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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 161 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 -80 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,771 2,318 6,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 2.29% 4.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.75% 10.72% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 1,346 2,872
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +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 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 9 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 9 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 +4 1,598 £53,500 -6.96% 388
UK excluding London -6 1,360 £50,000 -4.76% 279
Work from Home -2 785 £57,500 - 235
North of England +75 450 £52,500 +10.53% 84
London -40 343 £70,000 -6.67% 126
South East -43 273 £51,000 -2.86% 52
North West +51 236 £53,750 +3.37% 49
South West +5 217 £45,000 -5.26% 46
Midlands -44 173 £50,000 -9.09% 56
Yorkshire +74 145 £47,500 +5.56% 24
East of England -1 131 £47,500 -24.00% 25
West Midlands -31 103 £55,000 -1.33% 34
Scotland -69 76 £46,250 +2.78% 14
North East +16 71 £62,500 +56.25% 11
East Midlands -38 66 £45,000 -12.20% 22
Wales +2 34 £51,051 +4.72% 5
Northern Ireland +4 7 £90,000 +127.85% 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
1 100 (5.65%) WordPress
2 67 (3.78%) nginx
3 65 (3.67%) Apache
4 48 (2.71%) CMS
5 41 (2.32%) Confluence
6 32 (1.81%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.47%) Drupal
8 19 (1.07%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.90%) IIS
10 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.79%) Apache Spark
12 13 (0.73%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.51%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.34%) MQSeries
14 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
16 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
16 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
17 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.56%) 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 30 (1.69%) 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
5 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.17%) iTrent
6 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.056%) Relativity
8 1 (0.056%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.056%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 692 (39.07%) AWS
2 315 (17.79%) Azure
3 150 (8.47%) SaaS
4 117 (6.61%) GitHub
5 116 (6.55%) Serverless
6 114 (6.44%) GCP
7 82 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (4.40%) Amazon S3
9 61 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (2.77%) Power Platform
13 38 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 28 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.36%) PaaS
16 21 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.40%) Firewall
2 51 (2.88%) DNS
3 43 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.41%) HTTP
5 23 (1.30%) Internet
5 23 (1.30%) SNMP
6 19 (1.07%) SSH
7 17 (0.96%) LAN
7 17 (0.96%) SSL
8 16 (0.90%) PBX
8 16 (0.90%) SAN
9 14 (0.79%) VoIP
10 13 (0.73%) VPN
11 11 (0.62%) DHCP
11 11 (0.62%) WAN
12 10 (0.56%) tcpdump
13 8 (0.45%) MQTT
13 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.45%) WLAN
14 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (18.35%) PostgreSQL
2 306 (17.28%) SQL Server
3 259 (14.62%) Relational Database
4 203 (11.46%) MongoDB
5 142 (8.02%) NoSQL
6 118 (6.66%) Redis
7 81 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (4.23%) RDBMS
9 73 (4.12%) MariaDB
10 69 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
11 66 (3.73%) DynamoDB
12 65 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
13 53 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (2.26%) Power BI
15 38 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.02%) CouchDB
19 15 (0.85%) GIS
20 14 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 370 (20.89%) Git
2 117 (6.61%) JIRA
3 77 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 43 (2.43%) GitLab
6 35 (1.98%) Subversion
7 30 (1.69%) Postman
8 28 (1.58%) PHPUnit
9 21 (1.19%) Maven
10 20 (1.13%) Visual Studio
11 18 (1.02%) webpack
12 15 (0.85%) 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
1 356 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 156 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (7.57%) Finance
4 82 (4.63%) Retail
5 74 (4.18%) Games
6 73 (4.12%) Marketing
7 62 (3.50%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 44 (2.48%) Law
11 41 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.20%) Legal
13 33 (1.86%) Banking
14 31 (1.75%) Tech for Good
15 20 (1.13%) Health Technology
16 17 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.85%) Publishing
18 14 (0.79%) German Language
18 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
19 12 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 970 (54.77%) Developer
2 382 (21.57%) PHP Developer
