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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 59 56
Rank change year-on-year -53 -3 +70
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 14 22 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.55% 2.78% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.81% 14.57% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 65
10th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £44,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -10.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61,875 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,954 £77,625 £74,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,130 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.31% -5.71% +16.67%

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 291 151 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 11.33% 19.11% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 167 129 264
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.34%

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 20 May 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 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) SaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
1 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 3 (21.43%) MariaDB
3 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) PHP Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Junior
6 1 (7.14%) Junior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) React
1 5 (35.71%) Symfony
2 4 (28.57%) Laravel
2 4 (28.57%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) Doctrine
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Microservices
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Open Source
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Coaching
5 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) BDD
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Data Science
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 8 (57.14%) PHP
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 3 (21.43%) Java
6 2 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) Scala
7 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Palantir