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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 132 101
Rank change year-on-year -28 -31 +5
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 17 14 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.25% 0.60% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.78% 5.62% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 41
10th Percentile £31,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £35,625 £39,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% -15.98%
75th Percentile £57,000 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile - £51,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%

All Database & 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 356 249 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.33% 10.61% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 229 156 182
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,781 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 2026. 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 9 £40,000 -11.11%
Nottinghamshire -11 6 £45,750 +4.57% 1
Northamptonshire -8 1 - - 2
Derbyshire -11 1 - -
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 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Technical Support
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
1 4 (23.53%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
2 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
2 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (17.65%) Blazor
2 3 (17.65%) Entity Framework
2 3 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) jQuery
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Laravel
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Swagger
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Debian
3 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Customer Service
1 8 (47.06%) Line Management
1 8 (47.06%) Time Management
2 4 (23.53%) API Development
2 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
3 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.88%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Galera Cluster
1 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) VMware