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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 166 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -85 -8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,758 2,264 6,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 2.28% 4.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.62% 10.58% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,322 2,832
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,075 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%

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 18,271 21,401 45,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.29% 21.52% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,519 13,364 21,166
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 £77,500 £83,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +9 1,587 £52,500 -5.73% 438
UK excluding London -4 1,352 £50,000 -4.76% 315
Work from Home +6 783 £56,500 +0.04% 260
North of England +62 442 £52,500 +10.53% 95
London -41 338 £70,000 -6.67% 160
South East -30 268 £51,000 -2.86% 68
North West +37 228 £53,750 +3.37% 57
South West +9 220 £45,000 -5.26% 44
Midlands -37 179 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Yorkshire +66 145 £47,500 +5.56% 25
East of England -3 130 £47,500 -20.83% 31
West Midlands -15 107 £52,500 -4.55% 38
Scotland -67 74 £45,000 - 14
North East +21 71 £62,500 +56.25% 13
East Midlands -38 68 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Wales +7 33 £52,101 +15.78% 5
Northern Ireland +7 7 £90,000 +140.00% 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
1 101 (5.75%) WordPress
2 67 (3.81%) nginx
3 64 (3.64%) Apache
4 49 (2.79%) CMS
5 37 (2.10%) Confluence
6 28 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.48%) Drupal
8 18 (1.02%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.80%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.80%) IIS
10 13 (0.74%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.51%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.34%) MQSeries
14 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
14 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
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 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.46%) 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 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.057%) Notion
7 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.76%) Magento
2 15 (0.85%) Shopify
3 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.34%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) iTrent
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.057%) Relativity
8 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 680 (38.68%) AWS
2 301 (17.12%) Azure
3 142 (8.08%) SaaS
4 118 (6.71%) GitHub
5 114 (6.48%) Serverless
6 109 (6.20%) GCP
7 81 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 59 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
11 49 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (2.62%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.42%) PaaS
16 23 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
19 19 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (1.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.04%) Firewall
2 48 (2.73%) DNS
3 39 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.42%) HTTP
5 22 (1.25%) SNMP
6 21 (1.19%) Internet
7 20 (1.14%) SSH
8 18 (1.02%) LAN
9 17 (0.97%) SSL
10 14 (0.80%) PBX
11 13 (0.74%) SAN
12 12 (0.68%) VPN
13 11 (0.63%) VoIP
13 11 (0.63%) WAN
14 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.51%) DHCP
15 9 (0.51%) tcpdump
16 8 (0.46%) MQTT
17 7 (0.40%) FTP
17 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
2 301 (17.12%) SQL Server
3 257 (14.62%) Relational Database
4 198 (11.26%) MongoDB
5 139 (7.91%) NoSQL
6 120 (6.83%) Redis
7 80 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (4.21%) RDBMS
9 72 (4.10%) MariaDB
10 68 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
11 64 (3.64%) DynamoDB
12 60 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
13 52 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (2.39%) Power BI
15 35 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
16 22 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.19%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.02%) CouchDB
19 15 (0.85%) GIS
20 14 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 381 (21.67%) Git
2 111 (6.31%) JIRA
3 74 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.96%) Bitbucket
5 45 (2.56%) GitLab
6 35 (1.99%) Subversion
7 30 (1.71%) PHPUnit
7 30 (1.71%) Postman
8 21 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.14%) Maven
10 17 (0.97%) webpack
11 16 (0.91%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.68%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.57%) GNU Toolchain
14 10 (0.57%) Selenium
15 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.51%) Gradle
16 8 (0.46%) gulp
17 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 354 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 155 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 132 (7.51%) Finance
4 82 (4.66%) Retail
5 73 (4.15%) Games
6 71 (4.04%) Marketing
7 59 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.56%) Law
10 43 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.10%) Legal
