MariaDB Job Trends

MariaDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MariaDB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 734 688
Rank change year-on-year +72 -46 +253
Permanent jobs citing MariaDB 16 67 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16 41 65
10th Percentile - £33,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £57,375 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,750 £45,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -18.33% -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 7,205 11,993 12,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 15.40% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 7,129 10,270
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +2.80%

MariaDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MariaDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MariaDB 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 9 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 17 September 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 +49 15 £35,000 -30.00% 22
UK excluding London +60 10 £36,750 -18.33% 12
Work from Home +45 8 £41,250 -17.50% 11
East of England +1 6 £30,500 -15.86% 1
London +55 4 £35,000 -41.67% 11
Midlands +43 2 £47,500 +31.03% 2
East Midlands +30 2 £47,500 +35.71% 2
South East +32 1 £80,000 +68.42% 6
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

MariaDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) MySQL
2 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
3 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.25%) DB2
5 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
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 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Automotive
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Development Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Development
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Software Development
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Software Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) 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%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) Smarty
3 2 (12.50%) Symfony
4 1 (6.25%) Drools
4 1 (6.25%) Laravel
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Culture
1 7 (43.75%) ETL
1 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 5 (31.25%) Procedural Programming
3 5 (31.25%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Cost Control
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) PHP
3 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
3 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) VMware