MySQL Job Trends in Wales

MySQL
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 45 71
Rank change year-on-year -56 +26 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 18 21 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.71% 2.77% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.47% 28.00% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 19
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +50.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,563 £73,750 £52,926
90th Percentile £74,750 - £66,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.06%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 190 75 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.45% 9.89% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 87 69 124
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,802
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +31.00% -8.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,766 £78,750 £67,925
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Wales

MySQL
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Wales over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Wales

MySQL
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
West Wales - 10 £70,000 - 2
South Wales -64 5 £74,500 +24.17% 1
North Wales - 3 £35,000 -
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) GCP
3 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
4 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
5 4 (22.22%) Ataccama
5 4 (22.22%) IBM InfoSphere
5 4 (22.22%) Redis
5 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (22.22%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) RSpec
3 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) minitest
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Gradle
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) Mocha
General
1 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (27.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Software Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) Ruby Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leader
5 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) IT Support
6 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) React Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) RESTful
2 7 (38.89%) Kafka
2 7 (38.89%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (38.89%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 6 (33.33%) JPA
3 6 (33.33%) React
4 5 (27.78%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (27.78%) Vue
5 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
5 4 (22.22%) REST
5 4 (22.22%) Sidekiq
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) CSS3
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) HTML5
7 1 (5.56%) Node.js
7 1 (5.56%) Spring MVC
7 1 (5.56%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Team
3 4 (22.22%) Reference Data
4 2 (11.11%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) Mentoring
4 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (55.56%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 8 (44.44%) Event-Driven
7 7 (38.89%) Application Security
7 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (38.89%) Scrum
7 7 (38.89%) Secure Coding
7 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (33.33%) API Design
8 6 (33.33%) API Integration
8 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) HNC
1 2 (11.11%) HND
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Splunk
3 4 (22.22%) Google
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) Informatica
3 4 (22.22%) TIBCO
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Synology
4 3 (16.67%) Veeam
4 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) OneLogin