MySQL Jobs in Leeds

MySQL
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 67 127
Rank change year-on-year +5 +60 -16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 23 66 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.35% 2.77% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.54% 17.89% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15 64 19
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £74,625 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £51,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.45% -5.91%

All Database and 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 148 369 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 15.13% 15.50% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 123 252 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £42,341 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,151 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £81,125 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.66% -3.64%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in Leeds.

Salary trend for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Leeds

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Confluence
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 14 (60.87%) GCP
4 6 (26.09%) SaaS
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (21.74%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) MongoDB
2 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (17.39%) Redis
6 3 (13.04%) RDBMS
6 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Mocha
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Marketing
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) PHP Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Senior PHP Developer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Python Developer
7 1 (4.35%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Node.js
2 8 (34.78%) React
3 7 (30.43%) REST
4 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) Laravel
4 5 (21.74%) Symfony
4 5 (21.74%) Vue
5 4 (17.39%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) CakePHP
6 2 (8.70%) CodeIgniter
6 2 (8.70%) Express.js
6 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
6 2 (8.70%) Flask
6 2 (8.70%) HTML5
6 2 (8.70%) Jest
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (8.70%) Spring
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (43.48%) Microservices
4 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (21.74%) OO
8 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (17.39%) Data Science
8 4 (17.39%) Data Security
8 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Open Source
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (13.04%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 9 (39.13%) Python
3 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
4 7 (30.43%) Java
5 6 (26.09%) PHP
6 4 (17.39%) Scala
7 3 (13.04%) C#
8 1 (4.35%) Bicep
8 1 (4.35%) C++
8 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Palantir
3 1 (4.35%) Meraki