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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 183 135
Rank change year-on-year -65 -48 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 184 291 771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.87% 2.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.65% 8.89% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 159 236 655
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,707 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.35% +4.76% -7.05%

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 2,765 3,273 7,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.63% 21.05% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,164 2,190 6,273
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,300
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,501
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 22 June 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 10 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.80%) CMS
3 6 (3.26%) Confluence
3 6 (3.26%) nginx
4 5 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Moodle
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (48.91%) AWS
2 71 (38.59%) Azure
3 26 (14.13%) SaaS
4 22 (11.96%) GitHub
5 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.98%) Serverless
8 9 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.72%) GCP
10 5 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.17%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.17%) PaaS
12 3 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.07%) Broadband
2 8 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (1.63%) HTTP
3 3 (1.63%) RTP
3 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.63%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.63%) VoIP
3 3 (1.63%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.09%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.09%) SAN
5 1 (0.54%) DNS
5 1 (0.54%) LAN
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) SSL
5 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (41.85%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (28.26%) MongoDB
3 43 (23.37%) SQL Server
4 36 (19.57%) NoSQL
5 20 (10.87%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.33%) Power BI
7 14 (7.61%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.26%) Metadata
10 6 (3.26%) Tableau
11 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.72%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.17%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (19.57%) Git
2 11 (5.98%) GitLab
3 9 (4.89%) JIRA
4 8 (4.35%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.63%) Vite
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 31 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.96%) Finance
5 13 (7.07%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.72%) Legal
7 5 (2.72%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.63%) Local Government
9 3 (1.63%) Marketing
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.63%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.09%) Advertising
10 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 64 (34.78%) Developer
2 44 (23.91%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.76%) PHP Developer
4 28 (15.22%) Senior
5 19 (10.33%) Lead
6 17 (9.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (8.70%) Graduate
8 15 (8.15%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 14 (7.61%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.07%) Analyst
10 13 (7.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) C# Developer
11 12 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Graduate C# Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Graduate Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Graduate Software Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 12 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.89%) CSS
2 48 (26.09%) RESTful
3 36 (19.57%) HTML
4 31 (16.85%) Laravel
5 29 (15.76%) jQuery
6 25 (13.59%) Node.js
6 25 (13.59%) React
7 21 (11.41%) .NET
7 21 (11.41%) Vue
8 16 (8.70%) REST
9 15 (8.15%) JSON
10 13 (7.07%) XML
11 12 (6.52%) CSS3
11 12 (6.52%) HTML5
12 10 (5.43%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET
13 9 (4.89%) Spring
14 6 (3.26%) Kafka
14 6 (3.26%) OAuth
14 6 (3.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.98%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.98%) NHS
4 10 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.80%) Replication
7 6 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.72%) Raspberry Pi
8 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.17%) IoT
9 4 (2.17%) PropTech
10 3 (1.63%) Blog
10 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.63%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.63%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.28%) Linux
2 10 (5.43%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.76%) Agile
2 64 (34.78%) Software Engineering
3 45 (24.46%) Microservices
4 43 (23.37%) CI/CD
5 35 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (18.48%) Mentoring
7 33 (17.93%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (16.85%) Computer Science
9 30 (16.30%) DevOps
10 28 (15.22%) Open Source
11 27 (14.67%) TDD
12 26 (14.13%) Coaching
13 21 (11.41%) AI
13 21 (11.41%) Data Modelling
14 20 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.33%) API Design
15 19 (10.33%) OOP
16 18 (9.78%) MVC
16 18 (9.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (52.72%) SQL
2 61 (33.15%) JavaScript
3 53 (28.80%) PHP
4 47 (25.54%) Java
5 36 (19.57%) C#
6 32 (17.39%) Python
7 19 (10.33%) C++
8 18 (9.78%) TypeScript
9 15 (8.15%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.43%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.35%) Bash
12 5 (2.72%) Ruby
13 4 (2.17%) Go
13 4 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.63%) C
14 3 (1.63%) Perl
15 2 (1.09%) Korn
16 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (22.28%) Degree
2 22 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.72%) HNC
4 5 (2.72%) HND
4 5 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.70%) QA
4 5 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.72%) HL7
4 5 (2.72%) SLA
5 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.17%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.63%) GDPR
7 2 (1.09%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 34 (18.48%) Docker
2 15 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.72%) vSphere
5 3 (1.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.63%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.26%) Terraform
3 4 (2.17%) Ansible
3 4 (2.17%) Argo
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
4 3 (1.63%) Plesk
4 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Graylog
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) Oracle
3 6 (3.26%) Cisco
3 6 (3.26%) VMware
4 5 (2.72%) Meraki
4 5 (2.72%) Synology
4 5 (2.72%) Veeam
5 4 (2.17%) Databricks
5 4 (2.17%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.17%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.63%) BT
6 3 (1.63%) Mitel
6 3 (1.63%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) Dell
7 2 (1.09%) Google
7 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) Splunk
8 1 (0.54%) New Relic
8 1 (0.54%) Palantir