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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 658 804
Rank change year-on-year -67 +146 -36
Permanent jobs citing MariaDB 31 16 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.033% 0.077%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% 0.21% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 63
10th Percentile - - £26,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £29,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £51,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -11.21%

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 8,627 7,609 16,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.83% 15.61% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 4,919 11,901
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 12 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 9 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 -41 31 £47,500 +11.76% 6
UK excluding London -62 24 £42,500 -5.56% 9
Work from Home +1 15 £73,750 +55.26% 2
North of England - 14 £40,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 10 £40,000 -
London -16 5 £95,000 +88.12% 2
North West - 4 £68,750 - 1
South West - 4 £55,000 - 1
East of England -21 2 £47,500 +55.74%
South East -38 2 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Midlands - 2 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £42,500 -

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 (6.45%) Drupal
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) GitHub
2 5 (16.13%) SaaS
2 5 (16.13%) Serverless
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.68%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.45%) Cloudflare
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.45%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (6.45%) PaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (93.55%) MySQL
2 11 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.23%) Big Data
6 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Claude Code
3 2 (6.45%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Developer
2 18 (58.06%) Senior
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Developer
4 10 (32.26%) Senior Software Developer
4 10 (32.26%) Software Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.68%) PHP Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Development Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Head of Development
7 2 (6.45%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Head of Software Development
7 2 (6.45%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) CSS
1 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 7 (22.58%) RESTful
3 5 (16.13%) .NET
3 5 (16.13%) Laravel
3 5 (16.13%) REST
4 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.90%) React
4 4 (12.90%) Vue
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
5 3 (9.68%) CSS3
5 3 (9.68%) HTML5
5 3 (9.68%) jQuery
6 2 (6.45%) JSON
6 2 (6.45%) LAMP
6 2 (6.45%) Middleware
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
6 2 (6.45%) Sass
6 2 (6.45%) Smarty
6 2 (6.45%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) PropTech
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Debian
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Clean Code
2 12 (38.71%) Secure Coding
3 10 (32.26%) Data Protection
4 8 (25.81%) API Design
4 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) Front End Development
7 5 (16.13%) AI
7 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.13%) Microservices
8 4 (12.90%) Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
8 4 (12.90%) Observability
8 4 (12.90%) Refactoring
8 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (77.42%) JavaScript
2 21 (67.74%) PHP
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) Python
6 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.23%) Java
7 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) RHCE
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Plesk
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) OpenAI
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.23%) Juniper
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) VMware