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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 184 153
Rank change year-on-year -169 -31 +1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 429 726 1,807
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.73% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 9.79% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 339 613 1,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 7,823 7,414 17,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.91% 17.68% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,594 5,199 12,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 22 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 17 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 22 April 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 -146 393 £55,000 - 153
UK excluding London -157 294 £50,000 - 142
Work from Home -79 162 £50,000 -4.76% 73
London -63 99 £75,000 +25.00% 41
South East -80 81 £55,000 +10.00% 41
North of England -100 75 £50,000 -4.76% 37
Midlands -80 47 £42,500 -10.53% 13
South West -89 41 £55,000 -4.35% 14
East of England -40 40 £50,000 +17.65% 13
North West -63 40 £55,000 +2.33% 20
Yorkshire -73 27 £50,000 +2.04% 14
East Midlands -61 26 £37,500 -6.25% 6
West Midlands -41 21 £47,500 -6.40% 7
North East -46 8 £49,250 -8.37% 3
Scotland -35 5 £58,000 +5.45% 13
Northern Ireland -40 3 £62,500 -26.47% 4
Wales -39 2 £40,000 +23.08% 8

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 20 (4.66%) Apache Spark
1 20 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.50%) nginx
3 14 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.03%) CMS
5 11 (2.56%) Apache
6 10 (2.33%) Confluence
7 6 (1.40%) IIS
7 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.17%) WordPress
9 3 (0.70%) JBoss
10 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.23%) Camunda
11 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Shopify
2 3 (0.70%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (45.92%) AWS
2 115 (26.81%) Azure
3 67 (15.62%) GCP
4 46 (10.72%) SaaS
5 30 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.29%) GitHub
6 27 (6.29%) Power Platform
7 26 (6.06%) Serverless
8 15 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.86%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.20%) Firewall
1 18 (4.20%) VPN
2 7 (1.63%) iSCSI
2 7 (1.63%) Network Security
2 7 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (1.63%) SAN
3 6 (1.40%) DNS
3 6 (1.40%) FTP
4 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.17%) VLAN
5 4 (0.93%) HTTP
5 4 (0.93%) MQTT
6 3 (0.70%) DHCP
6 3 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.70%) RTP
6 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.70%) VoIP
6 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (26.34%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (23.31%) SQL Server
3 61 (14.22%) NoSQL
4 56 (13.05%) MongoDB
5 55 (12.82%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.83%) Power BI
7 24 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 19 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (3.50%) DynamoDB
10 14 (3.26%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
11 11 (2.56%) MariaDB
11 11 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.10%) Big Data
14 8 (1.86%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (20.75%) Git
2 19 (4.43%) JIRA
3 11 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 11 (2.56%) GitLab
3 11 (2.56%) PHPUnit
4 10 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.17%) Vite
6 4 (0.93%) Gradle
6 4 (0.93%) JUnit
6 4 (0.93%) Maven
6 4 (0.93%) NUnit
7 3 (0.70%) Mockito
7 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.70%) Subversion
8 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.47%) git-flow
8 2 (0.47%) JMeter
8 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 90 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.22%) Finance
3 48 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.66%) Health Technology
5 19 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.20%) Law
7 14 (3.26%) Retail
8 10 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.10%) Banking
10 7 (1.63%) Advertising
11 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.40%) Marketing
12 5 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.17%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Front Office
13 3 (0.70%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 182 (42.42%) Developer
2 90 (20.98%) Senior
3 59 (13.75%) PHP Developer
4 44 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 35 (8.16%) Software Developer
6 33 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.69%) Lead
7 32 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 31 (7.23%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.36%) C# Developer
10 20 (4.66%) Backend Developer
10 20 (4.66%) SQL Developer
10 20 (4.66%) Support Engineer
11 19 (4.43%) Analyst
11 19 (4.43%) Graduate
11 19 (4.43%) Graduate Developer
11 19 (4.43%) Graduate Software Developer
11 19 (4.43%) Senior Backend Developer
12 18 (4.20%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 18 (4.20%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (23.54%) CSS
2 91 (21.21%) HTML
3 71 (16.55%) Laravel
4 68 (15.85%) React
5 55 (12.82%) RESTful
6 43 (10.02%) Vue
7 41 (9.56%) Node.js
7 41 (9.56%) REST
8 40 (9.32%) .NET
9 32 (7.46%) JSON
10 31 (7.23%) jQuery
11 27 (6.29%) AngularJS
12 24 (5.59%) Kafka
13 23 (5.36%) Spring
14 20 (4.66%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.96%) XML
16 16 (3.73%) Symfony
16 16 (3.73%) Web Services
17 15 (3.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.43%) Replication
4 17 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.50%) NHS
5 15 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.03%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.56%) IoT
10 10 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.24%) Linux
2 25 (5.83%) Windows
3 18 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.03%) CentOS
6 10 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.10%) Debian
8 5 (1.17%) Rocky
9 3 (0.70%) Android
9 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.70%) VMS
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (32.17%) Agile
2 91 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 85 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (16.32%) Microservices
5 69 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
6 64 (14.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (13.99%) DevOps
7 60 (13.99%) Software Engineering
8 51 (11.89%) Containerisation
9 47 (10.96%) Mentoring
9 47 (10.96%) OOP
9 47 (10.96%) TDD
10 44 (10.26%) Data Modelling
11 41 (9.56%) Computer Science
12 40 (9.32%) AI
12 40 (9.32%) ETL
13 38 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (8.86%) Data Engineering
14 37 (8.62%) MVC
15 36 (8.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 195 (45.45%) SQL
2 146 (34.03%) PHP
3 128 (29.84%) JavaScript
4 84 (19.58%) Python
5 76 (17.72%) Java
6 61 (14.22%) C#
7 53 (12.35%) TypeScript
8 28 (6.53%) Bash
9 25 (5.83%) C++
10 24 (5.59%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.26%) PL/SQL
12 13 (3.03%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.80%) Go
14 10 (2.33%) Scala
15 8 (1.86%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.40%) C
16 6 (1.40%) Korn
17 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.70%) VBA
18 2 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 61 (14.22%) Degree
2 36 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) HNC
7 4 (0.93%) HND
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.70%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.36%) QA
3 17 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.56%) HL7
5 9 (2.10%) GDPR
6 7 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (16.55%) Docker
2 30 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.86%) vSphere
5 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.47%) iptables
7 2 (0.47%) Samba
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (14.92%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.99%) Terraform
3 25 (5.83%) Ansible
4 14 (3.26%) Grafana
5 12 (2.80%) Nagios
6 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.17%) Argo
8 4 (0.93%) Puppet
8 4 (0.93%) Rancher
9 3 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.47%) systemd
11 1 (0.23%) Graylog
11 1 (0.23%) Plesk
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.53%) Oracle
3 18 (4.20%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.26%) VMware
5 13 (3.03%) Google
6 11 (2.56%) SAP
7 9 (2.10%) Informatica
8 8 (1.86%) Databricks
8 8 (1.86%) Talend
9 7 (1.63%) Dell
9 7 (1.63%) Splunk
10 6 (1.40%) Adobe
10 6 (1.40%) Veeam
11 5 (1.17%) Cisco
11 5 (1.17%) Palantir
11 5 (1.17%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.93%) Apple
12 4 (0.93%) Meraki
12 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.93%) Synology