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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 191 164
Rank change year-on-year -70 -27 -38
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 214 283 511
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.72% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.85% 8.98% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 186 235 402
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £35,040
25th Percentile £37,813 £34,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £77,188 £63,125 £70,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.06%

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 3,124 3,151 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 19.12% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 2,111 4,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £37,940
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
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 6 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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 5 (2.34%) WordPress
3 4 (1.87%) Apache
3 4 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 112 (52.34%) AWS
2 81 (37.85%) Azure
3 21 (9.81%) GitHub
4 20 (9.35%) SaaS
5 13 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.67%) Serverless
7 9 (4.21%) GCP
7 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.34%) Stripe
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.87%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.07%) Broadband
2 8 (3.74%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.93%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.93%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (43.46%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (25.70%) MongoDB
3 47 (21.96%) SQL Server
4 36 (16.82%) NoSQL
5 35 (16.36%) Relational Database
6 18 (8.41%) MariaDB
7 12 (5.61%) Power BI
8 7 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.80%) Metadata
9 6 (2.80%) Tableau
10 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.87%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.87%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.87%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 34 (15.89%) Git
2 14 (6.54%) GitLab
3 11 (5.14%) JIRA
4 9 (4.21%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.96%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.68%) Finance
5 15 (7.01%) Health Technology
5 15 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.21%) Law
7 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Legal
8 4 (1.87%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.40%) Local Government
9 3 (1.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Billing
10 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 82 (38.32%) Developer
2 52 (24.30%) Software Engineer
3 45 (21.03%) Senior
4 38 (17.76%) PHP Developer
5 31 (14.49%) Lead
6 19 (8.88%) C# Developer
7 18 (8.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (7.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 17 (7.94%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.48%) Graduate
10 15 (7.01%) Software Developer
11 14 (6.54%) C# Software Developer
11 14 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (6.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.61%) Azure Developer
13 12 (5.61%) Graduate C# Developer
13 12 (5.61%) Graduate Developer
13 12 (5.61%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 12 (5.61%) Graduate Software Developer
13 12 (5.61%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (32.24%) CSS
2 50 (23.36%) HTML
3 47 (21.96%) RESTful
4 39 (18.22%) React
5 34 (15.89%) Laravel
6 32 (14.95%) .NET
7 31 (14.49%) jQuery
8 27 (12.62%) Node.js
9 20 (9.35%) Vue
10 17 (7.94%) AngularJS
10 17 (7.94%) REST
11 14 (6.54%) CSS3
11 14 (6.54%) HTML5
12 12 (5.61%) .NET Core
13 11 (5.14%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.67%) ASP.NET
14 10 (4.67%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.67%) JSON
15 9 (4.21%) Spring
15 9 (4.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.07%) NHS
3 12 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.74%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.27%) Replication
7 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.34%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.87%) PropTech
8 4 (1.87%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.40%) Blog
9 3 (1.40%) IoT
9 3 (1.40%) PMI
9 3 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.29%) Linux
2 10 (4.67%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.27%) Windows
4 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (42.06%) Agile
2 79 (36.92%) Software Engineering
3 57 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (24.77%) CI/CD
5 52 (24.30%) Microservices
6 45 (21.03%) Mentoring
7 37 (17.29%) DevOps
8 36 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (15.42%) Coaching
9 33 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (14.49%) TDD
11 30 (14.02%) Computer Science
12 29 (13.55%) OOP
13 28 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (12.15%) Open Source
15 24 (11.21%) MVC
16 23 (10.75%) AI
16 23 (10.75%) Clean Code
16 23 (10.75%) Web Development
17 22 (10.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (52.34%) SQL
2 83 (38.79%) JavaScript
3 56 (26.17%) PHP
4 54 (25.23%) Java
5 49 (22.90%) C#
6 30 (14.02%) Python
7 26 (12.15%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.48%) C++
9 10 (4.67%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.74%) Ruby
11 6 (2.80%) Bash
12 4 (1.87%) Go
12 4 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.40%) Perl
13 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.93%) Korn
14 2 (0.93%) Rust
15 1 (0.47%) Scala
15 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (21.50%) Degree
2 21 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.34%) HNC
5 5 (2.34%) HND
5 5 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.01%) QA
3 8 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.27%) HL7
5 4 (1.87%) SLA
5 4 (1.87%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (0.93%) GDPR
6 2 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (16.36%) Docker
2 9 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.34%) vSphere
5 3 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.67%) Terraform
3 7 (3.27%) Grafana
4 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.87%) Ansible
6 3 (1.40%) Plesk
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Graylog
Vendors
1 21 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Oracle
3 9 (4.21%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.74%) Google
5 6 (2.80%) Cisco
5 6 (2.80%) VMware
6 5 (2.34%) Meraki
6 5 (2.34%) Synology
6 5 (2.34%) Veeam
7 4 (1.87%) Databricks
7 4 (1.87%) IBM
7 4 (1.87%) Informatica
7 4 (1.87%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.93%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.93%) Sony
9 2 (0.93%) Splunk
9 2 (0.93%) UiPath