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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 662 656
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +251
Permanent jobs citing MariaDB 22 63 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% 0.62% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 20 33 49
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £30,938 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -15.89% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £63,000 £65,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -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 6,714 10,094 10,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 17.77% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,283 5,789 8,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,654
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MariaDB in the UK

MariaDB
Top 11 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 19 December 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 +52 18 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Work from Home +46 15 £35,000 -22.22% 9
UK excluding London +23 11 £40,000 -11.11% 7
London +57 6 £35,000 -30.00%
North of England +22 5 £27,500 -38.89% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £27,500 -
Midlands +13 3 £43,000 +14.67% 1
East Midlands - 3 £43,000 -
South East +28 1 £80,000 +60.00% 1
East of England +22 1 £70,000 +27.27%
South West +12 1 £72,500 +61.11%

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 6 (27.27%) WordPress
2 5 (22.73%) Drupal
2 5 (22.73%) nginx
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Automotive
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Local Government
3 5 (22.73%) Police
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Support Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Technical Support
1 6 (27.27%) Technical Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Security Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Support Specialist
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) CSS
1 4 (18.18%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) .NET Core
2 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 3 (13.64%) LAMP
2 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) React
2 3 (13.64%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (9.09%) CSS3
3 2 (9.09%) HTML5
3 2 (9.09%) Laravel
3 2 (9.09%) React Native
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) ARM Cortex
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
3 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
3 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (27.27%) Cost Control
4 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Security Patching
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (9.09%) API Design
8 2 (9.09%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 2 (9.09%) Microservices
8 2 (9.09%) MVC
8 2 (9.09%) Secure Coding
8 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) PHP
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) C
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (27.27%) SLA
2 5 (22.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (22.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (22.73%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce