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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 180 154
Rank change year-on-year -177 -26 -1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 430 734 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.75% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.54% 9.91% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 340 620 1,583
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
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 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 7,757 7,406 17,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.89% 17.71% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 5,192 12,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £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 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 20 April 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 April 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 -155 391 £55,000 - 140
UK excluding London -166 295 £50,000 - 131
Work from Home -76 166 £50,000 -4.76% 60
London -72 97 £75,000 +25.00% 33
South East -79 81 £55,000 +10.00% 38
North of England -106 73 £51,000 -2.86% 33
Midlands -64 49 £42,500 -10.53% 16
East of England -45 41 £50,000 +17.65% 12
South West -84 41 £55,000 -4.35% 15
North West -63 39 £55,000 +2.33% 21
East Midlands -64 28 £37,500 -6.25% 8
Yorkshire -73 27 £50,000 +2.04% 9
West Midlands -47 21 £47,500 -6.40% 8
North East -43 7 £51,000 -5.12% 3
Scotland -39 5 £58,000 +5.45% 11
Northern Ireland -42 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Wales -47 2 £40,000 +23.08% 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 21 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.26%) CMS
3 14 (3.26%) nginx
4 10 (2.33%) Apache
5 9 (2.09%) Confluence
6 7 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.16%) IIS
7 5 (1.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.47%) JBoss
8 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Camunda
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (45.58%) AWS
2 115 (26.74%) Azure
3 66 (15.35%) GCP
4 48 (11.16%) SaaS
5 31 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (6.51%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.28%) GitHub
7 27 (6.28%) Serverless
8 15 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.09%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.65%) VPN
2 18 (4.19%) Firewall
3 7 (1.63%) iSCSI
3 7 (1.63%) Network Security
3 7 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (1.63%) SAN
4 6 (1.40%) DNS
4 6 (1.40%) FTP
4 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.16%) VLAN
6 4 (0.93%) DHCP
6 4 (0.93%) HTTP
6 4 (0.93%) MQTT
7 3 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.70%) RTP
7 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.70%) VoIP
7 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (22.56%) SQL Server
3 61 (14.19%) NoSQL
4 57 (13.26%) MongoDB
5 54 (12.56%) Relational Database
6 26 (6.05%) Power BI
7 24 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 19 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.49%) DynamoDB
10 15 (3.49%) RDBMS
11 14 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (2.79%) Electronic Patient Records
12 12 (2.79%) MariaDB
13 11 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.09%) Big Data
14 9 (2.09%) Tableau
15 8 (1.86%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 89 (20.70%) Git
2 18 (4.19%) JIRA
3 12 (2.79%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.56%) GitLab
4 11 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.56%) PHPUnit
5 5 (1.16%) Vite
6 4 (0.93%) Gradle
6 4 (0.93%) JUnit
6 4 (0.93%) Maven
6 4 (0.93%) NUnit
6 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.70%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.70%) JMeter
7 3 (0.70%) Mockito
7 3 (0.70%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.70%) Subversion
8 2 (0.47%) git-flow
8 2 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.19%) Finance
3 51 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.88%) Health Technology
5 19 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.72%) Law
7 14 (3.26%) Retail
8 10 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.09%) Banking
9 9 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.63%) Advertising
11 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.40%) Marketing
12 5 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Front Office
13 3 (0.70%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.47%) Automotive
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 189 (43.95%) Developer
2 90 (20.93%) Senior
3 60 (13.95%) PHP Developer
4 45 (10.47%) Senior Developer
5 37 (8.60%) Software Developer
6 33 (7.67%) Data Engineer
6 33 (7.67%) Lead
7 32 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 29 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.35%) C# Developer
10 21 (4.88%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.65%) Analyst
11 20 (4.65%) Backend Developer
11 20 (4.65%) SQL Developer
12 19 (4.42%) Graduate
12 19 (4.42%) Graduate Developer
12 19 (4.42%) Graduate Software Developer
12 19 (4.42%) Senior Backend Developer
13 18 (4.19%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 18 (4.19%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (23.72%) CSS
2 92 (21.40%) HTML
3 72 (16.74%) Laravel
4 68 (15.81%) React
5 55 (12.79%) RESTful
6 43 (10.00%) Vue
7 42 (9.77%) REST
8 40 (9.30%) .NET
8 40 (9.30%) Node.js
9 34 (7.91%) JSON
10 31 (7.21%) jQuery
11 28 (6.51%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.35%) Spring
13 22 (5.12%) Kafka
14 20 (4.65%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.95%) Symfony
15 17 (3.95%) XML
16 15 (3.49%) HTML5
16 15 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.72%) NHS
5 16 (3.72%) Replication
6 15 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.56%) IoT
9 10 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.63%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (23.49%) Linux
2 25 (5.81%) Windows
3 17 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.49%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.02%) CentOS
6 10 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.09%) Debian
8 5 (1.16%) Rocky
9 3 (0.70%) Android
9 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.70%) VMS
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.02%) Agile
2 89 (20.70%) CI/CD
3 84 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (16.74%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (16.28%) Microservices
6 65 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (14.19%) DevOps
8 59 (13.72%) Software Engineering
9 50 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 48 (11.16%) Mentoring
11 47 (10.93%) OOP
12 45 (10.47%) TDD
13 44 (10.23%) Data Modelling
14 41 (9.53%) Computer Science
14 41 (9.53%) ETL
15 40 (9.30%) AI
16 38 (8.84%) Data Engineering
16 38 (8.84%) MVC
17 37 (8.60%) Analytics
17 37 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 195 (45.35%) SQL
2 148 (34.42%) PHP
3 131 (30.47%) JavaScript
4 80 (18.60%) Python
5 76 (17.67%) Java
6 61 (14.19%) C#
7 56 (13.02%) TypeScript
8 28 (6.51%) Bash
9 27 (6.28%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.81%) C++
11 14 (3.26%) PL/SQL
12 13 (3.02%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.79%) Go
14 10 (2.33%) Scala
15 6 (1.40%) C
15 6 (1.40%) Korn
16 5 (1.16%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.70%) VBA
18 2 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (14.19%) Degree
2 36 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.93%) HNC
7 4 (0.93%) HND
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.70%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.35%) QA
3 17 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.02%) HL7
5 8 (1.86%) GDPR
6 7 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (16.74%) Docker
2 30 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (1.86%) vSphere
5 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.47%) iptables
8 2 (0.47%) Samba
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.21%) Terraform
3 25 (5.81%) Ansible
4 14 (3.26%) Grafana
5 12 (2.79%) Nagios
6 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.16%) Argo
8 4 (0.93%) Rancher
9 3 (0.70%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (0.70%) Puppet
9 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.47%) Plesk
10 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.47%) systemd
11 1 (0.23%) Graylog
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.28%) Oracle
3 18 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.49%) VMware
5 13 (3.02%) Google
6 12 (2.79%) SAP
7 9 (2.09%) Informatica
8 8 (1.86%) Databricks
8 8 (1.86%) Splunk
8 8 (1.86%) Talend
9 7 (1.63%) Dell
10 6 (1.40%) Veeam
11 5 (1.16%) Adobe
11 5 (1.16%) Cisco
11 5 (1.16%) Palantir
11 5 (1.16%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.93%) Apple
12 4 (0.93%) Meraki
12 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.93%) Synology