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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 169 127
Rank change year-on-year -39 -42 -41
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 239 469 653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.47% 2.00% 2.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.70% 9.61% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 195 308 608
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%

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 2,748 4,878 6,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.86% 20.81% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 3,294 5,119
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £114,250 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MySQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MySQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MySQL

MySQL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MySQL over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

MySQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.69%) Confluence
2 13 (5.44%) Apache Solr
3 10 (4.18%) CMS
3 10 (4.18%) IIS
4 7 (2.93%) WordPress
5 5 (2.09%) Apache
6 3 (1.26%) nginx
6 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.26%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 100 (41.84%) Azure
2 88 (36.82%) AWS
3 34 (14.23%) SaaS
4 24 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.62%) Cloudflare
5 23 (9.62%) Power Platform
6 19 (7.95%) PaaS
7 18 (7.53%) Power Automate
8 17 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (7.11%) IaaS
9 16 (6.69%) Azure AI
9 16 (6.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 16 (6.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (6.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (6.69%) Entra ID
10 14 (5.86%) GitHub
11 10 (4.18%) GCP
11 10 (4.18%) Serverless
12 8 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.93%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.53%) DNS
2 17 (7.11%) Firewall
3 16 (6.69%) SD-WAN
3 16 (6.69%) VPN
3 16 (6.69%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) IPsec
5 1 (0.42%) IPv6
5 1 (0.42%) RFID
5 1 (0.42%) RTP
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (39.75%) SQL Server
2 42 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (11.30%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (10.88%) Relational Database
5 25 (10.46%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.37%) Power BI
7 18 (7.53%) NoSQL
8 16 (6.69%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.18%) Redis
10 7 (2.93%) MariaDB
10 7 (2.93%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.51%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.09%) Tableau
13 3 (1.26%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.26%) QlikView
14 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 75 (31.38%) Git
2 23 (9.62%) JIRA
3 9 (3.77%) NUnit
3 9 (3.77%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.35%) Jasmine
5 6 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.67%) PHPUnit
7 3 (1.26%) GitLab
7 3 (1.26%) Mocha
8 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.84%) webpack
9 1 (0.42%) Gatling
9 1 (0.42%) JUnit
9 1 (0.42%) Locust
9 1 (0.42%) Mockito
9 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 87 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.41%) Finance
3 12 (5.02%) Marketing
4 11 (4.60%) Law
5 10 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.18%) Games
6 8 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.93%) Front Office
8 6 (2.51%) Retail
9 4 (1.67%) Advertising
9 4 (1.67%) Automotive
9 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.26%) Billing
10 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.84%) iGaming
11 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 126 (52.72%) Developer
2 40 (16.74%) Graduate
2 40 (16.74%) Graduate Developer
3 38 (15.90%) IT Graduate
4 34 (14.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (12.97%) Senior
6 27 (11.30%) PHP Developer
7 20 (8.37%) C# Developer
8 18 (7.53%) Senior Developer
9 17 (7.11%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.69%) Architect
10 16 (6.69%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (6.28%) Analyst
12 12 (5.02%) Graduate C# Developer
12 12 (5.02%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 12 (5.02%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 12 (5.02%) SQL Developer
13 11 (4.60%) .NET Developer
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (36.82%) CSS
2 66 (27.62%) .NET
3 54 (22.59%) ASP.NET
4 50 (20.92%) HTML
5 49 (20.50%) jQuery
6 46 (19.25%) React
7 32 (13.39%) Node.js
8 26 (10.88%) RESTful
9 25 (10.46%) Laravel
10 24 (10.04%) Vue
11 23 (9.62%) REST
12 21 (8.79%) AngularJS
13 15 (6.28%) CSS3
13 15 (6.28%) HTML5
13 15 (6.28%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.44%) Jest
14 13 (5.44%) Symfony
15 11 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
16 10 (4.18%) LAMP
16 10 (4.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.11%) NHS
2 16 (6.69%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.69%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.93%) Online Games
5 6 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.67%) Clustering
7 4 (1.67%) FMCG
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.67%) Social Media
7 4 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.26%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.39%) Linux
2 16 (6.69%) Windows
3 14 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.09%) Unix
5 3 (1.26%) Android
5 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.84%) CentOS
6 2 (0.84%) Solaris
7 1 (0.42%) Debian
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.21%) Agile
2 92 (38.49%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (26.36%) CI/CD
4 57 (23.85%) MVC
5 56 (23.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 54 (22.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (22.59%) OO
7 46 (19.25%) OOP
8 43 (17.99%) Computer Science
9 42 (17.57%) DevOps
10 39 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (15.06%) Software Engineering
12 30 (12.55%) Analytics
13 28 (11.72%) API Management
14 25 (10.46%) Test Automation
15 24 (10.04%) B2B
15 24 (10.04%) Microservices
15 24 (10.04%) Migration
16 23 (9.62%) Mentoring
16 23 (9.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 103 (43.10%) SQL
2 95 (39.75%) JavaScript
3 94 (39.33%) PHP
4 73 (30.54%) C#
5 66 (27.62%) Java
6 48 (20.08%) Python
7 46 (19.25%) TypeScript
8 40 (16.74%) C++
9 29 (12.13%) PowerShell
10 16 (6.69%) Bicep
11 7 (2.93%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.67%) Perl
12 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.26%) Swift
14 2 (0.84%) Bash
14 2 (0.84%) C
14 2 (0.84%) Go
14 2 (0.84%) R
14 2 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (20.92%) Degree
2 42 (17.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (10.04%) DBS Check
4 16 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.51%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.42%) MCSE
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.53%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.51%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.42%) HL7
System Software
1 44 (18.41%) Docker
2 16 (6.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) KVM
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Corosync
4 1 (0.42%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (7.53%) Terraform
2 16 (6.69%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (6.28%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.67%) Ansible
5 3 (1.26%) Grafana
6 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.42%) Icinga
7 1 (0.42%) Pacemaker
7 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.69%) Databricks
2 16 (6.69%) Meraki
3 11 (4.60%) Rollbar
4 8 (3.35%) Google
5 6 (2.51%) Informatica
5 6 (2.51%) SAP
5 6 (2.51%) Talend
6 5 (2.09%) Oracle
6 5 (2.09%) RedGate
6 5 (2.09%) Sage
7 4 (1.67%) WooCommerce
8 3 (1.26%) Adobe
8 3 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.84%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.84%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (0.84%) VMware
10 1 (0.42%) IONA