MySQL Job Trends in Bristol

MySQL
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 71 75
Rank change year-on-year -48 +4 +18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 11 13 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.33% 1.14% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.05% 8.33% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 38
10th Percentile £51,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -16.28% -17.31%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,313 £61,250
90th Percentile - £74,500 £78,750
South West median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% -4.76%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 218 156 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.58% 13.70% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 159 119 158
10th Percentile £40,133 £36,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +0.53%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

MySQL
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Bristol

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Housing
2 2 (18.18%) Tech for Good
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Flutter Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Nuxt
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) React Native
2 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) IoT
1 2 (18.18%) Smart Home
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.09%) B2B
5 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Release Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
1 5 (45.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle