MariaDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MariaDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 739 658 773
Rank change year-on-year -81 +115 -18
Permanent jobs citing MariaDB 35 16 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.032% 0.071%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 32 16 53
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £29,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,125 £51,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -13.55%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MariaDB 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,845 7,608 13,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 15.42% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,893 4,905 9,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

MariaDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MariaDB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

MariaDB job vacancy trend in the UK

MariaDB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MariaDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MariaDB

MariaDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MariaDB over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MariaDB within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England -65 34 £50,000 +17.65% 5
UK excluding London -67 29 £47,500 +5.56% 8
Work from Home -22 18 £62,500 +31.58% 3
North of England - 17 £40,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 10 £40,000 -
North West - 7 £52,500 - 1
London -23 5 £95,000 +88.12% 1
South West - 5 £55,000 -
East of England -29 2 £47,500 +55.74%
South East -35 2 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Midlands - 2 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £42,500 -
Scotland - 1 - - 3

MariaDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (5.71%) Drupal
2 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
3 4 (11.43%) Serverless
3 4 (11.43%) Stripe
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.57%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Azure
5 2 (5.71%) Cloudflare
5 2 (5.71%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Datadog
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (91.43%) MySQL
2 11 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.71%) Big Data
6 2 (5.71%) Redis
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Claude Code
3 2 (5.71%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Flyway
4 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Developer
2 18 (51.43%) Senior
3 13 (37.14%) Senior Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Software Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (14.29%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (5.71%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Development Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) CSS
1 10 (28.57%) HTML
2 8 (22.86%) Laravel
3 6 (17.14%) RESTful
3 6 (17.14%) Vue
4 5 (14.29%) .NET
4 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 5 (14.29%) React
5 4 (11.43%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) CSS3
6 3 (8.57%) HTML5
6 3 (8.57%) jQuery
7 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.71%) JSON
7 2 (5.71%) LAMP
7 2 (5.71%) Nuxt
7 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.71%) Sass
8 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (11.43%) PropTech
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Debian
3 1 (2.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Clean Code
2 11 (31.43%) Secure Coding
3 10 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.00%) AI
5 7 (20.00%) API Design
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.14%) Front End Development
6 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
8 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
8 4 (11.43%) Microservices
8 4 (11.43%) Observability
9 3 (8.57%) Agile
9 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (8.57%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) JavaScript
2 22 (62.86%) PHP
3 10 (28.57%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) Python
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Plesk
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Google
1 7 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) Juniper
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) VMware