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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 190 150
Rank change year-on-year -48 -40 -19
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 208 298 692
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 1.81% 2.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.93% 9.03% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 183 244 577
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,750 £62,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -7.05%

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 3,000 3,299 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 20.03% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 2,210 5,653
10th Percentile £37,450 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,748 £46,858 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 10 July 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 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.40%) CMS
4 4 (1.92%) Apache
4 4 (1.92%) nginx
4 4 (1.92%) WordPress
5 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Moodle
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Elementor
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.96%) AWS
2 83 (39.90%) Azure
3 26 (12.50%) SaaS
4 21 (10.10%) GitHub
4 21 (10.10%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.29%) Serverless
7 9 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.37%) GCP
10 6 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.92%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.92%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) Broadband
2 8 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (1.44%) HTTP
3 3 (1.44%) RTP
3 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.44%) VoIP
3 3 (1.44%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.96%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.96%) SAN
5 1 (0.48%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) LAN
5 1 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.48%) SSL
5 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (41.35%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (28.37%) MongoDB
3 45 (21.63%) SQL Server
4 38 (18.27%) NoSQL
5 29 (13.94%) Relational Database
6 19 (9.13%) Power BI
7 15 (7.21%) MariaDB
8 10 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.37%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.88%) Metadata
10 6 (2.88%) Tableau
11 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 34 (16.35%) Git
2 12 (5.77%) GitLab
3 10 (4.81%) JIRA
4 9 (4.33%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.48%) JMeter
7 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.48%) Vite
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.27%) Public Sector
3 32 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.06%) Finance
5 15 (7.21%) Health Technology
6 8 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.40%) Legal
7 5 (2.40%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.92%) Retail
8 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Local Government
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.44%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 76 (36.54%) Developer
2 51 (24.52%) Software Engineer
3 36 (17.31%) Senior
4 35 (16.83%) PHP Developer
5 26 (12.50%) Lead
6 20 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (8.65%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (7.69%) Graduate
9 15 (7.21%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 14 (6.73%) Analyst
10 14 (6.73%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Azure Developer
12 12 (5.77%) C# Developer
12 12 (5.77%) C# Software Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Graduate Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 12 (5.77%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (29.33%) CSS
2 50 (24.04%) RESTful
3 42 (20.19%) HTML
4 36 (17.31%) Laravel
5 31 (14.90%) jQuery
5 31 (14.90%) Node.js
6 29 (13.94%) React
7 23 (11.06%) .NET
8 21 (10.10%) Vue
9 19 (9.13%) REST
10 17 (8.17%) JSON
11 15 (7.21%) XML
12 12 (5.77%) CSS3
12 12 (5.77%) HTML5
13 10 (4.81%) AngularJS
13 10 (4.81%) ASP.NET
13 10 (4.81%) Spring
14 7 (3.37%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (3.37%) Spring Boot
14 7 (3.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) NHS
3 12 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.85%) Replication
6 8 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.40%) Raspberry Pi
8 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.92%) IoT
9 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.92%) PropTech
10 3 (1.44%) Blog
10 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.12%) Linux
2 12 (5.77%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.85%) Windows
4 5 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.98%) Agile
2 74 (35.58%) Software Engineering
3 52 (25.00%) Microservices
4 51 (24.52%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.15%) Mentoring
6 43 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (16.83%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (16.35%) DevOps
10 32 (15.38%) Coaching
10 32 (15.38%) TDD
11 31 (14.90%) Computer Science
12 29 (13.94%) Open Source
13 24 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (11.06%) AI
14 23 (11.06%) OOP
15 22 (10.58%) MVC
16 21 (10.10%) Data Modelling
17 20 (9.62%) API Design
17 20 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (50.96%) SQL
2 75 (36.06%) JavaScript
3 59 (28.37%) PHP
4 52 (25.00%) Java
5 37 (17.79%) C#
6 34 (16.35%) Python
7 22 (10.58%) TypeScript
8 19 (9.13%) C++
9 17 (8.17%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.81%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.85%) Bash
12 7 (3.37%) Ruby
13 4 (1.92%) Go
13 4 (1.92%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.44%) C
14 3 (1.44%) Perl
15 2 (0.96%) Korn
16 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (19.71%) Degree
2 22 (10.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.40%) HNC
4 5 (2.40%) HND
4 5 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.73%) QA
4 7 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.37%) HL7
5 5 (2.40%) SLA
6 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.92%) SNOMED CT
7 3 (1.44%) GDPR
8 2 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 37 (17.79%) Docker
2 15 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
5 3 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.44%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.33%) Terraform
3 6 (2.88%) Ansible
3 6 (2.88%) Grafana
4 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.92%) Argo
6 3 (1.44%) Plesk
7 1 (0.48%) Graylog
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.77%) Oracle
3 6 (2.88%) Cisco
3 6 (2.88%) VMware
4 5 (2.40%) Meraki
4 5 (2.40%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.40%) Synology
4 5 (2.40%) Veeam
5 4 (1.92%) Databricks
5 4 (1.92%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.44%) BT
6 3 (1.44%) Google
6 3 (1.44%) Mitel
6 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.44%) Splunk
7 2 (0.96%) Dell
7 2 (0.96%) IBM
7 2 (0.96%) Informatica
7 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.96%) TIBCO