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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 78 119
Rank change year-on-year -61 +41 -40
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 26 38 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.59% 2.32% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.86% 14.67% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13 35 58
10th Percentile £34,000 - £33,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £41,250 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%

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 379 259 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.55% 15.78% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 184 221 457
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%

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
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 29 April 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 -23 9 £40,000 -
Nottinghamshire -35 8 £35,000 - 4
Leicestershire -28 6 £37,500 - 2
Northamptonshire -9 3 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
1 3 (11.54%) LoRaWAN
1 3 (11.54%) MQTT
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Neo4j
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Law
3 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) PHP Developer
3 6 (23.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Technical Support
4 5 (19.23%) Web Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Symfony Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Laravel
2 11 (42.31%) CSS
2 11 (42.31%) HTML
3 5 (19.23%) CSS3
3 5 (19.23%) HTML5
3 5 (19.23%) jQuery
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) CakePHP
5 2 (7.69%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (7.69%) Symfony
5 2 (7.69%) Vue
6 1 (3.85%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) EPoS
2 3 (11.54%) Driving Licence
2 3 (11.54%) IoT
2 3 (11.54%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Debian
3 3 (11.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) OO
1 8 (30.77%) OO PHP
1 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
2 6 (23.08%) Time Management
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
3 5 (19.23%) Web Development
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) MVC
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (11.54%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) API Development
6 2 (7.69%) Line Management
7 1 (3.85%) API Integration
7 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) PHP
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (11.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Galera Cluster
1 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Zend