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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 132 110
Rank change year-on-year -67 -22 +23
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 188 448 599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 2.38% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.45% 9.97% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 160 293 519
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,700 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -8.70% +1.81%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £84,993 £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 2,226 4,493 5,068
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.55% 23.89% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,676 2,786 4,074
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,563 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -2.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £122,500 £93,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 11 December 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 13 (6.91%) Apache Solr
2 8 (4.26%) CMS
3 7 (3.72%) Confluence
4 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.60%) nginx
7 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.06%) WordPress
8 1 (0.53%) Apache
8 1 (0.53%) IIS
8 1 (0.53%) JBoss
8 1 (0.53%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (45.21%) Azure
2 66 (35.11%) AWS
3 23 (12.23%) SaaS
4 16 (8.51%) GCP
5 15 (7.98%) GitHub
6 13 (6.91%) Serverless
7 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.72%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.19%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.19%) npm
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.60%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) DHCP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (35.64%) SQL Server
2 34 (18.09%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.17%) Relational Database
4 19 (10.11%) MongoDB
5 16 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (8.51%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.85%) BusinessObjects
6 11 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.26%) MariaDB
8 5 (2.66%) Power BI
8 5 (2.66%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.66%) Tableau
9 3 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.60%) Redis
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (24.47%) Git
2 19 (10.11%) JIRA
3 6 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.66%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.66%) git-flow
5 4 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.60%) Mocha
6 3 (1.60%) webpack
7 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.06%) GitLab
7 2 (1.06%) JMeter
7 2 (1.06%) JUnit
7 2 (1.06%) Mockito
7 2 (1.06%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 70 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.49%) Finance
3 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.04%) Law
5 8 (4.26%) Front Office
6 7 (3.72%) Automotive
6 7 (3.72%) Marketing
7 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.60%) Billing
8 3 (1.60%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.06%) Advertising
9 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 114 (60.64%) Developer
2 33 (17.55%) Graduate
2 33 (17.55%) Graduate Developer
3 31 (16.49%) PHP Developer
4 24 (12.77%) Software Developer
5 23 (12.23%) IT Graduate
6 21 (11.17%) C# Developer
6 21 (11.17%) Senior
7 17 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.45%) Analyst
9 14 (7.45%) Support Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Azure Developer
10 13 (6.91%) Graduate C# Developer
10 13 (6.91%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 13 (6.91%) Graduate Software Developer
10 13 (6.91%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 13 (6.91%) SQL Developer
11 10 (5.32%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.79%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.36%) CSS
2 48 (25.53%) .NET
3 40 (21.28%) HTML
4 38 (20.21%) jQuery
5 35 (18.62%) React
6 30 (15.96%) ASP.NET
7 27 (14.36%) Laravel
8 24 (12.77%) Node.js
9 18 (9.57%) REST
9 18 (9.57%) Symfony
10 17 (9.04%) AngularJS
11 14 (7.45%) CodeIgniter
12 13 (6.91%) CakePHP
13 12 (6.38%) RESTful
14 10 (5.32%) Vue
15 9 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (3.72%) Kafka
17 6 (3.19%) .NET Core
17 6 (3.19%) CSS3
17 6 (3.19%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.38%) Virtual Team
3 11 (5.85%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.60%) Social Media
6 3 (1.60%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.06%) Clustering
7 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.06%) IoT
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.53%) Replication
8 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.62%) Linux
2 22 (11.70%) Windows
3 15 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.66%) Unix
5 3 (1.60%) Android
5 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.60%) CentOS
5 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.60%) Rocky
5 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.06%) Solaris
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (53.19%) Agile
2 77 (40.96%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (28.19%) OO
4 49 (26.06%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.06%) MVC
5 41 (21.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (20.21%) OOP
8 37 (19.68%) Computer Science
9 31 (16.49%) DevOps
10 26 (13.83%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.30%) Microservices
11 25 (13.30%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.77%) AI
13 23 (12.23%) Containerisation
14 22 (11.70%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.11%) User Experience
16 16 (8.51%) Data Modelling
16 16 (8.51%) OO PHP
16 16 (8.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (47.34%) PHP
2 86 (45.74%) SQL
3 72 (38.30%) JavaScript
4 64 (34.04%) C#
5 41 (21.81%) Java
6 37 (19.68%) TypeScript
7 34 (18.09%) Python
8 33 (17.55%) C++
9 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.66%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.60%) Bash
12 3 (1.60%) Go
12 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.60%) R
12 3 (1.60%) Swift
13 2 (1.06%) Perl
13 2 (1.06%) Scala
13 2 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (23.94%) Degree
2 37 (19.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.91%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) MCSE
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.04%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.06%) HL7
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (20.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.98%) Terraform
3 14 (7.45%) Ansible
4 3 (1.60%) Grafana
4 3 (1.60%) Nagios
5 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.26%) Oracle
2 8 (4.26%) SAP
3 3 (1.60%) Apple
3 3 (1.60%) Google
4 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.06%) Databricks
4 2 (1.06%) Informatica
4 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.06%) RedGate
4 2 (1.06%) Splunk
4 2 (1.06%) Talend
4 2 (1.06%) VMware
4 2 (1.06%) Zend
5 1 (0.53%) IONA
5 1 (0.53%) Sage
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) WooCommerce