MySQL Job Trends in the East Midlands

MySQL
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 88 103
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 +32
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 16 67 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.73% 2.01% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.27% 20.94% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15 43 18
10th Percentile £36,750 - £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -29.99% -7.43%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,250 £67,000 £65,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 220 320 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.05% 9.59% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 165 183 292
10th Percentile £34,150 £32,500 £35,638
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £76,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MySQL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MySQL
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the East Midlands

MySQL
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Lincolnshire -8 7 £45,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire -21 3 £49,500 +41.43% 5
Northamptonshire - 3 £47,500 - 1
Derbyshire -21 2 £42,500 -3.41%
Leicestershire +15 1 £37,500 -44.44% 2
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) MariaDB
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 7 (43.75%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 7 (43.75%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Symfony Developer
4 4 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (6.25%) React Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) HTML
2 9 (56.25%) Laravel
3 7 (43.75%) CakePHP
3 7 (43.75%) CodeIgniter
3 7 (43.75%) Symfony
4 4 (25.00%) .NET
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (18.75%) CSS3
5 3 (18.75%) HTML5
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (12.50%) REST
7 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
7 1 (6.25%) JPA
7 1 (6.25%) jQuery
7 1 (6.25%) OpenID
7 1 (6.25%) RESTful
7 1 (6.25%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (56.25%) MVC
3 8 (50.00%) OO
3 8 (50.00%) OO PHP
4 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) Logistics
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 10 (62.50%) PHP
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Zend