Hybrid/Remote MySQL Job Trends

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring MySQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 133 110
Rank change year-on-year -77 -23 +14
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 177 391 774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 2.52% 2.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.12% 9.61% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 146 265 682
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £61,875 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,625 £84,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,179 4,068 6,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.25% 26.20% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 2,439 5,737
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,718 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MySQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

MySQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

MySQL
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing MySQL over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

MySQL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

MySQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 12 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.08%) CMS
3 8 (4.52%) nginx
4 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.26%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.26%) Confluence
6 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.13%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.13%) WordPress
8 1 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.56%) JBoss
8 1 (0.56%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.76%) AWS
2 79 (44.63%) Azure
3 30 (16.95%) SaaS
4 19 (10.73%) GitHub
4 19 (10.73%) Power Platform
5 17 (9.60%) GCP
6 15 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.65%) Serverless
8 9 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.26%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) HTTP
2 3 (1.69%) RTP
2 3 (1.69%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.69%) VoIP
2 3 (1.69%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.38%) SQL Server
2 39 (22.03%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (16.95%) MongoDB
4 25 (14.12%) NoSQL
5 24 (13.56%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.04%) Power BI
7 13 (7.34%) BusinessObjects
8 12 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (5.08%) MariaDB
11 8 (4.52%) DynamoDB
11 8 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (3.39%) Tableau
13 5 (2.82%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.69%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (24.86%) Git
2 12 (6.78%) JIRA
3 7 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.82%) git-flow
5 4 (2.26%) Vite
6 3 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.69%) JMeter
6 3 (1.69%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.13%) Mocha
7 2 (1.13%) webpack
8 1 (0.56%) GitLab
8 1 (0.56%) JUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Mockito
8 1 (0.56%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (15.25%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.21%) Law
6 7 (3.95%) Automotive
7 4 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.26%) Marketing
7 4 (2.26%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.69%) Billing
8 3 (1.69%) Front Office
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.13%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (55.37%) Developer
2 33 (18.64%) PHP Developer
3 27 (15.25%) Senior
4 26 (14.69%) Software Developer
5 23 (12.99%) Graduate
5 23 (12.99%) Graduate Developer
6 20 (11.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (10.73%) C# Developer
8 18 (10.17%) Senior Developer
9 17 (9.60%) Graduate Software Developer
10 16 (9.04%) Software Engineer
11 15 (8.47%) Analyst
12 14 (7.91%) C# Software Developer
13 13 (7.34%) Azure Developer
13 13 (7.34%) Graduate C# Developer
13 13 (7.34%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 13 (7.34%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 13 (7.34%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 13 (7.34%) SQL Developer
14 12 (6.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.46%) CSS
2 37 (20.90%) HTML
3 34 (19.21%) Laravel
4 31 (17.51%) React
5 30 (16.95%) .NET
6 29 (16.38%) jQuery
7 25 (14.12%) RESTful
8 22 (12.43%) Node.js
9 18 (10.17%) REST
10 15 (8.47%) Vue
11 14 (7.91%) AngularJS
11 14 (7.91%) Symfony
12 13 (7.34%) ASP.NET
12 13 (7.34%) JSON
13 9 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.52%) CodeIgniter
14 8 (4.52%) Kafka
14 8 (4.52%) XML
15 7 (3.95%) CakePHP
16 6 (3.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.30%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.08%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.39%) IoT
6 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
7 3 (1.69%) Smart Home
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.34%) Linux
2 14 (7.91%) Windows
3 6 (3.39%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.26%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) Android
5 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.69%) CentOS
5 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.69%) Rocky
6 2 (1.13%) Solaris
6 2 (1.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.28%) Agile
2 55 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 37 (20.90%) Software Engineering
5 36 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (19.77%) MVC
7 34 (19.21%) Mentoring
7 34 (19.21%) OO
7 34 (19.21%) Test Automation
8 33 (18.64%) OOP
9 31 (17.51%) Microservices
10 30 (16.95%) Data Modelling
11 29 (16.38%) Computer Science
11 29 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (16.38%) DevOps
12 26 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (12.43%) User Experience
14 19 (10.73%) TDD
15 18 (10.17%) Containerisation
16 17 (9.60%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.28%) SQL
2 81 (45.76%) PHP
3 51 (28.81%) JavaScript
4 44 (24.86%) C#
5 40 (22.60%) Java
6 31 (17.51%) Python
7 29 (16.38%) TypeScript
8 26 (14.69%) C++
9 17 (9.60%) PowerShell
10 13 (7.34%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.95%) Bash
12 6 (3.39%) Go
13 5 (2.82%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.69%) C
14 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.69%) Scala
14 3 (1.69%) Swift
15 2 (1.13%) R
16 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (21.47%) Degree
2 29 (16.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.39%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) QA
2 13 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.95%) SLA
5 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.69%) HL7
5 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (18.64%) Docker
2 11 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.13%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.91%) Ansible
3 13 (7.34%) Terraform
4 4 (2.26%) Argo
5 3 (1.69%) Nagios
6 2 (1.13%) Grafana
6 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) SAP
3 8 (4.52%) Oracle
4 4 (2.26%) Apple
5 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.69%) BT
5 3 (1.69%) Databricks
5 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.69%) Google
5 3 (1.69%) Mitel
5 3 (1.69%) Splunk
5 3 (1.69%) Zend
6 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.13%) VMware
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) RedGate
7 1 (0.56%) Talend