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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 164 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 -25 -59
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 130 274 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.54% 1.64% 2.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.05% 10.28% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 98 260 254
10th Percentile £30,350 £33,750 £31,800
25th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%

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 1,176 2,665 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.89% 15.97% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 741 1,990 1,785
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,582
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.05% +1.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -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 1 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 1 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 +25 56 £60,000 +26.32% 35
Oxfordshire +25 26 £60,000 +17.65% 19
Hampshire +42 24 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Berkshire +37 22 £50,000 +17.65% 11
Kent +26 21 £31,000 -32.97% 3
Surrey +59 20 £45,000 -21.74% 6
Buckinghamshire +30 8 £60,000 - 7
East Sussex +10 5 £42,500 -19.05% 6
West Sussex +24 2 - - 3
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 (16.92%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Solr
2 5 (3.85%) nginx
3 4 (3.08%) IIS
4 3 (2.31%) Apache
5 2 (1.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.92%) AWS
2 17 (13.08%) GCP
3 16 (12.31%) SaaS
4 15 (11.54%) GitHub
5 13 (10.00%) Azure
6 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.62%) Slack
8 6 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (3.85%) Serverless
10 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.31%) Cloudflare
12 2 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.54%) IaaS
12 2 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.85%) DNS
2 5 (3.85%) HTTPS
2 5 (3.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.77%) DVB
3 1 (0.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.77%) Internet
3 1 (0.77%) LTE
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.77%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 17 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (12.31%) NoSQL
4 12 (9.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.92%) Couchbase
6 9 (6.92%) SQLite
7 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.31%) Power BI
8 3 (2.31%) Redis
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.54%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.54%) Metadata
9 2 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 58 (44.62%) Git
2 23 (17.69%) JIRA
3 12 (9.23%) Bitbucket
3 12 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (3.08%) PHPUnit
6 3 (2.31%) Jasmine
6 3 (2.31%) NUnit
6 3 (2.31%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.54%) Mocha
7 2 (1.54%) Selenium
8 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (12.31%) Retail
2 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.46%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (8.46%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.15%) Finance
4 8 (6.15%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.38%) Electronics
6 5 (3.85%) Games
7 2 (1.54%) Automotive
7 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.77%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (40.00%) Developer
2 28 (21.54%) Senior
3 20 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (15.38%) PHP Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Junior
4 16 (12.31%) Junior Developer
5 14 (10.77%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Junior PHP Developer
7 12 (9.23%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Applications Support
8 11 (8.46%) Applications Support Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Technical Support
8 11 (8.46%) Technical Support Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.62%) CSS
2 44 (33.85%) HTML
3 41 (31.54%) Laravel
4 23 (17.69%) .NET
4 23 (17.69%) LAMP
5 18 (13.85%) Web Services
6 17 (13.08%) React
6 17 (13.08%) Vue
7 14 (10.77%) RESTful
8 13 (10.00%) CakePHP
9 10 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (6.92%) Django
10 9 (6.92%) Flask
10 9 (6.92%) REST
11 7 (5.38%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.62%) Jest
12 6 (4.62%) Kafka
12 6 (4.62%) Lambda Expressions
12 6 (4.62%) Node.js
13 5 (3.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.62%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.62%) Molecular Biology
3 3 (2.31%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.54%) Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Online Games
4 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.54%) Replication
5 1 (0.77%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.77%) IoT
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.62%) Linux
2 15 (11.54%) Windows
3 4 (3.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.77%) CentOS
4 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (24.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (21.54%) E-Commerce
4 27 (20.77%) Agile
5 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 22 (16.92%) OOP
7 20 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.62%) MVC
9 18 (13.85%) Systems Engineering
10 16 (12.31%) DevOps
10 16 (12.31%) TDD
11 12 (9.23%) Coaching
12 11 (8.46%) Design Patterns
13 10 (7.69%) User Experience
14 9 (6.92%) Code Quality
14 9 (6.92%) Progressive Web App
15 8 (6.15%) B2B
15 8 (6.15%) Containerisation
15 8 (6.15%) Microservices
16 7 (5.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.46%) PHP
2 57 (43.85%) JavaScript
3 43 (33.08%) SQL
4 20 (15.38%) Python
5 18 (13.85%) C#
6 14 (10.77%) PL/SQL
7 9 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.15%) Go
9 7 (5.38%) Bash
10 6 (4.62%) Java
11 3 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.54%) R
12 2 (1.54%) SPARQL
12 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.77%) C
13 1 (0.77%) Julia
13 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (4.62%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.08%) Degree
3 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.77%) HNC
4 1 (0.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) Dublin Core
4 1 (0.77%) GMP
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.62%) Ansible
3 12 (9.23%) Terraform
4 6 (4.62%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.54%) Kubespray
6 1 (0.77%) Grafana
6 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Atlassian
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.62%) Sawtooth Software
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (2.31%) Rollbar
5 3 (2.31%) Twitter
6 2 (1.54%) Google
6 2 (1.54%) Informatica
6 2 (1.54%) Talend
7 1 (0.77%) VMware