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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 67 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -26 +26
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 5 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.62% 1.75% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.75% 14.61% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £35,400 £49,500 £41,938
25th Percentile - £52,500 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +5.77% -11.49%
75th Percentile £53,750 £77,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - £83,500 £59,375
North East median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +18.28% +16.25%

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 87 89 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.86% 11.99% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 55 49 65
10th Percentile £28,500 £42,098 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,897 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.10% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60,375 £83,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,100 £92,000 £65,362
North East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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
Sunderland -3 2 £52,500 -30.00% 1
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 1 £25,000 -54.55% 11
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Advertising
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DBA
1 4 (80.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Informatica
1 4 (80.00%) RedGate
1 4 (80.00%) Talend