The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MySQL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MySQL over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MySQL
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank364849
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads646853273939
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK5.364 %4.344 %4.126 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category18.00 %14.80 %14.78 %
Number of salaries quoted585948373482
Average salary£37,500£35,000£33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14 %+4.47 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£25,500£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£52,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£31,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.83 %
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
359343599326642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK29.80 %29.35 %27.90 %
Number of salaries quoted317633129922952
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£28,860£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.14 %

MySQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MySQL Demand Trend

MySQL
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK.

MySQL Salary Trend

MySQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MySQL over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

MySQL Salary Histogram

MySQL
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+116254£37,500+7.14 %
LondonUp+233046£44,000+3.52 %
South EastUp+41096£35,000-
East of EnglandUp+6520£35,000-
City of LondonUp+12476£45,000+9.75 %
North WestDown-7431£31,500+5.00 %
South WestDown-3352£33,750+3.84 %
YorkshireDown-2318£31,500+5.00 %
ManchesterDown-3262£32,500+8.33 %
West MidlandsUp+16257£30,250+10.00 %
BerkshireUp+14235£42,500+18.05 %
HampshireUp+2224£37,500-
SurreyUp+23186£37,500-1.31 %
East MidlandsNo change0184£28,500-1.72 %
West YorkshireDown-6184£31,500+5.00 %
HertfordshireUp+41162£34,500-13.75 %
BristolUp+4145£33,750-3.57 %
CambridgeshireDown-12142£37,500+9.09 %
East SussexUp+5141£29,000-15.32 %
BrightonUp+8136£29,000-17.14 %
CambridgeDown-9128£35,000-
ReadingUp+23122£40,000+11.11 %
OxfordshireUp+23116£32,500-
EssexUp+13114£32,500-7.14 %
ScotlandUp+2109£34,500-1.42 %
LeedsDown-2198£31,500-1.56 %
BirminghamUp+2695£32,500+18.18 %
CheshireNo change094£30,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-2892£35,000-
South YorkshireUp+1283£35,000+12.90 %

MySQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MySQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MySQL.

17481 (58.83 %)PHP
26133 (48.23 %)Linux
36057 (47.63 %)JavaScript
45638 (44.34 %)CSS
55290 (41.60 %)HTML
63853 (30.30 %)Apache
73447 (27.11 %)SQL
83177 (24.98 %)Java
92923 (22.99 %)jQuery
102718 (21.37 %)OO
112619 (20.60 %)XML
122346 (18.45 %)SQL Server
132169 (17.06 %)LAMP
142024 (15.92 %)MVC
151963 (15.44 %)Ajax
161877 (14.76 %)PHP5
171867 (14.68 %)E-Commerce
181830 (14.39 %)Degree
191790 (14.08 %)Oracle
201784 (14.03 %)Subversion
211689 (13.28 %)Windows
221661 (13.06 %)UNIX
231626 (12.79 %)Web Services
241617 (12.72 %)Agile Software Development
251615 (12.70 %)Perl
261597 (12.56 %)Web Development
271574 (12.38 %)Zend
281515 (11.91 %)XHTML
291459 (11.47 %).NET
301359 (10.69 %)Python

MySQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MySQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MySQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15638 (44.34 %)CSS
25290 (41.60 %)HTML
32923 (22.99 %)jQuery
42619 (20.60 %)XML
52169 (17.06 %)LAMP
61963 (15.44 %)Ajax
71626 (12.79 %)Web Services
81515 (11.91 %)XHTML
91459 (11.47 %).NET
101182 (9.295 %)J2EE
111160 (9.122 %)Spring
12928 (7.298 %)HTML5
13879 (6.913 %)Hibernate
14726 (5.709 %)ASP.NET
15710 (5.584 %)Zend Framework
16653 (5.135 %)JSON
17644 (5.064 %)SOAP
18642 (5.049 %)JSP
19477 (3.751 %)Ruby on Rails
20467 (3.673 %)Flash
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13853 (30.30 %)Apache
21091 (8.580 %)CMS
31000 (7.864 %)Drupal
4909 (7.148 %)Tomcat
5573 (4.506 %)WordPress
6487 (3.830 %)Magento
7469 (3.688 %)IIS
8287 (2.257 %)Joomla!
9286 (2.249 %)WebLogic
10238 (1.872 %)nginx
11189 (1.486 %)Amazon EC2
12186 (1.463 %)ActiveMQ
13178 (1.400 %)MS Exchange
14177 (1.392 %)Amazon AWS
15169 (1.329 %)Apache Solr
16139 (1.093 %)SharePoint
17120 (0.944 %)Jetty
1890 (0.708 %)ColdFusion
1985 (0.668 %)Umbraco
2081 (0.637 %)Amazon S3
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1433 (3.405 %)MS Excel
2418 (3.287 %)Photoshop
3191 (1.502 %)MS Visio
4115 (0.904 %)MS Office
598 (0.771 %)Adobe Illustrator
685 (0.668 %)Fireworks
734 (0.267 %)Google Apps
821 (0.165 %)MATLAB
821 (0.165 %)MS Project
918 (0.142 %)MS PowerPoint
1014 (0.110 %)GIMP
1110 (0.079 %)InDesign
129 (0.071 %)Adobe Premiere
134 (0.031 %)MicroStation
143 (0.024 %)Doxygen
143 (0.024 %)Maya
152 (0.016 %)Adobe After Effects
152 (0.016 %)SPSS
152 (0.016 %)FastStats
152 (0.016 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
186 (0.676 %)Google Analytics
224 (0.189 %)Summit
319 (0.149 %)WebTrends
415 (0.118 %)Oracle EBS
514 (0.110 %)BASE24
66 (0.047 %)GoldMine
75 (0.039 %)Front Arena
75 (0.039 %)Dynamics NAV
75 (0.039 %)Dynamics CRM
75 (0.039 %)Movex
75 (0.039 %)SunGard APT
75 (0.039 %)Oracle BPM
75 (0.039 %)FastVal
84 (0.031 %)BusinessWorks
93 (0.024 %)Oracle Applications
93 (0.024 %)Apache OFBiz
102 (0.016 %)Oracle EBS R12
102 (0.016 %)Dynamics GP
102 (0.016 %)Oracle ERP
102 (0.016 %)Oracle 11i
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1975 (7.668 %)Internet
2628 (4.939 %)DNS
3550 (4.325 %)Firewall
4520 (4.089 %)TCP/IP
5516 (4.058 %)HTTP
6292 (2.296 %)SAN
7229 (1.801 %)SSL
8208 (1.636 %)SMTP
9180 (1.416 %)DHCP
10168 (1.321 %)VPN
11163 (1.282 %)Intranet
12162 (1.274 %)VoIP
13160 (1.258 %)LDAP
14158 (1.243 %)FTP
15101 (0.794 %)NAS
1694 (0.739 %)SSH
1780 (0.629 %)iSCSI
1869 (0.543 %)VLAN
1965 (0.511 %)HTTPS
2063 (0.495 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12346 (18.45 %)SQL Server
2616 (4.844 %)PostgreSQL
3421 (3.311 %)RDBMS
4301 (2.367 %)NoSQL
5263 (2.068 %)MongoDB
6231 (1.817 %)SQL Server 2008
7210 (1.651 %)SQL Server 2005
8182 (1.431 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9177 (1.392 %)Hadoop
10170 (1.337 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
11167 (1.313 %)Data Warehouse
12158 (1.243 %)DB2
13149 (1.172 %)Redis
14138 (1.085 %)ETL
15106 (0.834 %)Apache Cassandra
1697 (0.763 %)Informix
1697 (0.763 %)Oracle 8/8i
1795 (0.747 %)Oracle 11g
1883 (0.653 %)GIS
1975 (0.590 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11784 (14.03 %)Subversion
21005 (7.903 %)Git (software)
3430 (3.382 %)Eclipse
4396 (3.114 %)Maven
5330 (2.595 %)Ant
6318 (2.501 %)JUnit
7316 (2.485 %)Selenium
8244 (1.919 %)Hudson
9237 (1.864 %)PHPUnit
10202 (1.589 %)Visual Studio
11188 (1.478 %)JIRA
12153 (1.203 %)Mercurial
13116 (0.912 %)Dreamweaver
14113 (0.889 %)Cucumber
1592 (0.723 %)RSpec
1687 (0.684 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1756 (0.440 %)ClearCase
1853 (0.417 %)NetBeans
1946 (0.362 %)IntelliJ
1946 (0.362 %)JSUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11000 (7.864 %)Finance
2915 (7.196 %)Marketing
3449 (3.531 %)Retail
4430 (3.382 %)Games
5376 (2.957 %)Telecoms
6339 (2.666 %)Advertising
7257 (2.021 %)Publishing
8149 (1.172 %)Back Office
996 (0.755 %)Banking
1075 (0.590 %)Music
1167 (0.527 %)Multimedia
1263 (0.495 %)Manufacturing
1347 (0.370 %)French Language
1445 (0.354 %)Billing
1538 (0.299 %)Electronics
1636 (0.283 %)Law
1730 (0.236 %)Legal
1828 (0.220 %)Financial Institution
1927 (0.212 %)German Language
2022 (0.173 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18697 (68.39 %)Developer
23761 (29.58 %)PHP Developer
32046 (16.09 %)Web Developer
41389 (10.92 %)Senior Developer
51255 (9.869 %)Java Developer
61241 (9.759 %)Administrator
7930 (7.314 %)Systems Administrator
8819 (6.441 %)PHP MySQL Developer
9699 (5.497 %)PHP Web Developer
10613 (4.821 %)Linux Administrator
11541 (4.254 %)Linux Systems Administrator
12505 (3.971 %)Senior PHP Developer
13504 (3.964 %)DBA
14430 (3.382 %)Junior
15388 (3.051 %)Software Engineer
16387 (3.043 %)Senior Java Developer
17377 (2.965 %)Software Developer
18345 (2.713 %)Junior Developer
19342 (2.690 %)Java/J2EE Developer
20312 (2.454 %).NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11323 (10.40 %)Open Source
21060 (8.336 %)Computer Science
3525 (4.129 %)Social Media
4421 (3.311 %)Digital Media
5401 (3.154 %)Replication
6397 (3.122 %)SaaS
7284 (2.233 %)Clustering
8254 (1.997 %)Social Network
9223 (1.754 %)iPhone
10201 (1.581 %)W3C
11182 (1.431 %)Cloud Computing
12169 (1.329 %)Online Games
13160 (1.258 %)Mathematics
14128 (1.007 %)New Media
15124 (0.975 %)Web 2.0
16104 (0.818 %)RIA
17103 (0.810 %)Management Information System
1889 (0.700 %)N-Tier
1985 (0.668 %)Blackberry
2073 (0.574 %)Client/Server
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16133 (48.23 %)Linux
21689 (13.28 %)Windows
31661 (13.06 %)UNIX
4613 (4.821 %)CentOS
5581 (4.569 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6462 (3.633 %)Debian
7397 (3.122 %)Android
8391 (3.075 %)Ubuntu
9321 (2.524 %)Solaris
10310 (2.438 %)Windows Server 2003
10310 (2.438 %)Windows Server 2008
11274 (2.155 %)Apple iOS
12123 (0.967 %)Mac OS X
1393 (0.731 %)Windows XP
1480 (0.629 %)HPUX
1554 (0.425 %)Fedora
1653 (0.417 %)Windows 7
1739 (0.307 %)SUSE
1830 (0.236 %)AIX
1925 (0.197 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12718 (21.37 %)OO
22024 (15.92 %)MVC
31867 (14.68 %)E-Commerce
41617 (12.72 %)Agile Software Development
51597 (12.56 %)Web Development
61198 (9.421 %)OOP
7969 (7.620 %)TDD
8925 (7.274 %)Scrum
9597 (4.695 %)SEO
10533 (4.192 %)Project Management
11497 (3.908 %)Content Management
12460 (3.617 %)Unit Testing
13396 (3.114 %)UML
14382 (3.004 %)Continuous Integration
15332 (2.611 %)ITIL
16311 (2.446 %)SOA
17303 (2.383 %)CRM
18294 (2.312 %)Software Engineering
19291 (2.288 %)Configuration Management
20281 (2.210 %)Web Design
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17481 (58.83 %)PHP
26057 (47.63 %)JavaScript
33447 (27.11 %)SQL
43177 (24.98 %)Java
51877 (14.76 %)PHP5
61615 (12.70 %)Perl
71359 (10.69 %)Python
81123 (8.831 %)C#
91027 (8.076 %)Ruby
10754 (5.930 %)C++
11706 (5.552 %)Bash shell
12569 (4.475 %)Shell Script
13494 (3.885 %)C
14264 (2.076 %)ActionScript
15204 (1.604 %)T-SQL
16201 (1.581 %)VB
17184 (1.447 %)VB.NET
18151 (1.187 %)PL/SQL
19140 (1.101 %)Groovy
20125 (0.983 %)Objective-C
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11830 (14.39 %)Degree
2168 (1.321 %)Security Cleared
3162 (1.274 %)RHCE
4153 (1.203 %)Microsoft Certification
5116 (0.912 %)Cisco Certification
6110 (0.865 %)CCNA
780 (0.629 %)MCSE
872 (0.566 %)SC Cleared
963 (0.495 %)ITIL Certification
1058 (0.456 %)DV Cleared
1143 (0.338 %)MCSA
1143 (0.338 %)CCNP
1241 (0.322 %)RHCT
1335 (0.275 %)ISEB
1431 (0.244 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1530 (0.236 %)Sun Certification
1627 (0.212 %)MCP
1726 (0.204 %)MCITP
1821 (0.165 %)HND
1920 (0.157 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1521 (4.097 %)QA
2103 (0.810 %)SLA
370 (0.550 %)WAI
451 (0.401 %)PCI DSS
541 (0.322 %)ISO 9001
626 (0.204 %)WCAG
723 (0.181 %)ISO/IEC 27001
815 (0.118 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
96 (0.047 %)ISO/IEC 17799
96 (0.047 %)HIPAA
103 (0.024 %)GLP
103 (0.024 %)COBIT
112 (0.016 %)Data Quality
121 (0.008 %)Dublin Core
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1324 (2.548 %)VMware Infrastructure
2250 (1.966 %)Active Directory
3205 (1.612 %)vSphere
4141 (1.109 %)Varnish
5129 (1.014 %)Xen
6121 (0.952 %)NFS
7116 (0.912 %)VMware ESX
8104 (0.818 %)Postfix
996 (0.755 %)Samba
1079 (0.621 %)Sendmail
1167 (0.527 %)VMware ESXi
1265 (0.511 %)Squid
1353 (0.417 %)Oracle RAC
1451 (0.401 %)Hyper-V
1543 (0.338 %)Oracle RMAN
1630 (0.236 %)qmail
1725 (0.197 %)XenServer
1817 (0.134 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1817 (0.134 %)Terminal Services
1817 (0.134 %)FreeRADIUS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1414 (3.256 %)Puppet
2317 (2.493 %)Nagios
3103 (0.810 %)Cacti
491 (0.716 %)ZABBIX
587 (0.684 %)NetBackup
674 (0.582 %)Ganglia
752 (0.409 %)vCenter
844 (0.346 %)Plesk
943 (0.338 %)Munin
1035 (0.275 %)Data Guard
1130 (0.236 %)SCCM
1224 (0.189 %)Foglight
1323 (0.181 %)CFEngine
1422 (0.173 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1521 (0.165 %)Backup Exec
1620 (0.157 %)Nessus
1620 (0.157 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1719 (0.149 %)Tivoli
1818 (0.142 %)WSUS
1915 (0.118 %)Red Hat Satellite
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11790 (14.08 %)Oracle
21574 (12.38 %)Zend
3905 (7.117 %)Red Hat
4794 (6.244 %)Microsoft
5606 (4.766 %)VMware
6514 (4.042 %)Cisco
7486 (3.822 %)JBoss
8399 (3.138 %)Facebook
9396 (3.114 %)Google
10243 (1.911 %)Adobe
11182 (1.431 %)HP
12164 (1.290 %)Citrix
13152 (1.195 %)Twitter
14147 (1.156 %)NetApp
15126 (0.991 %)Sybase
16113 (0.889 %)Juniper
17100 (0.786 %)Veritas
1899 (0.779 %)IBM
1977 (0.606 %)SAP
2076 (0.598 %)Brocade