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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 199 164
Rank change year-on-year -15 -35 -48
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 117 102 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.68% 1.14% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.62% 8.32% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 97 85 173
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,030 £78,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 1,357 1,226 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.88% 13.73% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 658 1,397
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,688 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,128 £83,750 £83,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% -3.85%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -10 43 £51,250 -21.15% 11
Hampshire -27 37 £60,000 +60.00% 6
Surrey -4 28 £55,000 +46.67% 1
Buckinghamshire -6 22 £67,500 -3.57% 6
Oxfordshire -31 12 £35,000 -41.67% 3
Berkshire +22 9 £42,000 -32.80% 2
Kent -22 5 £25,000 -18.03%
West Sussex -18 2 £80,000 +52.38%
East Sussex -21 2 £75,000 +85.19% 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 9 (7.69%) IIS
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.98%) Apache
4 4 (3.42%) Confluence
4 4 (3.42%) WordPress
5 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.71%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.85%) CMS
7 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (59.83%) AWS
2 33 (28.21%) GCP
3 29 (24.79%) Azure
4 11 (9.40%) GitHub
5 9 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (3.42%) Serverless
10 3 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.56%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 3 (2.56%) ChatGPT
10 3 (2.56%) Google Gemini
10 3 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.56%) Prefect
10 3 (2.56%) SaaS
11 2 (1.71%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.69%) Firewall
2 8 (6.84%) iSCSI
2 8 (6.84%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (6.84%) SAN
3 7 (5.98%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.13%) VoIP
5 4 (3.42%) LAN
5 4 (3.42%) WAN
6 2 (1.71%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (1.71%) HTTP
6 2 (1.71%) Network Security
6 2 (1.71%) PBX
6 2 (1.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.48%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 31 (26.50%) Relational Database
4 16 (13.68%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.27%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.42%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.42%) Redis
10 3 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.71%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.85%) Power BI
12 1 (0.85%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 40 (34.19%) Git
2 10 (8.55%) Claude Code
3 9 (7.69%) JIRA
4 8 (6.84%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (6.84%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (5.13%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.13%) Selenium
6 5 (4.27%) PHPUnit
7 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.71%) GitLab
9 2 (1.71%) Mocha
9 2 (1.71%) NUnit
10 1 (0.85%) JUnit
10 1 (0.85%) Postman
10 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.85%) Storybook
10 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.82%) Finance
4 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.84%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.13%) Law
7 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Aviation
8 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (63.25%) Developer
2 44 (37.61%) Senior
3 32 (27.35%) Senior Developer
4 21 (17.95%) Backend Developer
5 18 (15.38%) PHP Developer
6 16 (13.68%) Senior Backend Developer
7 15 (12.82%) .NET Developer
8 12 (10.26%) C# Developer
8 12 (10.26%) Software Engineer
9 11 (9.40%) Web Developer
10 9 (7.69%) .NET Web Developer
11 8 (6.84%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (6.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 8 (6.84%) VB.NET Developer
12 7 (5.98%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (5.98%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (5.13%) Lead
13 6 (5.13%) Senior C# Developer
13 6 (5.13%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (41.88%) CSS
2 45 (38.46%) HTML
3 29 (24.79%) .NET
4 20 (17.09%) Node.js
5 19 (16.24%) REST
6 18 (15.38%) jQuery
6 18 (15.38%) React
7 16 (13.68%) Laravel
8 14 (11.97%) ASP.NET
9 13 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 11 (9.40%) LAMP
10 11 (9.40%) Vue
11 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (7.69%) .NET Core
12 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
13 8 (6.84%) .NET Framework
13 8 (6.84%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 8 (6.84%) Entity Framework
13 8 (6.84%) LESS
13 8 (6.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.84%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.84%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.27%) Replication
6 4 (3.42%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.71%) NHS
8 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.71%) Robotics
9 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.85%) PMI
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.95%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.13%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.27%) Debian
5 3 (2.56%) CentOS
5 3 (2.56%) Windows
6 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.61%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (23.08%) OOP
4 25 (21.37%) Web Development
5 24 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 22 (18.80%) Software Engineering
7 18 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 17 (14.53%) Computer Science
8 17 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (14.53%) Scrum
8 17 (14.53%) TDD
9 14 (11.97%) Code Quality
9 14 (11.97%) DevOps
10 13 (11.11%) AI
10 13 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (11.11%) ITIL
10 13 (11.11%) MVC
11 12 (10.26%) User Experience
12 11 (9.40%) Microservices
12 11 (9.40%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) JavaScript
2 45 (38.46%) PHP
3 30 (25.64%) SQL
4 25 (21.37%) C#
5 19 (16.24%) Java
6 18 (15.38%) Python
7 14 (11.97%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.55%) Bash
9 9 (7.69%) PowerShell
10 8 (6.84%) VB.NET
11 6 (5.13%) C++
11 6 (5.13%) Korn
12 3 (2.56%) Scala
13 2 (1.71%) C
13 2 (1.71%) Ruby
14 1 (0.85%) Go
14 1 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (29.06%) Degree
2 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.40%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.71%) HNC
7 2 (1.71%) HND
7 2 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.71%) RHCE
7 2 (1.71%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) SLA
2 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) QA
3 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (8.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (1.71%) Samba
5 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.42%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Argo
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Graylog
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.97%) Google
3 11 (9.40%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.84%) Dell
4 8 (6.84%) Oracle
4 8 (6.84%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.71%) D-Link
5 2 (1.71%) New Relic
5 2 (1.71%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.85%) VMware