MySQL Jobs in Birmingham

MySQL
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 117 98
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 23 37 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.75% 1.16% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.27% 6.64% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 26
10th Percentile - £39,250 £35,625
25th Percentile £25,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £71,991 £65,625
90th Percentile £74,250 £80,000 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 224 557 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.06% 17.46% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 179 446 266
10th Percentile £37,900 £35,000 £35,625
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,891 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.44% -
75th Percentile £71,436 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,982 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -1.86%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Birmingham

MySQL
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Birmingham.

Salary trend for MySQL in Birmingham

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Birmingham

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) ColdFusion
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Datadog
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.35%) IPsec
2 1 (4.35%) PuTTY
2 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) HBase
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.35%) QlikView
4 1 (4.35%) SQLite
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
3 3 (13.04%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) GDB
4 1 (4.35%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
4 1 (4.35%) WinDbg
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Automotive
4 2 (8.70%) Games
4 2 (8.70%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Graduate
2 6 (26.09%) Graduate Developer
2 6 (26.09%) IT Graduate
2 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Agile C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Agile Developer
3 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Graduate C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) PHP Developer
3 3 (13.04%) PHP Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Developer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) .NET
2 9 (39.13%) CSS
3 7 (30.43%) jQuery
4 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
5 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
6 3 (13.04%) Entity Framework
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) Laravel
7 2 (8.70%) LAMP
7 2 (8.70%) NumPy
7 2 (8.70%) Pandas
7 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
8 1 (4.35%) Kafka
8 1 (4.35%) libvirt
8 1 (4.35%) Node.js
8 1 (4.35%) React
8 1 (4.35%) Regular Expression
8 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Android
3 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Debian
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) MVC
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 6 (26.09%) OO
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
5 5 (21.74%) OOP
6 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Coaching
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
6 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) C#
2 12 (52.17%) PHP
3 8 (34.78%) Java
4 7 (30.43%) C++
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
6 4 (17.39%) Python
7 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.35%) Bash
8 1 (4.35%) Bicep
8 1 (4.35%) C
8 1 (4.35%) CodeQL
8 1 (4.35%) Go
8 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.35%) PROC SQL
8 1 (4.35%) R
8 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) LXC
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
3 1 (4.35%) HDFS
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) logstash
2 1 (4.35%) Oozie
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) Meraki
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Twitter