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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 190 132
Rank change year-on-year -47 -58 +2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 169 279 767
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.91% 2.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.95% 8.51% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 146 219 678
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -6.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £72,188 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £82,375
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2,432 3,279 7,344
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 22.44% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 2,170 6,231
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,998 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,125 £122,500 £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 22 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 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.14%) CMS
2 7 (4.14%) Confluence
3 6 (3.55%) nginx
4 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) Apache
6 2 (1.18%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.78%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.75%) AWS
2 63 (37.28%) Azure
3 19 (11.24%) GitHub
3 19 (11.24%) Power Platform
4 17 (10.06%) SaaS
5 16 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.33%) Serverless
7 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.96%) GCP
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.37%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.18%) PaaS
12 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.73%) Firewall
2 7 (4.14%) Broadband
3 3 (1.78%) HTTP
3 3 (1.78%) RTP
3 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.78%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.78%) VoIP
3 3 (1.78%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.18%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.18%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) DNS
5 1 (0.59%) LAN
5 1 (0.59%) SSL
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (40.24%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (27.81%) MongoDB
3 41 (24.26%) SQL Server
4 35 (20.71%) NoSQL
5 21 (12.43%) Relational Database
6 17 (10.06%) Power BI
7 13 (7.69%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.96%) Tableau
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.37%) Metadata
11 3 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.78%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.78%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.18%) Big Data
12 2 (1.18%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 35 (20.71%) Git
2 8 (4.73%) GitLab
3 5 (2.96%) JIRA
4 4 (2.37%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.78%) Vite
6 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.18%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.59%) JMeter
7 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.16%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Finance
5 10 (5.92%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.55%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.37%) Retail
8 4 (2.37%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.78%) Legal
9 3 (1.78%) Local Government
9 3 (1.78%) Marketing
9 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) Front Office
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (39.05%) Developer
2 34 (20.12%) PHP Developer
3 33 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 23 (13.61%) Senior
5 17 (10.06%) Lead
5 17 (10.06%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 16 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (9.47%) Software Developer
7 14 (8.28%) Analyst
8 13 (7.69%) C# Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Azure Developer
9 12 (7.10%) C# Software Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate C# Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate Software Developer
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 12 (7.10%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.59%) CSS
2 41 (24.26%) RESTful
3 37 (21.89%) HTML
4 34 (20.12%) Laravel
5 28 (16.57%) Node.js
6 25 (14.79%) jQuery
7 22 (13.02%) React
8 21 (12.43%) Vue
9 14 (8.28%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.28%) HTML5
9 14 (8.28%) JSON
10 13 (7.69%) .NET
10 13 (7.69%) CSS3
10 13 (7.69%) REST
11 11 (6.51%) XML
12 8 (4.73%) Kafka
13 6 (3.55%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (3.55%) Spring
14 5 (2.96%) Django
14 5 (2.96%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.51%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.33%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.73%) NHS
6 7 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.14%) IoT
7 5 (2.96%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.96%) Replication
7 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.96%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.37%) PropTech
8 4 (2.37%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.78%) Blog
9 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.12%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.55%) Windows
4 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.09%) Agile
2 51 (30.18%) Software Engineering
3 40 (23.67%) Microservices
4 32 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (17.75%) CI/CD
5 30 (17.75%) Mentoring
6 27 (15.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (15.38%) Open Source
7 26 (15.38%) TDD
8 25 (14.79%) Coaching
8 25 (14.79%) DevOps
9 23 (13.61%) Computer Science
10 22 (13.02%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.65%) Test Automation
12 17 (10.06%) OOP
13 16 (9.47%) MVC
13 16 (9.47%) OO
14 14 (8.28%) API Design
14 14 (8.28%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 88 (52.07%) SQL
2 56 (33.14%) JavaScript
3 53 (31.36%) PHP
4 40 (23.67%) Java
5 31 (18.34%) Python
6 26 (15.38%) C#
7 16 (9.47%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.88%) C++
8 15 (8.88%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.92%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.14%) Bash
11 4 (2.37%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.78%) C
12 3 (1.78%) Go
12 3 (1.78%) Perl
13 2 (1.18%) Korn
13 2 (1.18%) Scala
14 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (18.34%) Degree
2 18 (10.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.96%) HNC
4 5 (2.96%) HND
4 5 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (9.47%) Data Quality
3 12 (7.10%) QA
4 5 (2.96%) SLA
5 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.37%) HL7
5 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.37%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
2 15 (8.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.96%) vSphere
5 3 (1.78%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.78%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (12.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.55%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) Ansible
3 4 (2.37%) Argo
4 3 (1.78%) Grafana
4 3 (1.78%) Plesk
4 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Graylog
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.73%) Oracle
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco
3 6 (3.55%) VMware
4 5 (2.96%) Meraki
4 5 (2.96%) Synology
4 5 (2.96%) Veeam
5 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.78%) BT
6 3 (1.78%) Mitel
6 3 (1.78%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.78%) SAP
7 2 (1.18%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) Dell
7 2 (1.18%) Google
7 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.59%) Palantir
8 1 (0.59%) Splunk
59 hybrid/remote MySQL jobs