MySQL Jobs in the North West

MySQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 100 125
Rank change year-on-year -113 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 79 238 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 2.16% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 12.98% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 56 183 121
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £40,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 750 1,833 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.49% 16.66% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 437 1,184 904
10th Percentile £32,900 £32,825 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.19%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £84,964 £81,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the North West.

Salary trend for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the North West over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the North West

MySQL
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Manchester -23 55 £55,000 -3.08% 62
Cheshire -18 11 £77,500 +53.47% 17
Lancashire -78 7 £40,000 -50.00% 26
Merseyside +13 4 £40,000 +6.67% 6
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.39%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) CMS
3 3 (3.80%) Confluence
3 3 (3.80%) WordPress
4 2 (2.53%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.53%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 54 (68.35%) AWS
2 21 (26.58%) Azure
3 18 (22.78%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) GitHub
5 6 (7.59%) SaaS
5 6 (7.59%) Serverless
6 5 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.33%) PaaS
7 4 (5.06%) Google Analytics
7 4 (5.06%) IaaS
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.53%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) VPN
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (8.86%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.33%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.80%) Power BI
7 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.53%) Redis
7 2 (2.53%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.27%) Big Data
8 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) Git
2 9 (11.39%) JIRA
3 6 (7.59%) GitLab
4 4 (5.06%) Appium
4 4 (5.06%) Fiddler
4 4 (5.06%) JMeter
4 4 (5.06%) LoadRunner
4 4 (5.06%) Postman
4 4 (5.06%) Selenium
5 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) Mocha
6 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.27%) Sinon.JS
6 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Games
3 7 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Mandarin Language
5 5 (6.33%) Cantonese Language
5 5 (6.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing
7 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Electronics
9 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (48.10%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Senior
3 13 (16.46%) PHP Developer
4 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 8 (10.13%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (8.86%) Analyst
7 7 (8.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support
8 6 (7.59%) Senior PHP Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Digital Analyst
9 5 (6.33%) Integration Analyst
9 5 (6.33%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 4 (5.06%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.06%) Lead
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) React
2 16 (20.25%) Node.js
3 15 (18.99%) CSS
4 14 (17.72%) HTML
5 11 (13.92%) Laravel
6 9 (11.39%) Vue
7 8 (10.13%) JSON
7 8 (10.13%) Middleware
7 8 (10.13%) Svelte
8 7 (8.86%) .NET
8 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
8 7 (8.86%) jQuery
8 7 (8.86%) LAMP
9 5 (6.33%) FHIR
9 5 (6.33%) RESTful
10 4 (5.06%) REST
11 3 (3.80%) React Native
11 3 (3.80%) Symfony
12 2 (2.53%) Django
12 2 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.33%) LIMS
3 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) IoT
5 2 (2.53%) NHS
5 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.46%) Linux
2 10 (12.66%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) Agile
2 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (29.11%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (18.99%) Test Automation
5 15 (18.99%) User Experience
6 13 (16.46%) Code Quality
6 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
7 12 (15.19%) OOP
8 10 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (12.66%) Front End Development
8 10 (12.66%) Microservices
9 9 (11.39%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.39%) DevOps
10 8 (10.13%) Computer Science
10 8 (10.13%) E-Commerce
10 8 (10.13%) Secure Coding
11 7 (8.86%) Analytics
11 7 (8.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.70%) JavaScript
2 31 (39.24%) PHP
3 28 (35.44%) SQL
4 21 (26.58%) TypeScript
5 19 (24.05%) Python
6 18 (22.78%) Java
7 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
8 7 (8.86%) C#
9 3 (3.80%) Bash
9 3 (3.80%) C++
10 2 (2.53%) Bicep
11 1 (1.27%) Go
11 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.27%) Scala
11 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.06%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) QA
2 5 (6.33%) HL7
3 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Terraform
2 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Google
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle
3 3 (3.80%) Twitter
4 2 (2.53%) Databricks
4 2 (2.53%) Meraki
4 2 (2.53%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) PayPal
5 1 (1.27%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.27%) Talend
5 1 (1.27%) Zend