MySQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 184 139
Rank change year-on-year +29 -45 -59
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,294 1,159 3,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.95% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.61% 9.23% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 712 1,010 1,996
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,716 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.32% -1.49% +10.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,193 12,560 35,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 21.12% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,209 9,440 18,525
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 +35 1,208 £54,000 -1.82% 318
UK excluding London +1 892 £50,000 -3.32% 259
Work from Home +4 603 £50,000 -13.04% 431
London +77 373 £60,000 -14.29% 74
South East -24 215 £52,500 +10.53% 62
North of England -16 214 £52,500 - 65
Midlands +41 154 £44,000 -20.00% 43
South West +21 149 £50,000 -4.76% 51
North West -15 132 £52,500 +5.00% 35
East of England -21 94 £55,000 -8.33% 26
West Midlands -2 87 £50,000 -9.09% 33
East Midlands +21 64 £40,000 -19.98% 10
Yorkshire 0 61 £52,500 - 18
Scotland -45 33 £55,000 -21.43% 8
Wales +43 32 £32,500 -40.91% 10
North East -15 21 £42,500 -17.07% 14
Northern Ireland +18 2 £75,000 +100.00% 4

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 89 (6.88%) CMS
2 68 (5.26%) Apache
3 64 (4.95%) WordPress
4 55 (4.25%) nginx
5 30 (2.32%) Confluence
6 22 (1.70%) Apache Solr
6 22 (1.70%) Drupal
7 18 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (1.16%) Moodle
8 15 (1.16%) SharePoint
9 13 (1.00%) Totara
10 11 (0.85%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.77%) IIS
12 5 (0.39%) SAS
13 4 (0.31%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.31%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
15 2 (0.15%) Joomla!
15 2 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.39%) SPSS
4 4 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.31%) InVision
4 4 (0.31%) Sketch
4 4 (0.31%) Zeplin
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (2.16%) Magento
2 25 (1.93%) Shopify
3 13 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.39%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.15%) iTrent
5 2 (0.15%) Relativity
5 2 (0.15%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.077%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.077%) Maximo
6 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.077%) Ripple
6 1 (0.077%) Ripple XRP
6 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 423 (32.69%) AWS
2 188 (14.53%) Azure
3 121 (9.35%) SaaS
4 119 (9.20%) GCP
5 114 (8.81%) GitHub
6 79 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (2.32%) npm
9 27 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 22 (1.70%) Slack
11 21 (1.62%) Serverless
12 20 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.55%) Datadog
13 19 (1.47%) Zapier
14 16 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 13 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.00%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 174 (13.45%) Broadband
2 25 (1.93%) WAN
3 23 (1.78%) DNS
3 23 (1.78%) LAN
3 23 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (1.55%) DHCP
5 18 (1.39%) Firewall
6 15 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.08%) HTTP
8 11 (0.85%) VPN
9 8 (0.62%) Network Security
9 8 (0.62%) SSL
10 7 (0.54%) iSCSI
11 6 (0.46%) Internet
11 6 (0.46%) MQTT
12 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.39%) SMS
12 5 (0.39%) SSH
13 4 (0.31%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 217 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
3 203 (15.69%) MongoDB
4 195 (15.07%) Relational Database
5 68 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 54 (4.17%) MariaDB
7 34 (2.63%) SQLite
8 33 (2.55%) Redis
9 26 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (1.93%) BigQuery
10 25 (1.93%) Power BI
11 24 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (1.85%) Big Data
12 20 (1.55%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.24%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 445 (34.39%) Git
2 113 (8.73%) GitLab
3 57 (4.40%) JIRA
4 47 (3.63%) PHPUnit
5 42 (3.25%) Jenkins
6 38 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 27 (2.09%) Grunt
8 24 (1.85%) Selenium
9 23 (1.78%) webpack
10 16 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.00%) Mercurial
12 12 (0.93%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.77%) Maven
13 10 (0.77%) Subversion
14 9 (0.70%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.70%) Gradle
14 9 (0.70%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.62%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.54%) gulp
16 7 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 305 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 190 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (8.35%) Finance
4 100 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.94%) Law
7 46 (3.55%) Marketing
8 45 (3.48%) Retail
9 39 (3.01%) Tech for Good
10 31 (2.40%) Games
11 25 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.00%) Advertising
15 12 (0.93%) Banking
15 12 (0.93%) Legal
16 11 (0.85%) Automotive
17 10 (0.77%) Social Housing
18 9 (0.70%) Health Technology
18 9 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 697 (53.86%) Developer
2 284 (21.95%) PHP Developer
3 264 (20.40%) Senior
4 168 (12.98%) Senior Developer
5 110 (8.50%) Analyst
6 107 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 104 (8.04%) Web Developer
8 95 (7.34%) Product Manager
8 95 (7.34%) Technical Manager
8 95 (7.34%) Technical Product Manager
9 88 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 85 (6.57%) Lead
11 79 (6.11%) Operations Analyst
11 79 (6.11%) Service Analyst
11 79 (6.11%) Service Operations Analyst
12 69 (5.33%) Senior PHP Developer
13 58 (4.48%) PHP Web Developer
14 53 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 45 (3.48%) Java Developer
16 38 (2.94%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (32.15%) HTML
2 385 (29.75%) CSS
3 243 (18.78%) React
4 241 (18.62%) Laravel
5 141 (10.90%) .NET
6 132 (10.20%) Vue
7 129 (9.97%) Symfony
8 111 (8.58%) Node.js
9 109 (8.42%) jQuery
10 108 (8.35%) RESTful
11 88 (6.80%) REST
12 78 (6.03%) LAMP
13 73 (5.64%) AngularJS
14 72 (5.56%) Web Services
15 59 (4.56%) HTML5
16 58 (4.48%) Sass
17 52 (4.02%) Spring
18 50 (3.86%) XML
19 44 (3.40%) GraphQL
19 44 (3.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 108 (8.35%) Cloud Native
3 101 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (2.55%) IoT
6 30 (2.32%) Legacy Code
7 28 (2.16%) Mobile App
8 24 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.78%) Cybercrime
10 22 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.70%) NHS
11 20 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.24%) Robotics
15 15 (1.16%) Replication
16 13 (1.00%) e-Learning
17 12 (0.93%) Data Centre
18 11 (0.85%) Data Structures
18 11 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 251 (19.40%) Linux
2 82 (6.34%) Windows
3 39 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.85%) Android
6 20 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.16%) Unix
8 14 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.85%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.77%) CentOS
11 8 (0.62%) Debian
12 7 (0.54%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.39%) VMS
14 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.15%) AIX
15 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.15%) Rocky
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (28.98%) Agile
2 363 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 337 (26.04%) Software Engineering
4 295 (22.80%) DevOps
5 224 (17.31%) Microservices
6 210 (16.23%) Mentoring
7 200 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 200 (15.46%) Web Development
8 199 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 158 (12.21%) Design Patterns
10 152 (11.75%) OOP
11 147 (11.36%) OO
12 146 (11.28%) E-Commerce
13 131 (10.12%) TDD
14 130 (10.05%) SDLC
15 128 (9.89%) ITIL
16 127 (9.81%) Computer Science
17 125 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
18 105 (8.11%) User Experience
19 102 (7.88%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 560 (43.28%) PHP
2 516 (39.88%) JavaScript
3 397 (30.68%) SQL
4 176 (13.60%) Python
5 165 (12.75%) Java
6 142 (10.97%) C#
7 110 (8.50%) TypeScript
8 54 (4.17%) Bash
9 39 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.70%) C++
11 34 (2.63%) Go
12 24 (1.85%) Ruby
13 22 (1.70%) VB
14 17 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 14 (1.08%) Rust
15 14 (1.08%) Scala
16 12 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.93%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.70%) Perl
17 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (13.37%) Degree
2 69 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
4 25 (1.93%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.31%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.23%) MCSE
11 3 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.15%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.15%) MCSA
12 2 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.15%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (9.43%) QA
2 27 (2.09%) SLA
3 23 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (0.46%) GDPR
5 6 (0.46%) NCSC
6 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.39%) WCAG
7 3 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.077%) NIST
8 1 (0.077%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.077%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 293 (22.64%) Docker
2 43 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.39%) Firmware
5 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.39%) NFS
5 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.39%) vSphere
6 4 (0.31%) pfSense
6 4 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.077%) GlusterFS
8 1 (0.077%) Samba
8 1 (0.077%) Varnish
8 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.077%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 190 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 89 (6.88%) Grafana
3 61 (4.71%) Terraform
4 25 (1.93%) Ansible
5 9 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (0.70%) WSUS
5 9 (0.70%) ZABBIX
6 7 (0.54%) SCCM
7 5 (0.39%) cPanel
7 5 (0.39%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.31%) Galera Cluster
8 4 (0.31%) Plesk
9 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.15%) Nagios
10 2 (0.15%) Oozie
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.077%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 92 (7.11%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.41%) Google
3 50 (3.86%) Oracle
4 41 (3.17%) VMware
5 24 (1.85%) WooCommerce
6 16 (1.24%) Cisco
7 10 (0.77%) Adobe
7 10 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.70%) Facebook
8 9 (0.70%) New Relic
8 9 (0.70%) Zend
9 7 (0.54%) Commvault
9 7 (0.54%) Databricks
9 7 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.46%) Splunk
11 5 (0.39%) Aruba
11 5 (0.39%) Citrix
11 5 (0.39%) SAP
11 5 (0.39%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.39%) Twitter