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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 163 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 -82 -10
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,774 2,152 7,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 2.27% 4.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.63% 10.61% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,282 2,764
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,480 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +2.69% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%

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 18,423 20,288 47,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 21.40% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,549 12,963 20,973
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +10 1,611 £52,500 -4.55% 375
UK excluding London -12 1,379 £50,000 -4.76% 267
Work from Home -4 788 £55,000 -3.93% 211
North of England +59 457 £52,500 +5.00% 86
London -24 332 £70,000 -6.67% 112
South East -50 272 £51,750 -1.43% 48
North West +34 239 £52,500 -4.55% 58
South West +10 218 £45,000 -5.26% 39
Midlands -23 192 £50,000 -9.09% 53
Yorkshire +54 148 £47,000 +4.44% 20
East of England -7 130 £46,000 -23.33% 34
West Midlands -21 116 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Scotland -67 74 £45,000 -8.16% 11
North East +12 72 £62,500 +56.25% 8
East Midlands -33 71 £45,000 -14.29% 18
Wales +2 31 £52,101 +15.78% 4
Northern Ireland -7 6 £105,000 +180.00% 3

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 (5.64%) WordPress
2 66 (3.72%) nginx
3 65 (3.66%) Apache
4 48 (2.71%) CMS
5 32 (1.80%) Confluence
6 26 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.35%) Drupal
8 17 (0.96%) Tomcat
9 15 (0.85%) IIS
10 13 (0.73%) ArcGIS
10 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.68%) Apache Spark
12 8 (0.45%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.28%) MQSeries
13 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
14 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.23%) Moodle
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
5 2 (0.11%) Sketch
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.056%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.056%) Notion
6 1 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (1.97%) Magento
2 15 (0.85%) Shopify
3 11 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.17%) iTrent
5 3 (0.17%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.056%) Relativity
7 1 (0.056%) Ripple
7 1 (0.056%) Ripple XRP
7 1 (0.056%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 688 (38.78%) AWS
2 290 (16.35%) Azure
3 148 (8.34%) SaaS
4 118 (6.65%) GitHub
5 111 (6.26%) Serverless
6 107 (6.03%) GCP
7 77 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 57 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
11 48 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (2.42%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
14 31 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.41%) PaaS
16 21 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 19 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.07%) Datadog
18 19 (1.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.78%) Firewall
2 46 (2.59%) DNS
3 37 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.41%) HTTP
5 21 (1.18%) SNMP
6 20 (1.13%) LAN
6 20 (1.13%) SSH
7 19 (1.07%) Internet
8 17 (0.96%) SSL
9 13 (0.73%) SAN
9 13 (0.73%) WAN
10 12 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.62%) PBX
11 11 (0.62%) VoIP
11 11 (0.62%) VPN
12 9 (0.51%) DHCP
13 8 (0.45%) MQTT
13 8 (0.45%) tcpdump
13 8 (0.45%) WLAN
14 7 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (18.32%) PostgreSQL
2 307 (17.31%) SQL Server
3 257 (14.49%) Relational Database
4 202 (11.39%) MongoDB
5 139 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 121 (6.82%) Redis
7 80 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (4.17%) RDBMS
9 73 (4.11%) MariaDB
10 67 (3.78%) DynamoDB
11 63 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
12 60 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (2.37%) Power BI
15 38 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
16 20 (1.13%) Oracle Database
17 18 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (1.01%) CouchDB
18 15 (0.85%) GIS
19 14 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 394 (22.21%) Git
2 106 (5.98%) JIRA
3 70 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.87%) Bitbucket
5 41 (2.31%) GitLab
6 35 (1.97%) Subversion
7 32 (1.80%) PHPUnit
8 28 (1.58%) Postman
9 21 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.13%) Maven
11 17 (0.96%) webpack
12 16 (0.90%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.56%) GNU Toolchain
15 10 (0.56%) Gradle
15 10 (0.56%) Selenium
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.45%) gulp
18 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 356 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 155 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (6.99%) Finance
4 80 (4.51%) Retail
5 75 (4.23%) Marketing
6 72 (4.06%) Games
7 61 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 49 (2.76%) Law
10 40 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.09%) Legal
13 36 (2.03%) Tech for Good
14 33 (1.86%) Banking
15 22 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 18 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 16 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.85%) Publishing
19 14 (0.79%) German Language
20 12 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,004 (56.60%) Developer
2 398 (22.44%) PHP Developer
3 382 (21.53%) Senior
4 230 (12.97%) Software Engineer
5 216 (12.18%) Senior Developer
6 182 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
7 157 (8.85%) Lead
8 134 (7.55%) Software Developer
9 103 (5.81%) Web Developer
10 100 (5.64%) DBA
11 74 (4.17%) Senior PHP Developer
12 71 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 70 (3.95%) Support Engineer
14 69 (3.89%) Lead Developer
15 61 (3.44%) Java Engineer
16 55 (3.10%) Java Software Engineer
17 53 (2.99%) .NET Developer
18 49 (2.76%) Java Developer
19 48 (2.71%) Technical Leader
20 43 (2.42%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (29.31%) HTML
2 503 (28.35%) CSS
3 463 (26.10%) Laravel
4 326 (18.38%) React
5 221 (12.46%) Vue
6 213 (12.01%) Node.js
7 212 (11.95%) .NET
8 196 (11.05%) RESTful
9 182 (10.26%) AngularJS
9 182 (10.26%) jQuery
10 148 (8.34%) LAMP
11 145 (8.17%) Symfony
12 126 (7.10%) HTML5
13 118 (6.65%) Web Services
14 112 (6.31%) REST
15 96 (5.41%) Spring
16 88 (4.96%) XML
17 85 (4.79%) Spring Boot
18 84 (4.74%) CSS3
19 83 (4.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.93%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.59%) IoT
6 42 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.14%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 32 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 31 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.30%) Replication
13 22 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 17 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
15 17 (0.96%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 355 (20.01%) Linux
2 165 (9.30%) Windows
3 75 (4.23%) Unix
4 45 (2.54%) Ubuntu
5 44 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 26 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.30%) Android
8 22 (1.24%) Windows 10
9 21 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (0.79%) CentOS
12 14 (0.79%) Debian
13 11 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.28%) Rocky
16 4 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (25.87%) Agile
2 452 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
3 400 (22.55%) Software Engineering
4 370 (20.86%) Full Stack Development
5 242 (13.64%) Web Development
6 239 (13.47%) OOP
7 226 (12.74%) DevOps
8 224 (12.63%) MVC
9 211 (11.89%) Mentoring
10 202 (11.39%) Microservices
11 192 (10.82%) CI/CD
12 186 (10.48%) Computer Science
13 173 (9.75%) OO
14 144 (8.12%) User Experience
15 136 (7.67%) E-Commerce
16 125 (7.05%) SDLC
17 122 (6.88%) Design Patterns
18 118 (6.65%) Test Automation
19 117 (6.60%) TDD
20 105 (5.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 784 (44.19%) PHP
2 708 (39.91%) JavaScript
3 498 (28.07%) SQL
4 293 (16.52%) Java
5 274 (15.45%) Python
6 248 (13.98%) C#
7 141 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 91 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 82 (4.62%) Bash
10 58 (3.27%) Perl
11 56 (3.16%) Go
12 40 (2.25%) Ruby
13 33 (1.86%) T-SQL
14 31 (1.75%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.58%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.52%) C
17 22 (1.24%) C++
17 22 (1.24%) Groovy
18 20 (1.13%) R
19 15 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 273 (15.39%) Degree
2 122 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 41 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 38 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 16 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.79%) CCNA
7 14 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.56%) OCP
8 10 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.17%) HND
11 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.38%) QA
2 27 (1.52%) GDPR
3 19 (1.07%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.056%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.056%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (15.78%) Docker
2 60 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.07%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.45%) XenApp
7 5 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (0.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Varnish
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.056%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.056%) etcd
9 1 (0.056%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) NFS
9 1 (0.056%) pfSense
9 1 (0.056%) Postfix
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.056%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 172 (9.70%) Terraform
2 165 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 68 (3.83%) Ansible
4 31 (1.75%) Puppet
5 25 (1.41%) Grafana
6 24 (1.35%) Nagios
7 17 (0.96%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.73%) WMI
10 12 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.62%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
12 9 (0.51%) SCCM
13 8 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (0.45%) Graphite
14 7 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.39%) Foglight
15 6 (0.34%) Data Guard
15 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 184 (10.37%) Oracle
2 136 (7.67%) Microsoft
3 74 (4.17%) VMware
4 55 (3.10%) Google
5 22 (1.24%) Atlassian
6 19 (1.07%) EMC
7 18 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.01%) Splunk
8 17 (0.96%) Databricks
8 17 (0.96%) Twitter
8 17 (0.96%) Veeam
9 16 (0.90%) Adobe
10 15 (0.85%) Cisco
10 15 (0.85%) Facebook
11 14 (0.79%) Meraki
12 13 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.68%) New Relic
13 12 (0.68%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.68%) Talend
14 11 (0.62%) WooCommerce