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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 66 111
Rank change year-on-year -61 +45 -35
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 22 44 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.61% 3.04% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.79% 16.73% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 41 53
10th Percentile £33,875 - £34,250
25th Percentile £35,938 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £45,188 £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £53,250 - £62,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%

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 324 263 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.91% 18.19% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 179 226 469
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 30 March 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 -20 9 £40,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire -35 7 £49,500 +41.43% 2
Leicestershire -18 3 £37,500 - 2
Northamptonshire -12 2 - - 2
Derbyshire - 1 £40,000 -
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 (9.09%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (9.09%) MQTT
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Neo4j
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Law
3 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (18.18%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) PHP Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Support
4 3 (13.64%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 3 (13.64%) PHP Symfony Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Symfony Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Laravel
2 9 (40.91%) CSS
2 9 (40.91%) HTML
3 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) CakePHP
4 3 (13.64%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (13.64%) CSS3
4 3 (13.64%) HTML5
4 3 (13.64%) jQuery
4 3 (13.64%) Symfony
4 3 (13.64%) Vue
5 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.55%) JPA
5 1 (4.55%) OpenID
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) EPoS
2 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.09%) IoT
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Debian
3 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) OO
3 6 (27.27%) OO PHP
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) MVC
4 5 (22.73%) Time Management
5 2 (9.09%) API Development
5 2 (9.09%) API Integration
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.09%) High Availability
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (9.09%) Scrum
5 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Web Development
5 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) PHP
2 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Java
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Galera Cluster
1 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) VMware
1 2 (9.09%) Zend