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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 68 76
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +61
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 9 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.64% 1.84% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 12.75% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 30
10th Percentile £28,750 £40,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £67,500 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +24.71% -13.40%
75th Percentile £57,188 £73,125 £64,063
90th Percentile £69,000 £75,000 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £67,500 £54,250
% change year-on-year -27.41% +24.42% -9.58%

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 238 149 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.01% 14.45% 22.60%
Number of salaries quoted 156 111 241
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,938 £41,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -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 18 January 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 5 (55.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) PHP Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Laravel
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Symfony
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) NestJS
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hackathon
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) Data Science
2 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 5 (55.56%) Open Source
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) AI
6 1 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 1 (11.11%) QMS
6 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Scala
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
1 5 (55.56%) Palantir