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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 43 50
Rank change year-on-year -37 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 23 17 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.11% 2.92% 3.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.37% 22.08% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 47
10th Percentile £41,023 - £34,575
25th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - -27.44% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £53,750 £73,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £55,250 £74,750
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -26.92% +62.50%

All Database & 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 186 77 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.94% 13.23% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 152 68 200
10th Percentile £35,125 £27,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,499 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -15.91% -
75th Percentile £74,059 £58,125 £73,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £69,125 £84,964
North East median annual salary £52,000 £44,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.51% -15.71% -

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 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -37 15 £52,130 +54.46% 8
Prudhoe - 6 £42,500 - 2
Sunderland -14 2 £75,000 +42.86% 1
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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (47.83%) MongoDB
3 10 (43.48%) NoSQL
4 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (17.39%) Metadata
6 4 (17.39%) Power BI
6 4 (17.39%) Tableau
7 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (8.70%) Redis
8 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (39.13%) Law
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (17.39%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Database Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) DBA
5 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) SQL DBA
5 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead C# Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) React
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Vue
5 1 (4.35%) Express.js
5 1 (4.35%) Laravel
5 1 (4.35%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Replication
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
4 8 (34.78%) TDD
5 7 (30.43%) Coaching
5 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 6 (26.09%) High Availability
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
7 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
8 4 (17.39%) Data Design
8 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
8 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
8 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
8 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) iptables
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) UiPath