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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 63 97
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 -5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 17 21 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.63% 2.12% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.29% 10.71% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 44
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - £76,250 £65,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -5.26%

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 183 196 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.77% 19.76% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 124 142 315
10th Percentile £41,250 £29,848 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -1.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £94,750 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,067
% change year-on-year - +3.64% +0.70%

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 1 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) DocumentDB
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) git-flow
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) MSTest
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Housing
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Tech for Good
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DBA
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL DBA
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) Node.js
2 5 (29.41%) React
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (17.65%) Vue
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Bootstrap
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.88%) Deno
5 1 (5.88%) jQuery
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (5.88%) Nuxt
5 1 (5.88%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) IoT
1 3 (17.65%) Smart Home
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
4 3 (17.65%) User Experience
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
6 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) Migration
6 1 (5.88%) MVC
6 1 (5.88%) OO
6 1 (5.88%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (5.88%) OOD
6 1 (5.88%) OWASP
6 1 (5.88%) Release Management
6 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
1 5 (29.41%) Progress Chef
1 5 (29.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle