MySQL Job Trends in the North West

MySQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 106 77
Rank change year-on-year -34 -29 +97
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 39 106 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.61% 2.10% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.99% 14.08% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 33 61 112
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £61,875
90th Percentile £106,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Database & 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 488 753 844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.69% 14.94% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 371 383 702
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,302 £68,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,150 £83,925
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in the North West

MySQL
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 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
Manchester -8 33 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Lancashire +7 2 £38,250 -21.54% 7
Merseyside -6 2 £46,250 +38.06% 4
Cumbria +13 1 £55,000 - 3
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
4 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.56%) DB2
7 1 (2.56%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.56%) Redis
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (10.26%) Games
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) PHP Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Games Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Integration Developer
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) HTML
2 12 (30.77%) CSS
3 11 (28.21%) .NET
4 8 (20.51%) .NET Framework
4 8 (20.51%) REST
5 7 (17.95%) Laravel
5 7 (17.95%) React
6 5 (12.82%) RESTful
6 5 (12.82%) Web Services
7 4 (10.26%) jQuery
7 4 (10.26%) JSON
8 3 (7.69%) FHIR
8 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
9 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (5.13%) Node.js
9 2 (5.13%) WCF
10 1 (2.56%) CodeIgniter
10 1 (2.56%) Django
10 1 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.13%) Online Games
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.13%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
2 13 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 11 (28.21%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) AI
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) User Experience
7 7 (17.95%) DevOps
7 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 6 (15.38%) TDD
9 5 (12.82%) Analytics
9 5 (12.82%) OOP
9 5 (12.82%) Performance Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Software Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) JavaScript
2 15 (38.46%) SQL
3 14 (35.90%) PHP
4 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
5 9 (23.08%) C#
6 8 (20.51%) Java
6 8 (20.51%) Python
7 3 (7.69%) Go
7 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Rancher
5 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Advent
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle