MySQL Job Trends in Leicester

MySQL
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring MySQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 2 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 0.99% 2.51% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.90% 15.69% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.08% +108.00%
75th Percentile £38,750 £60,625 £67,500
90th Percentile - £65,500 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year -25.00% +0.02% +5.24%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 29 51 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 14.36% 15.99% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 20 28 59
10th Percentile £36,125 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -8.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £55,625 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% -11.50% +13.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Leicester

MySQL
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing MySQL

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OO PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki