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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 204 162
Rank change year-on-year -73 -42 -37
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 191 241 471
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.48% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.04% 8.74% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 160 197 320
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,375
25th Percentile £40,684 £33,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.34%

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 3,163 2,758 4,866
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 16.99% 20.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,485 1,934 3,355
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 12 September 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 (4.19%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) WordPress
3 3 (1.57%) Apache
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) Moodle
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 95 (49.74%) AWS
2 63 (32.98%) Azure
3 25 (13.09%) GitHub
4 17 (8.90%) SaaS
5 11 (5.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.24%) GCP
7 9 (4.71%) Serverless
8 8 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.62%) Stripe
12 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (1.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.81%) Broadband
2 7 (3.66%) Firewall
3 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) SAN
4 1 (0.52%) SSL
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (41.88%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (25.65%) MongoDB
3 38 (19.90%) Relational Database
4 37 (19.37%) SQL Server
5 26 (13.61%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.90%) MariaDB
7 10 (5.24%) Power BI
8 7 (3.66%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.14%) Metadata
9 6 (3.14%) Tableau
10 5 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.09%) Ataccama
11 4 (2.09%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.09%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (2.09%) Redis
11 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.09%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 34 (17.80%) Git
2 14 (7.33%) GitLab
3 10 (5.24%) JIRA
4 9 (4.71%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Mocha
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.94%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.99%) Finance
5 17 (8.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.81%) Health Technology
7 12 (6.28%) Law
8 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.62%) Legal
9 4 (2.09%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.57%) Local Government
10 3 (1.57%) Marketing
11 2 (1.05%) Billing
11 2 (1.05%) Games
11 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.05%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (38.74%) Developer
2 47 (24.61%) Senior
3 45 (23.56%) Software Engineer
4 31 (16.23%) Lead
4 31 (16.23%) PHP Developer
5 18 (9.42%) Lead Software Engineer
5 18 (9.42%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.90%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 15 (7.85%) C# Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.76%) Architect
10 10 (5.24%) Senior C# Developer
10 10 (5.24%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Consultant
11 9 (4.71%) Graduate
12 8 (4.19%) C# Software Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Analyst
13 7 (3.66%) EPR Consultant
14 6 (3.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.89%) CSS
2 47 (24.61%) HTML
3 39 (20.42%) React
4 37 (19.37%) RESTful
5 33 (17.28%) Laravel
6 32 (16.75%) .NET
7 28 (14.66%) Node.js
8 24 (12.57%) jQuery
9 19 (9.95%) AngularJS
9 19 (9.95%) Vue
10 17 (8.90%) REST
11 15 (7.85%) .NET Core
12 14 (7.33%) .NET Framework
12 14 (7.33%) CSS3
13 13 (6.81%) Entity Framework
13 13 (6.81%) HTML5
14 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET
15 10 (5.24%) Terraform
16 9 (4.71%) Spring
17 8 (4.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.76%) NHS
4 8 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.19%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.62%) Raspberry Pi
5 5 (2.62%) Replication
6 4 (2.09%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.09%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.57%) Blog
7 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.57%) IoT
7 3 (1.57%) PropTech
7 3 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.05%) Robotics
8 2 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.85%) Linux
2 10 (5.24%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.66%) Windows
4 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) CentOS
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (40.31%) Agile
2 74 (38.74%) Software Engineering
3 57 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (28.27%) CI/CD
5 43 (22.51%) Microservices
6 42 (21.99%) DevOps
7 37 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (18.85%) Mentoring
9 30 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (13.61%) OOP
11 25 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (12.57%) Clean Code
13 23 (12.04%) AI
13 23 (12.04%) Coaching
13 23 (12.04%) Scrum
13 23 (12.04%) Web Development
14 22 (11.52%) Code Quality
15 21 (10.99%) OO
15 21 (10.99%) TDD
16 20 (10.47%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 87 (45.55%) SQL
2 80 (41.88%) JavaScript
3 47 (24.61%) PHP
4 45 (23.56%) C#
5 41 (21.47%) Java
6 31 (16.23%) Python
7 29 (15.18%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.71%) C++
9 8 (4.19%) Ruby
10 7 (3.66%) Go
10 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.62%) Bash
11 5 (2.62%) Rust
12 3 (1.57%) Perl
12 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) Korn
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.66%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.62%) HNC
5 5 (2.62%) HND
6 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) QA
2 15 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.66%) HL7
5 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.57%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (1.05%) GDPR
7 2 (1.05%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (18.85%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.62%) vSphere
4 2 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.14%) Grafana
3 4 (2.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.57%) Plesk
4 3 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.85%) Oracle
3 9 (4.71%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.19%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) Cisco
5 6 (3.14%) VMware
6 5 (2.62%) Meraki
6 5 (2.62%) Synology
6 5 (2.62%) Veeam
7 4 (2.09%) Databricks
7 4 (2.09%) IBM
7 4 (2.09%) Informatica
7 4 (2.09%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.05%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.05%) Sony
8 2 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (1.05%) UiPath
9 1 (0.52%) Fortinet