13 32 (1.82%) Banking
13 32 (1.82%) Tech for Good
14 20 (1.14%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.85%) Publishing
17 14 (0.80%) German Language
18 12 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 976 (55.52%) Developer
2 388 (22.07%) PHP Developer
3 377 (21.44%) Senior
4 228 (12.97%) Software Engineer
5 208 (11.83%) Senior Developer
6 171 (9.73%) Full Stack Developer
7 153 (8.70%) Lead
8 136 (7.74%) Software Developer
9 101 (5.75%) Web Developer
10 100 (5.69%) DBA
11 73 (4.15%) Support Engineer
12 71 (4.04%) Senior PHP Developer
13 69 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
14 66 (3.75%) Lead Developer
15 61 (3.47%) Java Engineer
16 54 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
17 53 (3.01%) Java Developer
18 50 (2.84%) .NET Developer
19 47 (2.67%) Technical Leader
20 42 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (28.44%) HTML
2 484 (27.53%) CSS
3 452 (25.71%) Laravel
4 312 (17.75%) React
5 221 (12.57%) Vue
6 208 (11.83%) .NET
7 206 (11.72%) Node.js
8 185 (10.52%) RESTful
9 181 (10.30%) AngularJS
10 180 (10.24%) jQuery
11 147 (8.36%) LAMP
12 144 (8.19%) Symfony
13 122 (6.94%) HTML5
14 118 (6.71%) Web Services
15 109 (6.20%) REST
16 96 (5.46%) Spring
17 86 (4.89%) XML
18 84 (4.78%) CSS3
18 84 (4.78%) JSON
19 83 (4.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.96%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.56%) IoT
6 39 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.16%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 33 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.76%) Product Ownership
13 24 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.31%) Onboarding
15 22 (1.25%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.14%) Clustering
16 20 (1.14%) Replication
17 17 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 351 (19.97%) Linux
2 169 (9.61%) Windows
3 79 (4.49%) Unix
4 40 (2.28%) Ubuntu
5 39 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
7 23 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (0.80%) Debian
11 14 (0.80%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.74%) CentOS
13 11 (0.63%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Rocky
16 3 (0.17%) Solaris
17 2 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (25.60%) Agile
2 446 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 389 (22.13%) Software Engineering
4 352 (20.02%) Full Stack Development
5 232 (13.20%) Web Development
6 230 (13.08%) OOP
7 227 (12.91%) DevOps
8 223 (12.68%) MVC
9 219 (12.46%) Mentoring
10 207 (11.77%) Microservices
11 191 (10.86%) CI/CD
12 186 (10.58%) Computer Science
13 161 (9.16%) OO
14 138 (7.85%) User Experience
15 132 (7.51%) E-Commerce
16 125 (7.11%) SDLC
17 120 (6.83%) Design Patterns
18 118 (6.71%) Test Automation
19 108 (6.14%) TDD
20 106 (6.03%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 761 (43.29%) PHP
2 688 (39.14%) JavaScript
3 501 (28.50%) SQL
4 298 (16.95%) Java
5 279 (15.87%) Python
6 249 (14.16%) C#
7 137 (7.79%) TypeScript
8 94 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.95%) Bash
10 59 (3.36%) Perl
11 57 (3.24%) Go
12 40 (2.28%) Ruby
13 36 (2.05%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.88%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.59%) C
17 25 (1.42%) C++
18 22 (1.25%) Groovy
19 20 (1.14%) R
20 16 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 271 (15.42%) Degree
2 120 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 17 (0.97%) CCNA
6 17 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (0.57%) OCP
8 10 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.17%) HND
13 3 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.47%) QA
2 26 (1.48%) GDPR
3 19 (1.08%) 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 (0.057%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.057%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.057%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 286 (16.27%) Docker
2 61 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.46%) XenApp
7 5 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.23%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Varnish
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.057%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.057%) etcd
10 1 (0.057%) Postfix
10 1 (0.057%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 172 (9.78%) Terraform
2 169 (9.61%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.15%) Ansible
4 32 (1.82%) Puppet
5 29 (1.65%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Nagios
7 17 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.74%) WMI
11 12 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 9 (0.51%) Graphite
13 8 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.40%) Foglight
14 7 (0.40%) Kibana
14 7 (0.40%) SCCM
15 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 188 (10.69%) Oracle
2 137 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 74 (4.21%) VMware
4 54 (3.07%) Google
5 25 (1.42%) Atlassian
6 19 (1.08%) Databricks
7 18 (1.02%) EMC
7 18 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.02%) Splunk
8 16 (0.91%) Twitter
8 16 (0.91%) Veeam
9 15 (0.85%) Palo Alto
10 14 (0.80%) Adobe
10 14 (0.80%) Cisco
10 14 (0.80%) Facebook
11 13 (0.74%) Meraki
11 13 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.68%) Talend
13 11 (0.63%) HP
13 11 (0.63%) WooCommerce