MySQL Job Trends in West Yorkshire

MySQL
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 71 74
Rank change year-on-year -63 +3 +96
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 11 28 82
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.36% 2.45% 2.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.24% 13.59% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 73
10th Percentile £28,750 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,065 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +28.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56,180 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £60,250 - £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% +5.56%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 340 206 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.17% 18.05% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 193 179 378
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £42,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,886 £66,550
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +12.00% -9.09%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

MySQL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

MySQL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for MySQL in West Yorkshire

MySQL
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Leeds -60 11 £51,065 -13.08% 4
MySQL
Yorkshire

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Junior
4 2 (18.18%) Junior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
1 4 (36.36%) Symfony
2 3 (27.27%) Laravel
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Doctrine
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) NestJS
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Hackathon
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Open Source
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Palantir