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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 +35
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 16 72 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.69% 2.32% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.99% 21.49% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16 50 17
10th Percentile £36,875 - £31,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £37,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -24.98% -6.12%
75th Percentile £48,938 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,250 £60,875 £66,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 229 335 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.85% 10.78% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 168 202 292
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £34,163
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
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 30 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 30 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 -9 8 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Nottinghamshire -21 4 £49,500 +41.43% 5
Northamptonshire - 2 £47,500 - 1
Leicestershire +17 1 £37,500 -44.44% 5
Derbyshire -22 1 £40,000 -9.09%
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%) GCP
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MariaDB
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 8 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) PHP Developer
3 8 (50.00%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 8 (50.00%) Symfony Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior
4 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Software Developer
5 4 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior
7 1 (6.25%) Junior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) HTML
1 11 (68.75%) Laravel
2 8 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 8 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 8 (50.00%) Symfony
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) CSS3
3 3 (18.75%) HTML5
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) jQuery
5 1 (6.25%) OpenID
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (62.50%) MVC
3 9 (56.25%) OO
3 9 (56.25%) OO PHP
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) API Integration
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
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%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) TypeScript
2 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (75.00%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Zend