET
15 38 (6.38%) HTML5
16 31 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (5.03%) CSS3
18 26 (4.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.22%) Replication
3 39 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (5.54%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.86%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.52%) Virtual Team
8 20 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.35%) NHS
11 13 (2.18%) Management Information System
12 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.85%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.34%) IoT
15 7 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.17%) Social Media
16 6 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
16 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.52%) Linux
2 34 (5.70%) Windows
3 27 (4.53%) Ubuntu
4 25 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.52%) Debian
6 17 (2.85%) CentOS
7 9 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (33.72%) Agile
2 174 (29.19%) CI/CD
3 166 (27.85%) Software Engineering
4 164 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.81%) DevOps
6 120 (20.13%) Microservices
7 110 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 96 (16.11%) AI
10 78 (13.09%) Mentoring
11 76 (12.75%) Clean Code
12 68 (11.41%) Web Development
13 67 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 65 (10.91%) OOP
15 62 (10.40%) Containerisation
16 60 (10.07%) Scrum
17 59 (9.90%) High Availability
18 52 (8.72%) Observability
19 51 (8.56%) Data Modelling
20 47 (7.89%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 209 (35.07%) SQL
2 203 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 160 (26.85%) PHP
4 137 (22.99%) Python
5 103 (17.28%) Java
6 87 (14.60%) C#
7 62 (10.40%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.70%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.20%) Bash
10 19 (3.19%) C++
11 18 (3.02%) VB.NET
12 17 (2.85%) Ruby
13 16 (2.68%) Go
14 13 (2.18%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.01%) Scala
16 5 (0.84%) Korn
16 5 (0.84%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.67%) Rust
18 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (13.59%) Degree
2 42 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.69%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.17%) HNC
6 7 (1.17%) HND
7 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.56%) QA
2 34 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.68%) GDPR
5 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.17%) HL7
7 5 (0.84%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 143 (23.99%) Docker
2 26 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 7 (1.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.54%) Grafana
3 29 (4.87%) Ansible
4 20 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.35%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.50%) Plesk
8 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.50%) systemd
8 3 (0.50%) WSUS
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%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 72 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.56%) Oracle
3 28 (4.70%) Google
4 25 (4.19%) Splunk
5 23 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 18 (3.02%) VMware
7 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
7 11 (1.85%) Veeam
8 9 (1.51%) Dell
9 7 (1.17%) Adobe
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco
10 6 (1.01%) Databricks
10 6 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.01%) Synology
11 5 (0.84%) Informatica
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
12 4 (0.67%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.67%) WooCommerce