MySQL Job Trends in Leeds

MySQL
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 59 77
Rank change year-on-year -44 +18 +49
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 11 23 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.65% 2.86% 2.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.99% 15.23% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 39
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,550 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,065 £67,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +25.00% -3.57%
75th Percentile £56,180 £73,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,250 £75,750 £73,593
West Yorkshire median annual salary £51,065 £61,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -16.97% +13.89% +2.86%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 276 151 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.20% 18.76% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 176 115 272
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £36,375
25th Percentile £46,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £80,313 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,000 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Leeds

MySQL
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Junior
4 2 (18.18%) Junior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
1 4 (36.36%) Symfony
2 3 (27.27%) Laravel
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Doctrine
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) NestJS
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Hackathon
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Open Source
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Palantir