MariaDB Job Trends

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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 685 687
Rank change year-on-year +49 +2 +255
Permanent jobs citing MariaDB 16 65 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.094% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 51
10th Percentile - £34,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £63,750 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -15.89% +1.90%

All Database and 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 6,880 10,896 11,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.01% 15.78% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,289 6,196 9,477
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% +0.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%

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 21 October 2025.

Salary histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 8 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 21 October 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
England +50 13 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Work from Home +29 9 £35,000 -30.00% 21
London +54 6 £35,000 -30.00% 7
UK excluding London +33 5 £52,000 +15.56% 9
Midlands +25 3 £43,000 +14.67% 2
East Midlands - 3 £43,000 - 1
South East +12 1 £80,000 +60.00% 3
East of England +9 1 £70,000 +93.10%

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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Support
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Development
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Software Development
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Software Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (12.50%) CSS3
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5
3 2 (12.50%) LAMP
3 2 (12.50%) Laravel
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) React Native
3 2 (12.50%) Smarty
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) Cost Control
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) User Experience
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) API Design
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Logistics
7 2 (12.50%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) PHP
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) C
6 2 (12.50%) Java
6 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce