MySQL Job Trends in the West Midlands

MySQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 142 144
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -28
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 24 35 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 1.03% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.23% 7.01% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 80
10th Percentile £36,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,375 £59,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £72,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Database & 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 567 499 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.04% 14.74% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 435 359 786
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

MySQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

MySQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

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 18 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
Birmingham -23 11 £75,000 +114.29% 1
Staffordshire +4 4 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Warwickshire -10 3 - -
Halesowen - 3 £47,500 -
Worcestershire -20 2 £42,500 +6.25%
Bilston - 1 £66,500 -
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (12.50%) IIS
1 3 (12.50%) WordPress
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Shopify
2 3 (12.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Vite
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) DBA
3 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Junior
3 3 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Junior IT Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Junior Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior DBA
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) CSS
1 11 (45.83%) HTML
2 9 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) JSON
3 3 (12.50%) Laravel
3 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) Vue
4 2 (8.33%) jQuery
4 2 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) CSS3
5 1 (4.17%) HTML5
5 1 (4.17%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (12.50%) Social Media
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
4 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 4 (16.67%) Coaching
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Database Security
6 3 (12.50%) Database Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) High Availability
6 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 3 (12.50%) Open Source
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 9 (37.50%) PHP
4 8 (33.33%) Java
5 5 (20.83%) Python
6 3 (12.50%) VBA
7 1 (4.17%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) C#
7 1 (4.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Adobe