Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

mysql

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 649 postings naming mysql that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer59.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.8%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer12.5%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.2%
  5. 5Backend Engineer4.3%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Data Scientist1.1%

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 = 418
10th
$118k
25th
$146k
Median
$175k
75th
$212k
90th
$247k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote12.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.7%
  3. 3New York, NY9.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.9%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.6%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.6%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.