MySQL Job Trends in the North of England

MySQL
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 171 90
Rank change year-on-year -61 -81 +49
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 105 129 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.53% 1.59% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.79% 11.11% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 92 98 396
10th Percentile £37,650 £25,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,546 1,161 3,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.80% 14.30% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 776 2,269
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

MySQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the North of England

MySQL
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Yorkshire -34 44 £42,500 -10.53% 5
North West -45 43 £55,000 - 20
North East -42 18 £47,500 - 6
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (2.86%) IIS
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) nginx
2 2 (1.90%) WordPress
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (61.90%) AWS
2 37 (35.24%) Azure
3 9 (8.57%) GCP
3 9 (8.57%) Serverless
4 7 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.86%) GitHub
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.90%) npm
9 2 (1.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) DHCP
1 3 (2.86%) DNS
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
1 3 (2.86%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.86%) Network Security
1 3 (2.86%) SSH
1 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.86%) VLAN
1 3 (2.86%) VPN
1 3 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (34.29%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (31.43%) SQL Server
3 29 (27.62%) NoSQL
4 23 (21.90%) MongoDB
5 12 (11.43%) MariaDB
6 11 (10.48%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.67%) Power BI
8 6 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (5.71%) Metadata
9 4 (3.81%) Tableau
10 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.90%) phpMyAdmin
11 2 (1.90%) Redis
11 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) PHPUnit
3 5 (4.76%) JIRA
4 4 (3.81%) GitLab
5 3 (2.86%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.95%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.95%) YouTrack
General
1 20 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.14%) Law
3 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.67%) Retail
6 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Finance
7 4 (3.81%) Advertising
7 4 (3.81%) Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Legal
8 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.95%) Games
10 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (40.95%) Developer
2 36 (34.29%) Senior
3 22 (20.95%) Senior Developer
4 18 (17.14%) Software Engineer
5 16 (15.24%) Administrator
6 15 (14.29%) DBA
7 14 (13.33%) Software Developer
8 13 (12.38%) Senior Software Developer
9 12 (11.43%) SQL DBA
10 10 (9.52%) Database Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) Lead
11 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (7.62%) Java Engineer
11 8 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (7.62%) PHP Developer
12 7 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (4.76%) Architect
13 5 (4.76%) Senior Database Engineer
14 4 (3.81%) C# Developer
14 4 (3.81%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.71%) RESTful
2 20 (19.05%) Laravel
3 16 (15.24%) CSS
3 16 (15.24%) HTML
3 16 (15.24%) REST
4 15 (14.29%) React
5 12 (11.43%) Node.js
5 12 (11.43%) Vue
6 11 (10.48%) .NET
7 8 (7.62%) HTML5
8 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.71%) CSS3
9 5 (4.76%) .NET Framework
9 5 (4.76%) JSON
9 5 (4.76%) Spring
10 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.81%) Symfony
11 3 (2.86%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Replication
2 12 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.48%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.95%) Agile
2 34 (32.38%) Microservices
3 28 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.90%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (20.95%) Mentoring
6 21 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 20 (19.05%) TDD
8 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
9 17 (16.19%) Coaching
10 16 (15.24%) Open Source
11 15 (14.29%) High Availability
12 14 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
14 12 (11.43%) AI
14 12 (11.43%) Secure Coding
15 10 (9.52%) BDD
15 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
15 10 (9.52%) Data Protection
16 9 (8.57%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 51 (48.57%) SQL
2 46 (43.81%) JavaScript
3 35 (33.33%) PHP
4 23 (21.90%) Java
5 12 (11.43%) C#
5 12 (11.43%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.67%) Python
8 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.86%) Bash
10 2 (1.90%) Go
10 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.76%) DBS Check
1 5 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.95%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.86%) iptables
2 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Terraform
2 3 (2.86%) Ansible
2 3 (2.86%) Grafana
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.86%) systemd
3 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.90%) Puppet
4 1 (0.95%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (5.71%) Oracle
2 3 (2.86%) Splunk
2 3 (2.86%) VMware
3 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.90%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.95%) Google