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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 246 177
Rank change year-on-year -83 -69 -22
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 579 637 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.29% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.55% 8.35% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 449 506 1,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 8,833 7,626 14,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 15.47% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,892 4,930 9,694
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 16 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 26 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 -78 514 £54,000 -1.82% 129
UK excluding London -71 403 £50,000 -4.76% 102
Work from Home -67 215 £52,500 +5.00% 71
North of England -32 132 £48,000 -8.57% 34
London -53 129 £85,000 +36.00% 43
South East -22 111 £55,000 +4.76% 35
North West -27 55 £52,130 -5.22% 20
Midlands -39 54 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -21 48 £42,500 -13.27% 6
South West -79 43 £52,500 -8.70% 9
East of England -39 33 £47,500 - 6
East Midlands -20 30 £37,500 -18.92% 3
North East -38 29 £45,000 -5.26% 8
West Midlands -31 24 £47,500 +15.15% 8
Wales -58 18 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +16 12 £51,000 -15.00% 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 25 (4.32%) Apache
2 19 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.28%) WordPress
3 18 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.11%) IIS
4 16 (2.76%) Confluence
5 15 (2.59%) CMS
6 13 (2.25%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.55%) nginx
8 7 (1.21%) Drupal
9 5 (0.86%) JBoss
10 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.35%) Elementor
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Shopify
2 3 (0.52%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 308 (53.20%) AWS
2 176 (30.40%) Azure
3 82 (14.16%) GCP
4 48 (8.29%) GitHub
5 39 (6.74%) SaaS
6 35 (6.04%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (4.84%) Serverless
8 26 (4.49%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
11 18 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (1.90%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.80%) Firewall
2 13 (2.25%) Broadband
3 11 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.90%) VPN
4 9 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.38%) DNS
5 8 (1.38%) iSCSI
5 8 (1.38%) SAN
5 8 (1.38%) VoIP
6 6 (1.04%) VLAN
7 5 (0.86%) LAN
7 5 (0.86%) Network Security
7 5 (0.86%) WAN
8 4 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.52%) DHCP
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (32.82%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (26.25%) SQL Server
3 103 (17.79%) Relational Database
4 97 (16.75%) MongoDB
5 80 (13.82%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.53%) MariaDB
7 31 (5.35%) Power BI
8 24 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (2.94%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.94%) Metadata
12 16 (2.76%) Redis
13 15 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.42%) Big Data
15 13 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (1.73%) RDBMS
18 8 (1.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 136 (23.49%) Git
2 35 (6.04%) GitLab
3 34 (5.87%) JIRA
4 31 (5.35%) Claude Code
5 20 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.90%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.04%) JUnit
8 6 (1.04%) Selenium
9 5 (0.86%) RSpec
10 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.69%) minitest
10 4 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.52%) Maven
11 3 (0.52%) Mocha
11 3 (0.52%) Mockito
11 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.35%) Gradle
12 2 (0.35%) Jasmine
General
1 124 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 95 (16.41%) Finance
3 71 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.25%) Law
6 23 (3.97%) Banking
7 22 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.59%) Health Technology
10 12 (2.07%) Marketing
10 12 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.73%) Retail
12 7 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.04%) Advertising
13 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.86%) Legal
15 3 (0.52%) Local Government
15 3 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 247 (42.66%) Developer
2 145 (25.04%) Senior
3 73 (12.61%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.44%) Software Engineer
5 68 (11.74%) PHP Developer
6 55 (9.50%) Lead
7 42 (7.25%) Software Developer
8 41 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.39%) Administrator
10 31 (5.35%) DBA
11 28 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.32%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.32%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.32%) Web Developer
13 23 (3.97%) Java Developer
14 22 (3.80%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.80%) Database Engineer
15 21 (3.63%) Data Engineer
16 20 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (3.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.18%) CSS
2 121 (20.90%) HTML
3 98 (16.93%) React
4 90 (15.54%) RESTful
5 84 (14.51%) Laravel
6 73 (12.61%) .NET
7 68 (11.74%) Node.js
8 65 (11.23%) Vue
9 63 (10.88%) REST
10 42 (7.25%) jQuery
10 42 (7.25%) Kafka
10 42 (7.25%) Spring
11 40 (6.91%) Spring Boot
12 34 (5.87%) HTML5
13 33 (5.70%) AngularJS
14 32 (5.53%) JSON
15 28 (4.84%) ASP.NET
15 28 (4.84%) CSS3
16 21 (3.63%) Flask
16 21 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.08%) Replication
3 35 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.94%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.42%) NHS
10 13 (2.25%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.07%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.73%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.38%) IoT
15 6 (1.04%) Social Media
16 5 (0.86%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 151 (26.08%) Linux
2 33 (5.70%) Windows
3 29 (5.01%) Ubuntu
4 24 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.94%) CentOS
5 17 (2.94%) Debian
6 9 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.52%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (34.72%) Agile
2 160 (27.63%) CI/CD
3 153 (26.42%) Software Engineering
4 137 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (21.76%) Microservices
6 107 (18.48%) DevOps
7 102 (17.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (16.58%) AI
9 85 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 62 (10.71%) Clean Code
11 62 (10.71%) Web Development
12 59 (10.19%) Containerisation
12 59 (10.19%) Data Modelling
13 58 (10.02%) OOP
14 55 (9.50%) TDD
15 52 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (8.81%) Computer Science
16 51 (8.81%) Scrum
17 50 (8.64%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 213 (36.79%) SQL
2 199 (34.37%) JavaScript
3 164 (28.32%) PHP
4 129 (22.28%) Python
5 106 (18.31%) Java
6 81 (13.99%) C#
7 48 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 32 (5.53%) Bash
9 25 (4.32%) C++
10 24 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 22 (3.80%) PowerShell
12 18 (3.11%) Ruby
13 13 (2.25%) Go
14 12 (2.07%) VB.NET
15 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.04%) Korn
16 6 (1.04%) Scala
17 4 (0.69%) C
17 4 (0.69%) Perl
17 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (14.16%) Degree
2 38 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.21%) HNC
6 7 (1.21%) HND
7 6 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.52%) RHCE
10 2 (0.35%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.12%) QA
2 41 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.07%) GDPR
5 7 (1.21%) HL7
5 7 (1.21%) SLA
6 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.86%) WCAG
7 4 (0.69%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 134 (23.14%) Docker
2 33 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.73%) vSphere
5 9 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
7 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.35%) Samba
9 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 45 (7.77%) Terraform
3 27 (4.66%) Grafana
4 26 (4.49%) Ansible
5 15 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.07%) Nagios
7 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.04%) Puppet
8 4 (0.69%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.52%) Plesk
9 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.52%) systemd
9 3 (0.52%) WSUS
10 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) kaniko
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.56%) Oracle
3 24 (4.15%) Google
4 23 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.45%) Splunk
6 18 (3.11%) VMware
7 16 (2.76%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.90%) Dell
8 11 (1.90%) Veeam
9 10 (1.73%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.21%) Adobe
10 7 (1.21%) Cisco
11 6 (1.04%) Databricks
11 6 (1.04%) Synology
12 5 (0.86%) Informatica
12 5 (0.86%) Meraki
12 5 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.69%) IBM
13 4 (0.69%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.69%) WooCommerce