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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 67 76
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +47
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 20 45 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.01% 3.09% 3.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.20% 18.60% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 38
10th Percentile £28,750 £44,250 £42,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,813 £68,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £82,125 £84,056
South West median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.90% - +10.53%

All Database and 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 164 242 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.30% 16.64% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 116 138 336
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,125
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% +20.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,125 £85,750 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%

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 23 December 2025.

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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Azure
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.00%) ClickHouse
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Tech for Good
3 2 (10.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) Laravel
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) React Native
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Greenfield Project
1 9 (45.00%) IoT
2 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Smart Home
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (25.00%) Fintech
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) Load Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (35.00%) PHP
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Apple
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks