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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 191 160
Rank change year-on-year -58 -31 -33
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 209 289 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 1.75% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.96% 9.01% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 186 240 484
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £34,905
25th Percentile £38,984 £33,750 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -2.62%
75th Percentile £74,926 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -6.25%

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 3,005 3,207 6,020
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.87% 19.46% 20.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 2,147 4,893
10th Percentile £36,565 £36,246 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 22 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 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.83%) Confluence
3 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.91%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) CMS
4 4 (1.91%) WordPress
5 3 (1.44%) nginx
6 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) Moodle
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.72%) AWS
2 84 (40.19%) Azure
3 26 (12.44%) SaaS
4 21 (10.05%) Power Platform
5 19 (9.09%) GitHub
6 15 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.26%) Serverless
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.35%) GCP
10 6 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.91%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.91%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (1.91%) PaaS
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) Broadband
2 8 (3.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.96%) HTTP
4 2 (0.96%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.96%) RTP
4 2 (0.96%) SAN
4 2 (0.96%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.96%) VoIP
4 2 (0.96%) Wireshark
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 90 (43.06%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (27.75%) MongoDB
3 46 (22.01%) SQL Server
4 38 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 29 (13.88%) Relational Database
6 19 (9.09%) Power BI
7 17 (8.13%) MariaDB
8 10 (4.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.87%) Metadata
10 6 (2.87%) Tableau
11 5 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.91%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.44%) Ataccama
13 3 (1.44%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.44%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 32 (15.31%) Git
2 13 (6.22%) GitLab
3 11 (5.26%) JIRA
4 9 (4.31%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
General
1 53 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.66%) Public Sector
3 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.00%) Finance
5 15 (7.18%) Health Technology
6 8 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.39%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.91%) Retail
8 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Local Government
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 76 (36.36%) Developer
2 52 (24.88%) Software Engineer
3 37 (17.70%) Senior
4 36 (17.22%) PHP Developer
5 28 (13.40%) Lead
6 18 (8.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (8.61%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (7.66%) Graduate
7 16 (7.66%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 14 (6.70%) Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Software Developer
9 13 (6.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Azure Developer
10 12 (5.74%) C# Developer
10 12 (5.74%) C# Software Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Graduate C# Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Graduate Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Graduate Software Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 12 (5.74%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (29.19%) CSS
2 49 (23.44%) RESTful
3 42 (20.10%) HTML
4 35 (16.75%) Laravel
5 32 (15.31%) Node.js
6 31 (14.83%) jQuery
7 29 (13.88%) React
8 24 (11.48%) .NET
9 21 (10.05%) Vue
10 19 (9.09%) REST
11 17 (8.13%) JSON
12 15 (7.18%) XML
13 12 (5.74%) CSS3
13 12 (5.74%) HTML5
14 10 (4.78%) ASP.NET
15 9 (4.31%) AngularJS
15 9 (4.31%) Spring
16 8 (3.83%) Ruby on Rails
17 7 (3.35%) FHIR
17 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.22%) NHS
3 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.83%) Replication
7 8 (3.83%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.39%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (1.91%) IoT
9 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.91%) PropTech
10 3 (1.44%) PMI
10 3 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.44%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.10%) Linux
2 12 (5.74%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.35%) Windows
4 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.80%) Agile
2 74 (35.41%) Software Engineering
3 53 (25.36%) CI/CD
4 51 (24.40%) Microservices
5 48 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (21.53%) Mentoring
7 38 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (15.79%) Coaching
9 33 (15.79%) DevOps
10 31 (14.83%) Computer Science
10 31 (14.83%) TDD
11 28 (13.40%) Open Source
12 25 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (11.00%) AI
14 22 (10.53%) MVC
14 22 (10.53%) OOP
15 20 (9.57%) API Design
15 20 (9.57%) Data Modelling
15 20 (9.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (53.59%) SQL
2 76 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 57 (27.27%) PHP
4 50 (23.92%) Java
5 40 (19.14%) C#
6 34 (16.27%) Python
7 22 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 18 (8.61%) C++
9 16 (7.66%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.78%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.83%) Ruby
12 6 (2.87%) Bash
13 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.44%) Perl
15 2 (0.96%) C
15 2 (0.96%) Go
15 2 (0.96%) Korn
16 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (19.62%) Degree
2 22 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.39%) HNC
3 5 (2.39%) HND
3 5 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (2.39%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.22%) QA
4 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.35%) HL7
5 5 (2.39%) SLA
6 4 (1.91%) SNOMED CT
7 3 (1.44%) GDPR
7 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 37 (17.70%) Docker
2 15 (7.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.39%) vSphere
5 3 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.96%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.31%) Terraform
3 6 (2.87%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) Argo
6 3 (1.44%) Plesk
7 1 (0.48%) Graylog
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.87%) Cisco
4 6 (2.87%) VMware
5 5 (2.39%) Google
5 5 (2.39%) Meraki
5 5 (2.39%) Synology
5 5 (2.39%) Veeam
6 4 (1.91%) Databricks
7 3 (1.44%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.44%) IBM
7 3 (1.44%) Informatica
7 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.44%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.96%) BT
8 2 (0.96%) Dell
8 2 (0.96%) Mitel
8 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.96%) Salesforce