3 375 (21.17%) Senior
4 229 (12.93%) Software Engineer
5 204 (11.52%) Senior Developer
6 173 (9.77%) Full Stack Developer
7 158 (8.92%) Lead
8 134 (7.57%) Software Developer
9 102 (5.76%) DBA
10 99 (5.59%) Web Developer
11 75 (4.23%) Support Engineer
12 69 (3.90%) Lead Developer
13 68 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 67 (3.78%) Senior PHP Developer
15 61 (3.44%) Java Engineer
16 54 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
17 53 (2.99%) Java Developer
18 50 (2.82%) .NET Developer
19 47 (2.65%) Technical Leader
20 44 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (27.67%) HTML
2 475 (26.82%) CSS
3 455 (25.69%) Laravel
4 314 (17.73%) React
5 224 (12.65%) Vue
6 211 (11.91%) .NET
6 211 (11.91%) Node.js
7 186 (10.50%) AngularJS
8 185 (10.45%) RESTful
9 177 (9.99%) jQuery
10 147 (8.30%) Symfony
11 145 (8.19%) LAMP
12 122 (6.89%) HTML5
13 117 (6.61%) Web Services
14 111 (6.27%) REST
15 95 (5.36%) Spring
16 86 (4.86%) Kafka
16 86 (4.86%) XML
17 85 (4.80%) JSON
18 84 (4.74%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 50 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.48%) IoT
6 39 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.15%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
11 33 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.64%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 23 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.19%) Clustering
16 21 (1.19%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.19%) Replication
17 17 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 358 (20.21%) Linux
2 173 (9.77%) Windows
3 80 (4.52%) Unix
4 41 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 40 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 26 (1.47%) Android
7 25 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
9 23 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (0.96%) Mac OS
13 15 (0.85%) CentOS
13 15 (0.85%) Debian
14 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
15 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.23%) Rocky
17 3 (0.17%) AIX
17 3 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (25.52%) Agile
2 450 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
3 391 (22.08%) Software Engineering
4 356 (20.10%) Full Stack Development
5 230 (12.99%) DevOps
6 228 (12.87%) Web Development
7 226 (12.76%) OOP
8 223 (12.59%) Mentoring
9 221 (12.48%) MVC
10 209 (11.80%) Microservices
11 196 (11.07%) CI/CD
12 189 (10.67%) Computer Science
13 158 (8.92%) OO
14 135 (7.62%) User Experience
15 131 (7.40%) E-Commerce
16 127 (7.17%) SDLC
17 121 (6.83%) Design Patterns
17 121 (6.83%) Test Automation
18 107 (6.04%) Code Quality
19 103 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 758 (42.80%) PHP
2 684 (38.62%) JavaScript
3 514 (29.02%) SQL
4 301 (17.00%) Java
5 282 (15.92%) Python
6 256 (14.46%) C#
7 139 (7.85%) TypeScript
8 98 (5.53%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.91%) Bash
10 61 (3.44%) Perl
11 55 (3.11%) Go
12 40 (2.26%) Ruby
13 37 (2.09%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.98%) PL/SQL
15 32 (1.81%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.69%) C
17 26 (1.47%) C++
18 22 (1.24%) Groovy
18 22 (1.24%) R
19 17 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 280 (15.81%) Degree
2 125 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.37%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.13%) CCNA
6 20 (1.13%) 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%) MCSE
11 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.17%) HND
12 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.61%) QA
2 26 (1.47%) GDPR
3 20 (1.13%) SLA
4 9 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.28%) 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
1 288 (16.26%) Docker
2 67 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (1.75%) 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
1 174 (9.82%) Terraform
2 166 (9.37%) Kubernetes
3 76 (4.29%) Ansible
4 33 (1.86%) Puppet
5 29 (1.64%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Nagios
7 18 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.73%) HAProxy
9 13 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.73%) WMI
10 10 (0.56%) Graphite
11 8 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.45%) SCCM
12 7 (0.40%) Foglight
12 7 (0.40%) Kibana
13 6 (0.34%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 193 (10.90%) Oracle
2 138 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 77 (4.35%) VMware
4 52 (2.94%) Google
5 26 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 24 (1.36%) Databricks
7 20 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.02%) EMC
8 18 (1.02%) Splunk
9 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto
9 17 (0.96%) Veeam
10 16 (0.90%) Cisco
10 16 (0.90%) Twitter
11 14 (0.79%) Adobe
11 14 (0.79%) Facebook
11 14 (0.79%) Meraki
12 13 (0.73%) HP
12 13 (0.73%) Remedy
13 12 (0.68%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.62%) Talend