MySQL Jobs in the South East

MySQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 171 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 -46 -46
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 136 269 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.43% 1.60% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.15% 10.12% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 97 254 261
10th Percentile £30,300 £33,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% +2.73%

All Database and 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 1,220 2,658 2,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.79% 15.85% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 711 1,984 1,684
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,863
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the South East.

Salary trend for MySQL in the South East

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 +23 59 £60,000 +26.32% 42
Oxfordshire +25 29 £60,000 +17.65% 26
Hampshire +44 24 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Kent +21 23 £31,000 -34.74% 7
Surrey +41 21 £41,500 -27.83% 6
Berkshire +20 21 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Buckinghamshire +22 9 £61,250 +2.08% 10
East Sussex -2 5 £42,500 -19.05% 7
West Sussex +25 2 - - 1
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (16.18%) Confluence
2 6 (4.41%) IIS
3 4 (2.94%) Apache
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.94%) nginx
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.24%) AWS
2 20 (14.71%) SaaS
3 17 (12.50%) Azure
4 12 (8.82%) GCP
4 12 (8.82%) GitHub
5 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.41%) Cloudflare
7 6 (4.41%) IaaS
7 6 (4.41%) PaaS
7 6 (4.41%) Slack
7 6 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.94%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) DNS
2 6 (4.41%) Firewall
3 5 (3.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.94%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.94%) IPsec
4 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.94%) VPN
4 4 (2.94%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) DVB
5 1 (0.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.74%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.74%) LTE
5 1 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) SAN
5 1 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.74%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.82%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.09%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.15%) Couchbase
6 7 (5.15%) Power BI
6 7 (5.15%) SQLite
7 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.68%) Redis
9 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.47%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.47%) Metadata
10 2 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Git
2 24 (17.65%) JIRA
3 12 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 10 (7.35%) GitLab
4 10 (7.35%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.41%) PHPUnit
6 5 (3.68%) Jasmine
6 5 (3.68%) NUnit
6 5 (3.68%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.21%) Mocha
8 2 (1.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (9.56%) Retail
2 11 (8.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.62%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.15%) Electronics
7 6 (4.41%) Games
8 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Automotive
9 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 55 (40.44%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Senior
3 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (14.71%) PHP Developer
5 16 (11.76%) Junior
5 16 (11.76%) Junior Developer
6 13 (9.56%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.56%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Support Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Junior PHP Developer
7 12 (8.82%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Applications Support
8 11 (8.09%) Applications Support Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Technical Support
8 11 (8.09%) Technical Support Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (33.09%) CSS
2 44 (32.35%) HTML
3 40 (29.41%) Laravel
4 23 (16.91%) LAMP
5 22 (16.18%) .NET
6 20 (14.71%) React
7 18 (13.24%) RESTful
7 18 (13.24%) Vue
8 16 (11.76%) Web Services
9 13 (9.56%) CakePHP
9 13 (9.56%) REST
10 11 (8.09%) Jest
11 9 (6.62%) Django
11 9 (6.62%) Flask
11 9 (6.62%) Node.js
12 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
13 7 (5.15%) HTML5
13 7 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET
14 6 (4.41%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (5.15%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.41%) Molecular Biology
4 5 (3.68%) NHS
5 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.21%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Clustering
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.47%) Online Games
7 2 (1.47%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 43 (31.62%) Linux
2 14 (10.29%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) CentOS
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (20.59%) Agile
4 25 (18.38%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 23 (16.91%) Software Engineering
7 21 (15.44%) OOP
8 19 (13.97%) DevOps
9 18 (13.24%) MVC
10 17 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
11 16 (11.76%) TDD
12 14 (10.29%) B2B
13 11 (8.09%) Coaching
14 10 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (7.35%) Design Patterns
14 10 (7.35%) High Availability
14 10 (7.35%) Migration
15 9 (6.62%) Code Quality
15 9 (6.62%) Microservices
15 9 (6.62%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.59%) PHP
2 60 (44.12%) JavaScript
3 46 (33.82%) SQL
4 21 (15.44%) Python
5 18 (13.24%) C#
6 13 (9.56%) PL/SQL
7 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.88%) Bash
8 8 (5.88%) Go
9 6 (4.41%) Java
10 4 (2.94%) Bicep
10 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.47%) C
12 2 (1.47%) Perl
12 2 (1.47%) R
12 2 (1.47%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.74%) Korn
13 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.41%) DBS Check
1 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.68%) Degree
3 4 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) HNC
5 1 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.47%) Dublin Core
4 1 (0.74%) GMP
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 23 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.50%) Ansible
3 13 (9.56%) Terraform
4 6 (4.41%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.47%) Kubespray
7 1 (0.74%) Grafana
7 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Atlassian
2 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.41%) Rollbar
3 6 (4.41%) Sawtooth Software
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle
5 4 (2.94%) Databricks
5 4 (2.94%) Meraki
6 3 (2.21%) Twitter
7 2 (1.47%) Google
7 2 (1.47%) Informatica
7 2 (1.47%) Sage
7 2 (1.47%) Talend
8 1 (0.74%) Dell
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) VMware