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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 196 133
Rank change year-on-year -56 -63 -1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 171 274 763
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.88% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.75% 8.46% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 148 216 674
10th Percentile £32,125 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £52,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -5.41% -1.74%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,414 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.88% +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 2,533 3,237 7,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.22% 22.20% 22.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,141 6,237
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £100,000
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 28 May 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 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.68%) Confluence
3 7 (4.09%) CMS
4 6 (3.51%) nginx
5 5 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.17%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.17%) WordPress
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.58%) Moodle
7 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.20%) AWS
2 62 (36.26%) Azure
3 22 (12.87%) GitHub
4 20 (11.70%) Power Platform
5 19 (11.11%) SaaS
6 16 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.68%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.68%) Serverless
9 6 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.92%) GCP
11 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.34%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) Firewall
2 7 (4.09%) Broadband
3 3 (1.75%) HTTP
3 3 (1.75%) RTP
3 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.75%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.75%) VoIP
3 3 (1.75%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.17%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.17%) SAN
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) SSL
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (40.35%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (29.24%) MongoDB
3 40 (23.39%) SQL Server
4 34 (19.88%) NoSQL
5 20 (11.70%) Relational Database
6 18 (10.53%) Power BI
7 13 (7.60%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.92%) Tableau
11 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.34%) Metadata
12 3 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (19.88%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) GitLab
3 6 (3.51%) Claude Code
3 6 (3.51%) JIRA
4 3 (1.75%) Vite
5 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.17%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 24 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.53%) Finance
5 10 (5.85%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.92%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.34%) Legal
8 4 (2.34%) Retail
8 4 (2.34%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.75%) Local Government
9 3 (1.75%) Marketing
9 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Advertising
10 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (38.60%) Developer
2 33 (19.30%) PHP Developer
2 33 (19.30%) Software Engineer
3 23 (13.45%) Senior
4 17 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (9.94%) Lead
4 17 (9.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 15 (8.77%) Software Developer
6 14 (8.19%) Analyst
7 13 (7.60%) C# Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Azure Developer
8 12 (7.02%) C# Software Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate C# Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate Software Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 12 (7.02%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (31.58%) CSS
2 43 (25.15%) RESTful
3 39 (22.81%) HTML
4 34 (19.88%) Laravel
5 26 (15.20%) jQuery
5 26 (15.20%) Node.js
6 22 (12.87%) React
7 21 (12.28%) Vue
8 15 (8.77%) .NET
9 14 (8.19%) CSS3
9 14 (8.19%) HTML5
9 14 (8.19%) JSON
10 13 (7.60%) REST
11 12 (7.02%) AngularJS
12 11 (6.43%) XML
13 7 (4.09%) Kafka
13 7 (4.09%) Spring
14 6 (3.51%) LEMP Stack
15 5 (2.92%) Nuxt
15 5 (2.92%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.43%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.26%) NHS
5 7 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.51%) IoT
7 5 (2.92%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.92%) Replication
7 5 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.92%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.34%) PropTech
8 4 (2.34%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.75%) Blog
9 3 (1.75%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.05%) Linux
2 9 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.51%) Windows
4 5 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.01%) Agile
2 51 (29.82%) Software Engineering
3 40 (23.39%) Microservices
4 32 (18.71%) Mentoring
5 31 (18.13%) CI/CD
5 31 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (15.79%) Open Source
8 26 (15.20%) Coaching
9 25 (14.62%) TDD
10 24 (14.04%) DevOps
11 23 (13.45%) Computer Science
12 21 (12.28%) Data Modelling
13 17 (9.94%) MVC
13 17 (9.94%) OOP
14 16 (9.36%) Containerisation
14 16 (9.36%) OO
14 16 (9.36%) Test Automation
15 14 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (51.46%) SQL
2 60 (35.09%) JavaScript
3 53 (30.99%) PHP
4 41 (23.98%) Java
5 30 (17.54%) Python
6 26 (15.20%) C#
7 17 (9.94%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.36%) PowerShell
9 15 (8.77%) C++
10 10 (5.85%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.68%) Bash
12 4 (2.34%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.75%) C
13 3 (1.75%) Go
13 3 (1.75%) Perl
13 3 (1.75%) Ruby
14 2 (1.17%) Korn
15 1 (0.58%) Scala
15 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (18.71%) Degree
2 18 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.92%) HNC
4 5 (2.92%) HND
4 5 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.94%) Data Quality
1 17 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (7.60%) QA
3 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.92%) SLA
4 4 (2.34%) HL7
4 4 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.34%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (1.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 29 (16.96%) Docker
2 15 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.92%) vSphere
5 3 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.51%) Terraform
3 5 (2.92%) Ansible
4 4 (2.34%) Argo
4 4 (2.34%) Grafana
4 4 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.75%) Plesk
6 1 (0.58%) Graylog
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.68%) Oracle
3 6 (3.51%) Cisco
3 6 (3.51%) VMware
4 5 (2.92%) Meraki
4 5 (2.92%) Synology
4 5 (2.92%) Veeam
5 4 (2.34%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.75%) BT
6 3 (1.75%) Mitel
6 3 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.17%) Dell
7 2 (1.17%) Google
7 2 (1.17%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.17%) SAP
7 2 (1.17%) Splunk
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) Zend