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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 158 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 -78 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,824 2,491 6,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 2.34% 4.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.14% 10.72% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 1,437 3,010
10th Percentile £33,150 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £78,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +13.64%

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 17,993 23,234 42,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.51% 21.81% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,611 14,224 21,652
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +5.10%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +11 1,636 £53,500 -6.96% 351
UK excluding London +2 1,399 £50,000 -6.54% 260
Work from Home +7 828 £57,500 - 226
North of England +85 463 £52,500 +5.00% 88
London -36 356 £70,000 -6.67% 118
South East -24 278 £51,750 -4.61% 45
North West +68 247 £52,500 - 37
South West -5 222 £50,000 +5.26% 30
Midlands -38 166 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Yorkshire +79 149 £47,500 +5.56% 35
East of England +6 140 £47,500 -26.92% 27
West Midlands -25 94 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Scotland -55 82 £47,500 +5.56% 15
North East +14 69 £63,750 +59.38% 16
East Midlands -37 68 £45,500 -13.33% 22
Wales +11 40 £51,051 -18.32% 10
Northern Ireland +6 9 £90,000 +116.87% 6

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 98 (5.37%) WordPress
2 79 (4.33%) Apache
3 67 (3.67%) nginx
4 50 (2.74%) Confluence
5 47 (2.58%) CMS
6 32 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 27 (1.48%) Drupal
8 26 (1.43%) Apache Spark
9 24 (1.32%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.82%) IIS
10 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.71%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.55%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.38%) MQSeries
14 6 (0.33%) ColdFusion
15 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
15 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
17 3 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
5 2 (0.11%) Sketch
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.055%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.055%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.055%) Notion
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.54%) Magento
2 15 (0.82%) Shopify
3 10 (0.55%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) iTrent
5 3 (0.16%) Maximo
5 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.055%) Relativity
7 1 (0.055%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.055%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 695 (38.10%) AWS
2 320 (17.54%) Azure
3 158 (8.66%) SaaS
4 129 (7.07%) GCP
5 126 (6.91%) GitHub
6 117 (6.41%) Serverless
7 85 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 67 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
10 58 (3.18%) Power Platform
11 56 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
12 48 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 37 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 25 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (1.15%) PaaS
18 20 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.88%) Firewall
2 56 (3.07%) DNS
3 48 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.37%) HTTP
4 25 (1.37%) Internet
5 24 (1.32%) SNMP
6 21 (1.15%) SSL
7 20 (1.10%) SAN
8 19 (1.04%) PBX
8 19 (1.04%) SSH
9 18 (0.99%) VoIP
10 16 (0.88%) LAN
11 14 (0.77%) VPN
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
12 11 (0.60%) tcpdump
13 10 (0.55%) WAN
14 9 (0.49%) NAS
15 8 (0.44%) MQTT
15 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 317 (17.38%) SQL Server
3 276 (15.13%) Relational Database
4 229 (12.55%) MongoDB
5 155 (8.50%) NoSQL
6 116 (6.36%) Redis
7 86 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (4.11%) MariaDB
8 75 (4.11%) RDBMS
9 69 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
10 68 (3.73%) DynamoDB
11 67 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
12 58 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 50 (2.74%) Power BI
14 37 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (1.43%) Tableau
16 22 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.15%) Oracle Database
18 20 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 19 (1.04%) Looker
Development Applications
1 389 (21.33%) Git
2 127 (6.96%) JIRA
3 99 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.96%) Bitbucket
5 47 (2.58%) GitLab
6 35 (1.92%) Subversion
7 30 (1.64%) Postman
8 26 (1.43%) PHPUnit
9 24 (1.32%) Maven
10 19 (1.04%) webpack
11 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.77%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.66%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.55%) GNU Toolchain
15 9 (0.49%) Gradle
15 9 (0.49%) Selenium
16 8 (0.44%) gulp
16 8 (0.44%) IntelliJ
General
1 368 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 190 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 176 (9.65%) Finance
4 95 (5.21%) Retail
5 74 (4.06%) Banking
6 72 (3.95%) Games
6 72 (3.95%) Marketing
7 64 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 53 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 44 (2.41%) Law
11 42 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 41 (2.25%) Legal
13 28 (1.54%) Tech for Good
14 19 (1.04%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 16 (0.88%) Publishing
17 15 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.77%) German Language
19 11 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 959 (52.58%) Developer
2 378 (20.72%) PHP Developer
3 376 (20.61%) Senior
4 251 (13.76%) Software Engineer
5 198 (10.86%) Senior Developer
6 170 (9.32%) Full Stack Developer
7 164 (8.99%) Lead
8 133 (7.29%) Software Developer
9 105 (5.76%) DBA
10 97 (5.32%) Web Developer
11 82 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 68 (3.73%) Lead Developer
13 66 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
14 63 (3.45%) Senior PHP Developer
15 62 (3.40%) Java Engineer
16 59 (3.23%) Full Stack Engineer
17 57 (3.13%) Java Developer
18 54 (2.96%) Java Software Engineer
19 47 (2.58%) .NET Developer
20 46 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 508 (27.85%) HTML
2 488 (26.75%) CSS
3 458 (25.11%) Laravel
4 339 (18.59%) React
5 234 (12.83%) Node.js
6 232 (12.72%) Vue
7 215 (11.79%) AngularJS
8 207 (11.35%) RESTful
9 201 (11.02%) .NET
10 175 (9.59%) jQuery
11 146 (8.00%) Symfony
12 143 (7.84%) LAMP
13 123 (6.74%) HTML5
14 117 (6.41%) Web Services
15 114 (6.25%) REST
16 98 (5.37%) Spring
17 96 (5.26%) Kafka
18 87 (4.77%) CSS3
18 87 (4.77%) JSON
19 86 (4.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 57 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 51 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 46 (2.52%) IoT
6 38 (2.08%) Client/Server
6 38 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 38 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 34 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.64%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.26%) Clustering
12 23 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.26%) Replication
13 21 (1.15%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 375 (20.56%) Linux
2 179 (9.81%) Windows
3 83 (4.55%) Unix
4 43 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 25 (1.37%) Android
7 24 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 24 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.21%) Mac OS
9 19 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.82%) Debian
11 14 (0.77%) CentOS
11 14 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.60%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.22%) Rocky
15 3 (0.16%) AIX
15 3 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (26.92%) Agile
2 472 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
3 406 (22.26%) Software Engineering
4 377 (20.67%) Full Stack Development
5 234 (12.83%) DevOps
6 230 (12.61%) Mentoring
7 228 (12.50%) OOP
8 227 (12.45%) MVC
9 224 (12.28%) Web Development
10 223 (12.23%) CI/CD
11 214 (11.73%) Microservices
12 194 (10.64%) Computer Science
13 161 (8.83%) OO
14 133 (7.29%) User Experience
15 130 (7.13%) SDLC
16 129 (7.07%) E-Commerce
17 124 (6.80%) Test Automation
18 121 (6.63%) Design Patterns
19 107 (5.87%) Code Quality
20 106 (5.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 745 (40.84%) PHP
2 680 (37.28%) JavaScript
3 526 (28.84%) SQL
4 307 (16.83%) Java
5 287 (15.73%) Python
6 250 (13.71%) C#
7 139 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 99 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 89 (4.88%) Bash
10 63 (3.45%) Perl
11 58 (3.18%) Go
12 39 (2.14%) Ruby
13 38 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 38 (2.08%) T-SQL
14 36 (1.97%) Kotlin
15 32 (1.75%) C
16 22 (1.21%) C++
16 22 (1.21%) Groovy
17 21 (1.15%) R
18 14 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 284 (15.57%) Degree
2 134 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 47 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 35 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 23 (1.26%) CCNA
6 23 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.55%) OCP
8 10 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.27%) MCSE
11 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.27%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.16%) HND
12 3 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.56%) QA
2 26 (1.43%) GDPR
3 23 (1.26%) SLA
4 9 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.055%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 304 (16.67%) Docker
2 72 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
4 34 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.44%) XenApp
7 5 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.22%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Varnish
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.055%) ACF2
10 1 (0.055%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.055%) etcd
10 1 (0.055%) Firmware
10 1 (0.055%) IAG
10 1 (0.055%) Postfix
10 1 (0.055%) RACF
10 1 (0.055%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.055%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 185 (10.14%) Terraform
2 175 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 75 (4.11%) Ansible
4 33 (1.81%) Puppet
5 31 (1.70%) Grafana
6 26 (1.43%) Nagios
7 19 (1.04%) vCenter Server
8 17 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.71%) HAProxy
10 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.71%) WMI
11 10 (0.55%) Graphite
12 8 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
12 8 (0.44%) SCCM
13 7 (0.38%) Foglight
14 6 (0.33%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 193 (10.58%) Oracle
2 132 (7.24%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.55%) VMware
4 66 (3.62%) Google
5 32 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 24 (1.32%) Databricks
7 21 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 18 (0.99%) EMC
10 17 (0.93%) Splunk
10 17 (0.93%) Veeam
11 16 (0.88%) HP
11 16 (0.88%) Remedy
11 16 (0.88%) Twitter
12 15 (0.82%) Adobe
12 15 (0.82%) Cisco
13 14 (0.77%) Facebook
13 14 (0.77%) Meraki
14 12 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.66%) WooCommerce