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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 224 167
Rank change year-on-year -124 -57 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 461 665 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.50% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 9.01% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 373 524 1,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,414 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 8,029 7,379 17,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 16.69% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,126 4,749 12,601
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,197 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,960 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -109 423 £55,000 - 130
UK excluding London -105 318 £50,000 - 104
Work from Home -77 176 £52,500 - 79
North of England -41 106 £50,000 -4.76% 36
London -65 106 £76,250 +27.08% 34
South East -53 90 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Midlands -35 50 £42,500 -8.11% 11
North West -22 44 £55,000 - 23
Yorkshire -31 44 £42,500 -10.53% 8
South West -74 33 £55,000 -4.35% 14
East Midlands -23 27 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England -40 27 £46,250 +23.33% 17
West Midlands -35 23 £47,500 - 9
North East -41 18 £47,500 - 5
Scotland 0 5 £58,000 +0.87% 1
Wales -50 5 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland -37 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 18 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (3.90%) CMS
1 18 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.69%) Apache
2 17 (3.69%) WordPress
3 15 (3.25%) Confluence
4 13 (2.82%) nginx
5 11 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.39%) IIS
6 7 (1.52%) Drupal
7 4 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.65%) JBoss
8 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.52%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (48.37%) AWS
2 126 (27.33%) Azure
3 51 (11.06%) GCP
4 40 (8.68%) SaaS
5 37 (8.03%) GitHub
6 31 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 31 (6.72%) Serverless
7 17 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.74%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (1.74%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.99%) Firewall
2 15 (3.25%) VPN
3 10 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.74%) Broadband
5 8 (1.74%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.74%) Network Security
5 8 (1.74%) SAN
6 7 (1.52%) DNS
6 7 (1.52%) VoIP
7 6 (1.30%) VLAN
8 5 (1.08%) LAN
8 5 (1.08%) WAN
9 4 (0.87%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.87%) MQTT
9 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.65%) RTP
10 3 (0.65%) SSH
10 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (30.15%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (24.30%) SQL Server
3 81 (17.57%) MongoDB
4 72 (15.62%) NoSQL
5 63 (13.67%) Relational Database
6 28 (6.07%) Power BI
7 27 (5.86%) MariaDB
8 24 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (2.17%) RDBMS
11 10 (2.17%) Redis
12 9 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.74%) Metadata
14 7 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (1.52%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (22.99%) Git
2 26 (5.64%) JIRA
3 25 (5.42%) GitLab
4 12 (2.60%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.95%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.95%) PHPUnit
6 8 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.87%) JUnit
7 4 (0.87%) NUnit
7 4 (0.87%) Selenium
7 4 (0.87%) Vite
8 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.65%) Mocha
8 3 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.22%) YouTrack
General
1 112 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.05%) Finance
3 45 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.99%) Law
6 19 (4.12%) Health Technology
7 18 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.47%) Banking
9 14 (3.04%) Retail
10 11 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.52%) Advertising
11 7 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.30%) Marketing
12 6 (1.30%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.08%) Legal
14 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
14 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 183 (39.70%) Developer
2 106 (22.99%) Senior
3 53 (11.50%) Senior Developer
4 51 (11.06%) PHP Developer
5 49 (10.63%) Software Engineer
6 36 (7.81%) Lead
7 34 (7.38%) Software Developer
8 32 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (6.51%) Administrator
10 29 (6.29%) DBA
11 20 (4.34%) C# Developer
11 20 (4.34%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.12%) Analyst
12 19 (4.12%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 16 (3.47%) Graduate
13 16 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (3.47%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.47%) Web Developer
14 15 (3.25%) C# Software Developer
14 15 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (24.95%) CSS
2 95 (20.61%) HTML
3 73 (15.84%) React
3 73 (15.84%) RESTful
4 70 (15.18%) Laravel
5 62 (13.45%) Node.js
6 57 (12.36%) .NET
6 57 (12.36%) Vue
7 49 (10.63%) REST
8 34 (7.38%) jQuery
9 33 (7.16%) JSON
10 32 (6.94%) AngularJS
11 31 (6.72%) HTML5
12 28 (6.07%) CSS3
13 27 (5.86%) Spring
14 25 (5.42%) Kafka
15 23 (4.99%) Spring Boot
16 17 (3.69%) .NET Core
17 15 (3.25%) ASP.NET
18 13 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.41%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.94%) Replication
3 21 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.82%) NHS
5 13 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.95%) IoT
8 9 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
13 4 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 123 (26.68%) Linux
2 28 (6.07%) Windows
3 24 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.56%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.82%) CentOS
5 13 (2.82%) Debian
6 9 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.87%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (33.41%) Agile
2 108 (23.43%) CI/CD
3 97 (21.04%) Microservices
4 96 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (20.61%) Software Engineering
6 77 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 70 (15.18%) DevOps
8 58 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (12.36%) AI
10 56 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 53 (11.50%) Containerisation
12 49 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (9.76%) Computer Science
13 45 (9.76%) Web Development
14 44 (9.54%) TDD
15 43 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 39 (8.46%) Clean Code
17 37 (8.03%) OOP
18 35 (7.59%) Open Source
19 33 (7.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 179 (38.83%) SQL
2 160 (34.71%) JavaScript
3 144 (31.24%) PHP
4 89 (19.31%) Python
5 85 (18.44%) Java
6 66 (14.32%) C#
7 36 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 31 (6.72%) Bash
9 26 (5.64%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.21%) C++
11 15 (3.25%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.39%) Go
12 11 (2.39%) PL/SQL
12 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.95%) Ruby
14 7 (1.52%) Korn
15 6 (1.30%) C
16 5 (1.08%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.87%) Perl
17 4 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (15.62%) Degree
2 35 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.52%) HNC
6 7 (1.52%) HND
7 6 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.65%) RHCE
10 2 (0.43%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.03%) QA
2 31 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.39%) GDPR
6 8 (1.74%) HL7
7 7 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.52%) SLA
8 5 (1.08%) WCAG
9 4 (0.87%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 81 (17.57%) Docker
2 33 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.17%) vSphere
5 9 (1.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.65%) iptables
8 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.64%) Terraform
3 25 (5.42%) Ansible
4 18 (3.90%) Grafana
5 10 (2.17%) Nagios
6 7 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.52%) Puppet
7 4 (0.87%) Argo
7 4 (0.87%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.65%) Plesk
8 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.65%) Rancher
8 3 (0.65%) systemd
9 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.22%) Graylog
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.42%) Oracle
3 21 (4.56%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.69%) VMware
5 13 (2.82%) Google
5 13 (2.82%) Splunk
6 10 (2.17%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.74%) Dell
7 8 (1.74%) Rapid7
7 8 (1.74%) Veeam
8 7 (1.52%) Cisco
9 6 (1.30%) Adobe
9 6 (1.30%) Synology
9 6 (1.30%) WooCommerce
10 5 (1.08%) Meraki
11 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.87%) SAP
12 3 (0.65%) BT
12 3 (0.65%) Mitel