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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 62 74
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 +48
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 8 19 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.53% 2.06% 2.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 12.93% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 44
10th Percentile £28,750 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,875 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £67,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +25.00% -13.60%
75th Percentile £58,125 £75,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £61,000 £77,250 £82,839
West Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £67,500 £54,125
% change year-on-year -27.41% +24.71% +3.10%

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 245 147 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.21% 15.93% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 156 107 279
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,375 £41,125 £42,612
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,650 £84,056
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 8 February 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Junior
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Laravel
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) Symfony
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) NestJS
2 1 (12.50%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hackathon
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) Data Science
1 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (50.00%) Open Source
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (12.50%) Case Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) QMS
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) Palantir