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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 213 159
Rank change year-on-year -78 -54 -41
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 180 237 474
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 1.43% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 8.79% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 149 193 297
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £65,001
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.85%

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 3,187 2,697 4,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.86% 16.25% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,469 1,865 3,135
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £39,573
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 27 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 6 (3.33%) Confluence
2 4 (2.22%) WordPress
3 3 (1.67%) Apache
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Moodle
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.11%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 95 (52.78%) AWS
2 63 (35.00%) Azure
3 26 (14.44%) GitHub
4 16 (8.89%) SaaS
5 13 (7.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (5.56%) GCP
6 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.00%) Serverless
8 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.78%) Stripe
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.22%) Broadband
2 5 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (42.22%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (27.78%) MongoDB
3 38 (21.11%) Relational Database
4 35 (19.44%) SQL Server
5 23 (12.78%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.78%) MariaDB
7 10 (5.56%) Power BI
8 7 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (3.33%) Metadata
9 6 (3.33%) Tableau
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.22%) Ataccama
10 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.22%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (2.22%) Redis
10 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.22%) TIBCO EBX
11 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (18.89%) Git
2 15 (8.33%) GitLab
3 12 (6.67%) Claude Code
4 9 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) ESLint
7 1 (0.56%) Mocha
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Storybook
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.56%) Vite
General
1 45 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.22%) Finance
5 17 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.67%) Law
7 10 (5.56%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Legal
9 4 (2.22%) Marketing
9 4 (2.22%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.67%) Local Government
11 2 (1.11%) Billing
11 2 (1.11%) Games
11 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.11%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.56%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.56%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.56%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 70 (38.89%) Developer
2 48 (26.67%) Senior
3 46 (25.56%) Software Engineer
4 29 (16.11%) Lead
5 26 (14.44%) PHP Developer
6 19 (10.56%) Senior Developer
7 18 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (8.89%) C# Developer
9 14 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (6.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 11 (6.11%) Architect
12 11 (6.11%) Senior C# Developer
13 10 (5.56%) Software Developer
14 9 (5.00%) Graduate
15 8 (4.44%) C# Software Developer
15 8 (4.44%) Consultant
16 7 (3.89%) Analyst
17 6 (3.33%) Data Architect
17 6 (3.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.00%) CSS
2 41 (22.78%) HTML
2 41 (22.78%) React
3 38 (21.11%) RESTful
4 33 (18.33%) .NET
5 30 (16.67%) Node.js
6 28 (15.56%) Laravel
7 20 (11.11%) jQuery
7 20 (11.11%) Vue
8 18 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 18 (10.00%) REST
9 15 (8.33%) .NET Core
10 14 (7.78%) .NET Framework
11 13 (7.22%) Entity Framework
12 11 (6.11%) ASP.NET
12 11 (6.11%) CSS3
13 10 (5.56%) HTML5
13 10 (5.56%) Spring
14 9 (5.00%) Terraform
15 8 (4.44%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.44%) NHS
5 7 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.89%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.78%) Replication
8 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.22%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.67%) Blog
9 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.11%) IoT
10 2 (1.11%) PMI
10 2 (1.11%) Robotics
10 2 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.78%) Windows
4 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.33%) Agile
2 77 (42.78%) Software Engineering
3 60 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (29.44%) CI/CD
5 44 (24.44%) Microservices
6 41 (22.78%) DevOps
7 38 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.89%) Mentoring
9 31 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (14.44%) AI
10 26 (14.44%) OOP
11 25 (13.89%) Code Quality
12 24 (13.33%) Clean Code
12 24 (13.33%) Scrum
13 23 (12.78%) Web Development
14 22 (12.22%) Coaching
15 20 (11.11%) Event-Driven
15 20 (11.11%) SDLC
15 20 (11.11%) TDD
16 19 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 76 (42.22%) SQL
2 75 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 46 (25.56%) C#
4 42 (23.33%) PHP
5 39 (21.67%) Java
6 32 (17.78%) TypeScript
7 29 (16.11%) Python
8 9 (5.00%) C++
9 8 (4.44%) Ruby
10 7 (3.89%) Go
11 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.78%) Bash
12 5 (2.78%) Rust
13 3 (1.67%) Perl
14 1 (0.56%) Korn
14 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.56%) Scala
14 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (18.89%) Degree
2 14 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.67%) HNC
5 3 (1.67%) HND
6 2 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.44%) QA
2 14 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.33%) HL7
5 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.11%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (1.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (21.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.67%) vSphere
4 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 23 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.33%) Grafana
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
3 3 (1.67%) Plesk
3 3 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.78%) Oracle
3 10 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.44%) Google
5 4 (2.22%) Databricks
5 4 (2.22%) IBM
5 4 (2.22%) Informatica
5 4 (2.22%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.67%) Cisco
6 3 (1.67%) Meraki
6 3 (1.67%) Synology
6 3 (1.67%) Veeam
6 3 (1.67%) VMware
7 2 (1.11%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.11%) Sony
7 2 (1.11%) Splunk
7 2 (1.11%) UiPath
8 1 (0.56%) New Relic
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat