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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 114 114
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 16 63 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.69% 1.59% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.30% 14.52% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13 40 11
10th Percentile £38,300 - £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £51,250 £49,688 £57,500
90th Percentile - £68,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 254 434 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.96% 10.93% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 167 190 257
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,250 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Nottinghamshire -13 6 £47,500 +15.85% 4
Lincolnshire -1 4 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Northamptonshire +15 3 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Leicestershire +31 2 £37,500 -25.00% 3
Derbyshire -11 1 £45,000 +2.27% 2
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Azure AI
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 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%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Law
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (31.25%) PHP Developer
3 4 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 4 (25.00%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Symfony Developer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Junior C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) CSS
1 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (31.25%) Laravel
3 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (25.00%) CakePHP
3 4 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (25.00%) Material-UI
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (25.00%) Symfony
3 4 (25.00%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (18.75%) CSS3
4 3 (18.75%) HTML5
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (6.25%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) MVC
4 5 (31.25%) OO
4 5 (31.25%) OO PHP
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (31.25%) PHP
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
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