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 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 237 151 123
Rank change year-on-year -86 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 166 297 829
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 2.25% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.16% 8.99% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 145 255 697
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £75,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 2,317 3,303 7,231
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.08% 24.99% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,422 6,232
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 18 April 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 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.42%) CMS
3 6 (3.61%) Confluence
3 6 (3.61%) nginx
4 5 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (45.78%) AWS
2 62 (37.35%) Azure
3 25 (15.06%) SaaS
4 19 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (10.84%) Power Platform
6 14 (8.43%) GitHub
7 10 (6.02%) GCP
8 8 (4.82%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.82%) Serverless
9 6 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.41%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.41%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Firewall
2 3 (1.81%) HTTP
2 3 (1.81%) RTP
2 3 (1.81%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.81%) VoIP
2 3 (1.81%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.20%) SAN
4 1 (0.60%) LAN
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) SQL Server
2 44 (26.51%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (14.46%) MongoDB
3 24 (14.46%) NoSQL
4 16 (9.64%) Power BI
5 14 (8.43%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.63%) BusinessObjects
7 10 (6.02%) MariaDB
7 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.61%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.61%) Tableau
11 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.81%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.81%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (18.67%) Git
2 7 (4.22%) JIRA
3 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.41%) Vite
5 3 (1.81%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.81%) JMeter
5 3 (1.81%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.20%) git-flow
6 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.60%) GitLab
7 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.46%) Finance
4 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.82%) Health Technology
6 5 (3.01%) Law
7 4 (2.41%) Retail
7 4 (2.41%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.81%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (49.40%) Developer
2 41 (24.70%) PHP Developer
3 24 (14.46%) Software Developer
4 21 (12.65%) Senior
5 19 (11.45%) C# Developer
5 19 (11.45%) Graduate
5 19 (11.45%) Graduate Developer
5 19 (11.45%) Graduate Software Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Azure Developer
6 18 (10.84%) C# Software Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Graduate C# Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 18 (10.84%) SQL Developer
7 16 (9.64%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 12 (7.23%) Support Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (34.94%) CSS
2 40 (24.10%) Laravel
3 39 (23.49%) HTML
4 28 (16.87%) jQuery
5 26 (15.66%) RESTful
6 23 (13.86%) React
7 16 (9.64%) Node.js
7 16 (9.64%) Vue
8 15 (9.04%) JSON
9 12 (7.23%) .NET
9 12 (7.23%) AngularJS
9 12 (7.23%) REST
10 11 (6.63%) HTML5
10 11 (6.63%) Symfony
10 11 (6.63%) XML
11 10 (6.02%) CSS3
12 9 (5.42%) Kafka
13 6 (3.61%) CodeIgniter
13 6 (3.61%) Django
13 6 (3.61%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.04%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.63%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.82%) NHS
5 6 (3.61%) IoT
6 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.41%) PropTech
7 4 (2.41%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.81%) Replication
8 3 (1.81%) Smart Home
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.29%) Linux
2 11 (6.63%) Windows
3 10 (6.02%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.41%) CentOS
4 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.81%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.81%) Rocky
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.96%) Agile
2 36 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (17.47%) Computer Science
5 28 (16.87%) MVC
6 27 (16.27%) CI/CD
6 27 (16.27%) Mentoring
7 25 (15.06%) Microservices
7 25 (15.06%) OOP
8 24 (14.46%) Data Modelling
9 23 (13.86%) DevOps
9 23 (13.86%) Software Engineering
10 22 (13.25%) OO
11 19 (11.45%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.64%) OO PHP
12 16 (9.64%) Open Source
13 15 (9.04%) TDD
14 14 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (8.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 93 (56.02%) SQL
2 65 (39.16%) PHP
3 43 (25.90%) JavaScript
4 37 (22.29%) Java
5 30 (18.07%) C#
6 23 (13.86%) Python
7 22 (13.25%) C++
7 22 (13.25%) TypeScript
8 17 (10.24%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.02%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.42%) Bash
11 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.81%) C
12 3 (1.81%) Go
12 3 (1.81%) Scala
12 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (21.69%) Degree
2 24 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.41%) HNC
6 4 (2.41%) HND
6 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.22%) QA
4 5 (3.01%) HL7
4 5 (3.01%) SLA
5 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.41%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.20%) GDPR
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 24 (14.46%) Docker
2 17 (10.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.01%) vSphere
4 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.81%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.63%) Terraform
3 10 (6.02%) Ansible
4 4 (2.41%) Argo
5 3 (1.81%) Grafana
5 3 (1.81%) Nagios
5 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) Graylog
6 1 (0.60%) Plesk
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.82%) Oracle
2 8 (4.82%) SAP
3 6 (3.61%) VMware
4 5 (3.01%) Cisco
5 4 (2.41%) Apple
5 4 (2.41%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.41%) Meraki
5 4 (2.41%) Synology
5 4 (2.41%) Veeam
6 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.81%) BT
6 3 (1.81%) Databricks
6 3 (1.81%) Mitel
6 3 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.81%) Splunk
6 3 (1.81%) Zend
7 2 (1.20%) Dell
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.60%) Juniper