MySQL Job Trends in Lancashire

MySQL
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -27 +26
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 2 7 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.18% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 10.14% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £33,075 £40,125 -
25th Percentile £33,938 £42,188 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £48,750 £34,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +40.29% -13.13%
75th Percentile £42,938 £54,688 £43,125
90th Percentile £44,025 £56,375 £51,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 52 69 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.57% 8.66% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 72
10th Percentile £22,625 £39,685 £31,100
25th Percentile £29,000 £47,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,897 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +15.57% +11.76%
75th Percentile £48,750 £63,863 £54,063
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,945 £56,125
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Lancashire

MySQL
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing MySQL

MySQL
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Blackpool - 2 £38,250 - 2
MySQL
North West

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) Alpine.js
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript