MySQL Job Trends

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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 170 147
Rank change year-on-year -157 -23 -2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 421 790 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.87% 2.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.96% 10.07% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 323 655 1,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 7,063 7,844 16,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.37% 18.54% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,232 5,109 12,241
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -149 384 £55,000 - 147
UK excluding London -151 268 £50,000 - 132
Work from Home -85 165 £52,130 -0.70% 96
London -68 115 £63,750 +6.25% 32
South East -91 70 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North of England -91 68 £52,130 -0.70% 36
Midlands -73 43 £41,250 +3.13% 18
South West -75 40 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East of England -15 39 £50,000 +25.00% 21
North West -53 36 £55,000 +4.76% 27
West Midlands -10 27 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Yorkshire -58 27 £50,000 +2.04% 5
East Midlands -80 16 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -32 5 £51,000 -7.27% 4
Scotland -44 4 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Northern Ireland -29 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -45 1 £45,000 +38.46% 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 18 (4.28%) Apache Spark
1 18 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.33%) nginx
3 12 (2.85%) CMS
4 11 (2.61%) Apache
5 8 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.43%) Confluence
8 4 (0.95%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.95%) IIS
9 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.48%) WordPress
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.19%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 193 (45.84%) AWS
2 119 (28.27%) Azure
3 67 (15.91%) GCP
4 52 (12.35%) SaaS
5 32 (7.60%) GitHub
6 28 (6.65%) Serverless
7 25 (5.94%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.90%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.90%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.99%) VPN
2 10 (2.38%) Firewall
3 7 (1.66%) DNS
3 7 (1.66%) Network Security
3 7 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.43%) FTP
5 5 (1.19%) DHCP
5 5 (1.19%) VLAN
6 4 (0.95%) HTTP
7 3 (0.71%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.71%) RTP
7 3 (0.71%) SAN
7 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.71%) VoIP
7 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.71%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.48%) LAN
8 2 (0.48%) PBX
8 2 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (25.42%) SQL Server
2 106 (25.18%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (14.73%) Relational Database
4 59 (14.01%) MongoDB
5 58 (13.78%) NoSQL
6 30 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.46%) Power BI
8 20 (4.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (4.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 18 (4.28%) BusinessObjects
10 18 (4.28%) DynamoDB
11 17 (4.04%) RDBMS
12 13 (3.09%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (2.85%) MariaDB
13 12 (2.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (2.38%) Big Data
15 9 (2.14%) Tableau
16 7 (1.66%) Neo4j
16 7 (1.66%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 91 (21.62%) Git
2 19 (4.51%) JIRA
3 12 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.85%) PHPUnit
4 11 (2.61%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.38%) GitLab
6 5 (1.19%) git-flow
6 5 (1.19%) JUnit
6 5 (1.19%) Vite
7 4 (0.95%) Gradle
7 4 (0.95%) Maven
7 4 (0.95%) Mockito
7 4 (0.95%) NUnit
7 4 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.71%) JMeter
8 3 (0.71%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.71%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 97 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (13.06%) Finance
4 25 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.28%) Health Technology
6 17 (4.04%) Law
7 15 (3.56%) Retail
8 11 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.90%) Banking
10 7 (1.66%) Marketing
11 5 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.71%) Front Office
13 3 (0.71%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 186 (44.18%) Developer
2 89 (21.14%) Senior
3 49 (11.64%) Senior Developer
4 48 (11.40%) PHP Developer
5 38 (9.03%) Software Developer
6 33 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 31 (7.36%) Data Engineer
8 30 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 26 (6.18%) Lead
10 23 (5.46%) C# Developer
11 22 (5.23%) Backend Developer
12 21 (4.99%) Applications Support
12 21 (4.99%) Consultant
13 19 (4.51%) Graduate
13 19 (4.51%) Graduate Developer
13 19 (4.51%) Graduate Software Developer
14 18 (4.28%) Analyst
14 18 (4.28%) SQL Developer
14 18 (4.28%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.80%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (21.14%) CSS
2 77 (18.29%) HTML
3 73 (17.34%) React
4 59 (14.01%) Laravel
5 52 (12.35%) RESTful
6 48 (11.40%) .NET
7 43 (10.21%) Node.js
8 42 (9.98%) REST
9 41 (9.74%) Vue
10 30 (7.13%) JSON
11 27 (6.41%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.46%) jQuery
13 21 (4.99%) Spring
14 20 (4.75%) Kafka
15 19 (4.51%) .NET Core
15 19 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (4.28%) Spring Boot
16 18 (4.28%) Symfony
17 16 (3.80%) Web Services
18 14 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.36%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.56%) NHS
6 14 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.33%) Replication
7 13 (3.09%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.61%) IoT
9 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.19%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (22.09%) Linux
2 23 (5.46%) Windows
3 15 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.09%) CentOS
5 8 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.19%) Rocky
8 4 (0.95%) Debian
8 4 (0.95%) VMS
8 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.71%) Android
9 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.48%) Unix
10 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (33.25%) Agile
2 102 (24.23%) CI/CD
3 100 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (17.58%) Microservices
5 70 (16.63%) Software Engineering
6 69 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (15.20%) DevOps
8 58 (13.78%) OOP
9 56 (13.30%) Containerisation
10 53 (12.59%) Mentoring
11 50 (11.88%) Data Modelling
12 47 (11.16%) Test Automation
13 46 (10.93%) ETL
14 44 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.45%) TDD
15 39 (9.26%) AI
15 39 (9.26%) Computer Science
15 39 (9.26%) MVC
16 37 (8.79%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 181 (42.99%) SQL
2 143 (33.97%) PHP
3 126 (29.93%) JavaScript
4 87 (20.67%) Python
5 74 (17.58%) Java
6 65 (15.44%) C#
7 62 (14.73%) TypeScript
8 25 (5.94%) C++
9 24 (5.70%) PowerShell
10 22 (5.23%) Bash
11 13 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.85%) PL/SQL
13 11 (2.61%) Delphi
13 11 (2.61%) Pascal
14 10 (2.38%) Go
15 8 (1.90%) Scala
16 7 (1.66%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.43%) C
18 3 (0.71%) Perl
19 2 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (12.83%) Degree
2 35 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.46%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.56%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.71%) RHCE
10 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) HNC
11 1 (0.24%) HND
11 1 (0.24%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.03%) QA
2 19 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.85%) HL7
5 10 (2.38%) SLA
6 9 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.90%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (17.81%) Docker
2 21 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.95%) vSphere
6 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.48%) Samba
7 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (14.73%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.60%) Terraform
3 30 (7.13%) Ansible
4 14 (3.33%) Grafana
5 12 (2.85%) Nagios
6 7 (1.66%) Argo
7 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.48%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.48%) Plesk
9 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.24%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.24%) Graylog
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.69%) Oracle
3 16 (3.80%) SAP
4 14 (3.33%) Google
4 14 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.85%) VMware
6 10 (2.38%) Informatica
7 9 (2.14%) Talend
8 8 (1.90%) Databricks
8 8 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.90%) Splunk
9 5 (1.19%) Palantir
9 5 (1.19%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.95%) Apple
10 4 (0.95%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.95%) Zend
11 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.71%) BT
11 3 (0.71%) Dell
11 3 (0.71%) Mitel