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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 162 81
Rank change year-on-year -4 -81 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,750 2,234 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 2.27% 4.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.57% 10.57% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 1,298 2,804
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,063 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,480 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +2.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,133 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,875 £85,875
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 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
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 £103,750 £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 23 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 23 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 +6 1,584 £52,500 -5.73% 445
UK excluding London -3 1,352 £50,000 -4.76% 334
Work from Home +6 780 £56,000 -0.85% 263
North of England +69 444 £52,500 +10.53% 83
London -39 334 £70,000 -6.67% 198
South East -44 265 £52,500 - 112
North West +35 229 £52,500 +0.96% 51
South West +13 219 £45,000 -5.26% 36
Midlands -38 182 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Yorkshire +61 145 £47,500 +5.56% 21
East of England -4 131 £47,500 -20.83% 34
West Midlands -20 110 £52,500 -4.55% 31
Scotland -59 74 £45,000 - 17
North East +16 72 £62,500 +56.25% 11
East Midlands -29 68 £45,000 -10.00% 23
Wales +6 32 £52,101 +15.78% 4
Northern Ireland +1 6 £105,000 +180.00% 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 (5.71%) WordPress
2 67 (3.83%) nginx
3 65 (3.71%) Apache
4 46 (2.63%) CMS
5 36 (2.06%) Confluence
6 28 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.31%) Drupal
8 17 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.80%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.80%) IIS
10 13 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.51%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.29%) MQSeries
12 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
13 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.46%) 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 32 (1.83%) Magento
2 15 (0.86%) Shopify
3 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.34%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) iTrent
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.057%) Relativity
8 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 676 (38.63%) AWS
2 297 (16.97%) Azure
3 138 (7.89%) SaaS
4 117 (6.69%) GitHub
5 112 (6.40%) Serverless
6 108 (6.17%) GCP
7 79 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 55 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
10 49 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 37 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (1.43%) PaaS
15 23 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 21 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.09%) Datadog
18 18 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.00%) Firewall
2 48 (2.74%) DNS
3 39 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.43%) HTTP
5 22 (1.26%) SNMP
6 20 (1.14%) Internet
6 20 (1.14%) SSH
7 19 (1.09%) LAN
8 17 (0.97%) SSL
9 13 (0.74%) PBX
9 13 (0.74%) SAN
10 12 (0.69%) WAN
11 11 (0.63%) VoIP
11 11 (0.63%) VPN
11 11 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.51%) DHCP
12 9 (0.51%) tcpdump
13 8 (0.46%) MQTT
14 7 (0.40%) FTP
14 7 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
2 303 (17.31%) SQL Server
3 258 (14.74%) Relational Database
4 198 (11.31%) MongoDB
5 138 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 120 (6.86%) Redis
7 78 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (4.23%) RDBMS
9 72 (4.11%) MariaDB
10 66 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
11 63 (3.60%) DynamoDB
12 61 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
13 52 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (2.40%) Power BI
15 35 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
16 21 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (1.14%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.03%) CouchDB
19 15 (0.86%) GIS
20 14 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 378 (21.60%) Git
2 108 (6.17%) JIRA
3 73 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 43 (2.46%) GitLab
6 35 (2.00%) Subversion
7 30 (1.71%) PHPUnit
8 29 (1.66%) Postman
9 22 (1.26%) Visual Studio
10 19 (1.09%) Maven
11 17 (0.97%) webpack
12 16 (0.91%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.57%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.51%) Gradle
16 9 (0.51%) Selenium
17 8 (0.46%) gulp
18 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 351 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 152 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (7.43%) Finance
4 82 (4.69%) Retail
5 73 (4.17%) Games
6 71 (4.06%) Marketing
7 58 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (2.63%) Law
10 42 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.17%) Legal
11 38 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.83%) Banking
12 32 (1.83%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 17 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.86%) Publishing
16 14 (0.80%) German Language
