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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 167 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 -86 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1,766 2,259 6,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 2.28% 4.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.67% 10.58% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 1,316 2,825
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £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 £84,625 £93,125 £85,750
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 18,257 21,342 45,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 21.52% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,529 13,306 21,042
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £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 18 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 18 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 +6 1,595 £52,500 -6.65% 406
UK excluding London -3 1,357 £50,000 -4.76% 294
Work from Home +2 785 £56,500 +0.04% 251
North of England +67 445 £52,500 +10.53% 87
London -32 341 £70,000 -6.67% 147
South East -31 272 £52,500 - 59
North West +44 232 £55,000 +5.77% 50
South West +7 218 £45,000 -5.26% 44
Midlands -38 179 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Yorkshire +65 144 £47,500 +5.56% 23
East of England -4 130 £47,500 -20.83% 29
West Midlands -17 107 £52,500 -4.55% 35
Scotland -67 74 £45,000 - 14
North East +16 71 £62,500 +56.25% 14
East Midlands -28 68 £45,000 -10.00% 22
Wales +5 33 £52,101 +15.78% 6
Northern Ireland -3 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 (5.72%) WordPress
2 67 (3.79%) nginx
3 64 (3.62%) Apache
4 49 (2.77%) CMS
5 39 (2.21%) Confluence
6 31 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.47%) Drupal
8 18 (1.02%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.79%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.79%) IIS
10 13 (0.74%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.68%) 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 (0.057%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.057%) Relativity
8 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 683 (38.67%) AWS
2 307 (17.38%) Azure
3 142 (8.04%) SaaS
4 119 (6.74%) GitHub
5 115 (6.51%) Serverless
6 111 (6.29%) GCP
7 82 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (4.36%) Amazon S3
9 60 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
10 58 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
11 49 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (2.77%) Power Platform
12 37 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 25 (1.42%) PaaS
16 21 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (1.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.08%) Firewall
2 48 (2.72%) DNS
3 40 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.42%) HTTP
5 22 (1.25%) SNMP
6 21 (1.19%) Internet
7 20 (1.13%) SSH
8 19 (1.08%) LAN
9 17 (0.96%) SSL
10 15 (0.85%) PBX
11 13 (0.74%) SAN
11 13 (0.74%) VPN
12 12 (0.68%) VoIP
12 12 (0.68%) WAN
13 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.51%) DHCP
14 9 (0.51%) tcpdump
15 8 (0.45%) MQTT
15 8 (0.45%) WLAN
16 7 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (18.40%) PostgreSQL
2 303 (17.16%) SQL Server
3 258 (14.61%) Relational Database
4 200 (11.33%) MongoDB
5 139 (7.87%) NoSQL
6 120 (6.80%) Redis
7 80 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (4.25%) MariaDB
8 75 (4.25%) RDBMS
9 68 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
10 64 (3.62%) DynamoDB
11 60 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
12 52 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (2.38%) Power BI
14 36 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
15 25 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (1.19%) Oracle Database
17 18 (1.02%) CouchDB
18 15 (0.85%) GIS
19 14 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 378 (21.40%) Git
2 113 (6.40%) JIRA
3 76 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 53 (3.00%) Bitbucket
5 45 (2.55%) GitLab
6 35 (1.98%) Subversion
7 30 (1.70%) PHPUnit
7 30 (1.70%) Postman
8 21 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.13%) Maven
10 17 (0.96%) webpack
11 16 (0.91%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.79%) 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 (0.45%) gulp
17 6 (0.34%) Grunt
General
1 357 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 157 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (7.53%) Finance
4 82 (4.64%) Retail
5 74 (4.19%) Games
6 71 (4.02%) Marketing
7 59 (3.34%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.55%) Law
10 43 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.10%) Legal
13 32 (1.81%) Banking
13 32 (1.81%) Tech for Good
14 20 (1.13%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.85%) Publishing
17 14 (0.79%) German Language
18 12 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 975 (55.21%) Developer
2 386 (21.86%) PHP Developer
3 377 (21.35%) Senior
4 228 (12.91%) Software Engineer
5 208 (11.78%) Senior Developer
6 172 (9.74%) Full Stack Developer
7 155 (8.78%) Lead
8 136 (7.70%) Software Developer
9 101 (5.72%) DBA
9 101 (5.72%) Web Developer
10 74 (4.19%) Support Engineer
11 71 (4.02%) Senior PHP Developer
12 69 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 67 (3.79%) Lead Developer
14 61 (3.45%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
16 53 (3.00%) Java Developer
17 50 (2.83%) .NET Developer
18 48 (2.72%) Technical Leader
19 44 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (28.26%) HTML
2 483 (27.35%) CSS
3 453 (25.65%) Laravel
4 312 (17.67%) React
5 222 (12.57%) Vue
6 211 (11.95%) .NET
7 207 (11.72%) Node.js
8 184 (10.42%) RESTful
9 182 (10.31%) AngularJS
10 179 (10.14%) jQuery
11 147 (8.32%) LAMP
12 144 (8.15%) Symfony
13 122 (6.91%) HTML5
14 118 (6.68%) Web Services
15 109 (6.17%) REST
16 96 (5.44%) Spring
17 86 (4.87%) XML
18 84 (4.76%) CSS3
18 84 (4.76%) JSON
19 83 (4.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 52 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.60%) IoT
6 39 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.15%) Client/Server
8 37 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 33 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.76%) Product Ownership
13 24 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 23 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 22 (1.25%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.19%) Replication
17 20 (1.13%) Clustering
18 17 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 355 (20.10%) Linux
2 171 (9.68%) Windows
3 79 (4.47%) Unix
4 40 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 39 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
8 23 (1.30%) Android
9 22 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.85%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.79%) CentOS
13 14 (0.79%) Debian
14 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.23%) Rocky
17 3 (0.17%) Solaris
18 2 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (25.71%) Agile
2 447 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
3 389 (22.03%) Software Engineering
4 351 (19.88%) Full Stack Development
5 232 (13.14%) Web Development
6 231 (13.08%) OOP
7 228 (12.91%) DevOps
8 223 (12.63%) MVC
9 221 (12.51%) Mentoring
10 208 (11.78%) Microservices
11 193 (10.93%) CI/CD
12 187 (10.59%) Computer Science
13 162 (9.17%) OO
14 139 (7.87%) User Experience
15 132 (7.47%) E-Commerce
16 126 (7.13%) SDLC
17 121 (6.85%) Design Patterns
18 119 (6.74%) Test Automation
19 108 (6.12%) TDD
20 106 (6.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 761 (43.09%) PHP
2 687 (38.90%) JavaScript
3 507 (28.71%) SQL
4 298 (16.87%) Java
5 280 (15.86%) Python
6 254 (14.38%) C#
7 137 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 95 (5.38%) PowerShell
9 89 (5.04%) Bash
10 59 (3.34%) Perl
11 57 (3.23%) Go
12 40 (2.27%) Ruby
13 36 (2.04%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.87%) PL/SQL
15 31 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.59%) C
17 25 (1.42%) C++
18 22 (1.25%) Groovy
19 20 (1.13%) R
20 17 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 275 (15.57%) Degree
2 121 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (2.72%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.08%) CCNA
6 19 (1.08%) 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 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.40%) 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 (3.45%) QA
2 26 (1.47%) 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
1 287 (16.25%) Docker
2 63 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.98%) 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 (0.057%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.057%) etcd
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) Postfix
10 1 (0.057%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (9.85%) Terraform
2 169 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 74 (4.19%) Ansible
4 32 (1.81%) Puppet
5 29 (1.64%) Grafana
6 24 (1.36%) Nagios
7 17 (0.96%) 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 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.45%) 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%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 191 (10.82%) Oracle
2 141 (7.98%) Microsoft
3 76 (4.30%) VMware
4 54 (3.06%) Google
5 26 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.25%) Databricks
7 18 (1.02%) EMC
7 18 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.02%) Splunk
8 16 (0.91%) Palo Alto
8 16 (0.91%) Twitter
8 16 (0.91%) Veeam
9 15 (0.85%) Cisco
10 14 (0.79%) Adobe
10 14 (0.79%) Facebook
10 14 (0.79%) Meraki
11 13 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.68%) Talend
13 11 (0.62%) HP
13 11 (0.62%) WooCommerce