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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 239 165
Rank change year-on-year -99 -74 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 499 619 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.36% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.01% 8.35% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 395 483 1,486
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +0.95% -7.05%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,750 £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 - - -4.76%

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 8,300 7,409 17,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 16.27% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,479 4,791 12,405
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
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% -9.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 27 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 27 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 -107 448 £54,000 +2.86% 102
UK excluding London -99 342 £50,000 - 92
Work from Home -56 189 £53,250 +2.31% 48
North of England -31 117 £50,000 -3.61% 33
London -57 112 £82,500 +32.00% 24
South East -54 91 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Midlands -38 53 £43,750 - 7
Yorkshire -19 48 £42,500 -10.53% 7
North West -26 47 £55,000 - 19
South West -71 36 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands -17 29 £37,500 -16.67% 1
East of England -39 28 £47,500 +11.76% 12
West Midlands -27 24 £55,000 +37.50% 6
North East -36 22 £47,500 - 7
Scotland +3 8 £51,000 -11.30% 2
Wales -56 7 £45,000 -21.74% 3
Northern Ireland -34 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 19 (3.81%) Apache
1 19 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 19 (3.81%) WordPress
2 18 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.41%) CMS
4 14 (2.81%) Confluence
5 13 (2.61%) IIS
6 11 (2.20%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.20%) nginx
7 7 (1.40%) Drupal
8 4 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.80%) JBoss
8 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.20%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.40%) Elementor
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Shopify
2 3 (0.60%) Magento
3 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 249 (49.90%) AWS
2 142 (28.46%) Azure
3 57 (11.42%) GCP
4 43 (8.62%) SaaS
5 41 (8.22%) GitHub
6 33 (6.61%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (6.21%) Serverless
8 20 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (1.80%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.81%) Firewall
2 13 (2.61%) Broadband
2 13 (2.61%) VPN
3 12 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.80%) DNS
4 9 (1.80%) Network Security
4 9 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.60%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.60%) SAN
5 8 (1.60%) VoIP
6 7 (1.40%) VLAN
7 6 (1.20%) LAN
7 6 (1.20%) WAN
8 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.80%) DHCP
9 4 (0.80%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.80%) MQTT
10 3 (0.60%) HTTP
10 3 (0.60%) Internet
10 3 (0.60%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (30.66%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (25.25%) SQL Server
3 86 (17.23%) MongoDB
4 76 (15.23%) Relational Database
5 73 (14.63%) NoSQL
6 30 (6.01%) Power BI
7 28 (5.61%) MariaDB
8 25 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.40%) Redis
13 10 (2.00%) DynamoDB
13 10 (2.00%) Metadata
14 9 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.80%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.40%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (1.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 118 (23.65%) Git
2 31 (6.21%) GitLab
3 30 (6.01%) JIRA
4 23 (4.61%) Claude Code
5 14 (2.81%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.61%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.80%) PHPUnit
8 5 (1.00%) JUnit
9 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.60%) Mocha
10 3 (0.60%) Mockito
10 3 (0.60%) NUnit
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.60%) Vite
11 2 (0.40%) Gradle
11 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.40%) Subversion
11 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 121 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 79 (15.83%) Finance
3 54 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.81%) Law
6 19 (3.81%) Banking
7 18 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.21%) Health Technology
9 14 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.61%) Retail
11 11 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Marketing
13 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.20%) Advertising
14 6 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.00%) Legal
16 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (38.88%) Developer
2 118 (23.65%) Senior
3 59 (11.82%) Software Engineer
4 54 (10.82%) PHP Developer
5 52 (10.42%) Senior Developer
6 40 (8.02%) Lead
7 39 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (7.01%) Administrator
9 33 (6.61%) DBA
9 33 (6.61%) Software Developer
10 23 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (4.21%) C# Developer
11 21 (4.21%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 18 (3.61%) Analyst
14 17 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Database Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (24.05%) CSS
2 99 (19.84%) HTML
3 85 (17.03%) React
4 82 (16.43%) RESTful
5 70 (14.03%) Laravel
6 66 (13.23%) Node.js
7 63 (12.63%) .NET
8 56 (11.22%) REST
8 56 (11.22%) Vue
9 37 (7.41%) jQuery
10 33 (6.61%) AngularJS
10 33 (6.61%) JSON
11 32 (6.41%) Spring
12 31 (6.21%) HTML5
13 29 (5.81%) Kafka
13 29 (5.81%) Spring Boot
14 27 (5.41%) CSS3
15 23 (4.61%) ASP.NET
16 18 (3.61%) Flask
17 14 (2.81%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.02%) Replication
3 29 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 13 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.61%) NHS
7 11 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.60%) IoT
9 8 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.00%) PropTech
11 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 136 (27.25%) Linux
2 31 (6.21%) Windows
3 26 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.81%) CentOS
5 14 (2.81%) Debian
6 9 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.60%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) Rocky
11 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (34.07%) Agile
2 131 (26.25%) CI/CD
3 124 (24.85%) Software Engineering
4 111 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (21.64%) Microservices
6 94 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (17.43%) DevOps
8 79 (15.83%) AI
9 71 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.22%) Mentoring
11 55 (11.02%) Containerisation
11 55 (11.02%) Data Modelling
12 51 (10.22%) Clean Code
13 48 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (9.62%) Computer Science
14 46 (9.22%) Web Development
15 44 (8.82%) TDD
16 42 (8.42%) High Availability
17 39 (7.82%) Open Source
18 38 (7.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 190 (38.08%) SQL
2 170 (34.07%) JavaScript
3 145 (29.06%) PHP
4 111 (22.24%) Python
5 92 (18.44%) Java
6 73 (14.63%) C#
7 43 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 33 (6.61%) Bash
9 25 (5.01%) C++
9 25 (5.01%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.21%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.81%) Go
12 11 (2.20%) Ruby
12 11 (2.20%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.40%) Korn
13 7 (1.40%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.20%) C
14 6 (1.20%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.80%) Perl
15 4 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (15.63%) Degree
2 34 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) HNC
7 7 (1.40%) HND
8 6 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.60%) RHCE
11 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.02%) QA
2 34 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.61%) GDPR
6 7 (1.40%) HL7
6 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.40%) SLA
7 5 (1.00%) WCAG
8 4 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 103 (20.64%) Docker
2 35 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.00%) vSphere
5 9 (1.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.60%) iptables
8 3 (0.60%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.61%) Terraform
3 28 (5.61%) Ansible
4 21 (4.21%) Grafana
5 11 (2.20%) Nagios
6 10 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.40%) Puppet
8 4 (0.80%) Argo
8 4 (0.80%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Plesk
9 3 (0.60%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.60%) Rancher
9 3 (0.60%) systemd
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.20%) Graylog
11 1 (0.20%) Podman
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.81%) Oracle
3 22 (4.41%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.61%) VMware
5 16 (3.21%) Splunk
6 12 (2.40%) Google
7 11 (2.20%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.80%) Dell
8 9 (1.80%) Rapid7
8 9 (1.80%) Veeam
9 7 (1.40%) Adobe
9 7 (1.40%) Cisco
10 6 (1.20%) Synology
11 5 (1.00%) Meraki
12 4 (0.80%) Databricks
12 4 (0.80%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.80%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.60%) BT
13 3 (0.60%) Mitel