17 12 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 974 (55.66%) Developer
2 389 (22.23%) PHP Developer
3 375 (21.43%) Senior
4 226 (12.91%) Software Engineer
5 209 (11.94%) Senior Developer
6 173 (9.89%) Full Stack Developer
7 155 (8.86%) Lead
8 136 (7.77%) Software Developer
9 100 (5.71%) Web Developer
10 99 (5.66%) DBA
11 72 (4.11%) Support Engineer
12 71 (4.06%) Senior PHP Developer
13 68 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 67 (3.83%) Lead Developer
15 60 (3.43%) Java Engineer
16 54 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
17 51 (2.91%) .NET Developer
18 49 (2.80%) Java Developer
19 48 (2.74%) Technical Leader
20 42 (2.40%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (28.63%) HTML
2 485 (27.71%) CSS
3 453 (25.89%) Laravel
4 312 (17.83%) React
5 219 (12.51%) Vue
6 211 (12.06%) .NET
7 206 (11.77%) Node.js
8 186 (10.63%) RESTful
9 182 (10.40%) AngularJS
10 180 (10.29%) jQuery
11 147 (8.40%) LAMP
12 144 (8.23%) Symfony
13 121 (6.91%) HTML5
14 119 (6.80%) Web Services
15 111 (6.34%) REST
16 94 (5.37%) Spring
17 87 (4.97%) XML
18 84 (4.80%) CSS3
19 83 (4.74%) JSON
19 83 (4.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.97%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.57%) IoT
6 40 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
10 32 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 30 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.26%) Data Centre
13 22 (1.26%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.14%) Clustering
14 20 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.14%) Replication
15 17 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 349 (19.94%) Linux
2 168 (9.60%) Windows
3 77 (4.40%) Unix
4 41 (2.34%) Ubuntu
4 41 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.31%) Android
7 22 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.86%) Debian
12 13 (0.74%) CentOS
12 13 (0.74%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.63%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Rocky
16 3 (0.17%) Solaris
17 2 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (25.66%) Agile
2 441 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
3 387 (22.11%) Software Engineering
4 353 (20.17%) Full Stack Development
5 233 (13.31%) Web Development
6 229 (13.09%) OOP
7 226 (12.91%) DevOps
8 222 (12.69%) MVC
9 216 (12.34%) Mentoring
10 202 (11.54%) Microservices
11 190 (10.86%) CI/CD
12 182 (10.40%) Computer Science
13 163 (9.31%) OO
14 138 (7.89%) User Experience
15 131 (7.49%) E-Commerce
16 125 (7.14%) SDLC
17 120 (6.86%) Design Patterns
18 117 (6.69%) Test Automation
19 109 (6.23%) TDD
20 103 (5.89%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 761 (43.49%) PHP
2 689 (39.37%) JavaScript
3 497 (28.40%) SQL
4 289 (16.51%) Java
5 277 (15.83%) Python
6 250 (14.29%) C#
7 138 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 93 (5.31%) PowerShell
9 86 (4.91%) Bash
10 59 (3.37%) Perl
11 56 (3.20%) Go
12 39 (2.23%) Ruby
13 35 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.83%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.54%) C
17 23 (1.31%) C++
18 22 (1.26%) Groovy
19 20 (1.14%) R
20 15 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 266 (15.20%) Degree
2 117 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (2.57%) Security Cleared
4 40 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 16 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.91%) CCNA
6 16 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (0.57%) OCP
7 10 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.29%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.43%) QA
2 26 (1.49%) GDPR
3 19 (1.09%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.057%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.057%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.057%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (16.00%) Docker
2 60 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.46%) XenApp
7 5 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (0.29%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Varnish
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.057%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.057%) etcd
9 1 (0.057%) Firmware
9 1 (0.057%) NFS
9 1 (0.057%) pfSense
9 1 (0.057%) Postfix
9 1 (0.057%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.057%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 171 (9.77%) Terraform
2 165 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 71 (4.06%) Ansible
4 32 (1.83%) Puppet
5 29 (1.66%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Nagios
7 17 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.74%) WMI
11 12 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.51%) Graphite
13 8 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (0.46%) SCCM
14 7 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.40%) Foglight
14 7 (0.40%) Kibana
15 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 186 (10.63%) Oracle
2 139 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 75 (4.29%) VMware
4 53 (3.03%) Google
5 24 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 19 (1.09%) Databricks
7 18 (1.03%) EMC
7 18 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.03%) Splunk
8 16 (0.91%) Twitter
8 16 (0.91%) Veeam
9 15 (0.86%) Adobe
9 15 (0.86%) Cisco
10 14 (0.80%) Facebook
10 14 (0.80%) Palo Alto
11 13 (0.74%) Meraki
11 13 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.69%) Talend
13 11 (0.63%) HP
13 11 (0.63%) WooCommerce