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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 52 106
Rank change year-on-year -35 +54 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 18 41 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.67% 4.12% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.76% 18.81% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15 35 37
10th Percentile £28,750 £45,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £67,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% +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 153 218 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.66% 21.93% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 96 159 391
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,770 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,020 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 4 April 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) MSTest
2 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Housing
2 3 (16.67%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Flutter Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) React
2 6 (33.33%) Node.js
3 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) Laravel
4 3 (16.67%) React Native
5 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (11.11%) Vue
6 1 (5.56%) .NET
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.56%) Deno
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (33.33%) IoT
2 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 3 (16.67%) Smart Home
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Clean Code
1 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) TypeScript
2 9 (50.00%) PHP
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Apple
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft