MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MySQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MySQL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 163 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 -82 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,768 2,308 6,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.78% 2.28% 4.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.72% 10.72% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,550 1,341 2,861
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.28%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MySQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL.

Salary trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +13 1,596 £53,500 -6.96% 380
UK excluding London -9 1,356 £50,000 -4.76% 285
Work from Home +1 787 £57,500 +0.44% 234
North of England +81 448 £52,500 +10.53% 83
London -36 344 £70,000 -6.67% 118
South East -31 272 £51,000 -2.86% 53
North West +46 234 £55,000 +5.77% 46
South West +9 218 £45,000 -5.26% 46
Midlands -50 172 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Yorkshire +76 145 £47,500 +5.56% 25
East of England -1 131 £47,500 -24.00% 26
West Midlands -36 101 £55,000 -2.62% 36
Scotland -61 76 £46,250 +2.78% 18
North East +17 71 £62,500 +56.25% 12
East Midlands -38 67 £45,000 -12.20% 21
Wales +3 33 £52,101 +15.78% 5
Northern Ireland -1 7 £90,000 +127.85% 5

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 100 (5.66%) WordPress
2 67 (3.79%) nginx
3 65 (3.68%) Apache
4 47 (2.66%) CMS
5 41 (2.32%) Confluence
6 32 (1.81%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.47%) Drupal
8 19 (1.07%) Tomcat
9 15 (0.85%) IIS
10 14 (0.79%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.74%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.51%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.34%) MQSeries
13 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
15 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
16 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.057%) Notion
7 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (1.70%) Magento
2 15 (0.85%) Shopify
3 7 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.17%) iTrent
6 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.057%) Relativity
8 1 (0.057%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 690 (39.03%) AWS
2 310 (17.53%) Azure
3 147 (8.31%) SaaS
4 118 (6.67%) GitHub
5 117 (6.62%) Serverless
6 112 (6.33%) GCP
7 83 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (4.41%) Amazon S3
9 61 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
11 50 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (2.77%) Power Platform
13 38 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (1.36%) PaaS
17 21 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
18 20 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.30%) Firewall
2 50 (2.83%) DNS
3 41 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.36%) HTTP
5 23 (1.30%) Internet
5 23 (1.30%) SNMP
6 19 (1.07%) SSH
7 17 (0.96%) LAN
7 17 (0.96%) SSL
8 16 (0.90%) PBX
9 14 (0.79%) SAN
9 14 (0.79%) VPN
10 12 (0.68%) VoIP
11 11 (0.62%) WAN
12 10 (0.57%) DHCP
12 10 (0.57%) tcpdump
13 8 (0.45%) MQTT
13 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.45%) WLAN
14 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (18.50%) PostgreSQL
2 303 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 259 (14.65%) Relational Database
4 203 (11.48%) MongoDB
5 142 (8.03%) NoSQL
6 118 (6.67%) Redis
7 81 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (4.24%) RDBMS
9 73 (4.13%) MariaDB
10 69 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
11 66 (3.73%) DynamoDB
12 64 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
13 53 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 41 (2.32%) Power BI
15 38 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.02%) CouchDB
19 15 (0.85%) GIS
20 14 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 371 (20.98%) Git
2 117 (6.62%) JIRA
3 77 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 53 (3.00%) Bitbucket
5 43 (2.43%) GitLab
6 35 (1.98%) Subversion
7 30 (1.70%) Postman
8 28 (1.58%) PHPUnit
9 21 (1.19%) Maven
10 20 (1.13%) Visual Studio
11 18 (1.02%) webpack
12 15 (0.85%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.57%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.51%) Gradle
17 8 (0.45%) gulp
17 8 (0.45%) Selenium
18 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 355 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 157 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (7.35%) Finance
4 82 (4.64%) Retail
5 74 (4.19%) Games
6 71 (4.02%) Marketing
7 60 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.55%) Law
10 44 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.21%) Legal
11 39 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.87%) Banking
13 32 (1.81%) Tech for Good
14 20 (1.13%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.85%) Publishing
17 14 (0.79%) German Language
17 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 972 (54.98%) Developer
2 381 (21.55%) PHP Developer
3 375 (21.21%) Senior
4 227 (12.84%) Software Engineer
5 205 (11.60%) Senior Developer
6 174 (9.84%) Full Stack Developer
7 156 (8.82%) Lead
8 136 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 102 (5.77%) DBA
10 99 (5.60%) Web Developer
11 75 (4.24%) Support Engineer
12 68 (3.85%) Lead Developer
12 68 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 67 (3.79%) Senior PHP Developer
14 61 (3.45%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
16 53 (3.00%) Java Developer
17 50 (2.83%) .NET Developer
18 47 (2.66%) Technical Leader
19 44 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (27.71%) HTML
2 475 (26.87%) CSS
3 453 (25.62%) Laravel
4 314 (17.76%) React
5 223 (12.61%) Vue
6 213 (12.05%) Node.js
7 211 (11.93%) .NET
8 186 (10.52%) AngularJS
9 185 (10.46%) RESTful
10 177 (10.01%) jQuery
11 146 (8.26%) Symfony
12 145 (8.20%) LAMP
13 122 (6.90%) HTML5
14 117 (6.62%) Web Services
15 111 (6.28%) REST
16 96 (5.43%) Spring
17 86 (4.86%) XML
18 85 (4.81%) JSON
18 85 (4.81%) Kafka
19 84 (4.75%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.71%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.60%) IoT
6 39 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.15%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 34 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.19%) Clustering
14 21 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.19%) Replication
15 17 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 356 (20.14%) Linux
2 171 (9.67%) Windows
3 80 (4.52%) Unix
4 41 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 38 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
7 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
8 22 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.96%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.85%) CentOS
11 15 (0.85%) Debian
12 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Rocky
16 3 (0.17%) AIX
16 3 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (25.51%) Agile
2 448 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
3 389 (22.00%) Software Engineering
4 356 (20.14%) Full Stack Development
5 229 (12.95%) Web Development
6 228 (12.90%) DevOps
7 227 (12.84%) OOP
8 222 (12.56%) Mentoring
9 221 (12.50%) MVC
10 210 (11.88%) Microservices
11 196 (11.09%) CI/CD
12 186 (10.52%) Computer Science
13 159 (8.99%) OO
14 135 (7.64%) User Experience
15 131 (7.41%) E-Commerce
16 127 (7.18%) SDLC
17 121 (6.84%) Design Patterns
18 119 (6.73%) Test Automation
19 107 (6.05%) Code Quality
20 102 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 754 (42.65%) PHP
2 683 (38.63%) JavaScript
3 512 (28.96%) SQL
4 300 (16.97%) Java
5 283 (16.01%) Python
6 255 (14.42%) C#
7 139 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 97 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.92%) Bash
10 61 (3.45%) Perl
11 55 (3.11%) Go
12 40 (2.26%) Ruby
13 37 (2.09%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.98%) PL/SQL
15 32 (1.81%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.58%) C
17 26 (1.47%) C++
18 22 (1.24%) Groovy
18 22 (1.24%) R
19 17 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 278 (15.72%) Degree
2 122 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.13%) CCNA
6 20 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.57%) OCP
8 10 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
13 4 (0.23%) MCSE
14 3 (0.17%) HND
14 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.56%) QA
2 26 (1.47%) GDPR
3 18 (1.02%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.057%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.057%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.057%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 286 (16.18%) Docker
2 66 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.45%) XenApp
7 6 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.23%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Varnish
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.057%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.057%) etcd
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) Postfix
10 1 (0.057%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (9.84%) Terraform
2 166 (9.39%) Kubernetes
3 75 (4.24%) Ansible
4 33 (1.87%) Puppet
5 29 (1.64%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Nagios
7 18 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.74%) HAProxy
9 13 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.74%) WMI
10 10 (0.57%) Graphite
11 8 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.45%) SCCM
12 7 (0.40%) Foglight
12 7 (0.40%) Kibana
13 6 (0.34%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 193 (10.92%) Oracle
2 138 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 75 (4.24%) VMware
4 52 (2.94%) Google
5 26 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 24 (1.36%) Databricks
7 20 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.02%) EMC
8 18 (1.02%) Splunk
9 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto
9 17 (0.96%) Veeam
10 16 (0.90%) Cisco
10 16 (0.90%) Twitter
11 14 (0.79%) Adobe
11 14 (0.79%) Facebook
11 14 (0.79%) Meraki
12 13 (0.74%) HP
13 12 (0.68%) Remedy
13 12 (0.68%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.62%) Talend