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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 163 81
Rank change year-on-year -4 -82 -10
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,750 2,210 7,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 2.27% 4.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.55% 10.52% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 1,292 2,805
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £75,781 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,563 £92,500 £86,250
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 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
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 28 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 28 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 +4 1,584 £52,500 -4.55% 371
UK excluding London -2 1,359 £50,000 -4.76% 252
Work from Home -1 780 £55,500 -1.74% 219
North of England +58 451 £52,500 +10.53% 83
London -34 327 £70,000 -6.67% 128
South East -43 267 £52,500 - 45
North West +50 234 £52,500 - 53
South West +11 215 £45,000 -5.26% 38
Midlands -25 184 £50,000 -9.09% 52
Yorkshire +63 147 £47,000 +4.44% 22
East of England -9 131 £46,750 -22.08% 29
West Midlands -15 112 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Scotland -57 74 £45,000 -8.16% 9
North East +19 72 £62,500 +56.25% 8
East Midlands -36 68 £45,000 -10.00% 20
Wales 0 32 £52,101 +15.78% 4
Northern Ireland -6 6 £105,000 +180.00% 4

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 66 (3.77%) nginx
3 65 (3.71%) Apache
4 46 (2.63%) CMS
5 33 (1.89%) Confluence
6 26 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.31%) Drupal
8 17 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.80%) IIS
10 13 (0.74%) ArcGIS
10 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.69%) Apache Spark
12 8 (0.46%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.29%) MQSeries
13 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
14 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
15 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 34 (1.94%) Magento
2 15 (0.86%) Shopify
3 8 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.17%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) iTrent
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.057%) Relativity
7 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 678 (38.74%) AWS
2 295 (16.86%) Azure
3 141 (8.06%) SaaS
4 117 (6.69%) GitHub
5 111 (6.34%) Serverless
6 107 (6.11%) GCP
7 77 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 56 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (2.51%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.43%) PaaS
16 21 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 19 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.09%) Datadog
17 19 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.89%) Firewall
2 47 (2.69%) DNS
3 38 (2.17%) 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%) SAN
10 12 (0.69%) WAN
11 11 (0.63%) PBX
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
13 8 (0.46%) WLAN
14 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (17.94%) PostgreSQL
2 302 (17.26%) SQL Server
3 256 (14.63%) Relational Database
4 199 (11.37%) MongoDB
5 135 (7.71%) NoSQL
6 121 (6.91%) Redis
7 77 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (4.23%) MariaDB
8 74 (4.23%) RDBMS
9 65 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
10 63 (3.60%) DynamoDB
11 61 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
12 50 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (2.40%) Power BI
14 34 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
15 20 (1.14%) Oracle Database
16 19 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (1.03%) CouchDB
18 15 (0.86%) GIS
19 14 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 382 (21.83%) Git
2 106 (6.06%) JIRA
3 72 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 42 (2.40%) GitLab
6 35 (2.00%) Subversion
7 30 (1.71%) PHPUnit
8 29 (1.66%) Postman
9 21 (1.20%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.14%) 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
15 10 (0.57%) Gradle
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.51%) Selenium
17 8 (0.46%) gulp
18 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 352 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 150 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (7.09%) Finance
4 81 (4.63%) Retail
5 72 (4.11%) Games
5 72 (4.11%) Marketing
6 58 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 51 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (2.69%) Law
9 42 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.11%) Legal
12 34 (1.94%) Tech for Good
13 32 (1.83%) Banking
14 21 (1.20%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.86%) Publishing
17 14 (0.80%) German Language
