MySQL Job Trends in Surrey

MySQL
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 85 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 30 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.37% 0.98% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.46% 6.18% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26 8 25
10th Percentile £31,250 - £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -31.82% +69.23%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,125 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.76%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 194 178 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 8.89% 15.91% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 139 121 238
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £39,326
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Surrey

MySQL
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Surrey

MySQL
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Woking -21 9 £42,500 +13.33% 1
Staines - 7 £32,500 -
Redhill - 6 £56,250 - 2
Guildford - 2 £60,000 - 1
Camberley - 1 £33,750 -
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 8 (26.67%) SaaS
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.33%) Prefect
6 2 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) ChatGPT
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.67%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) VoIP
2 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.33%) LAN
3 4 (13.33%) WAN
4 2 (6.67%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (6.67%) HTTP
4 2 (6.67%) RTP
4 2 (6.67%) Unified Communications
4 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
5 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (26.67%) Power BI
4 8 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (6.67%) Pinecone
7 2 (6.67%) Redis
8 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Data Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Data Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) SSRS Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Backend Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Support Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) JSON
1 8 (26.67%) XML
2 7 (23.33%) Node.js
3 6 (20.00%) REST
4 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 5 (16.67%) CSS
4 5 (16.67%) pytest
4 5 (16.67%) React
5 4 (13.33%) Flask
5 4 (13.33%) HTML
5 4 (13.33%) Kafka
5 4 (13.33%) LAMP
5 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (10.00%) Jest
7 2 (6.67%) Faiss
7 2 (6.67%) FastAPI
7 2 (6.67%) PyTorch
7 2 (6.67%) RFC 2833
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 8 (26.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
1 8 (26.67%) Ubuntu
2 5 (16.67%) Debian
3 1 (3.33%) CentOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (26.67%) Data Validation
4 8 (26.67%) Scrum
4 8 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 8 (26.67%) Validation
5 6 (20.00%) AI
5 6 (20.00%) Data Science
5 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) Open Source
6 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) ETL
7 4 (13.33%) ITIL
7 4 (13.33%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 20 (66.67%) SQL
3 9 (30.00%) Java
4 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) T-SQL
5 6 (20.00%) C#
5 6 (20.00%) PHP
6 5 (16.67%) C++
7 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (13.33%) Scala
8 2 (6.67%) Bash
8 2 (6.67%) C
9 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) HNC
5 1 (3.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (13.33%) SLA
4 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Kamailio
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Argo
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.67%) BT
2 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (6.67%) Mitel
3 1 (3.33%) VMware