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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 243 167
Rank change year-on-year -100 -76 -20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 511 628 1,751
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.33% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.05% 8.37% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 402 491 1,467
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,438 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.66%

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 8,442 7,505 17,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 15.88% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,593 4,858 12,354
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -84 458 £55,000 +4.76% 153
UK excluding London -107 350 £50,000 - 113
Work from Home -55 198 £54,000 +7.46% 70
North of England -38 122 £50,000 -2.44% 33
London -51 114 £85,000 +34.92% 52
South East -48 93 £55,000 +10.00% 31
Midlands -30 53 £43,750 -2.78% 13
North West -35 50 £55,000 - 21
Yorkshire -19 48 £42,500 +9.68% 4
South West -82 36 £55,000 -4.35% 15
East Midlands -7 29 £37,500 -16.67% 3
East of England -35 28 £47,500 +26.67% 14
West Midlands -33 24 £55,000 +37.50% 10
North East -41 24 £47,500 - 8
Scotland +5 8 £51,000 -11.30% 3
Wales -50 8 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Northern Ireland -45 2 £62,500 - 3

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 (3.91%) Apache
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.72%) WordPress
3 18 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.33%) CMS
5 14 (2.74%) Confluence
5 14 (2.74%) IIS
6 11 (2.15%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.15%) nginx
7 7 (1.37%) Drupal
8 4 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.78%) JBoss
8 4 (0.78%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.17%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.39%) Elementor
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Shopify
2 3 (0.59%) Magento
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 263 (51.47%) AWS
2 150 (29.35%) Azure
3 61 (11.94%) GCP
4 43 (8.41%) SaaS
5 42 (8.22%) GitHub
6 33 (6.46%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (6.07%) Serverless
8 22 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
16 10 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.50%) Firewall
2 13 (2.54%) Broadband
3 12 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.35%) VPN
4 9 (1.76%) DNS
4 9 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.57%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.57%) Network Security
5 8 (1.57%) SAN
5 8 (1.57%) VoIP
6 7 (1.37%) VLAN
7 6 (1.17%) LAN
7 6 (1.17%) WAN
8 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.78%) DHCP
9 4 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.78%) MQTT
10 3 (0.59%) HTTP
10 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (31.51%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (25.24%) SQL Server
3 92 (18.00%) MongoDB
4 83 (16.24%) Relational Database
5 74 (14.48%) NoSQL
6 30 (5.87%) Power BI
7 28 (5.48%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.35%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.35%) Metadata
12 12 (2.35%) Redis
13 11 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.76%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (23.68%) Git
2 31 (6.07%) GitLab
3 30 (5.87%) JIRA
4 24 (4.70%) Claude Code
5 15 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.54%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.76%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.98%) JUnit
9 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.78%) Selenium
10 3 (0.59%) Mocha
10 3 (0.59%) Mockito
10 3 (0.59%) NUnit
10 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.59%) Vite
11 2 (0.39%) Gradle
11 2 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.39%) Maven
11 2 (0.39%) Subversion
11 2 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 120 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.85%) Finance
3 55 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.68%) Law
6 19 (3.72%) Banking
7 18 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.94%) Health Technology
8 15 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (2.35%) Retail
10 11 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.57%) Marketing
12 6 (1.17%) Advertising
12 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.17%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.98%) Legal
14 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 197 (38.55%) Developer
2 122 (23.87%) Senior
3 64 (12.52%) Software Engineer
4 55 (10.76%) PHP Developer
5 53 (10.37%) Senior Developer
6 46 (9.00%) Lead
7 39 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.85%) Administrator
9 33 (6.46%) DBA
9 33 (6.46%) Software Developer
10 24 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (4.31%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.11%) C# Developer
13 19 (3.72%) Analyst
13 19 (3.72%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.72%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 18 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
16 16 (3.13%) Database Engineer
16 16 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (23.68%) CSS
2 100 (19.57%) HTML
3 86 (16.83%) React
4 84 (16.44%) RESTful
5 71 (13.89%) Laravel
5 71 (13.89%) Node.js
6 64 (12.52%) .NET
7 58 (11.35%) REST
8 57 (11.15%) Vue
9 37 (7.24%) jQuery
10 33 (6.46%) AngularJS
10 33 (6.46%) JSON
10 33 (6.46%) Spring
11 31 (6.07%) HTML5
12 30 (5.87%) Kafka
12 30 (5.87%) Spring Boot
13 27 (5.28%) CSS3
14 23 (4.50%) ASP.NET
15 19 (3.72%) Flask
16 15 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 40 (7.83%) Replication
3 30 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.54%) NHS
8 12 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.57%) IoT
11 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.17%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.98%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 135 (26.42%) Linux
2 31 (6.07%) Windows
3 26 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.89%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.74%) CentOS
5 14 (2.74%) Debian
6 9 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.59%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Rocky
10 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.44%) Agile
2 134 (26.22%) CI/CD
3 131 (25.64%) Software Engineering
4 115 (22.50%) Microservices
5 113 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (18.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 89 (17.42%) DevOps
8 81 (15.85%) AI
9 71 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (13.50%) Mentoring
11 58 (11.35%) Data Modelling
12 56 (10.96%) Containerisation
13 52 (10.18%) Clean Code
14 50 (9.78%) TDD
15 48 (9.39%) Computer Science
16 47 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
16 47 (9.20%) Web Development
17 42 (8.22%) High Availability
18 41 (8.02%) Open Source
19 40 (7.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 193 (37.77%) SQL
2 176 (34.44%) JavaScript
3 147 (28.77%) PHP
4 113 (22.11%) Python
5 98 (19.18%) Java
6 73 (14.29%) C#
7 43 (8.41%) TypeScript
8 34 (6.65%) Bash
9 26 (5.09%) PowerShell
10 25 (4.89%) C++
11 21 (4.11%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.74%) Go
13 11 (2.15%) Ruby
13 11 (2.15%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.37%) Korn
14 7 (1.37%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.17%) C
16 4 (0.78%) Perl
16 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (15.26%) Degree
2 34 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (6.07%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.37%) HNC
7 7 (1.37%) HND
8 6 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.59%) RHCE
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.83%) QA
2 37 (7.24%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.35%) GDPR
6 7 (1.37%) HL7
6 7 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.37%) SLA
7 5 (0.98%) WCAG
8 4 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 108 (21.14%) Docker
2 35 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.96%) vSphere
5 9 (1.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.59%) iptables
7 3 (0.59%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.39%) Samba
8 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (15.66%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.85%) Terraform
3 29 (5.68%) Ansible
4 23 (4.50%) Grafana
5 11 (2.15%) Nagios
5 11 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.37%) Puppet
7 4 (0.78%) Argo
7 4 (0.78%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.59%) Plesk
8 3 (0.59%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.59%) Rancher
8 3 (0.59%) systemd
9 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.39%) WSUS
10 1 (0.20%) Graylog
10 1 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.26%) Oracle
3 22 (4.31%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.52%) VMware
5 17 (3.33%) Splunk
6 13 (2.54%) Google
7 12 (2.35%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.96%) Dell
8 10 (1.96%) Veeam
9 9 (1.76%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.37%) Adobe
10 7 (1.37%) Cisco
11 6 (1.17%) Synology
12 5 (0.98%) Meraki
13 4 (0.78%) Databricks
13 4 (0.78%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.78%) WooCommerce
14 3 (0.59%) BT
14 3 (0.59%) Mitel