18 12 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 985 (56.29%) Developer
2 392 (22.40%) PHP Developer
3 374 (21.37%) Senior
4 228 (13.03%) Software Engineer
5 210 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 177 (10.11%) Full Stack Developer
7 157 (8.97%) Lead
8 135 (7.71%) Software Developer
9 103 (5.89%) Web Developer
10 98 (5.60%) DBA
11 71 (4.06%) Senior PHP Developer
12 69 (3.94%) Lead Developer
12 69 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 69 (3.94%) Support Engineer
13 61 (3.49%) Java Engineer
14 55 (3.14%) Java Software Engineer
15 50 (2.86%) .NET Developer
16 49 (2.80%) Java Developer
17 47 (2.69%) Technical Leader
18 42 (2.40%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (28.86%) HTML
2 489 (27.94%) CSS
3 454 (25.94%) Laravel
4 317 (18.11%) React
5 222 (12.69%) Vue
6 210 (12.00%) .NET
6 210 (12.00%) Node.js
7 194 (11.09%) RESTful
8 184 (10.51%) AngularJS
9 180 (10.29%) jQuery
10 148 (8.46%) LAMP
11 145 (8.29%) Symfony
12 123 (7.03%) HTML5
13 117 (6.69%) Web Services
14 110 (6.29%) REST
15 96 (5.49%) Spring
16 87 (4.97%) XML
17 85 (4.86%) Spring Boot
18 84 (4.80%) CSS3
19 82 (4.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.97%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.63%) 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%) Product Ownership
11 31 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.26%) Onboarding
14 21 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 20 (1.14%) Clustering
15 20 (1.14%) Replication
16 19 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 17 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 349 (19.94%) Linux
2 167 (9.54%) Windows
3 78 (4.46%) Unix
4 42 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 26 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
8 22 (1.26%) Windows 10
9 21 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.86%) Debian
13 14 (0.80%) CentOS
14 11 (0.63%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.63%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.29%) Rocky
17 3 (0.17%) Solaris
18 2 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (25.77%) Agile
2 443 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
3 387 (22.11%) Software Engineering
4 359 (20.51%) Full Stack Development
5 235 (13.43%) Web Development
6 231 (13.20%) OOP
7 227 (12.97%) DevOps
8 221 (12.63%) MVC
9 212 (12.11%) Mentoring
10 203 (11.60%) Microservices
11 189 (10.80%) CI/CD
12 183 (10.46%) Computer Science
13 166 (9.49%) OO
14 138 (7.89%) User Experience
15 131 (7.49%) E-Commerce
16 125 (7.14%) SDLC
17 120 (6.86%) Design Patterns
17 120 (6.86%) Test Automation
18 113 (6.46%) TDD
19 105 (6.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 768 (43.89%) PHP
2 697 (39.83%) JavaScript
3 492 (28.11%) SQL
4 293 (16.74%) Java
5 275 (15.71%) Python
6 247 (14.11%) C#
7 138 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 92 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 84 (4.80%) Bash
10 59 (3.37%) Perl
11 54 (3.09%) Go
12 40 (2.29%) Ruby
13 35 (2.00%) T-SQL
14 31 (1.77%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.66%) 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
1 264 (15.09%) Degree
2 118 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 41 (2.34%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 16 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 14 (0.80%) CCNA
7 14 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.57%) OCP
8 10 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.29%) 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 61 (3.49%) QA
2 26 (1.49%) GDPR
3 19 (1.09%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.40%) 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 59 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.83%) 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
1 169 (9.66%) Terraform
2 163 (9.31%) Kubernetes
3 70 (4.00%) Ansible
4 32 (1.83%) Puppet
5 27 (1.54%) Grafana
6 25 (1.43%) Nagios
7 18 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.80%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.74%) WMI
11 12 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
12 9 (0.51%) Graphite
12 9 (0.51%) SCCM
13 8 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.40%) Foglight
15 6 (0.34%) Data Guard
15 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 182 (10.40%) Oracle
2 138 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 74 (4.23%) VMware
4 55 (3.14%) Google
5 22 (1.26%) Atlassian
6 19 (1.09%) EMC
7 18 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.03%) Splunk
8 17 (0.97%) Databricks
8 17 (0.97%) Twitter
8 17 (0.97%) Veeam
9 16 (0.91%) Adobe
10 15 (0.86%) Cisco
10 15 (0.86%) Facebook
11 14 (0.80%) Meraki
12 13 (0.74%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.69%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.69%) Talend
14 11 (0.63%) WooCommerce
15 10 (0.57%) New Relic