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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 74 73
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +49
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 15 44 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.00% 2.22% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.80% 17.12% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 31 39
10th Percentile £32,875 £38,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,563 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £90,000 £84,056
South West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%

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 153 257 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 10.17% 12.99% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 116 131 360
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.21% +15.81%
75th Percentile £74,063 £80,625 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,125 £87,500 £86,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

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 18 November 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) ClickHouse
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 5 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) LAMP
2 1 (6.67%) Laravel
2 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) IoT
2 5 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Fintech
2 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
1 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (26.67%) PHP
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Apple
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft