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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 177 136
Rank change year-on-year -71 -41 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 176 300 765
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.98% 2.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.73% 9.17% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 152 246 656
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,957 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.71% +4.76% -7.49%

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 2,617 3,272 7,499
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.29% 21.63% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,013 2,190 6,283
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 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 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 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.55%) Confluence
3 7 (3.98%) CMS
4 6 (3.41%) nginx
5 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.14%) Apache
6 2 (1.14%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.14%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.57%) Moodle
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.00%) AWS
2 68 (38.64%) Azure
3 23 (13.07%) GitHub
4 21 (11.93%) Power Platform
5 20 (11.36%) SaaS
6 16 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.11%) Serverless
8 8 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.27%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.27%) GCP
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.70%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.70%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.55%) Broadband
1 8 (4.55%) Firewall
2 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) RTP
2 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.70%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.70%) VoIP
2 3 (1.70%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.14%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (30.11%) MongoDB
3 43 (24.43%) SQL Server
4 36 (20.45%) NoSQL
5 21 (11.93%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.80%) Power BI
7 13 (7.39%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.41%) Metadata
9 6 (3.41%) Tableau
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (17.61%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.98%) GitLab
2 7 (3.98%) JIRA
3 3 (1.70%) Vite
4 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) JMeter
5 1 (0.57%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.50%) Finance
5 12 (6.82%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.84%) Legal
7 5 (2.84%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Local Government
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.70%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (36.36%) Developer
2 38 (21.59%) Software Engineer
3 29 (16.48%) PHP Developer
4 24 (13.64%) Senior
5 18 (10.23%) Lead
6 17 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (9.09%) Graduate
8 15 (8.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 14 (7.95%) Analyst
9 14 (7.95%) Software Developer
10 12 (6.82%) C# Developer
10 12 (6.82%) C# Software Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate C# Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate Software Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 12 (6.82%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (6.82%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.68%) CSS
2 43 (24.43%) RESTful
3 35 (19.89%) HTML
4 31 (17.61%) Laravel
5 29 (16.48%) jQuery
6 26 (14.77%) Node.js
7 22 (12.50%) React
8 20 (11.36%) Vue
9 15 (8.52%) .NET
9 15 (8.52%) JSON
10 14 (7.95%) REST
11 12 (6.82%) CSS3
11 12 (6.82%) HTML5
11 12 (6.82%) XML
12 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
13 9 (5.11%) Spring
14 6 (3.41%) Kafka
14 6 (3.41%) LEMP Stack
14 6 (3.41%) Spring Boot
15 5 (2.84%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.68%) NHS
3 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Replication
6 5 (2.84%) IoT
6 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.84%) Raspberry Pi
6 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.27%) PropTech
7 4 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.70%) Blog
8 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.70%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.70%) Smart Home
8 3 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.89%) Linux
2 9 (5.11%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.41%) Windows
4 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.77%) Agile
2 57 (32.39%) Software Engineering
3 41 (23.30%) Microservices
4 34 (19.32%) CI/CD
4 34 (19.32%) Mentoring
5 33 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (15.34%) Computer Science
8 27 (15.34%) Open Source
9 26 (14.77%) Coaching
9 26 (14.77%) TDD
10 23 (13.07%) DevOps
11 22 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 19 (10.80%) OOP
13 18 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.66%) Containerisation
14 17 (9.66%) MVC
14 17 (9.66%) Test Automation
15 16 (9.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.27%) SQL
2 58 (32.95%) JavaScript
3 54 (30.68%) PHP
4 46 (26.14%) Java
5 30 (17.05%) C#
6 29 (16.48%) Python
7 19 (10.80%) C++
8 16 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.68%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.55%) Bash
11 4 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.70%) C
12 3 (1.70%) Go
12 3 (1.70%) Perl
12 3 (1.70%) Ruby
13 2 (1.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (20.45%) Degree
2 22 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.84%) HNC
4 5 (2.84%) HND
4 5 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.95%) QA
4 5 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.84%) HL7
4 5 (2.84%) SLA
5 4 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.27%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.70%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (16.48%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.84%) vSphere
5 3 (1.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.70%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (11.93%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.27%) Ansible
3 4 (2.27%) Argo
4 3 (1.70%) Grafana
4 3 (1.70%) Plesk
4 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Graylog
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.68%) Oracle
3 6 (3.41%) Cisco
3 6 (3.41%) VMware
4 5 (2.84%) Meraki
4 5 (2.84%) Synology
4 5 (2.84%) Veeam
5 4 (2.27%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.70%) BT
6 3 (1.70%) Mitel
6 3 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.14%) Dell
7 2 (1.14%) Google
7 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.14%) SAP
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry