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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 238 168
Rank change year-on-year -100 -70 -24
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 538 641 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.31% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.23% 8.42% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 417 502 1,414
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -7.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -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 8,640 7,613 16,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 15.56% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,729 4,917 11,778
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 10 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 10 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 -93 480 £55,000 +4.76% 99
UK excluding London -94 370 £50,500 +1.00% 86
Work from Home -48 208 £54,000 +8.00% 46
North of England -41 126 £50,000 -4.76% 25
London -43 121 £85,000 +38.78% 35
South East -62 94 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Midlands -37 55 £42,500 -5.56% 8
North West -28 54 £55,000 - 14
Yorkshire -20 47 £42,500 +9.68% 3
South West -69 41 £52,500 -8.70% 9
East of England -35 31 £47,500 +11.76% 9
East Midlands -12 30 £37,500 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -26 25 £51,250 +36.67% 6
North East -39 25 £47,500 - 8
Scotland +8 11 £51,000 -11.30% 4
Wales -54 10 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland -63 2 £62,500 - 5

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 22 (4.09%) Apache
2 20 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.53%) WordPress
4 18 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.97%) CMS
6 15 (2.79%) Confluence
7 14 (2.60%) IIS
8 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
9 10 (1.86%) nginx
10 7 (1.30%) Drupal
11 4 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.74%) JBoss
11 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.37%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.19%) Moodle
14 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.37%) Elementor
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Shopify
2 3 (0.56%) Magento
3 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 281 (52.23%) AWS
2 155 (28.81%) Azure
3 64 (11.90%) GCP
4 44 (8.18%) GitHub
5 43 (7.99%) SaaS
6 34 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 31 (5.76%) Serverless
8 30 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
15 10 (1.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.09%) Firewall
2 13 (2.42%) Broadband
3 11 (2.04%) VPN
4 10 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (1.49%) DNS
6 8 (1.49%) iSCSI
6 8 (1.49%) SAN
6 8 (1.49%) VoIP
7 7 (1.30%) Network Security
8 6 (1.12%) VLAN
9 5 (0.93%) LAN
9 5 (0.93%) WAN
10 4 (0.74%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.74%) MQTT
10 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.56%) DHCP
11 3 (0.56%) HTTP
11 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (31.23%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (24.91%) SQL Server
3 96 (17.84%) MongoDB
4 89 (16.54%) Relational Database
5 77 (14.31%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.76%) Power BI
7 29 (5.39%) MariaDB
8 25 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.79%) Metadata
12 13 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (2.23%) Redis
14 11 (2.04%) Big Data
15 9 (1.67%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (22.68%) Git
2 32 (5.95%) GitLab
3 31 (5.76%) JIRA
4 27 (5.02%) Claude Code
5 16 (2.97%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.79%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.67%) PHPUnit
8 5 (0.93%) JUnit
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
10 3 (0.56%) Mocha
10 3 (0.56%) Mockito
10 3 (0.56%) NUnit
10 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.37%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) Subversion
11 2 (0.37%) Vite
11 2 (0.37%) YouTrack
General
1 123 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 84 (15.61%) Finance
3 57 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.39%) Law
6 20 (3.72%) Banking
7 18 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (2.79%) Health Technology
9 12 (2.23%) Retail
10 11 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.67%) Marketing
12 6 (1.12%) Advertising
12 6 (1.12%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.93%) Legal
13 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 215 (39.96%) Developer
2 130 (24.16%) Senior
3 65 (12.08%) Software Engineer
4 61 (11.34%) PHP Developer
5 58 (10.78%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.74%) Lead
7 43 (7.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (6.51%) Administrator
9 33 (6.13%) Software Developer
10 32 (5.95%) DBA
11 25 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 24 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) C# Developer
14 20 (3.72%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Web Developer
15 19 (3.53%) Analyst
15 19 (3.53%) Java Developer
15 19 (3.53%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 18 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (3.16%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (23.61%) CSS
2 106 (19.70%) HTML
3 92 (17.10%) React
4 86 (15.99%) RESTful
5 79 (14.68%) Laravel
6 72 (13.38%) Node.js
7 65 (12.08%) .NET
8 61 (11.34%) REST
9 59 (10.97%) Vue
10 37 (6.88%) jQuery
10 37 (6.88%) Spring
11 35 (6.51%) Kafka
12 34 (6.32%) Spring Boot
13 33 (6.13%) AngularJS
13 33 (6.13%) JSON
14 31 (5.76%) HTML5
15 27 (5.02%) CSS3
16 23 (4.28%) ASP.NET
17 22 (4.09%) Flask
18 15 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.41%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.25%) Replication
3 32 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.79%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.42%) NHS
10 11 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.86%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.49%) IoT
14 7 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (0.93%) PropTech
15 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 140 (26.02%) Linux
2 31 (5.76%) Windows
3 27 (5.02%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.46%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.97%) Debian
6 14 (2.60%) CentOS
7 9 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.56%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (34.01%) Agile
2 144 (26.77%) CI/CD
3 138 (25.65%) Software Engineering
4 120 (22.30%) Microservices
5 117 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (19.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (17.29%) DevOps
8 87 (16.17%) AI
9 74 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (13.75%) Mentoring
10 63 (11.71%) Data Modelling
11 59 (10.97%) Containerisation
12 55 (10.22%) Clean Code
13 52 (9.67%) Web Development
14 51 (9.48%) TDD
15 48 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (8.92%) Computer Science
16 46 (8.55%) Analytics
17 45 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 42 (7.81%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 198 (36.80%) SQL
2 184 (34.20%) JavaScript
3 155 (28.81%) PHP
4 121 (22.49%) Python
5 102 (18.96%) Java
6 73 (13.57%) C#
7 48 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.95%) Bash
9 25 (4.65%) C++
9 25 (4.65%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.60%) Go
12 13 (2.42%) Ruby
13 11 (2.04%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.30%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.12%) C
15 6 (1.12%) Korn
16 5 (0.93%) Scala
17 4 (0.74%) Perl
17 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (14.31%) Degree
2 35 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.42%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.30%) HNC
7 7 (1.30%) HND
8 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.56%) RHCE
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.37%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.43%) Data Quality
1 40 (7.43%) QA
2 21 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.23%) GDPR
5 7 (1.30%) HL7
5 7 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.30%) SLA
6 5 (0.93%) WCAG
7 4 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 117 (21.75%) Docker
2 34 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.86%) vSphere
5 9 (1.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.56%) iptables
7 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.37%) Samba
8 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.43%) Terraform
3 29 (5.39%) Ansible
4 24 (4.46%) Grafana
5 12 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.04%) Nagios
7 7 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.30%) Puppet
8 4 (0.74%) Argo
8 4 (0.74%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.56%) Plesk
9 3 (0.56%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.56%) Rancher
9 3 (0.56%) systemd
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.37%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) Graylog
11 1 (0.19%) Podman
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.13%) Oracle
3 21 (3.90%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.35%) Splunk
5 17 (3.16%) VMware
6 14 (2.60%) Google
7 13 (2.42%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.86%) Dell
8 10 (1.86%) Veeam
9 9 (1.67%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.30%) Adobe
10 7 (1.30%) Cisco
11 6 (1.12%) Synology
12 5 (0.93%) Databricks
12 5 (0.93%) Meraki
13 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.74%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.74%) WooCommerce
14 3 (0.56%) Informatica
14 3 (0.56%) Xamarin