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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 96 159
Rank change year-on-year -100 +63 -93
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 84 237 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.08% 2.42% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.21% 13.22% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 65 195 101
10th Percentile £34,800 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,793 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -3.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £74,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +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 749 1,793 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.63% 18.31% 18.65%
Number of salaries quoted 451 1,277 887
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,365 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -3.77% -0.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,650 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,759 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -15 57 £58,500 -2.50% 60
Cheshire -2 12 £47,500 -5.00% 19
Lancashire -76 9 £40,000 -50.00% 34
Merseyside +22 4 £33,500 -10.67% 8
Cumbria -74 1 - -
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 11 (13.10%) Apache
2 4 (4.76%) WordPress
3 3 (3.57%) CMS
4 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.38%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.38%) Confluence
4 2 (2.38%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 56 (66.67%) AWS
2 26 (30.95%) Azure
3 21 (25.00%) GCP
4 7 (8.33%) GitHub
4 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.14%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.57%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.57%) PaaS
9 2 (2.38%) AWS IoT
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.38%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.38%) IaaS
10 1 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 3 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.38%) FTP
3 2 (2.38%) HTTP
3 2 (2.38%) SSH
3 2 (2.38%) SSL
4 1 (1.19%) Firewall
4 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.19%) IPsec
4 1 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.90%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.95%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.38%) Big Data
8 2 (2.38%) Couchbase
8 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.38%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (1.19%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.19%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.19%) Power BI
9 1 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.19%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Git
2 6 (7.14%) JIRA
3 4 (4.76%) Appium
3 4 (4.76%) Fiddler
3 4 (4.76%) GitLab
3 4 (4.76%) JMeter
3 4 (4.76%) LoadRunner
3 4 (4.76%) Postman
3 4 (4.76%) Selenium
4 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.19%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.19%) Subversion
5 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 8 (9.52%) Games
4 7 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
4 7 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Cantonese Language
6 5 (5.95%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.76%) Marketing
8 2 (2.38%) Retail
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Law
9 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (44.05%) Developer
2 22 (26.19%) Senior
3 17 (20.24%) PHP Developer
4 12 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 7 (8.33%) IT Support
8 7 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Senior PHP Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Analyst
9 6 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Digital Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) Integration Analyst
11 4 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Lead
11 4 (4.76%) PHP Software Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.14%) React
2 17 (20.24%) CSS
3 16 (19.05%) HTML
4 15 (17.86%) .NET
4 15 (17.86%) Node.js
5 14 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 14 (16.67%) Laravel
6 12 (14.29%) Vue
7 9 (10.71%) LAMP
8 8 (9.52%) RESTful
9 7 (8.33%) jQuery
9 7 (8.33%) Middleware
9 7 (8.33%) Svelte
10 5 (5.95%) FHIR
10 5 (5.95%) JSON
10 5 (5.95%) Symfony
11 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
12 3 (3.57%) EDI
12 3 (3.57%) HTML5
12 3 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.95%) LIMS
4 4 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.57%) Replication
6 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) IoT
6 2 (2.38%) Life Science
6 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.19%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (11.90%) Windows
3 5 (5.95%) Android
3 5 (5.95%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.38%) AIX
4 2 (2.38%) CentOS
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Agile
2 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (26.19%) CI/CD
4 17 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (20.24%) Software Engineering
5 14 (16.67%) DevOps
5 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 14 (16.67%) User Experience
6 13 (15.48%) OOP
7 10 (11.90%) Code Quality
7 10 (11.90%) E-Commerce
7 10 (11.90%) TDD
8 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.71%) Fintech
8 9 (10.71%) Microservices
9 8 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.33%) ETL
10 7 (8.33%) Secure Coding
10 7 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) JavaScript
2 39 (46.43%) PHP
3 24 (28.57%) Python
3 24 (28.57%) SQL
4 15 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 14 (16.67%) Java
6 8 (9.52%) C#
7 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.95%) C++
9 3 (3.57%) Bash
10 2 (2.38%) AWK
10 2 (2.38%) C
10 2 (2.38%) Korn
10 2 (2.38%) Perl
10 2 (2.38%) Scala
11 1 (1.19%) Go
11 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Degree
2 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) HL7
3 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) KVM
2 2 (2.38%) Postfix
2 2 (2.38%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.19%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Terraform
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) Nagios
4 2 (2.38%) Nessus
5 1 (1.19%) cPanel
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Oracle
3 7 (8.33%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) SAP
5 3 (3.57%) Twitter
6 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.38%) Tenable
7 1 (1.19%) Revolut
7 1 (1.19%) Talend
7 1 (1.19%) Zend