Учитывая следующий пример (на основе структуры таблицы, представленной в вопросе).
CREATE TABLE `jobareas` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
INSERT INTO `jobareas` (`id`, `title`) VALUES
(1, 'area1'),
(2, 'area2'),
(3, 'area3'),
(4, 'area4'),
(5, 'area5'),
(6, 'area6'),
(7, 'area7'),
(8, 'area8');
-- --------------------------------------------------------
CREATE TABLE `jobskills` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`jobAreaID` int(11) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
INSERT INTO `jobskills` (`id`, `title`, `jobAreaID`) VALUES
(1, 'skill1', 1),
(2, 'skill2', 3),
(3, 'skill3', 3),
(4, 'skill4', 7),
(5, 'skill5', 4),
(6, 'skill6', 5),
(7, 'skill7', 1),
(8, 'skill8', 7),
(9, 'skill9', 6),
(10, 'skill10', 3),
(11, 'skill11', 4),
(12, 'skill12', 2),
(13, 'skill13', 6),
(14, 'skill14', 7),
(15, 'skill15', 2);
-- --------------------------------------------------------
CREATE TABLE `userskills` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`userID` int(11) NOT NULL,
`jobSkillID` int(11) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
INSERT INTO `userskills` (`id`, `userID`, `jobSkillID`) VALUES
(1, 5, 10),
(2, 2, 11),
(3, 4, 14),
(4, 4, 6),
(5, 2, 8),
(6, 6, 9),
(7, 3, 9),
(8, 1, 12),
(9, 1, 3),
(10, 5, 10);
ALTER TABLE `jobareas`
ADD UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `jobskills`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
ADD KEY `jobAreaID` (`jobAreaID`);
ALTER TABLE `userskills`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
ADD KEY `userID` (`userID`),
ADD KEY `jobSkillID` (`jobSkillID`);
ALTER TABLE `jobskills`
ADD CONSTRAINT `jobskills_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`jobAreaID`) REFERENCES `jobareas` (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `userskills`
ADD CONSTRAINT `userskills_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`jobSkillID`) REFERENCES `jobskills` (`id`);
Ваш запрос должен использовать DISTINCT
.
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(`us`.`userID`)) AS `num`,`ja`.`title` FROM `userskills` `us`
INNER JOIN `jobskills` `js` ON `js`.`id` = `us`.`jobSkillID`
INNER JOIN `jobareas` `ja` ON `ja`.`id` = `js`.`jobAreaID`
GROUP BY `ja`.`id`;
Результаты можно проверить в этом SQLFiddle