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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 182 174
Rank change year-on-year -83 -8 -47
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 201 286 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.73% 1.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.40% 9.52% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 171 238 373
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £34,905
25th Percentile £38,125 £33,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -5.31%

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 3,139 3,004 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.67% 18.13% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,522 2,054 3,862
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £45,813 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £127,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 21 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 (3.98%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) WordPress
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Moodle
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 98 (48.76%) AWS
2 67 (33.33%) Azure
3 25 (12.44%) GitHub
4 19 (9.45%) SaaS
5 11 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
5 11 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.98%) GCP
6 10 (4.98%) Serverless
7 8 (3.98%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.49%) Stripe
10 4 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) Broadband
2 7 (3.48%) Firewall
3 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) SAN
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (41.79%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (23.38%) MongoDB
3 43 (21.39%) SQL Server
4 37 (18.41%) Relational Database
5 27 (13.43%) NoSQL
6 18 (8.96%) MariaDB
7 10 (4.98%) Power BI
8 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.99%) Metadata
9 6 (2.99%) Tableau
10 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.99%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.99%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.99%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.99%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Git
2 14 (6.97%) GitLab
3 11 (5.47%) JIRA
4 9 (4.48%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Mocha
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Public Sector
3 33 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.95%) Finance
5 18 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.46%) Health Technology
7 12 (5.97%) Law
8 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.49%) Legal
9 4 (1.99%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.49%) Local Government
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.00%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (39.80%) Developer
2 48 (23.88%) Senior
3 45 (22.39%) Software Engineer
4 35 (17.41%) PHP Developer
5 31 (15.42%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 18 (8.96%) C# Developer
7 18 (8.96%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Software Developer
12 12 (5.97%) Graduate
13 11 (5.47%) C# Software Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Senior C# Developer
15 9 (4.48%) Architect
15 9 (4.48%) Consultant
15 9 (4.48%) Support Engineer
16 8 (3.98%) Graduate Software Developer
16 8 (3.98%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.83%) CSS
2 53 (26.37%) HTML
3 41 (20.40%) React
4 38 (18.91%) RESTful
5 36 (17.91%) .NET
6 34 (16.92%) Laravel
7 29 (14.43%) Node.js
8 27 (13.43%) jQuery
9 20 (9.95%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.95%) Vue
10 17 (8.46%) REST
11 15 (7.46%) .NET Core
12 14 (6.97%) .NET Framework
12 14 (6.97%) CSS3
13 13 (6.47%) Entity Framework
13 13 (6.47%) HTML5
14 12 (5.97%) Terraform
15 11 (5.47%) ASP.NET
16 10 (4.98%) Spring
17 8 (3.98%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.47%) NHS
3 12 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.99%) Replication
6 5 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.49%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.99%) PropTech
7 4 (1.99%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.49%) Blog
8 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.49%) IoT
8 3 (1.49%) PMI
8 3 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.00%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.41%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.48%) Windows
4 5 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) CentOS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (39.80%) Agile
2 75 (37.31%) Software Engineering
3 61 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (27.36%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.89%) Microservices
6 40 (19.90%) DevOps
7 39 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (17.91%) Mentoring
9 33 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (13.93%) OOP
11 26 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (12.94%) Computer Science
12 24 (11.94%) Clean Code
12 24 (11.94%) Scrum
12 24 (11.94%) Web Development
13 23 (11.44%) Coaching
14 22 (10.95%) AI
14 22 (10.95%) Code Quality
15 21 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (10.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 96 (47.76%) SQL
2 86 (42.79%) JavaScript
3 51 (25.37%) PHP
4 50 (24.88%) C#
5 43 (21.39%) Java
6 30 (14.93%) Python
6 30 (14.93%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.97%) C++
8 8 (3.98%) Ruby
9 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.49%) Bash
10 5 (2.49%) Go
11 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.49%) Perl
12 3 (1.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) Korn
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (21.89%) Degree
2 17 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.49%) HNC
6 5 (2.49%) HND
7 4 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 8 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.48%) HL7
4 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.99%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.49%) vSphere
4 2 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.48%) Grafana
3 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.99%) Ansible
5 3 (1.49%) Plesk
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Graylog
Vendors
1 20 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (2.99%) Cisco
5 6 (2.99%) VMware
6 5 (2.49%) Meraki
6 5 (2.49%) Synology
6 5 (2.49%) Veeam
7 4 (1.99%) Databricks
7 4 (1.99%) IBM
7 4 (1.99%) Informatica
7 4 (1.99%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.00%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Sony
8 2 (1.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) UiPath
9 1 (0.50%) New Relic