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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 264 174
Rank change year-on-year -97 -90 +4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 565 544 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.10% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.39% 7.51% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 422 395 817
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%

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 8,837 7,241 12,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.79% 14.60% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,988 4,543 7,309
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 12 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 12 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 -76 500 £55,000 +4.76% 246
UK excluding London -97 388 £50,000 -3.85% 128
Work from Home -73 191 £63,750 +34.21% 874
London -57 135 £85,000 +41.67% 135
North of England -30 130 £42,500 -19.05% 40
South East -25 97 £55,000 -4.35% 31
North West -25 57 £50,000 -13.04% 23
Midlands -24 54 £42,500 -10.53% 14
Yorkshire -38 41 £42,500 +9.68% 12
South West -79 40 £57,500 +27.78% 19
East of England -44 33 £50,000 +5.26% 12
North East -44 32 £42,500 -10.53% 6
East Midlands -22 31 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Wales -66 24 £60,000 -11.11% 2
West Midlands -35 23 £51,250 +24.24% 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 (4.96%) IIS
2 25 (4.42%) Apache
3 19 (3.36%) WordPress
4 16 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.83%) Confluence
5 11 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.77%) CMS
7 7 (1.24%) Drupal
8 5 (0.88%) JBoss
8 5 (0.88%) nginx
9 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.71%) 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 (0.71%) 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
1 292 (51.68%) AWS
2 155 (27.43%) Azure
3 80 (14.16%) GCP
4 54 (9.56%) GitHub
5 29 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 28 (4.96%) SaaS
7 27 (4.78%) Amazon S3
8 24 (4.25%) Serverless
9 23 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
10 20 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (2.30%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.36%) Firewall
2 16 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.30%) Broadband
4 12 (2.12%) DNS
5 11 (1.95%) VPN
6 7 (1.24%) VLAN
7 6 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.06%) SSH
7 6 (1.06%) VoIP
7 6 (1.06%) 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 (0.71%) Internet
9 4 (0.71%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.71%) MQTT
10 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (31.68%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (26.55%) SQL Server
3 112 (19.82%) Relational Database
4 89 (15.75%) MongoDB
5 68 (12.04%) NoSQL
6 33 (5.84%) MariaDB
7 25 (4.42%) Power BI
8 24 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.72%) Redis
10 19 (3.36%) DynamoDB
11 18 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.19%) Metadata
12 17 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.95%) Big Data
14 10 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 139 (24.60%) Git
2 40 (7.08%) Claude Code
3 39 (6.90%) GitLab
4 28 (4.96%) JIRA
5 26 (4.60%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.12%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.59%) Selenium
9 5 (0.88%) RSpec
10 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.71%) JUnit
10 4 (0.71%) minitest
10 4 (0.71%) Mocha
10 4 (0.71%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.53%) git-flow
11 3 (0.53%) Maven
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 91 (16.11%) Finance
3 84 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.15%) Law
5 61 (10.80%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.78%) Banking
8 18 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.48%) Marketing
10 13 (2.30%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.59%) Retail
13 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.06%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.88%) Legal
17 3 (0.53%) Advertising
17 3 (0.53%) Games
17 3 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (42.30%) Developer
2 149 (26.37%) Senior
3 78 (13.81%) Senior Developer
4 71 (12.57%) Software Engineer
5 66 (11.68%) PHP Developer
6 58 (10.27%) Lead
7 38 (6.73%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.19%) Administrator
9 32 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (5.31%) DBA
11 29 (5.13%) Database Engineer
12 27 (4.78%) C# Developer
13 26 (4.60%) .NET Developer
14 25 (4.42%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.42%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (3.89%) Web Developer
16 21 (3.72%) Senior Software Developer
17 20 (3.54%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (24.42%) CSS
2 126 (22.30%) HTML
3 101 (17.88%) React
4 85 (15.04%) .NET
5 81 (14.34%) RESTful
6 76 (13.45%) Laravel
7 59 (10.44%) REST
8 56 (9.91%) Vue
9 54 (9.56%) Node.js
9 54 (9.56%) Terraform
10 53 (9.38%) Kafka
11 43 (7.61%) jQuery
11 43 (7.61%) Spring Boot
12 42 (7.43%) Spring
13 38 (6.73%) ASP.NET
14 36 (6.37%) AngularJS
14 36 (6.37%) HTML5
15 33 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (4.96%) CSS3
17 26 (4.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.79%) Replication
3 39 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (6.55%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.07%) Virtual Team
6 21 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.12%) NHS
9 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.42%) IoT
11 7 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.24%) Social Media
12 6 (1.06%) Culture of Ownership
12 6 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (29.38%) Linux
2 36 (6.37%) Windows
3 29 (5.13%) Ubuntu
4 27 (4.78%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.89%) Debian
6 14 (2.48%) CentOS
7 11 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.06%) 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
1 191 (33.81%) Agile
2 168 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 166 (29.38%) Software Engineering
4 164 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (21.59%) DevOps
6 111 (19.65%) Microservices
7 107 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (17.17%) AI
9 92 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 78 (13.81%) Mentoring
11 74 (13.10%) Clean Code
12 69 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (10.97%) OOP
13 62 (10.97%) Scrum
13 62 (10.97%) Web Development
14 57 (10.09%) Containerisation
14 57 (10.09%) High Availability
15 53 (9.38%) Observability
16 49 (8.67%) Data Modelling
17 47 (8.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 196 (34.69%) SQL
2 190 (33.63%) JavaScript
3 144 (25.49%) PHP
4 133 (23.54%) Python
5 94 (16.64%) Java
6 80 (14.16%) C#
7 61 (10.80%) TypeScript
8 36 (6.37%) Shell Script
9 30 (5.31%) Bash
10 20 (3.54%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.01%) Ruby
12 16 (2.83%) C++
12 16 (2.83%) Go
13 12 (2.12%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.06%) Scala
15 5 (0.88%) Korn
15 5 (0.88%) Perl
15 5 (0.88%) Rust
16 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 68 (12.04%) Degree
2 41 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.24%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.24%) HNC
6 7 (1.24%) 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%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.91%) QA
2 33 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.77%) GDPR
5 7 (1.24%) HL7
5 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.88%) WCAG
7 3 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 141 (24.96%) Docker
2 27 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.77%) vSphere
5 6 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (1.06%) 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
1 101 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.02%) Grafana
3 27 (4.78%) Ansible
4 21 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.12%) Nagios
6 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.06%) Puppet
7 5 (0.88%) WSUS
8 4 (0.71%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.71%) 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 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.38%) Oracle
3 26 (4.60%) Splunk
4 23 (4.07%) Google
5 20 (3.54%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.36%) VMware
7 17 (3.01%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.12%) Veeam
9 10 (1.77%) Dell
9 10 (1.77%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.24%) Adobe
10 7 (1.24%) Cisco
11 6 (1.06%) Databricks
11 6 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.06%) 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