Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 July 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

MySQL
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 59 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +12
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,162 280 473
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.09% 5.18% 5.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.97% 17.50% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 948 256 438
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +3.83%

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,846 1,600 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.98% 29.61% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,402 1,408 2,202
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £33,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,786
% change year-on-year - +6.21% +3.57%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MySQL.

MySQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MySQL over the 6 months to 28 July 2021.

MySQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 July 2021, MySQL job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for MySQL.

1 667 (57.40%) JavaScript
2 595 (51.20%) PHP
3 462 (39.76%) Docker
4 446 (38.38%) HTML
5 414 (35.63%) CSS
5 414 (35.63%) AWS
6 407 (35.03%) Agile Software Development
7 374 (32.19%) React
8 347 (29.86%) Git (software)
9 335 (28.83%) Linux
10 321 (27.62%) Full Stack Development
11 264 (22.72%) Social Skills
12 263 (22.63%) SQL
13 255 (21.94%) Microservices
14 253 (21.77%) Kubernetes
15 252 (21.69%) Node.js
16 247 (21.26%) MVC
17 245 (21.08%) AngularJS
18 238 (20.48%) Laravel
18 238 (20.48%) SQL Server
19 228 (19.62%) Python
20 226 (19.45%) jQuery
21 220 (18.93%) MongoDB
22 218 (18.76%) DevOps
23 215 (18.50%) REST
23 215 (18.50%) PostgreSQL
24 201 (17.30%) Web Development
25 197 (16.95%) Symfony
26 195 (16.78%) Java
27 184 (15.83%) Finance

MySQL
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 100 (8.61%) Elasticsearch
2 75 (6.45%) nginx
3 72 (6.20%) Apache
4 58 (4.99%) WordPress
5 55 (4.73%) CMS
6 47 (4.04%) Apache Solr
7 30 (2.58%) Drupal
8 19 (1.64%) Tomcat
9 13 (1.12%) Apache Spark
10 12 (1.03%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.86%) IIS
12 9 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.77%) Confluence
12 9 (0.77%) SharePoint
13 8 (0.69%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.60%) MODX
14 7 (0.60%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.52%) Kentico
15 6 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
16 5 (0.43%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (3.70%) Magento
2 12 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.086%) FastStats
4 1 (0.086%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.086%) Relativity
4 1 (0.086%) Salesforce.com CRM
4 1 (0.086%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.086%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.086%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 414 (35.63%) AWS
2 181 (15.58%) Azure
3 108 (9.29%) GCP
4 96 (8.26%) SaaS
5 82 (7.06%) Serverless
6 73 (6.28%) GitHub
7 67 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 49 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
11 48 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.32%) CloudFront
13 26 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (1.64%) PaaS
15 18 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.38%) Power Platform
18 14 (1.20%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.98%) HTTP
2 22 (1.89%) Firewall
3 15 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.20%) Internet
5 13 (1.12%) SSL
6 12 (1.03%) DNS
7 10 (0.86%) SSH
8 9 (0.77%) SMS
9 7 (0.60%) VLAN
10 6 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
10 6 (0.52%) LAN
10 6 (0.52%) VPN
10 6 (0.52%) WAN
11 5 (0.43%) IPv4
11 5 (0.43%) MQTT
12 4 (0.34%) Intranet
12 4 (0.34%) Network Security
12 4 (0.34%) Wireless
13 3 (0.26%) SAN
14 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 220 (18.93%) MongoDB
3 215 (18.50%) PostgreSQL
4 171 (14.72%) Relational Database
5 167 (14.37%) Redis
6 155 (13.34%) NoSQL
7 95 (8.18%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 59 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (4.04%) MariaDB
10 38 (3.27%) Oracle Database
11 33 (2.84%) Big Data
11 33 (2.84%) Couchbase
12 32 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
13 31 (2.67%) RDBMS
14 28 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
15 27 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
16 26 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 23 (1.98%) BigQuery
18 18 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 17 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 347 (29.86%) Git (software)
2 124 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.68%) PHPUnit
4 64 (5.51%) JIRA
5 55 (4.73%) GitLab
6 28 (2.41%) webpack
7 26 (2.24%) Maven
8 22 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
9 18 (1.55%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.55%) Subversion
10 17 (1.46%) Gradle
11 16 (1.38%) Eclipse
12 15 (1.29%) IntelliJ
13 14 (1.20%) GoCD
13 14 (1.20%) gulp
14 12 (1.03%) Visual Studio
15 11 (0.95%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.77%) Mocha
16 9 (0.77%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 264 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 184 (15.83%) Finance
3 93 (8.00%) Retail
4 65 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.39%) Marketing
6 37 (3.18%) Games
7 26 (2.24%) Public Sector
8 21 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.20%) Banking
10 12 (1.03%) Automotive
11 11 (0.95%) Law
12 9 (0.77%) Electronics
12 9 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.69%) Publishing
14 6 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (0.52%) Front Office
15 5 (0.43%) Legal
15 5 (0.43%) Military
15 5 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 745 (64.11%) Developer
2 360 (30.98%) PHP Developer
3 137 (11.79%) Senior Developer
4 121 (10.41%) Full Stack Developer
5 105 (9.04%) Software Developer
6 70 (6.02%) JavaScript Developer
7 68 (5.85%) Senior PHP Developer
7 68 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 62 (5.34%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 56 (4.82%) Java Developer
10 55 (4.73%) Java Engineer
11 47 (4.04%) Web Developer
12 45 (3.87%) Junior
13 42 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (3.53%) React Developer
15 37 (3.18%) Architect
16 34 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.93%) E-Commerce Developer
16 34 (2.93%) E-Commerce PHP Developer
16 34 (2.93%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (38.38%) HTML
2 414 (35.63%) CSS
3 374 (32.19%) React
4 252 (21.69%) Node.js
5 245 (21.08%) AngularJS
6 238 (20.48%) Laravel
7 226 (19.45%) jQuery
8 215 (18.50%) REST
9 197 (16.95%) Symfony
10 171 (14.72%) Vue.js
11 170 (14.63%) RESTful
12 149 (12.82%) Web Services
13 148 (12.74%) LAMP
14 123 (10.59%) Kafka
15 122 (10.50%) HTML5
16 109 (9.38%) .NET
17 96 (8.26%) RabbitMQ
18 88 (7.57%) Spring
19 59 (5.08%) CSS3
20 57 (4.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.63%) Mobile App
2 54 (4.65%) User Experience
3 44 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.24%) Legacy Code
5 26 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.12%) FMCG
8 13 (1.12%) NHS
8 13 (1.12%) Replication
9 11 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 11 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 11 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
10 10 (0.86%) Client/Server
11 9 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 335 (28.83%) Linux
2 80 (6.88%) Windows
3 40 (3.44%) Unix
4 35 (3.01%) Ubuntu
5 31 (2.67%) Android
6 29 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.81%) CentOS
8 19 (1.64%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.77%) VMS
10 6 (0.52%) Debian
10 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.34%) Fedora
11 4 (0.34%) zOS
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (35.03%) Agile Software Development
2 321 (27.62%) Full Stack Development
3 255 (21.94%) Microservices
4 247 (21.26%) MVC
5 218 (18.76%) DevOps
6 201 (17.30%) Web Development
7 181 (15.58%) OOP
8 161 (13.86%) Scrum
9 160 (13.77%) OO
10 153 (13.17%) E-Commerce
11 147 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (12.65%) Software Engineering
12 111 (9.55%) Test Automation
13 105 (9.04%) TDD
14 85 (7.31%) Unit Testing
15 84 (7.23%) Fintech
16 77 (6.63%) Mentoring
17 70 (6.02%) Front End Development
18 66 (5.68%) Configuration Management
19 62 (5.34%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 667 (57.40%) JavaScript
2 595 (51.20%) PHP
3 263 (22.63%) SQL
4 228 (19.62%) Python
5 195 (16.78%) Java
6 107 (9.21%) C#
7 101 (8.69%) Go
8 68 (5.85%) PHP 7
9 61 (5.25%) Bash Shell
10 59 (5.08%) TypeScript
11 41 (3.53%) Ruby
12 37 (3.18%) PowerShell
13 35 (3.01%) Perl
14 30 (2.58%) PHP 5
15 29 (2.50%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.98%) C++
17 18 (1.55%) Scala
17 18 (1.55%) Shell Script
18 17 (1.46%) ES6
19 12 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 86 (7.40%) Degree
2 30 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (1.81%) AWS Certification
4 13 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
5 12 (1.03%) Security Cleared
6 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.77%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.086%) CCNA
9 1 (0.086%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.086%) CISA
9 1 (0.086%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.086%) CITP
9 1 (0.086%) CRISC
9 1 (0.086%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.086%) MCSA
9 1 (0.086%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.87%) QA
2 9 (0.77%) GDPR
2 9 (0.77%) SLA
3 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.086%) COBIT
6 1 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.086%) WCAG
System Software
1 462 (39.76%) Docker
2 16 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.26%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.086%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.086%) Postfix
8 1 (0.086%) Varnish
8 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 122 (10.50%) Ansible
3 115 (9.90%) Terraform
4 86 (7.40%) Puppet
5 79 (6.80%) Opscode Chef
6 42 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
7 26 (2.24%) Grafana
8 24 (2.07%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.86%) Nagios
10 7 (0.60%) Kibana
10 7 (0.60%) Opsgenie
11 6 (0.52%) HAProxy
11 6 (0.52%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.43%) Pingdom
12 5 (0.43%) SCCM
13 4 (0.34%) Packer
14 3 (0.26%) Mesos
14 3 (0.26%) Rundeck
15 2 (0.17%) OpenNebula
Vendors
1 107 (9.21%) Zend
2 104 (8.95%) Oracle
3 76 (6.54%) Google
4 55 (4.73%) Microsoft
5 20 (1.72%) VMware
5 20 (1.72%) WooCommerce
6 17 (1.46%) SAP
7 10 (0.86%) IBM
8 9 (0.77%) Okta
8 9 (0.77%) Salesforce.com
9 8 (0.69%) Apple
9 8 (0.69%) MKS
9 8 (0.69%) New Relic
10 7 (0.60%) Sage
11 6 (0.52%) Cisco
11 6 (0.52%) LexisNexis
11 6 (0.52%) Netlify
11 6 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.52%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.52%) Teradata