MySQL Job Trends in Northern Ireland

MySQL
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 34 52
Rank change year-on-year -84 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.069% 1.29% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.39% 11.11% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50,500
25th Percentile - - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.00%
75th Percentile - - £107,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 72 36 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.99% 11.58% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 17
10th Percentile £41,000 £32,300 £27,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,313 £60,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £69,500 £99,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

MySQL
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing MySQL

MySQL
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
County Antrim -46 1 - - 10
MySQL
UK

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Db2
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Escalation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) XML Parsing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Thales
1 1 (100.00%) VMware