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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 183 137
Rank change year-on-year -65 -46 -14
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 181 298 768
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.93% 2.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 9.09% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 156 244 652
10th Percentile £28,125 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,688 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,563 £65,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,414 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.88% +4.76% -7.08%

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 2,700 3,278 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.44% 21.24% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 2,198 6,315
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 19 June 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 10 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.87%) CMS
3 6 (3.31%) Confluence
3 6 (3.31%) nginx
4 5 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.10%) Apache
5 2 (1.10%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.10%) WordPress
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) Moodle
6 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.66%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.66%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (48.62%) AWS
2 71 (39.23%) Azure
3 24 (13.26%) SaaS
4 22 (12.15%) GitHub
5 21 (11.60%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.52%) Serverless
8 9 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.42%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.76%) GCP
11 5 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.21%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (2.21%) PaaS
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.63%) Broadband
2 8 (4.42%) Firewall
3 3 (1.66%) HTTP
3 3 (1.66%) RTP
3 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.66%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.66%) VoIP
3 3 (1.66%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.10%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.10%) SAN
5 1 (0.55%) DNS
5 1 (0.55%) LAN
5 1 (0.55%) SSL
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (41.44%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (28.73%) MongoDB
3 43 (23.76%) SQL Server
4 36 (19.89%) NoSQL
5 20 (11.05%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.50%) Power BI
7 13 (7.18%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.31%) Metadata
9 6 (3.31%) Tableau
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.76%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (18.78%) Git
2 10 (5.52%) GitLab
3 8 (4.42%) JIRA
4 7 (3.87%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.66%) Vite
6 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.68%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.15%) Finance
5 13 (7.18%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.76%) Legal
7 5 (2.76%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.21%) Retail
9 3 (1.66%) Local Government
9 3 (1.66%) Marketing
9 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.66%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Advertising
10 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 64 (35.36%) Developer
2 43 (23.76%) Software Engineer
3 29 (16.02%) PHP Developer
4 26 (14.36%) Senior
5 19 (10.50%) Lead
6 17 (9.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (8.84%) Graduate
8 15 (8.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 14 (7.73%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.18%) Analyst
10 13 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (6.63%) C# Developer
11 12 (6.63%) C# Software Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate C# Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate Software Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 12 (6.63%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (30.39%) CSS
2 46 (25.41%) RESTful
3 36 (19.89%) HTML
4 31 (17.13%) Laravel
5 29 (16.02%) jQuery
6 25 (13.81%) Node.js
7 24 (13.26%) React
8 20 (11.05%) Vue
9 19 (10.50%) .NET
10 15 (8.29%) JSON
11 14 (7.73%) REST
12 13 (7.18%) XML
13 12 (6.63%) CSS3
13 12 (6.63%) HTML5
14 9 (4.97%) AngularJS
14 9 (4.97%) Spring
15 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET
16 6 (3.31%) Kafka
16 6 (3.31%) LEMP Stack
16 6 (3.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.08%) NHS
4 10 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.52%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.87%) Replication
5 7 (3.87%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.76%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.21%) IoT
8 4 (2.21%) PropTech
9 3 (1.66%) Blog
9 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.66%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.66%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.10%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.10%) Linux
2 10 (5.52%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.31%) Windows
4 5 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (40.33%) Agile
2 62 (34.25%) Software Engineering
3 43 (23.76%) Microservices
4 42 (23.20%) CI/CD
5 34 (18.78%) Mentoring
5 34 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (18.23%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (16.57%) Computer Science
8 28 (15.47%) DevOps
8 28 (15.47%) Open Source
9 26 (14.36%) Coaching
9 26 (14.36%) TDD
10 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (11.05%) Data Modelling
11 19 (10.50%) AI
11 19 (10.50%) OOP
12 18 (9.94%) API Design
12 18 (9.94%) MVC
12 18 (9.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (51.93%) SQL
2 60 (33.15%) JavaScript
3 53 (29.28%) PHP
4 46 (25.41%) Java
5 34 (18.78%) C#
6 30 (16.57%) Python
7 19 (10.50%) C++
8 17 (9.39%) TypeScript
9 15 (8.29%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.52%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.42%) Bash
12 5 (2.76%) Ruby
13 4 (2.21%) Go
13 4 (2.21%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.66%) C
14 3 (1.66%) Perl
15 2 (1.10%) Korn
16 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (22.10%) Degree
2 22 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.87%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) HNC
4 5 (2.76%) HND
4 5 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.66%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (8.29%) QA
4 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.76%) HL7
4 5 (2.76%) SLA
5 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.21%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.66%) GDPR
7 2 (1.10%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) Docker
2 15 (8.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.76%) vSphere
5 3 (1.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.66%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (14.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.31%) Terraform
3 4 (2.21%) Ansible
3 4 (2.21%) Argo
4 3 (1.66%) Grafana
4 3 (1.66%) Plesk
4 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Graylog
5 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.52%) Oracle
3 6 (3.31%) Cisco
3 6 (3.31%) VMware
4 5 (2.76%) Meraki
4 5 (2.76%) Synology
4 5 (2.76%) Veeam
5 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.66%) BT
6 3 (1.66%) Databricks
6 3 (1.66%) Mitel
6 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.10%) Dell
7 2 (1.10%) Google
7 2 (1.10%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.10%) Splunk
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Foundry