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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 276 163
Rank change year-on-year -95 -113 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 561 523 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.06% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.35% 7.35% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 413 369 773
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.39%

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 8,837 7,119 11,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.52% 14.38% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,028 4,469 6,924
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 September 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 26 September 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 -78 494 £55,000 +4.76% 438
UK excluding London -88 388 £50,000 -4.76% 252
Work from Home -85 181 £65,000 +36.84% 179
London -79 134 £85,000 +46.55% 236
North of England -27 132 £42,500 -19.05% 72
South East -17 100 £55,000 -4.35% 48
North West -27 59 £49,250 -14.35% 40
Midlands -43 44 £47,500 +5.56% 26
Yorkshire -27 41 £42,500 +9.68% 26
South West -71 41 £57,500 +27.78% 25
East of England -41 33 £50,000 +5.26% 36
North East -44 32 £42,500 -10.53% 7
Wales -56 26 £60,000 -11.11% 5
East Midlands -23 23 £37,500 -16.67% 10
West Midlands -35 21 £55,000 +41.03% 16
Scotland +12 11 £40,000 -46.67% 17
Northern Ireland -88 1 - - 25

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 31 (5.53%) IIS
2 24 (4.28%) Apache
3 20 (3.57%) WordPress
4 14 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.50%) Confluence
5 11 (1.96%) CMS
5 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.43%) Drupal
8 5 (0.89%) JBoss
9 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.71%) nginx
10 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.36%) Elementor
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 297 (52.94%) AWS
2 167 (29.77%) Azure
3 83 (14.80%) GCP
4 55 (9.80%) GitHub
5 27 (4.81%) Amazon S3
5 27 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.63%) SaaS
7 25 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 24 (4.28%) Serverless
9 22 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.32%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.67%) Firewall
3 13 (2.32%) Broadband
3 13 (2.32%) DNS
4 11 (1.96%) VPN
5 7 (1.25%) VLAN
5 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 6 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (1.07%) SSH
6 6 (1.07%) VoIP
7 5 (0.89%) HTTP
7 5 (0.89%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.89%) SAN
8 4 (0.71%) Internet
8 4 (0.71%) LAN
8 4 (0.71%) WAN
9 3 (0.53%) 4G
9 3 (0.53%) 5G
9 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (32.62%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (27.81%) SQL Server
3 113 (20.14%) Relational Database
4 94 (16.76%) MongoDB
5 67 (11.94%) NoSQL
6 28 (4.99%) MariaDB
7 24 (4.28%) Power BI
8 23 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (4.10%) Redis
9 20 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (3.21%) Metadata
12 17 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.96%) Big Data
14 9 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.60%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 143 (25.49%) Git
2 46 (8.20%) Claude Code
3 40 (7.13%) GitLab
4 27 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 26 (4.63%) JIRA
6 14 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.32%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.43%) Selenium
9 5 (0.89%) JUnit
9 5 (0.89%) RSpec
10 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.71%) minitest
10 4 (0.71%) Mocha
10 4 (0.71%) Postman
10 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.53%) git-flow
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.53%) PHPUnit
General
1 125 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 91 (16.22%) Finance
3 89 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 61 (10.87%) Law
6 32 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (4.99%) Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.67%) Marketing
10 11 (1.96%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.43%) Retail
13 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.89%) Legal
16 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.53%) Games
17 3 (0.53%) Local Government
17 3 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 238 (42.42%) Developer
2 155 (27.63%) Senior
3 83 (14.80%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.83%) Software Engineer
5 63 (11.23%) PHP Developer
6 55 (9.80%) Lead
7 40 (7.13%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.60%) Administrator
9 34 (6.06%) DBA
10 32 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 31 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (5.35%) C# Developer
13 29 (5.17%) Database Engineer
14 28 (4.99%) .NET Developer
15 25 (4.46%) Java Developer
16 23 (4.10%) Python Engineer
17 22 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 21 (3.74%) Senior Software Developer
19 20 (3.57%) Web Developer
20 19 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (23.53%) CSS
2 119 (21.21%) HTML
3 102 (18.18%) React
4 90 (16.04%) .NET
5 85 (15.15%) RESTful
6 73 (13.01%) Laravel
7 62 (11.05%) REST
8 58 (10.34%) Vue
9 56 (9.98%) Terraform
10 54 (9.63%) Node.js
11 53 (9.45%) Kafka
12 46 (8.20%) Spring Boot
13 45 (8.02%) Spring
14 40 (7.13%) ASP.NET
14 40 (7.13%) jQuery
15 37 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (6.06%) HTML5
17 33 (5.88%) AngularJS
18 27 (4.81%) Hibernate
18 27 (4.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.02%) Replication
3 43 (7.66%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (7.31%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.46%) Virtual Team
6 23 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.78%) NHS
11 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.25%) Social Media
13 6 (1.07%) Culture of Ownership
13 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 167 (29.77%) Linux
2 40 (7.13%) Windows
3 28 (4.99%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.63%) Ubuntu
5 20 (3.57%) Debian
6 12 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.96%) CentOS
8 7 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Android
10 3 (0.53%) Unix
11 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (34.94%) Agile
2 172 (30.66%) Software Engineering
3 171 (30.48%) CI/CD
4 169 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (22.82%) DevOps
6 118 (21.03%) Microservices
7 110 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (18.54%) AI
9 90 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 80 (14.26%) Mentoring
11 75 (13.37%) Clean Code
12 74 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 68 (12.12%) Scrum
14 62 (11.05%) Containerisation
14 62 (11.05%) OOP
15 61 (10.87%) Web Development
16 58 (10.34%) High Availability
17 55 (9.80%) Observability
18 50 (8.91%) Code Quality
18 50 (8.91%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.22%) SQL
2 183 (32.62%) JavaScript
3 137 (24.42%) PHP
4 135 (24.06%) Python
5 95 (16.93%) Java
6 87 (15.51%) C#
7 66 (11.76%) TypeScript
8 37 (6.60%) Shell Script
9 29 (5.17%) Bash
10 22 (3.92%) VB.NET
11 17 (3.03%) C++
11 17 (3.03%) Go
11 17 (3.03%) Ruby
12 13 (2.32%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.07%) Scala
14 5 (0.89%) Korn
14 5 (0.89%) Perl
14 5 (0.89%) Rust
15 3 (0.53%) SOQL
15 3 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 68 (12.12%) Degree
2 43 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.32%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.89%) HNC
8 5 (0.89%) HND
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.87%) QA
2 30 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.78%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) HL7
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.07%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 148 (26.38%) Docker
2 24 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.07%) vSphere
5 5 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.53%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 102 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.77%) Grafana
3 26 (4.63%) Ansible
4 24 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.78%) Nagios
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) WSUS
7 4 (0.71%) Kibana
8 3 (0.53%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Rancher
8 3 (0.53%) systemd
9 2 (0.36%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (0.36%) kaniko
9 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.16%) Oracle
3 29 (5.17%) Splunk
4 22 (3.92%) Google
5 18 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.67%) VMware
8 11 (1.96%) Dell
9 10 (1.78%) Veeam
10 9 (1.60%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.25%) Adobe
12 6 (1.07%) Aruba
12 6 (1.07%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.07%) Databricks
12 6 (1.07%) HP
12 6 (1.07%) NetApp
12 6 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.07%) SonicWALL
13 4 (0.71%) Synology
13 4 (0.71%) WooCommerce