MySQL Job Trends in the South East

MySQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 129 148
Rank change year-on-year -73 +19 -4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 81 133 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.60% 1.97% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.30% 11.17% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 108 264
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,188 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,375 £77,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,110 1,191 2,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.16% 17.64% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 658 738 1,945
10th Percentile £35,525 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

MySQL job vacancy trend in the South East

MySQL
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South East over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -9 31 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Thames Valley -37 28 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Surrey -23 17 £42,500 +30.77% 2
Buckinghamshire -24 15 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Berkshire -3 11 £62,500 +25.00% 3
Kent -48 5 £25,000 -19.35% 1
Oxfordshire -27 2 £42,500 -29.17% 2
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (17.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.94%) nginx
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 19 (23.46%) GCP
4 14 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (14.81%) SaaS
6 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.64%) GitHub
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.94%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.94%) Serverless
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.47%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (2.47%) Prefect
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) Firewall
1 6 (7.41%) iSCSI
1 6 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (7.41%) SAN
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
3 3 (3.70%) HTTP
3 3 (3.70%) RTP
3 3 (3.70%) Unified Communications
3 3 (3.70%) VoIP
3 3 (3.70%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.47%) Network Security
4 2 (2.47%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.10%) SQL Server
2 24 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.05%) NoSQL
4 10 (12.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 9 (11.11%) Power BI
5 9 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (9.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.23%) Looker
9 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) Git
2 4 (4.94%) PHPUnit
3 3 (3.70%) git-flow
4 2 (2.47%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) Ant
5 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.23%) Gradle
5 1 (1.23%) JUnit
5 1 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) Mockito
5 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 52 (64.20%) Developer
2 30 (37.04%) Senior
3 23 (28.40%) Senior Developer
4 19 (23.46%) Backend Developer
4 19 (23.46%) Senior Backend Developer
5 13 (16.05%) PHP Developer
6 9 (11.11%) C# Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) Data Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) SQL Data Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) SSRS Analyst
8 6 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.40%) CSS
2 17 (20.99%) HTML
3 13 (16.05%) .NET
4 11 (13.58%) REST
5 10 (12.35%) Node.js
5 10 (12.35%) React
6 9 (11.11%) Vue
7 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.88%) JSON
7 8 (9.88%) Laravel
7 8 (9.88%) XML
8 7 (8.64%) jQuery
8 7 (8.64%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (6.17%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.94%) LAMP
10 4 (4.94%) RESTful
11 3 (3.70%) CSS3
11 3 (3.70%) HTML5
11 3 (3.70%) OAuth
11 3 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Onboarding
2 10 (12.35%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.88%) Data Structures
4 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.17%) Replication
6 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) PMI
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) OOP
2 20 (24.69%) TDD
3 19 (23.46%) Agile
4 14 (17.28%) Data Modelling
5 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
6 12 (14.81%) B2B
7 11 (13.58%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.58%) ITIL
8 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.35%) Validation
9 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (9.88%) AI
10 8 (9.88%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (9.88%) Data Validation
10 8 (9.88%) Task Automation
10 8 (9.88%) Web Development
11 7 (8.64%) ETL
11 7 (8.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.64%) High Availability
12 6 (7.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) PHP
2 28 (34.57%) SQL
3 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
4 17 (20.99%) C#
5 14 (17.28%) PowerShell
5 14 (17.28%) Python
6 8 (9.88%) T-SQL
7 7 (8.64%) C++
8 6 (7.41%) Bash
8 6 (7.41%) Java
9 5 (6.17%) C
9 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.94%) Korn
11 2 (2.47%) Scala
12 1 (1.23%) Go
12 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (25.93%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) RHCE
5 2 (2.47%) RHCSA
5 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) Data Quality
1 11 (13.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.64%) SLA
3 5 (6.17%) QA
4 4 (4.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Docker
2 14 (17.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (3.70%) Kamailio
5 2 (2.47%) Samba
Systems Management
1 19 (23.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Argo
3 2 (2.47%) Terraform
4 1 (1.23%) Grafana
4 1 (1.23%) Graylog
4 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Google
3 7 (8.64%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.41%) Dell
5 4 (4.94%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.70%) BT
6 3 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.70%) Mitel
7 2 (2.47%) D-Link
8 1 (1.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.23%) Zend