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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 257 173
Rank change year-on-year -78 -84 +11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 593 600 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.20% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.68% 8.06% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 448 453 922
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,250 £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% -4.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 8,871 7,441 12,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.07% 14.85% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,976 4,769 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,700 £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 £54,450 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +3.71% -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 31 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 31 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 -81 525 £55,000 +4.76% 288
UK excluding London -97 405 £50,000 - 155
Work from Home -89 200 £61,250 +28.95% 115
London -55 142 £85,000 +41.67% 169
North of England -51 133 £42,500 -19.05% 56
South East -24 105 £55,000 - 39
North West -22 57 £50,000 -13.04% 35
Midlands -33 52 £42,500 -10.53% 14
South West -72 45 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Yorkshire -25 44 £42,500 -12.82% 9
East of England -31 36 £47,500 - 10
North East -44 32 £42,500 -10.53% 13
East Midlands -13 30 £37,500 -18.92% 4
West Midlands -34 22 £47,500 +18.75% 10
Wales -67 22 £60,000 -5.88% 4
Scotland -2 12 £51,000 -9.33% 11

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 (4.38%) IIS
2 25 (4.22%) Apache
3 19 (3.20%) WordPress
4 16 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.70%) Confluence
5 12 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.69%) CMS
7 7 (1.18%) Drupal
8 6 (1.01%) nginx
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.51%) 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 (0.51%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 303 (51.10%) AWS
2 167 (28.16%) Azure
3 88 (14.84%) GCP
4 57 (9.61%) GitHub
5 33 (5.56%) SaaS
6 30 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 26 (4.38%) Serverless
9 25 (4.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.19%) OpenShift
18 12 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
18 12 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.37%) Firewall
2 13 (2.19%) Broadband
2 13 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.85%) VPN
4 10 (1.69%) DNS
5 7 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (1.18%) VLAN
6 6 (1.01%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.01%) SAN
6 6 (1.01%) VoIP
7 5 (0.84%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) WAN
7 5 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.67%) DHCP
8 4 (0.67%) Internet
8 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) SSH
9 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (31.70%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (27.32%) SQL Server
3 115 (19.39%) Relational Database
4 90 (15.18%) MongoDB
5 70 (11.80%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.73%) MariaDB
7 26 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.38%) Power BI
8 25 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.54%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.04%) Metadata
12 17 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.87%) Redis
13 13 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (2.02%) Big Data
15 10 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
17 8 (1.35%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 148 (24.96%) Git
2 39 (6.58%) Claude Code
3 38 (6.41%) GitLab
4 31 (5.23%) JIRA
5 26 (4.38%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (1.35%) PHPUnit
10 7 (1.18%) Selenium
11 6 (1.01%) JUnit
12 5 (0.84%) RSpec
13 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.67%) minitest
13 4 (0.67%) Mocha
14 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.51%) git-flow
14 3 (0.51%) Mockito
14 3 (0.51%) NUnit
14 3 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
General
1 131 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.37%) Finance
3 86 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.79%) Law
5 58 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.55%) Banking
8 18 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.53%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.53%) Marketing
10 11 (1.85%) Retail
11 9 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.18%) 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 (0.51%) Games
17 3 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (42.66%) Developer
2 155 (26.14%) Senior
3 81 (13.66%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.14%) PHP Developer
4 72 (12.14%) Software Engineer
5 59 (9.95%) Lead
6 42 (7.08%) Software Developer
7 37 (6.24%) Administrator
7 37 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (5.23%) DBA
10 29 (4.89%) C# Developer
10 29 (4.89%) Database Engineer
11 25 (4.22%) .NET Developer
11 25 (4.22%) Java Developer
11 25 (4.22%) Python Engineer
12 22 (3.71%) Backend Developer
12 22 (3.71%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (3.71%) Web Developer
13 21 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (24.96%) CSS
2 133 (22.43%) HTML
3 105 (17.71%) React
4 87 (14.67%) .NET
5 82 (13.83%) Laravel
6 81 (13.66%) RESTful
7 60 (10.12%) Vue
8 58 (9.78%) Node.js
8 58 (9.78%) REST
9 56 (9.44%) Terraform
10 52 (8.77%) Kafka
11 46 (7.76%) Spring Boot
12 45 (7.59%) jQuery
12 45 (7.59%) Spring
13 38 (6.41%) ASP.NET
13 38 (6.41%) HTML5
14 37 (6.24%) AngularJS
15 30 (5.06%) CSS3
15 30 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (4.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.09%) Replication
3 39 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (5.73%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.54%) Virtual Team
8 20 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.36%) NHS
11 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.35%) IoT
15 7 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.18%) Social Media
16 6 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
16 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (27.82%) Linux
2 35 (5.90%) Windows
3 28 (4.72%) Ubuntu
4 26 (4.38%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.54%) Debian
6 17 (2.87%) CentOS
7 10 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.51%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (33.73%) Agile
2 174 (29.34%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.82%) Software Engineering
4 164 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (21.08%) DevOps
6 117 (19.73%) Microservices
7 109 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 95 (16.02%) AI
10 77 (12.98%) Mentoring
11 76 (12.82%) Clean Code
12 67 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (11.13%) Web Development
14 65 (10.96%) OOP
15 61 (10.29%) Containerisation
16 60 (10.12%) Scrum
17 59 (9.95%) High Availability
18 52 (8.77%) Observability
19 51 (8.60%) Data Modelling
20 48 (8.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 208 (35.08%) SQL
2 201 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 158 (26.64%) PHP
4 138 (23.27%) Python
5 104 (17.54%) Java
6 86 (14.50%) C#
7 62 (10.46%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.73%) Shell Script
9 31 (5.23%) Bash
10 19 (3.20%) C++
10 19 (3.20%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.87%) Go
11 17 (2.87%) Ruby
12 13 (2.19%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.01%) Scala
14 5 (0.84%) Korn
14 5 (0.84%) Perl
14 5 (0.84%) Rust
15 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 79 (13.32%) Degree
2 42 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.71%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.18%) HNC
6 7 (1.18%) HND
7 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.61%) QA
2 34 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.69%) GDPR
5 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.18%) HL7
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
8 4 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (24.11%) Docker
2 27 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.69%) vSphere
5 7 (1.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) iptables
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.56%) Grafana
3 29 (4.89%) Ansible
4 20 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.36%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.67%) WSUS
8 3 (0.51%) Plesk
8 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.51%) 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%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 72 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.94%) Oracle
3 27 (4.55%) Google
4 25 (4.22%) Splunk
5 23 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.20%) VMware
7 17 (2.87%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.02%) Veeam
9 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
10 10 (1.69%) Dell
11 7 (1.18%) Adobe
11 7 (1.18%) Cisco
12 6 (1.01%) Databricks
12 6 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.01%) Synology
13 5 (0.84%) Informatica
13 5 (0.84%) Meraki
14 4 (0.67%) HP
14 4 (0.67%) IBM
14 4 (0.67%) NetApp