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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 219 161
Rank change year-on-year -135 -58 -12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 446 693 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.57% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.66% 9.44% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 359 563 1,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £84,625
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 7,876 7,338 17,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 16.60% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,808 4,942 12,504
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £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 £83,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £96,539
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -115 411 £55,000 - 146
UK excluding London -121 307 £50,000 - 127
Work from Home -45 165 £52,130 -0.70% 174
London -63 103 £75,000 +20.00% 29
North of England -68 97 £50,000 -4.76% 48
South East -56 85 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Midlands -53 48 £42,500 -10.53% 12
North West -28 47 £55,000 - 25
South West -84 39 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Yorkshire -42 38 £50,000 +5.26% 18
East of England -41 28 £47,500 - 11
East Midlands -40 26 £37,500 -6.25% 7
West Midlands -32 22 £47,500 -7.77% 5
North East -37 12 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Scotland -21 5 £58,000 +5.45% 1
Wales -39 3 £35,000 -9.68% 2
Northern Ireland -40 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 19 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.04%) CMS
3 16 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.36%) Apache
4 15 (3.36%) nginx
5 14 (3.14%) WordPress
6 11 (2.47%) Confluence
7 10 (2.24%) IIS
8 7 (1.57%) Drupal
9 4 (0.90%) JBoss
9 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.22%) Camunda
12 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.57%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.69%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Magento
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 208 (46.64%) AWS
2 117 (26.23%) Azure
3 65 (14.57%) GCP
4 42 (9.42%) SaaS
5 31 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.05%) GitHub
7 26 (5.83%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.38%) Serverless
9 17 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.91%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.71%) Firewall
2 18 (4.04%) VPN
3 9 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (1.79%) iSCSI
4 8 (1.79%) SAN
5 7 (1.57%) Broadband
5 7 (1.57%) DNS
5 7 (1.57%) Network Security
5 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.12%) VLAN
7 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
8 3 (0.67%) HTTP
8 3 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.67%) MQTT
8 3 (0.67%) RTP
8 3 (0.67%) SSH
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
8 3 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (27.80%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (23.99%) SQL Server
3 71 (15.92%) MongoDB
4 69 (15.47%) NoSQL
5 65 (14.57%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.38%) Power BI
7 23 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (5.16%) MariaDB
8 20 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 15 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.36%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.69%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (1.79%) Big Data
14 8 (1.79%) Neo4j
15 7 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 100 (22.42%) Git
2 22 (4.93%) GitLab
3 18 (4.04%) JIRA
4 11 (2.47%) PHPUnit
5 9 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.12%) JUnit
8 4 (0.90%) Mockito
8 4 (0.90%) NUnit
8 4 (0.90%) Vite
9 3 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.67%) Gradle
9 3 (0.67%) Maven
10 2 (0.45%) Selenium
10 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.45%) Subversion
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.68%) Finance
3 48 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.83%) Law
6 20 (4.48%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.14%) Retail
8 13 (2.91%) Banking
8 13 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.57%) Advertising
10 7 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.35%) Marketing
12 5 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.90%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Front Office
15 2 (0.45%) Back Office
15 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 181 (40.58%) Developer
2 99 (22.20%) Senior
3 59 (13.23%) PHP Developer
4 47 (10.54%) Senior Developer
5 40 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 38 (8.52%) Lead
7 34 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (7.40%) Software Developer
9 27 (6.05%) Administrator
10 26 (5.83%) DBA
11 24 (5.38%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.48%) Analyst
12 20 (4.48%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (4.26%) C# Developer
14 18 (4.04%) Support Engineer
15 17 (3.81%) Backend Developer
16 16 (3.59%) Senior Backend Developer
17 15 (3.36%) Web Developer
18 14 (3.14%) SQL Developer
18 14 (3.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (23.54%) CSS
2 94 (21.08%) HTML
3 78 (17.49%) Laravel
4 69 (15.47%) RESTful
5 68 (15.25%) React
6 53 (11.88%) Vue
7 50 (11.21%) Node.js
8 47 (10.54%) .NET
9 41 (9.19%) REST
10 34 (7.62%) JSON
11 32 (7.17%) AngularJS
12 28 (6.28%) jQuery
13 27 (6.05%) HTML5
14 26 (5.83%) CSS3
15 23 (5.16%) Kafka
16 22 (4.93%) Spring
17 19 (4.26%) Spring Boot
18 17 (3.81%) .NET Core
19 15 (3.36%) ASP.NET
20 14 (3.14%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.50%) Replication
3 21 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.14%) NHS
8 13 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.69%) Mobile App
10 10 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.24%) IoT
11 9 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (1.12%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 116 (26.01%) Linux
2 27 (6.05%) Windows
3 24 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.14%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.69%) CentOS
6 10 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.02%) Debian
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.67%) Android
9 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.45%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (30.94%) Agile
2 97 (21.75%) CI/CD
3 87 (19.51%) Microservices
3 87 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (19.06%) Software Engineering
5 71 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (14.35%) DevOps
7 57 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
8 51 (11.43%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (11.21%) Mentoring
10 49 (10.99%) TDD
11 46 (10.31%) Web Development
12 42 (9.42%) Data Modelling
13 41 (9.19%) AI
14 37 (8.30%) Computer Science
15 35 (7.85%) Analytics
16 34 (7.62%) OOP
17 33 (7.40%) Test Automation
18 31 (6.95%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 174 (39.01%) SQL
2 151 (33.86%) PHP
3 149 (33.41%) JavaScript
4 83 (18.61%) Python
5 75 (16.82%) Java
6 57 (12.78%) C#
7 45 (10.09%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.50%) Bash
9 24 (5.38%) PowerShell
10 18 (4.04%) C++
11 14 (3.14%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.14%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.69%) Go
13 10 (2.24%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.79%) Scala
15 7 (1.57%) Korn
16 6 (1.35%) C
17 3 (0.67%) Perl
17 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (13.23%) Degree
2 31 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.35%) HNC
5 6 (1.35%) HND
5 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.67%) RHCE
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.45%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.95%) QA
2 27 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.24%) HL7
5 9 (2.02%) GDPR
6 7 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.57%) SLA
7 5 (1.12%) WCAG
8 4 (0.90%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (16.82%) Docker
2 32 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.79%) vSphere
6 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.67%) iptables
8 3 (0.67%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.45%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (14.57%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.28%) Terraform
3 24 (5.38%) Ansible
4 17 (3.81%) Grafana
5 10 (2.24%) Nagios
6 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.35%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) Argo
9 4 (0.90%) Rancher
10 3 (0.67%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.67%) Plesk
10 3 (0.67%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.67%) systemd
10 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Graylog
12 1 (0.22%) Podman
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.05%) Oracle
3 21 (4.71%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.36%) VMware
5 14 (3.14%) Google
6 10 (2.24%) Splunk
7 8 (1.79%) Dell
8 7 (1.57%) Adobe
8 7 (1.57%) Informatica
8 7 (1.57%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.57%) Veeam
9 6 (1.35%) Cisco
9 6 (1.35%) SAP
9 6 (1.35%) Talend
10 5 (1.12%) Meraki
10 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.12%) Synology
10 5 (1.12%) WooCommerce
11 4 (0.90%) Databricks
11 4 (0.90%) Fortinet