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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 52 114
Rank change year-on-year -34 +62 +1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 20 36 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.70% 3.74% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.42% 16.00% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18 30 44
10th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £32,875
25th Percentile £50,313 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +19.51% -4.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £65,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -4.17% +29.73% -2.63%

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 161 225 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.64% 23.39% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 107 160 365
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,885 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,290 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.37%
75th Percentile £69,125 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,875 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 2 May 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) MSTest
2 1 (5.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Housing
1 4 (20.00%) Tech for Good
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) MySQL DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Flutter Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) Node.js
3 5 (25.00%) CSS
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (15.00%) HTML
5 3 (15.00%) Laravel
5 3 (15.00%) React Native
6 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
6 2 (10.00%) RESTful
6 2 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (10.00%) Vue
7 1 (5.00%) .NET
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.00%) Deno
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) IoT
2 5 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (20.00%) Smart Home
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL
7 2 (10.00%) ITSM
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Service Management
7 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (40.00%) PHP
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft