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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 80 78
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +64
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 12 17 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.03% 1.34% 2.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.19% 10.83% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 35
10th Percentile £28,750 £40,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +1.38% -13.20%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £48,750 £55,000 £55,875
% change year-on-year -11.36% -1.57% -10.60%

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 194 157 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.70% 12.38% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 147 114 230
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,938 £72,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -

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 1 December 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Marketing
2 4 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Python Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Junior
4 2 (16.67%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) CakePHP
3 2 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (16.67%) Laravel
3 2 (16.67%) Symfony
4 1 (8.33%) NestJS
4 1 (8.33%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Hackathon
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (41.67%) Data Science
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
3 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 4 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Scala
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) PHP
6 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) Palantir