MySQL Job Trends in Berkshire

MySQL
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 135 120
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -6
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 9 6 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.28% 0.31% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.76% 1.28% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 14
10th Percentile £35,000 £54,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £61,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +50.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £69,375 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,500 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 189 468 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.79% 23.90% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 136 143 185
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £48,750 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Berkshire

MySQL
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Berkshire

MySQL
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Reading -12 5 £37,500 -42.31% 4
Wokingham - 2 £71,250 -
Bracknell -14 1 £33,750 -60.29%
Slough - 1 £42,000 -
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Mocha
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Health Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 3 (33.33%) Laravel
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) Express.js
4 2 (22.22%) Jest
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) Ajax
5 1 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) Database Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Graylog
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus