MySQL Job Trends in Leicestershire

MySQL
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 50 76 54
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 +24
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.49% 1.17% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 7.63% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +0.02% +5.24%
75th Percentile £38,750 £60,625 £59,846
90th Percentile - £65,500 £64,439
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,995
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.99% +4.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 60 118 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 14.74% 15.28% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 43 41 73
10th Percentile £36,774 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 -
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in Leicestershire

MySQL
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing MySQL

MySQL
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +6 2 £37,500 -25.00% 2
MySQL
East Midlands

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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