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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 95 108
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 16 65 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.69% 1.84% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.48% 19.46% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 40 15
10th Percentile - - £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.98% -4.78%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,875 £59,375
90th Percentile £52,100 £68,875 £66,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 247 334 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.72% 9.45% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 155 165 270
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,188
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,000 £75,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -3 6 £45,000 - 2
Nottinghamshire -26 3 £44,750 +11.88% 7
Northamptonshire - 3 £47,500 - 2
Leicestershire +16 2 £37,500 -44.44% 3
Derbyshire -18 2 £42,500 -3.41% 5
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 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Azure AI
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) MariaDB
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) PHP Developer
3 6 (37.50%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Symfony Developer
4 4 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Architect
6 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) CSS
1 10 (62.50%) HTML
2 7 (43.75%) Laravel
3 6 (37.50%) CakePHP
3 6 (37.50%) CodeIgniter
3 6 (37.50%) 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%) JPA
7 1 (6.25%) jQuery
7 1 (6.25%) OpenID
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (50.00%) MVC
3 7 (43.75%) OO
3 7 (43.75%) OO PHP
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) AI
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Logistics
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) Web Development
6 2 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 10 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 8 (50.00%) PHP
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft