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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 133 126
Rank change year-on-year -91 -7 +53
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 46 193 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.44% 2.15% 2.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.94% 11.92% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 136 180
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 931 1,619 1,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.97% 18.03% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 534 844 1,252
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,115 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Thames Valley -30 26 £62,500 +4.17% 35
Hampshire -21 15 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +14 12 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Berkshire -37 10 £62,500 +25.00% 17
Oxfordshire +2 4 £53,750 -10.42% 7
Kent -18 3 £25,000 -50.00% 12
East Sussex -4 1 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Surrey -25 1 - - 17
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 4 (8.70%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Camunda
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) Azure
3 11 (23.91%) GCP
3 11 (23.91%) SaaS
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) Serverless
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) dbt
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.57%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (19.57%) NoSQL
3 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
6 4 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (6.52%) Power BI
8 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.17%) Looker
9 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) git-flow
3 2 (4.35%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.17%) Ant
4 1 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.17%) Gradle
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (2.17%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.17%) Billing
4 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (82.61%) Developer
2 20 (43.48%) Senior
3 19 (41.30%) Senior Developer
4 13 (28.26%) Backend Developer
4 13 (28.26%) Senior Backend Developer
5 11 (23.91%) PHP Developer
6 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (15.22%) C# Developer
8 6 (13.04%) Software Developer
9 5 (10.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (10.87%) SQL Developer
10 4 (8.70%) Graduate
10 4 (8.70%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (8.70%) Senior PHP Developer
11 3 (6.52%) Azure Developer
11 3 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
11 3 (6.52%) DBA
11 3 (6.52%) Graduate C# Developer
11 3 (6.52%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 3 (6.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) CSS
2 14 (30.43%) .NET
3 12 (26.09%) React
4 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
4 9 (19.57%) HTML
4 9 (19.57%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET
5 7 (15.22%) Vue
6 5 (10.87%) AWS CDK
6 5 (10.87%) jQuery
6 5 (10.87%) Kafka
6 5 (10.87%) Material-UI
6 5 (10.87%) Node.js
7 4 (8.70%) Laravel
7 4 (8.70%) Sequelize
8 3 (6.52%) CSS3
8 3 (6.52%) HTML5
8 3 (6.52%) Symfony
8 3 (6.52%) TypeORM
9 2 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Sports Betting
4 2 (4.35%) NHS
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Android
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (30.43%) OOP
2 14 (30.43%) TDD
3 11 (23.91%) DevOps
4 7 (15.22%) B2B
4 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
4 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.04%) AI
5 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 6 (13.04%) Microservices
5 6 (13.04%) MVC
5 6 (13.04%) Web Development
6 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven
6 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (10.87%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) PHP
2 16 (34.78%) C#
3 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
4 12 (26.09%) TypeScript
5 11 (23.91%) SQL
6 5 (10.87%) Java
7 4 (8.70%) C++
7 4 (8.70%) Python
8 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.17%) Bash
9 1 (2.17%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) Korn
9 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (2.17%) R
9 1 (2.17%) Swift
9 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Google
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Dell
4 1 (2.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.17%) IONA
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Zend