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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 161 81
Rank change year-on-year -3 -80 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,770 2,287 6,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.78% 2.29% 4.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.70% 10.72% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 1,326 2,839
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.28%

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 18,244 21,342 44,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.39% 21.40% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 13,283 21,026
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 £76,250 £83,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +3 1,598 £53,500 -5.31% 392
UK excluding London -4 1,360 £50,000 -4.76% 285
Work from Home 0 788 £56,500 +0.04% 248
North of England +69 448 £52,500 +10.53% 90
London -40 342 £70,000 -6.67% 126
South East -47 269 £51,750 -1.43% 48
North West +52 234 £55,000 +5.77% 54
South West +10 221 £45,000 -5.26% 46
Midlands -39 177 £50,000 -9.09% 58
Yorkshire +70 145 £47,500 +5.56% 23
East of England -8 131 £46,750 -25.20% 27
West Midlands -16 105 £55,000 - 34
Scotland -57 75 £45,000 - 13
North East +18 71 £62,500 +56.25% 13
East Midlands -38 68 £45,000 -12.20% 24
Wales +9 33 £52,101 +15.78% 6
Northern Ireland +4 7 £90,000 +127.85% 5

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
1 102 (5.76%) WordPress
2 67 (3.79%) nginx
3 64 (3.62%) Apache
4 49 (2.77%) CMS
5 39 (2.20%) Confluence
6 32 (1.81%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.41%) Drupal
8 18 (1.02%) Tomcat
9 15 (0.85%) IIS
10 14 (0.79%) Apache Spark
11 13 (0.73%) ArcGIS
11 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.51%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.34%) MQSeries
13 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
15 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
16 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.056%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.056%) Notion
7 1 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.75%) Magento
2 15 (0.85%) Shopify
3 7 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.17%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) iTrent
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.056%) Relativity
7 1 (0.056%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 688 (38.87%) AWS
2 310 (17.51%) Azure
3 145 (8.19%) SaaS
4 116 (6.55%) GitHub
4 116 (6.55%) Serverless
5 113 (6.38%) GCP
6 82 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 60 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
9 58 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 50 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 37 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 28 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 24 (1.36%) PaaS
15 21 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.12%) Firewall
2 51 (2.88%) DNS
3 41 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.41%) HTTP
5 23 (1.30%) SNMP
6 22 (1.24%) Internet
7 20 (1.13%) SSH
8 18 (1.02%) LAN
9 17 (0.96%) SSL
10 15 (0.85%) PBX
11 13 (0.73%) SAN
11 13 (0.73%) VPN
12 12 (0.68%) VoIP
13 11 (0.62%) DHCP
13 11 (0.62%) WAN
14 10 (0.56%) tcpdump
15 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.45%) MQTT
16 8 (0.45%) WLAN
17 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
2 305 (17.23%) SQL Server
3 260 (14.69%) Relational Database
4 201 (11.36%) MongoDB
5 140 (7.91%) NoSQL
6 118 (6.67%) Redis
7 80 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (4.24%) RDBMS
9 73 (4.12%) MariaDB
10 68 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
11 65 (3.67%) DynamoDB
12 62 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
13 52 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (2.37%) Power BI
15 36 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.19%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.02%) CouchDB
19 15 (0.85%) GIS
20 14 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 376 (21.24%) Git
2 113 (6.38%) JIRA
3 77 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 44 (2.49%) GitLab
6 35 (1.98%) Subversion
7 30 (1.69%) Postman
8 29 (1.64%) PHPUnit
9 21 (1.19%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.13%) Maven
11 17 (0.96%) webpack
12 16 (0.90%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.56%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.51%) Gradle
16 9 (0.51%) Selenium
17 8 (0.45%) gulp
18 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 358 (20.23%) Social Skills
2 157 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (7.40%) Finance
4 82 (4.63%) Retail
5 74 (4.18%) Games
6 72 (4.07%) Marketing
7 60 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.54%) Law
10 44 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.20%) Legal
11 39 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.81%) Banking
12 32 (1.81%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.13%) Health Technology
14 17 (0.96%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.85%) Publishing
16 14 (0.79%) German Language
16 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 977 (55.20%) Developer
2 385 (21.75%) PHP Developer
3 376 (21.24%) Senior
4 226 (12.77%) Software Engineer
5 207 (11.69%) Senior Developer
6 174 (9.83%) Full Stack Developer
7 155 (8.76%) Lead
8 136 (7.68%) Software Developer
9 102 (5.76%) DBA
10 101 (5.71%) Web Developer
11 75 (4.24%) Support Engineer
12 70 (3.95%) Senior PHP Developer
13 68 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 67 (3.79%) Lead Developer
15 61 (3.45%) Java Engineer
16 54 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
17 53 (2.99%) Java Developer
18 50 (2.82%) .NET Developer
19 48 (2.71%) Technical Leader
20 44 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (28.14%) HTML
2 482 (27.23%) CSS
3 454 (25.65%) Laravel
4 314 (17.74%) React
5 222 (12.54%) Vue
6 212 (11.98%) .NET
7 209 (11.81%) Node.js
8 184 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 184 (10.40%) RESTful
9 178 (10.06%) jQuery
10 146 (8.25%) Symfony
11 145 (8.19%) LAMP
12 122 (6.89%) HTML5
13 118 (6.67%) Web Services
14 110 (6.21%) REST
15 95 (5.37%) Spring
16 87 (4.92%) XML
17 85 (4.80%) CSS3
17 85 (4.80%) JSON
18 84 (4.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.50%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 49 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.60%) IoT
6 39 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.15%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 33 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 24 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 21 (1.19%) Clustering
14 21 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.19%) Replication
15 17 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 357 (20.17%) Linux
2 172 (9.72%) Windows
3 80 (4.52%) Unix
4 40 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 39 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
8 23 (1.30%) Android
9 22 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.85%) CentOS
12 15 (0.85%) Debian
12 15 (0.85%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Rocky
16 3 (0.17%) Solaris
17 2 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (25.65%) Agile
2 448 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
3 389 (21.98%) Software Engineering
4 355 (20.06%) Full Stack Development
5 231 (13.05%) Web Development
6 228 (12.88%) DevOps
6 228 (12.88%) OOP
7 222 (12.54%) MVC
8 220 (12.43%) Mentoring
9 209 (11.81%) Microservices
10 195 (11.02%) CI/CD
11 187 (10.56%) Computer Science
12 161 (9.10%) OO
13 138 (7.80%) User Experience
14 133 (7.51%) E-Commerce
15 126 (7.12%) SDLC
16 120 (6.78%) Test Automation
17 119 (6.72%) Design Patterns
18 107 (6.05%) Code Quality
19 103 (5.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 760 (42.94%) PHP
2 690 (38.98%) JavaScript
3 506 (28.59%) SQL
4 298 (16.84%) Java
5 283 (15.99%) Python
6 255 (14.41%) C#
7 139 (7.85%) TypeScript
8 97 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 89 (5.03%) Bash
10 61 (3.45%) Perl
11 57 (3.22%) Go
12 40 (2.26%) Ruby
13 36 (2.03%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.86%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.75%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.58%) C
17 25 (1.41%) C++
18 22 (1.24%) Groovy
19 20 (1.13%) R
20 17 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 276 (15.59%) Degree
2 121 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 43 (2.43%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.07%) CCNA
6 19 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.56%) OCP
8 10 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.23%) MCSE
13 3 (0.17%) HND
13 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.45%) QA
2 26 (1.47%) GDPR
3 19 (1.07%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.056%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.056%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 287 (16.21%) Docker
2 63 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.45%) XenApp
7 6 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.23%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Varnish
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.056%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.056%) etcd
10 1 (0.056%) Firmware
10 1 (0.056%) Postfix
10 1 (0.056%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.056%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (9.77%) Terraform
2 167 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 75 (4.24%) Ansible
4 33 (1.86%) Puppet
5 30 (1.69%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Nagios
7 18 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.73%) HAProxy
10 13 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.73%) WMI
11 10 (0.56%) Graphite
12 8 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.40%) Foglight
13 7 (0.40%) Kibana
13 7 (0.40%) SCCM
14 6 (0.34%) Data Guard
14 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 192 (10.85%) Oracle
2 141 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 75 (4.24%) VMware
4 53 (2.99%) Google
5 26 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.24%) Databricks
7 19 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.02%) EMC
8 18 (1.02%) Splunk
9 16 (0.90%) Palo Alto
9 16 (0.90%) Twitter
9 16 (0.90%) Veeam
10 15 (0.85%) Cisco
11 14 (0.79%) Adobe
11 14 (0.79%) Facebook
11 14 (0.79%) Meraki
12 13 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.68%) HP
13 12 (0.68%) Remedy
13 12 (0.68%) Talend