Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

mysql

696 live US technical postings name mysql in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 696 postings naming mysql that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer60.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.2%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer11.2%
  4. 4Data Engineer6%
  5. 5Backend Engineer4.5%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.6%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.1%
  8. 8Data Scientist1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where mysql is named
n = 452
10th
$125k
25th
$150k
Median
$185k
75th
$212k
90th
$247k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA8.8%
  3. 3New York, NY8.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.3%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.