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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 89 81
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +51
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 10 12 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.94% 0.83% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.41% 7.69% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 35
10th Percentile £36,375 £42,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,438 £47,188 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +1.38% -13.20%
75th Percentile £90,000 £60,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £71,250 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year -10.91% +1.38% -13.20%

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 156 156 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 14.73% 10.80% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 125 109 239
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,500 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 1 November 2025.

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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) GCP
4 5 (50.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) SaaS Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) CakePHP
3 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) NestJS
4 1 (10.00%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Hackathon
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) AI
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (40.00%) Marketing Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Workflow
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Palantir
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki