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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +43
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 1 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.20% 0.51% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.94% 6.25% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £42,000 £51,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £52,500 £78,750 £110,000
90th Percentile - £84,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 34 32 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.76% 8.08% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 54
10th Percentile £35,450 £26,250 £34,575
25th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +13.40%
75th Percentile £78,770 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £76,815 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 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
County Antrim 0 1 £50,000 -23.08% 12
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate