MySQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MySQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MySQL over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 169 172 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -92 -7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,102 2,737 5,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 2.24% 3.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.83% 9.64% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 946 1,846 3,149
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,438 £75,648 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £91,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% +7.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MySQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,214 28,399 34,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.45% 23.23% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,322 17,485 22,575
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,750 £35,457
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,250 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL.

Salary trend for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the UK

MySQL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +3 936 £55,000 -4.35% 530
UK excluding London +42 780 £52,500 -4.55% 389
Work from Home +15 612 £57,500 +1.81% 307
London -68 241 £70,000 - 181
North of England +77 215 £51,498 -6.37% 148
South East +58 192 £47,500 -13.64% 94
South West +3 126 £52,500 +10.53% 41
North West +88 117 £50,000 -9.09% 79
Yorkshire +55 92 £54,000 -6.09% 42
East of England +52 76 £70,000 +1.82% 34
Scotland +30 69 £70,000 +55.56% 21
Midlands +1 59 £50,000 -11.47% 42
West Midlands +18 39 £52,500 -7.05% 23
Wales +20 32 £57,500 - 8
East Midlands +26 20 £49,990 -4.78% 19
Northern Ireland +36 11 £75,000 +36.36% 5
North East +32 6 £57,500 +43.75% 28

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 92 (8.35%) Apache
2 53 (4.81%) Confluence
3 49 (4.45%) Apache Spark
4 37 (3.36%) WordPress
5 33 (2.99%) CMS
5 33 (2.99%) SharePoint
6 23 (2.09%) Tomcat
7 21 (1.91%) Drupal
8 17 (1.54%) nginx
9 11 (1.00%) Apache Solr
10 10 (0.91%) IIS
11 8 (0.73%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.36%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.27%) Appian
13 3 (0.27%) Luigi
13 3 (0.27%) Tornado
14 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
14 2 (0.18%) Jetty
14 2 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.091%) PrintSoft PReS
4 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.54%) Elite 3E
1 17 (1.54%) Magento
1 17 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.09%) iTrent
3 8 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.091%) osCommerce
6 1 (0.091%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.091%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 377 (34.21%) AWS
2 219 (19.87%) Azure
3 127 (11.52%) GitHub
4 121 (10.98%) SaaS
5 119 (10.80%) GCP
6 103 (9.35%) Power Platform
7 76 (6.90%) Serverless
8 73 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 56 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (4.26%) Vertex AI
13 36 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
15 25 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
19 17 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.54%) Firewall
2 39 (3.54%) TCP/IP
3 38 (3.45%) DNS
4 20 (1.81%) Internet
5 18 (1.63%) PBX
6 16 (1.45%) VPN
7 15 (1.36%) HTTP
7 15 (1.36%) SAN
8 13 (1.18%) NAS
8 13 (1.18%) SSL
8 13 (1.18%) WAN
9 11 (1.00%) VoIP
10 9 (0.82%) DHCP
10 9 (0.82%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.82%) LAN
11 8 (0.73%) BGP
11 8 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (0.73%) VLAN
12 7 (0.64%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.64%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (32.58%) PostgreSQL
2 250 (22.69%) SQL Server
3 193 (17.51%) Relational Database
4 156 (14.16%) MongoDB
5 124 (11.25%) NoSQL
6 85 (7.71%) Power BI
7 81 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
8 69 (6.26%) RDBMS
9 67 (6.08%) Big Data
10 55 (4.99%) Data Lake
11 53 (4.81%) Tableau
12 50 (4.54%) BigQuery
13 48 (4.36%) MariaDB
14 47 (4.26%) Bigtable
14 47 (4.26%) Looker
15 45 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
17 41 (3.72%) Redis
18 33 (2.99%) DynamoDB
19 27 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 258 (23.41%) Git
2 155 (14.07%) Jenkins
3 97 (8.80%) JIRA
4 47 (4.26%) Maven
5 33 (2.99%) IntelliJ
6 30 (2.72%) GitLab
7 25 (2.27%) Subversion
8 24 (2.18%) Bitbucket
9 20 (1.81%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.82%) Selenium
11 7 (0.64%) JUnit
11 7 (0.64%) webpack
12 6 (0.54%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.45%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.45%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.45%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.36%) Mocha
14 4 (0.36%) Postman
14 4 (0.36%) Travis CI
General
1 223 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 197 (17.88%) Finance
3 132 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.44%) Banking
5 77 (6.99%) Retail
6 43 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 30 (2.72%) Tech for Good
8 28 (2.54%) Legal
8 28 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.36%) Marketing
10 23 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.18%) Games
14 13 (1.18%) Health Technology
15 9 (0.82%) Automotive
15 9 (0.82%) Law
16 8 (0.73%) Social Housing
17 7 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 462 (41.92%) Developer
2 213 (19.33%) Senior
3 131 (11.89%) Software Engineer
4 130 (11.80%) PHP Developer
5 109 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 79 (7.17%) Java Developer
7 73 (6.62%) DBA
8 70 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
9 68 (6.17%) Software Developer
10 65 (5.90%) Architect
10 65 (5.90%) Full Stack Engineer
11 60 (5.44%) Lead
12 58 (5.26%) Support Engineer
13 47 (4.26%) MySQL DBA
14 44 (3.99%) Web Developer
15 41 (3.72%) Analyst
15 41 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
16 40 (3.63%) Administrator
17 37 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
17 37 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (30.13%) HTML
2 300 (27.22%) CSS
3 228 (20.69%) React
4 182 (16.52%) Laravel
5 144 (13.07%) Node.js
6 139 (12.61%) AngularJS
7 135 (12.25%) RESTful
8 132 (11.98%) Web Services
9 122 (11.07%) Vue
10 117 (10.62%) .NET
11 104 (9.44%) REST
12 90 (8.17%) jQuery
13 79 (7.17%) Kafka
14 70 (6.35%) JSON
15 64 (5.81%) XML
16 60 (5.44%) HTML5
16 60 (5.44%) Spring
17 59 (5.35%) SOAP
18 57 (5.17%) ASP.NET
19 55 (4.99%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.72%) Public Cloud
2 40 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.63%) Replication
7 17 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.36%) IoT
10 13 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.00%) Clustering
12 11 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.00%) e-Learning
12 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.91%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.82%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 236 (21.42%) Linux
2 141 (12.79%) Windows
3 79 (7.17%) Unix
4 41 (3.72%) Mac OS
5 34 (3.09%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.54%) CentOS
8 14 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.73%) Debian
10 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.54%) Android
12 6 (0.54%) Solaris
13 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.091%) AIX
14 1 (0.091%) Fedora
14 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (34.66%) Agile
2 220 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (17.15%) Software Engineering
4 184 (16.70%) Full Stack Development
5 180 (16.33%) CI/CD
6 130 (11.80%) MVC
7 124 (11.25%) Computer Science
8 123 (11.16%) DevOps
9 121 (10.98%) Microservices
10 116 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 110 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 108 (9.80%) Web Development
13 99 (8.98%) OOP
14 90 (8.17%) TDD
15 82 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 79 (7.17%) Analytics
16 79 (7.17%) ETL
17 78 (7.08%) Machine Learning
18 73 (6.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 385 (34.94%) JavaScript
2 335 (30.40%) SQL
3 291 (26.41%) PHP
4 204 (18.51%) Java
5 176 (15.97%) Python
6 136 (12.34%) C#
7 84 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 81 (7.35%) Bash
9 61 (5.54%) PowerShell
10 48 (4.36%) Go
11 39 (3.54%) Perl
12 33 (2.99%) Kotlin
13 32 (2.90%) PL/SQL
14 22 (2.00%) C++
14 22 (2.00%) Shell Script
15 16 (1.45%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.09%) C
17 9 (0.82%) VBA
18 6 (0.54%) Ruby
18 6 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 197 (17.88%) Degree
2 102 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 94 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 93 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (1.72%) CCNA
6 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.73%) MCSE
9 7 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.64%) MCSA
10 6 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.45%) CISSP
12 4 (0.36%) CISM
12 4 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.36%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.27%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.99%) QA
2 13 (1.18%) SLA
3 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.27%) DICOM
4 3 (0.27%) HL7
4 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.091%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.091%) GDPR
6 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.091%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 240 (21.78%) Docker
2 67 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.36%) FreeRADIUS
6 4 (0.36%) KVM
6 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.36%) vSphere
7 3 (0.27%) Ceph
7 3 (0.27%) LXC
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.18%) ACF2
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) IAG
8 2 (0.18%) pfSense
8 2 (0.18%) RACF
8 2 (0.18%) Shibboleth
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 114 (10.34%) Terraform
3 59 (5.35%) Ansible
4 15 (1.36%) Puppet
5 12 (1.09%) Grafana
6 11 (1.00%) Nagios
6 11 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.54%) Kibana
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.45%) HAProxy
9 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.27%) Cacti
11 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.27%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 165 (14.97%) Oracle
2 95 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 77 (6.99%) VMware
4 63 (5.72%) Google
5 32 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 24 (2.18%) Red Hat
7 23 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.00%) HP
8 22 (2.00%) Remedy
9 20 (1.81%) Xamarin
10 18 (1.63%) Databricks
11 17 (1.54%) BMC
12 14 (1.27%) Cisco
12 14 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.00%) Zend
14 9 (0.82%) SAP
15 7 (0.64%) Dell
15 7 (0.64%) Veeam
16 6 (0.54%) Aruba
16 6 (0.54%) Splunk