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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 42 38
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 +33
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 13 14 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.81% 3.43% 4.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.77% 20.59% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 53
10th Percentile - £25,000 £38,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,875 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -20.19% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63,854 £57,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £88,083 £71,500 -
North East median annual salary £47,500 £51,875 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -17.00% +56.25%

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 133 68 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.25% 16.67% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 100 61 236
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,050 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £78,875 £82,500 £83,759
North East median annual salary £52,130 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% +10.00% +0.89%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -34 9 £52,130 +9.75% 1
Prudhoe - 4 £45,000 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
3 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
General
1 6 (46.15%) Law
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) SQL DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Coaching
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Open Source
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Design
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Operational Stability
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
1 3 (23.08%) systemd
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle