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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 191 168
Rank change year-on-year -59 -23 -38
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 212 283 506
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.70% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.85% 8.92% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 184 235 402
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,875 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £75,313 £62,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 3,094 3,172 5,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.87% 19.10% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 2,125 4,024
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 3 August 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 8 (3.77%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.36%) WordPress
3 4 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 110 (51.89%) AWS
2 81 (38.21%) Azure
3 21 (9.91%) SaaS
4 18 (8.49%) GitHub
5 15 (7.08%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.72%) Serverless
7 9 (4.25%) GCP
8 8 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.89%) Stripe
12 3 (1.42%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.13%) Broadband
2 8 (3.77%) Firewall
3 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.94%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.94%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (42.92%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (25.94%) MongoDB
3 46 (21.70%) SQL Server
4 37 (17.45%) NoSQL
5 33 (15.57%) Relational Database
6 17 (8.02%) MariaDB
7 14 (6.60%) Power BI
8 7 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.30%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.83%) Metadata
9 6 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.83%) Tableau
10 5 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.89%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.89%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.89%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.89%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 32 (15.09%) Git
2 14 (6.60%) GitLab
3 11 (5.19%) JIRA
4 9 (4.25%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.23%) Public Sector
3 31 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.32%) Finance
5 15 (7.08%) Health Technology
6 13 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.30%) Law
8 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 5 (2.36%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.89%) Retail
9 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.42%) Local Government
10 3 (1.42%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.94%) Advertising
11 2 (0.94%) Billing
11 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 80 (37.74%) Developer
2 52 (24.53%) Software Engineer
3 43 (20.28%) Senior
4 37 (17.45%) PHP Developer
5 30 (14.15%) Lead
6 18 (8.49%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (8.02%) C# Developer
8 16 (7.55%) Graduate
8 16 (7.55%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 15 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (7.08%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.08%) Software Developer
10 14 (6.60%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (5.66%) Azure Developer
12 12 (5.66%) Graduate C# Developer
12 12 (5.66%) Graduate Developer
12 12 (5.66%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 12 (5.66%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (5.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (31.60%) CSS
2 48 (22.64%) HTML
2 48 (22.64%) RESTful
3 36 (16.98%) React
4 34 (16.04%) Laravel
5 31 (14.62%) jQuery
6 29 (13.68%) .NET
6 29 (13.68%) Node.js
7 20 (9.43%) Vue
8 17 (8.02%) REST
9 15 (7.08%) AngularJS
10 14 (6.60%) CSS3
10 14 (6.60%) HTML5
11 11 (5.19%) JSON
12 10 (4.72%) ASP.NET
12 10 (4.72%) XML
13 9 (4.25%) .NET Core
13 9 (4.25%) .NET Framework
13 9 (4.25%) Spring
14 8 (3.77%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.13%) NHS
3 11 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.77%) Replication
5 8 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.36%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.89%) IoT
8 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.89%) PropTech
8 4 (1.89%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.42%) Blog
9 3 (1.42%) PMI
9 3 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.92%) Linux
2 10 (4.72%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.30%) Windows
4 5 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.57%) Agile
2 77 (36.32%) Software Engineering
3 55 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (24.06%) CI/CD
4 51 (24.06%) Microservices
5 44 (20.75%) Mentoring
6 36 (16.98%) DevOps
7 34 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (15.57%) Coaching
9 32 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (14.62%) TDD
11 30 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (13.68%) Computer Science
13 27 (12.74%) OOP
14 26 (12.26%) Open Source
15 24 (11.32%) MVC
16 22 (10.38%) Web Development
17 21 (9.91%) AI
17 21 (9.91%) Clean Code
18 20 (9.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (52.83%) SQL
2 82 (38.68%) JavaScript
3 56 (26.42%) PHP
4 52 (24.53%) Java
5 45 (21.23%) C#
6 29 (13.68%) Python
7 26 (12.26%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.55%) C++
9 11 (5.19%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.77%) Ruby
11 6 (2.83%) Bash
12 5 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.89%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.42%) Go
14 3 (1.42%) Perl
15 2 (0.94%) Korn
16 1 (0.47%) Rust
16 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (20.28%) Degree
2 20 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.36%) HNC
5 5 (2.36%) HND
5 5 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.49%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.08%) QA
3 9 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.30%) HL7
6 4 (1.89%) SLA
6 4 (1.89%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.94%) GDPR
7 2 (0.94%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (16.51%) Docker
2 10 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.36%) vSphere
5 3 (1.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (12.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.72%) Terraform
3 7 (3.30%) Grafana
4 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.89%) Ansible
6 3 (1.42%) Plesk
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Graylog
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.19%) Oracle
3 8 (3.77%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.30%) Google
5 6 (2.83%) Cisco
5 6 (2.83%) VMware
6 5 (2.36%) Meraki
6 5 (2.36%) Synology
6 5 (2.36%) Veeam
7 4 (1.89%) Databricks
7 4 (1.89%) IBM
7 4 (1.89%) Informatica
7 4 (1.89%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.94%) Dell
9 2 (0.94%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.94%) Sony
9 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.94%) UiPath