MySQL Job Trends in the South West

MySQL
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 78 108
Rank change year-on-year -88 +30 -1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 41 80 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.56% 3.01% 2.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.08% 16.60% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 73 186
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,625 £68,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £73,000 £76,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 579 482 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.89% 18.14% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 278 340 990
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,179 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,286 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,499 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,581 £66,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the South West

MySQL
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the South West

MySQL
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bristol -37 17 £60,000 - 8
Dorset -37 9 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Gloucestershire - 9 £48,000 -
Devon -19 3 £55,000 -21.43%
Wiltshire -21 2 £60,000 -
Somerset -30 1 £42,784 +6.96% 4
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (9.76%) CMS
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.88%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.88%) nginx
4 1 (2.44%) IIS
4 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) GCP
3 4 (9.76%) DigitalOcean
3 4 (9.76%) GitHub
3 4 (9.76%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) LAN
1 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (24.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
5 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.44%) Airbyte
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.44%) Big Data
7 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
7 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) JUnit
3 1 (2.44%) Mockito
3 1 (2.44%) MSTest
3 1 (2.44%) NUnit
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Social Housing
3 3 (7.32%) Tech for Good
4 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 14 (34.15%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Senior Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Lead
7 3 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.32%) Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) DBA
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.32%) PHP Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) React
2 10 (24.39%) Laravel
3 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
3 9 (21.95%) Node.js
4 8 (19.51%) RESTful
4 8 (19.51%) Vue
5 7 (17.07%) CSS
6 5 (12.20%) HTML
6 5 (12.20%) Spring
6 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
7 4 (9.76%) Spring MVC
8 3 (7.32%) LoopBack
8 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.32%) React Native
9 2 (4.88%) Bootstrap
9 2 (4.88%) Django
9 2 (4.88%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (4.88%) Nuxt
9 2 (4.88%) REST
9 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (12.20%) IoT
1 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Smart Home
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 10 (24.39%) Microservices
5 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.51%) DevOps
7 6 (14.63%) API Development
7 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.20%) API Design
8 5 (12.20%) MVC
8 5 (12.20%) Scrum
8 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.20%) Web Development
9 4 (9.76%) API Integration
9 4 (9.76%) E-Commerce
9 4 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
1 17 (41.46%) PHP
2 15 (36.59%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
4 10 (24.39%) Java
5 8 (19.51%) Python
6 4 (9.76%) C#
7 3 (7.32%) Go
8 2 (4.88%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) C++
9 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Data Guard
4 2 (4.88%) Nagios
5 1 (2.44%) Plesk
5 1 (2.44%) Podman
5 1 (2.44%) Rancher
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Apple
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Juniper
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) New Relic
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) VMware