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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 187 133
Rank change year-on-year -45 -54 -3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 165 297 771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.96% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 8.63% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 143 235 682
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,375 £37,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -7.08% -0.88%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £84,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.89%

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 2,420 3,442 7,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.96% 22.73% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 2,318 6,225
10th Percentile £38,300 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £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 £96,250 £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 18 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.24%) CMS
2 7 (4.24%) Confluence
3 6 (3.64%) nginx
4 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.21%) Apache
6 2 (1.21%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.61%) JBoss
7 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.85%) AWS
2 59 (35.76%) Azure
3 19 (11.52%) GitHub
4 18 (10.91%) SaaS
5 17 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.30%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.24%) GCP
7 7 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.24%) Serverless
8 5 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.42%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.21%) PaaS
11 2 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) Firewall
2 7 (4.24%) Broadband
3 3 (1.82%) HTTP
3 3 (1.82%) RTP
3 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.82%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.82%) VoIP
3 3 (1.82%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.21%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.61%) DNS
5 1 (0.61%) LAN
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.58%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (25.45%) MongoDB
3 40 (24.24%) SQL Server
4 31 (18.79%) NoSQL
5 20 (12.12%) Relational Database
6 15 (9.09%) Power BI
7 12 (7.27%) MariaDB
8 10 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.82%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.82%) Tableau
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.21%) Big Data
12 2 (1.21%) Metadata
12 2 (1.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (21.82%) Git
2 8 (4.85%) GitLab
3 6 (3.64%) JIRA
4 3 (1.82%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.82%) Vite
5 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.21%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.94%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.70%) Finance
5 9 (5.45%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.64%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.42%) Retail
7 4 (2.42%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Advertising
9 2 (1.21%) Law
9 2 (1.21%) Local Government
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (40.61%) Developer
2 35 (21.21%) PHP Developer
3 30 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.55%) Senior
5 17 (10.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (10.30%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 16 (9.70%) Lead
6 16 (9.70%) Software Developer
7 14 (8.48%) Analyst
8 13 (7.88%) C# Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Azure Developer
9 12 (7.27%) C# Software Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate C# Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate Software Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 12 (7.27%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (30.30%) CSS
2 39 (23.64%) RESTful
3 37 (22.42%) HTML
3 37 (22.42%) Laravel
4 26 (15.76%) Node.js
5 24 (14.55%) jQuery
6 23 (13.94%) React
7 21 (12.73%) Vue
8 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
8 14 (8.48%) HTML5
8 14 (8.48%) JSON
8 14 (8.48%) REST
9 13 (7.88%) CSS3
10 12 (7.27%) .NET
11 11 (6.67%) XML
12 8 (4.85%) Kafka
13 7 (4.24%) Symfony
14 6 (3.64%) LEMP Stack
14 6 (3.64%) Spring
15 5 (3.03%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.85%) NHS
6 7 (4.24%) IoT
7 6 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.64%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.03%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.42%) PropTech
9 4 (2.42%) Replication
9 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.42%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.21%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.61%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Ubuntu
3 7 (4.24%) Windows
4 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.15%) Agile
2 47 (28.48%) Software Engineering
3 37 (22.42%) Microservices
4 32 (19.39%) CI/CD
5 31 (18.79%) Mentoring
6 30 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (14.55%) DevOps
9 24 (14.55%) TDD
10 23 (13.94%) Computer Science
10 23 (13.94%) Open Source
11 22 (13.33%) Coaching
12 21 (12.73%) Data Modelling
13 18 (10.91%) Test Automation
14 17 (10.30%) MVC
14 17 (10.30%) OO
14 17 (10.30%) OOP
15 15 (9.09%) Containerisation
16 14 (8.48%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 85 (51.52%) SQL
2 56 (33.94%) PHP
3 51 (30.91%) JavaScript
4 38 (23.03%) Java
5 28 (16.97%) Python
6 25 (15.15%) C#
7 19 (11.52%) TypeScript
8 15 (9.09%) C++
9 14 (8.48%) PowerShell
10 10 (6.06%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.24%) Bash
12 4 (2.42%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.82%) C
13 3 (1.82%) Go
14 2 (1.21%) Korn
14 2 (1.21%) Perl
14 2 (1.21%) Scala
15 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (18.79%) Degree
2 18 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.03%) HNC
4 5 (3.03%) HND
4 5 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.67%) QA
4 5 (3.03%) SLA
5 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.42%) HL7
5 4 (2.42%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.42%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.21%) GDPR
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 28 (16.97%) Docker
2 16 (9.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.03%) vSphere
5 3 (1.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.82%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.24%) Terraform
3 4 (2.42%) Ansible
3 4 (2.42%) Argo
4 3 (1.82%) Grafana
4 3 (1.82%) Plesk
4 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Graylog
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.64%) Cisco
2 6 (3.64%) Oracle
2 6 (3.64%) VMware
3 5 (3.03%) Meraki
3 5 (3.03%) Synology
3 5 (3.03%) Veeam
4 4 (2.42%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.82%) BT
5 3 (1.82%) Mitel
5 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.82%) SAP
6 2 (1.21%) Apple
6 2 (1.21%) Databricks
6 2 (1.21%) Dell
6 2 (1.21%) Google
6 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.21%) Zend
7 1 (0.61%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.61%) OpenAI