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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 191 129
Rank change year-on-year -52 -62 +1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 167 295 774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.99% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.89% 8.61% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 145 235 686
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -7.08% +0.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £83,125
UK median annual salary £52,957 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.71% +4.76% -7.49%

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 2,423 3,426 7,313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.02% 23.13% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 2,305 6,215
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £97,500
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 16 May 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 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.19%) CMS
2 7 (4.19%) Confluence
3 6 (3.59%) nginx
4 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.20%) Apache
6 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (45.51%) AWS
2 61 (36.53%) Azure
3 19 (11.38%) GitHub
4 18 (10.78%) SaaS
5 17 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.79%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.19%) GCP
7 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.19%) Serverless
8 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.40%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.20%) PaaS
11 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) Firewall
2 7 (4.19%) Broadband
3 3 (1.80%) HTTP
3 3 (1.80%) RTP
3 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.80%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.80%) VoIP
3 3 (1.80%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.13%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (25.15%) MongoDB
2 42 (25.15%) SQL Server
3 31 (18.56%) NoSQL
4 20 (11.98%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.98%) Power BI
6 12 (7.19%) MariaDB
7 10 (5.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.80%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (1.80%) Tableau
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.20%) Big Data
11 2 (1.20%) Metadata
11 2 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (21.56%) Git
2 8 (4.79%) GitLab
3 6 (3.59%) JIRA
4 3 (1.80%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.80%) Vite
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.77%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.78%) Finance
5 9 (5.39%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.59%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.40%) Retail
7 4 (2.40%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
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%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (41.32%) Developer
2 37 (22.16%) PHP Developer
3 30 (17.96%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.37%) Senior
5 18 (10.78%) Software Developer
6 17 (10.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (10.18%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 16 (9.58%) Lead
8 15 (8.98%) C# Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Analyst
9 14 (8.38%) Azure Developer
9 14 (8.38%) C# Software Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate C# Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate Software Developer
9 14 (8.38%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 14 (8.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (31.14%) CSS
2 39 (23.35%) RESTful
3 37 (22.16%) HTML
3 37 (22.16%) Laravel
4 26 (15.57%) jQuery
4 26 (15.57%) Node.js
5 23 (13.77%) React
6 21 (12.57%) Vue
7 14 (8.38%) AngularJS
7 14 (8.38%) HTML5
7 14 (8.38%) JSON
7 14 (8.38%) REST
8 13 (7.78%) CSS3
9 12 (7.19%) .NET
10 11 (6.59%) XML
11 8 (4.79%) Kafka
12 7 (4.19%) Symfony
13 6 (3.59%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (3.59%) Spring
14 5 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.59%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.39%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.79%) NHS
6 7 (4.19%) IoT
7 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.59%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.99%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.40%) PropTech
9 4 (2.40%) Replication
9 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.40%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.36%) Linux
2 8 (4.79%) Ubuntu
3 7 (4.19%) Windows
4 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) Agile
2 47 (28.14%) Software Engineering
3 37 (22.16%) Microservices
4 32 (19.16%) CI/CD
5 31 (18.56%) Mentoring
6 30 (17.96%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (14.97%) Computer Science
10 24 (14.37%) DevOps
10 24 (14.37%) TDD
11 23 (13.77%) Open Source
12 22 (13.17%) Coaching
13 21 (12.57%) Data Modelling
14 19 (11.38%) MVC
14 19 (11.38%) OOP
15 18 (10.78%) Test Automation
16 17 (10.18%) OO
17 15 (8.98%) Containerisation
18 14 (8.38%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 87 (52.10%) SQL
2 58 (34.73%) PHP
3 51 (30.54%) JavaScript
4 40 (23.95%) Java
5 28 (16.77%) Python
6 27 (16.17%) C#
7 19 (11.38%) TypeScript
8 17 (10.18%) C++
9 14 (8.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.99%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.19%) Bash
12 4 (2.40%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.80%) C
13 3 (1.80%) Go
14 2 (1.20%) Korn
14 2 (1.20%) Perl
14 2 (1.20%) Scala
15 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Degree
2 20 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.99%) HNC
4 5 (2.99%) HND
4 5 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.80%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.59%) QA
4 5 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.40%) HL7
5 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.40%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 28 (16.77%) Docker
2 16 (9.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.99%) vSphere
5 3 (1.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.80%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.19%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) Ansible
3 4 (2.40%) Argo
4 3 (1.80%) Grafana
4 3 (1.80%) Plesk
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Graylog
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.59%) Cisco
2 6 (3.59%) Oracle
2 6 (3.59%) VMware
3 5 (2.99%) Meraki
3 5 (2.99%) Synology
3 5 (2.99%) Veeam
4 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.80%) BT
5 3 (1.80%) Mitel
5 3 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.80%) SAP
6 2 (1.20%) Apple
6 2 (1.20%) Databricks
6 2 (1.20%) Dell
6 2 (1.20%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.20%) Zend
7 1 (0.60%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.60%) OpenAI