MySQL Job Trends in the Midlands

MySQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 149 155
Rank change year-on-year -58 +6 -41
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 48 73 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 1.45% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.98% 9.91% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32 57 140
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49,875 £59,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £67,250 £63,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -5.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 964 737 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.41% 14.64% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 607 522 1,432
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,900 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

MySQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

MySQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the Midlands

MySQL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
East Midlands -31 25 £37,500 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -41 23 £46,250 -13.15% 3
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (12.50%) CMS
2 4 (8.33%) nginx
3 3 (6.25%) IIS
3 3 (6.25%) WordPress
4 1 (2.08%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Photoshop
2 4 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Shopify
2 3 (6.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) AWS
2 5 (10.42%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) GitHub
3 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
1 3 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
1 3 (6.25%) MQTT
1 3 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.33%) Power BI
3 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
4 2 (4.17%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) Vite
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) PHPUnit
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Law
4 4 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Advertising
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) PHP Developer
3 8 (16.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 5 (10.42%) Web Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Product Owner
7 3 (6.25%) Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 3 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Junior
7 3 (6.25%) Junior IT Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (52.08%) CSS
1 25 (52.08%) HTML
2 19 (39.58%) Laravel
3 9 (18.75%) RESTful
4 8 (16.67%) jQuery
4 8 (16.67%) Vue
5 6 (12.50%) CSS3
5 6 (12.50%) HTML5
6 4 (8.33%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (8.33%) YAML
7 3 (6.25%) JSON
8 2 (4.17%) Node.js
8 2 (4.17%) React
8 2 (4.17%) Spring
8 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.17%) Symfony
9 1 (2.08%) Alpine.js
9 1 (2.08%) Bootstrap
9 1 (2.08%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (8.33%) EPoS
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.25%) IoT
3 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.25%) Replication
3 3 (6.25%) Social Media
4 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Debian
3 3 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
4 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
4 7 (14.58%) OO
4 7 (14.58%) OO PHP
4 7 (14.58%) Time Management
5 6 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.42%) MVC
6 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.42%) Web Development
7 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.33%) Business Strategy
7 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (8.33%) Microservices
7 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) PHP
2 26 (54.17%) JavaScript
3 17 (35.42%) SQL
4 8 (16.67%) Java
5 4 (8.33%) Bash
6 3 (6.25%) Python
6 3 (6.25%) VBA
7 2 (4.17%) C#
7 2 (4.17%) C++
7 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Galera Cluster
1 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Adobe
2 3 (6.25%) VMware
3 2 (4.17%) Zend