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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 131 110
Rank change year-on-year -45 -21 +18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 219 463 608
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.36% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.63% 10.09% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 191 295 525
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +1.81%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £84,964 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Database and 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 2,273 4,588 5,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.88% 23.34% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,729 2,827 4,147
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -0.83%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 29 November 2025.

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 14 (6.39%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.11%) CMS
2 9 (4.11%) Confluence
3 5 (2.28%) IIS
3 5 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.83%) nginx
5 3 (1.37%) WordPress
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.91%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.38%) Azure
2 77 (35.16%) AWS
3 24 (10.96%) SaaS
4 18 (8.22%) GCP
5 15 (6.85%) GitHub
6 13 (5.94%) Serverless
7 12 (5.48%) Cloudflare
8 8 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.65%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.20%) npm
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) DHCP
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.46%) IPsec
3 1 (0.46%) IPv6
3 1 (0.46%) RFID
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (36.53%) SQL Server
2 39 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.42%) Relational Database
4 21 (9.59%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 21 (9.59%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.94%) BusinessObjects
6 11 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.65%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.65%) MariaDB
9 6 (2.74%) Power BI
9 6 (2.74%) Tableau
10 5 (2.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.28%) Redis
11 4 (1.83%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (26.03%) Git
2 21 (9.59%) JIRA
3 6 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.28%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.28%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.28%) git-flow
5 4 (1.83%) NUnit
5 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.37%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.37%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.37%) Mocha
6 3 (1.37%) webpack
7 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.91%) GitLab
7 2 (0.91%) JMeter
7 2 (0.91%) JUnit
7 2 (0.91%) Mockito
7 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.63%) Finance
3 21 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.31%) Law
5 8 (3.65%) Front Office
5 8 (3.65%) Marketing
6 7 (3.20%) Automotive
7 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.28%) Games
8 5 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.37%) Billing
9 3 (1.37%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.91%) Advertising
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 142 (64.84%) Developer
2 42 (19.18%) Graduate
2 42 (19.18%) Graduate Developer
3 38 (17.35%) PHP Developer
4 31 (14.16%) IT Graduate
5 29 (13.24%) Senior
6 27 (12.33%) C# Developer
7 24 (10.96%) Software Developer
8 23 (10.50%) Senior Developer
9 22 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (7.76%) Azure Developer
10 17 (7.76%) Graduate C# Developer
10 17 (7.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 17 (7.76%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 17 (7.76%) SQL Developer
11 14 (6.39%) Analyst
11 14 (6.39%) Support Engineer
12 13 (5.94%) Graduate Software Developer
13 11 (5.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.57%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (40.64%) CSS
2 63 (28.77%) .NET
3 48 (21.92%) HTML
4 46 (21.00%) jQuery
5 42 (19.18%) ASP.NET
6 41 (18.72%) React
7 31 (14.16%) Laravel
8 28 (12.79%) Node.js
9 22 (10.05%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.05%) REST
10 18 (8.22%) RESTful
10 18 (8.22%) Symfony
11 17 (7.76%) Vue
12 13 (5.94%) CodeIgniter
13 12 (5.48%) CakePHP
14 10 (4.57%) CSS3
14 10 (4.57%) HTML5
14 10 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.65%) .NET Core
16 7 (3.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.02%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.83%) Online Games
7 3 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.37%) Social Media
7 3 (1.37%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.91%) Clustering
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) IoT
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) FMCG
9 1 (0.46%) NHS
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.35%) Linux
2 23 (10.50%) Windows
3 15 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.28%) Unix
5 3 (1.37%) Android
5 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.37%) CentOS
5 3 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.37%) Rocky
5 3 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.91%) Solaris
6 2 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (52.05%) Agile
2 93 (42.47%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (27.85%) MVC
3 61 (27.85%) OO
4 55 (25.11%) CI/CD
5 50 (22.83%) OOP
6 49 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (21.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (21.00%) Computer Science
9 33 (15.07%) DevOps
10 28 (12.79%) Software Engineering
11 26 (11.87%) AI
11 26 (11.87%) Microservices
11 26 (11.87%) Test Automation
12 24 (10.96%) Mentoring
13 23 (10.50%) Containerisation
14 20 (9.13%) Scrum
15 19 (8.68%) User Experience
16 17 (7.76%) Data Modelling
17 16 (7.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 106 (48.40%) PHP
2 98 (44.75%) SQL
3 85 (38.81%) JavaScript
4 78 (35.62%) C#
5 52 (23.74%) Java
6 42 (19.18%) TypeScript
7 41 (18.72%) C++
8 38 (17.35%) Python
9 8 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.28%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.37%) Bash
12 3 (1.37%) Go
12 3 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.37%) R
12 3 (1.37%) Swift
13 2 (0.91%) Perl
13 2 (0.91%) Scala
13 2 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (24.66%) Degree
2 46 (21.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.46%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.22%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.91%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (17.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (8.68%) Terraform
2 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.85%) Ansible
4 3 (1.37%) Grafana
4 3 (1.37%) Nagios
5 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.11%) SAP
3 8 (3.65%) Oracle
4 4 (1.83%) Google
4 4 (1.83%) Rollbar
5 3 (1.37%) Apple
6 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.91%) Databricks
6 2 (0.91%) Informatica
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.91%) RedGate
6 2 (0.91%) Sage
6 2 (0.91%) Splunk
6 2 (0.91%) Talend
6 2 (0.91%) VMware
6 2 (0.91%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.91%) Zend
7 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.46%) IONA
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce