MySQL Jobs in the West Midlands

MySQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 156 125
Rank change year-on-year +8 -31 +10
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 52 101 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.17% 1.39% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.21% 8.60% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25 79 81
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.62% +18.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,991 £70,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

MySQL 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 464 1,174 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.42% 16.16% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 313 977 822
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Birmingham +22 21 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Warwickshire -18 12 - - 3
Shropshire +25 6 £50,000 - 5
Coventry -3 4 - - 4
Staffordshire +13 3 £32,500 -35.00% 15
Walsall 0 2 £60,750 +21.50% 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £47,500 - 1
Worcestershire +5 1 £55,000 +10.00% 4
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 19 (36.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Serverless
3 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (13.46%) Azure
5 5 (9.62%) GCP
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (5.77%) Datadog
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.92%) Slack
8 1 (1.92%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 33 (63.46%) Git
2 20 (38.46%) JIRA
3 19 (36.54%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.92%) ERwin
5 1 (1.92%) GDB
5 1 (1.92%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (1.92%) Subversion
5 1 (1.92%) webpack
5 1 (1.92%) WinDbg
General
1 7 (13.46%) Finance
2 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Games
3 4 (7.69%) Law
4 3 (5.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Developer
2 15 (28.85%) Software Engineer
3 11 (21.15%) Senior
4 10 (19.23%) IT Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Systems Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Graduate
6 6 (11.54%) Graduate Developer
6 6 (11.54%) IT Graduate
6 6 (11.54%) PHP Developer
7 5 (9.62%) C# Developer
7 5 (9.62%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Agile C# Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Agile Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Graduate C# Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (59.62%) .NET
2 17 (32.69%) CSS
3 11 (21.15%) HTML
4 10 (19.23%) Laravel
5 8 (15.38%) jQuery
6 7 (13.46%) React
7 6 (11.54%) .NET Core
7 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET
7 6 (11.54%) RESTful
8 5 (9.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (9.62%) JSON
8 5 (9.62%) Vue
9 4 (7.69%) LAMP
9 4 (7.69%) Next.js
9 4 (7.69%) Symfony
10 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
10 3 (5.77%) NumPy
10 3 (5.77%) Pandas
10 3 (5.77%) WinForms
11 2 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.62%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.77%) EPoS
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Linux
2 19 (36.54%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Android
3 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.92%) CentOS
4 1 (1.92%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Agile
2 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 18 (34.62%) Coaching
3 18 (34.62%) Continuous Deployment
3 18 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (34.62%) DevSecOps
4 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
5 14 (26.92%) MVC
6 10 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
7 9 (17.31%) OO
7 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.31%) Web Development
8 8 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 7 (13.46%) OOP
10 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
10 6 (11.54%) E-Commerce
11 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (9.62%) TDD
12 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) C#
2 19 (36.54%) PHP
3 11 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.38%) SQL
5 7 (13.46%) C++
5 7 (13.46%) Java
6 4 (7.69%) Python
6 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.77%) Delphi
8 1 (1.92%) C
8 1 (1.92%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.92%) Go
8 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) LXC
3 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Atlassian
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.77%) Borland
5 2 (3.85%) Twitter
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat