MySQL Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

MySQL
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +25
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 11 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.59% 1.41% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.58% 15.56% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £27,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £36,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -36.96% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £45,625 £58,750
90th Percentile - £49,375 £59,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £36,250 £51,250
% change year-on-year +31.03% -29.27% +28.13%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 81 90 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.71% 9.05% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 63 46 55
10th Percentile - £33,500 £30,700
25th Percentile £28,500 £41,438 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.06%
75th Percentile £57,250 £71,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £75,750
North East median annual salary £41,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.38% +10.53%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

MySQL job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

MySQL
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in Tyne and Wear

MySQL
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 6 £33,750 -27.03% 1
Sunderland - 5 £52,500 - 2
MySQL
North East

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
1 3 (27.27%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) GitHub
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
3 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
3 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (27.27%) Big Data
4 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
4 3 (27.27%) HBase
4 3 (27.27%) Impala
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (27.27%) Neo4j
4 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 3 (27.27%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (27.27%) QlikView
4 3 (27.27%) Spark SQL
4 3 (27.27%) SQLite
4 3 (27.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket
2 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Advertising
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) SQL DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Graduate
2 3 (27.27%) Graduate Developer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Graduate
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Graduate C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DBA
3 2 (18.18%) Senior SQL DBA
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) jQuery
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Plotly
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
1 3 (27.27%) Regular Expression
1 3 (27.27%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Coaching
5 3 (27.27%) Data Development
5 3 (27.27%) Data Matching
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) C++
4 3 (27.27%) PHP
4 3 (27.27%) PROC SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) DBS Check
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Flume
1 3 (27.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kibana
1 3 (27.27%) logstash
1 3 (27.27%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Informatica
2 5 (45.45%) RedGate
2 5 (45.45%) Talend
3 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 3 (27.27%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (27.27%) SAP