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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 196 167
Rank change year-on-year -68 -29 -38
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 214 282 492
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.70% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.80% 8.97% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 185 234 382
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -5.36%

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 3,149 3,143 5,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.89% 19.00% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,528 2,108 3,953
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,125
25th Percentile £45,489 £46,250 £47,500
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 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 9 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
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Moodle
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 112 (52.34%) AWS
2 80 (37.38%) Azure
3 21 (9.81%) GitHub
4 19 (8.88%) SaaS
5 12 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.67%) Serverless
7 9 (4.21%) GCP
8 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
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
4 36 (16.82%) Relational Database
5 18 (8.41%) MariaDB
6 11 (5.14%) Power BI
7 7 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.80%) Metadata
8 6 (2.80%) Tableau
9 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.87%) Ataccama
10 4 (1.87%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.87%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (1.87%) TIBCO EBX
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 35 (16.36%) 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%) Public Sector
2 47 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.68%) Finance
5 16 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.01%) Health Technology
7 10 (4.67%) Law
8 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.34%) Legal
9 4 (1.87%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.40%) Local Government
10 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Advertising
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.93%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 83 (38.79%) Developer
2 52 (24.30%) Software Engineer
3 46 (21.50%) Senior
4 38 (17.76%) PHP Developer
5 31 (14.49%) Lead
6 20 (9.35%) C# Developer
7 18 (8.41%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 17 (7.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 16 (7.48%) Graduate
9 16 (7.48%) Software Developer
10 15 (7.01%) 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 70 (32.71%) CSS
2 51 (23.83%) HTML
3 47 (21.96%) RESTful
4 40 (18.69%) React
5 34 (15.89%) Laravel
6 33 (15.42%) .NET
7 31 (14.49%) jQuery
8 27 (12.62%) Node.js
9 20 (9.35%) Vue
10 18 (8.41%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.94%) REST
12 14 (6.54%) CSS3
12 14 (6.54%) HTML5
13 13 (6.07%) .NET Core
14 12 (5.61%) .NET Framework
15 11 (5.14%) Entity Framework
16 10 (4.67%) ASP.NET
17 9 (4.21%) JSON
17 9 (4.21%) Spring
18 8 (3.74%) Ruby on Rails
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%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.34%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
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%) Onboarding
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 91 (42.52%) Agile
2 80 (37.38%) Software Engineering
3 58 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (24.77%) CI/CD
5 52 (24.30%) Microservices
6 45 (21.03%) Mentoring
7 37 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (17.29%) DevOps
8 33 (15.42%) Coaching
8 33 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (14.49%) TDD
10 30 (14.02%) Computer Science
10 30 (14.02%) OOP
11 27 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (12.15%) Open Source
13 24 (11.21%) Clean Code
13 24 (11.21%) MVC
13 24 (11.21%) Web Development
14 23 (10.75%) AI
14 23 (10.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (51.87%) SQL
2 84 (39.25%) JavaScript
3 56 (26.17%) PHP
4 54 (25.23%) Java
5 50 (23.36%) C#
6 29 (13.55%) Python
7 26 (12.15%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.48%) C++
9 9 (4.21%) 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
14 2 (0.93%) Korn
14 2 (0.93%) Rust
14 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.47%) Scala
15 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (21.96%) Degree
2 21 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.07%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.34%) HNC
6 5 (2.34%) HND
7 4 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.01%) QA
3 8 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.27%) HL7
4 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 8 (3.74%) 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