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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 62 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +16
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 13 15 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.02% 1.42% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.33% 14.29% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 5
10th Percentile - £26,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -26.09% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £68,993 £58,750
90th Percentile - £72,042 £59,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +11.76% -17.07% +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 75 105 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.66% 9.97% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 62 63 68
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,700 £37,741
25th Percentile £28,875 £42,119 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% +6.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £84,357 £69,649
90th Percentile £68,375 £87,000 £75,000
North East median annual salary £40,662 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.07% - +22.22%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +12 8 £33,750 -46.20% 1
Sunderland +13 5 £52,500 -25.00% 1
MySQL
North East

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
1 3 (23.08%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
4 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
4 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
4 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
5 3 (23.08%) Big Data
5 3 (23.08%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
5 3 (23.08%) HBase
5 3 (23.08%) Impala
5 3 (23.08%) Neo4j
5 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (23.08%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (23.08%) QlikView
5 3 (23.08%) Spark SQL
5 3 (23.08%) SQLite
5 3 (23.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Advertising
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) SQL DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Graduate
2 4 (30.77%) Graduate Developer
2 4 (30.77%) IT Graduate
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) PHP Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Senior SQL DBA
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) jQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Plotly
2 3 (23.08%) PySpark
2 3 (23.08%) Regular Expression
2 3 (23.08%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) ETL
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) High Availability
2 5 (38.46%) Open Source
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) MVC
3 4 (30.77%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) OOP
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Validation
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) C++
3 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
4 4 (30.77%) PHP
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 3 (23.08%) Bash
5 3 (23.08%) PROC SQL
5 3 (23.08%) R
6 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) DBS Check
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Flume
1 3 (23.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kibana
1 3 (23.08%) logstash
1 3 (23.08%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Informatica
2 5 (38.46%) RedGate
2 5 (38.46%) Talend
3 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 3 (23.08%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (23.08%) SAP