MySQL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

MySQL
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 115 136
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 +29
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 27 56 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.50% 1.98% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.66% 10.22% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16 44 107
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.38% -4.61%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 477 548 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.88% 19.37% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 278 346 818
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,188 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +5.45% -

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the Thames Valley

MySQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Buckinghamshire -20 16 £60,000 - 11
Berkshire -11 10 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Oxfordshire -29 1 £42,500 -29.17% 6
MySQL
South East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) dbt
7 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
1 7 (25.93%) iSCSI
1 7 (25.93%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (25.93%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) PBX
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.70%) Looker
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) git-flow
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Ant
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Gradle
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Mockito
3 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
5 4 (14.81%) .NET Web Developer
5 4 (14.81%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (14.81%) C# Web Developer
5 4 (14.81%) PHP Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Web Developer
6 3 (11.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.70%) MySQL DBA
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) CSS
2 9 (33.33%) HTML
2 9 (33.33%) React
3 8 (29.63%) .NET
3 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
3 8 (29.63%) Vue
4 6 (22.22%) Laravel
5 5 (18.52%) ASP.NET
6 4 (14.81%) RESTful
7 3 (11.11%) CSS3
7 3 (11.11%) HTML5
7 3 (11.11%) Next.js
7 3 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
8 2 (7.41%) Kafka
8 2 (7.41%) Material-UI
8 2 (7.41%) Node.js
8 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (3.70%) Ember.js
9 1 (3.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
1 7 (25.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) PMI
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) High Availability
1 8 (29.63%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) Time Management
3 5 (18.52%) AI
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (14.81%) API Development
4 4 (14.81%) Microservices
4 4 (14.81%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Web Development
5 3 (11.11%) B2B
5 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.11%) OO
5 3 (11.11%) OO PHP
6 2 (7.41%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) C#
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
2 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) PHP
4 5 (18.52%) Korn
5 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.41%) C
7 1 (3.70%) Go
7 1 (3.70%) Python
7 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) RHCE
2 2 (7.41%) RHCSA
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (7.41%) Samba
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Graylog
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Red Hat
3 7 (25.93%) Dell
4 4 (14.81%) OpenAI
5 2 (7.41%) D-Link
6 1 (3.70%) Informatica
6 1 (3.70%) Zend