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

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 141 121
Rank change year-on-year -73 -20 +13
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 174 311 806
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.42% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.70% 9.06% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 148 273 681
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,989 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 2,260 3,432 7,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.41% 26.71% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 2,426 6,143
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 2 April 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 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.17%) CMS
3 6 (3.45%) nginx
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.30%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.30%) Confluence
6 2 (1.15%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.15%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) Apache
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.30%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.13%) AWS
2 68 (39.08%) Azure
3 29 (16.67%) SaaS
4 18 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.20%) GitHub
5 16 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (8.05%) GCP
7 11 (6.32%) Serverless
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.30%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.72%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Firewall
1 3 (1.72%) HTTP
1 3 (1.72%) RTP
1 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
1 3 (1.72%) VoIP
1 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.57%) LAN
2 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.57%) SAN
2 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.01%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (25.29%) SQL Server
3 28 (16.09%) NoSQL
4 26 (14.94%) MongoDB
5 20 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.20%) Power BI
7 13 (7.47%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (4.60%) DynamoDB
11 8 (4.60%) MariaDB
12 6 (3.45%) Tableau
13 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (22.41%) Git
2 10 (5.75%) JIRA
3 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.30%) git-flow
4 4 (2.30%) Vite
5 3 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.72%) JMeter
5 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.15%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) JUnit
7 1 (0.57%) Mocha
7 1 (0.57%) Mockito
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 45 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.64%) Finance
4 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.02%) Law
6 6 (3.45%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.30%) Retail
7 4 (2.30%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.72%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.15%) Advertising
9 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (54.02%) Developer
2 38 (21.84%) PHP Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Software Developer
4 22 (12.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (12.64%) Senior
5 19 (10.92%) C# Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate Software Developer
7 17 (9.77%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Azure Developer
8 16 (9.20%) C# Software Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate C# Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 16 (9.20%) SQL Developer
9 13 (7.47%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 13 (7.47%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.32%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (35.06%) CSS
2 43 (24.71%) HTML
3 40 (22.99%) Laravel
4 28 (16.09%) React
5 26 (14.94%) jQuery
5 26 (14.94%) RESTful
6 23 (13.22%) Node.js
7 17 (9.77%) .NET
7 17 (9.77%) Vue
8 13 (7.47%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.47%) JSON
8 13 (7.47%) REST
9 12 (6.90%) Symfony
10 11 (6.32%) Kafka
11 10 (5.75%) HTML5
12 9 (5.17%) CSS3
12 9 (5.17%) XML
13 7 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.45%) Django
14 6 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Cloud Native
1 19 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.02%) IoT
5 6 (3.45%) NHS
6 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.72%) PropTech
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
8 3 (1.72%) Smart Home
8 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.69%) Linux
2 13 (7.47%) Windows
3 8 (4.60%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.30%) CentOS
6 3 (1.72%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.72%) Rocky
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Unix
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (41.38%) Agile
2 41 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (20.11%) CI/CD
5 34 (19.54%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (17.82%) Microservices
7 30 (17.24%) Software Engineering
8 29 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 28 (16.09%) Computer Science
9 28 (16.09%) OO
10 27 (15.52%) MVC
11 26 (14.94%) Data Modelling
11 26 (14.94%) DevOps
11 26 (14.94%) OOP
12 24 (13.79%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.77%) Open Source
13 17 (9.77%) TDD
14 16 (9.20%) Visualisation
15 15 (8.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 93 (53.45%) SQL
2 70 (40.23%) PHP
3 50 (28.74%) JavaScript
4 38 (21.84%) Java
5 33 (18.97%) C#
6 29 (16.67%) Python
7 25 (14.37%) TypeScript
8 21 (12.07%) C++
9 16 (9.20%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.75%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.60%) Bash
12 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.72%) C
13 3 (1.72%) Go
13 3 (1.72%) Scala
13 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.57%) Korn
14 1 (0.57%) Perl
14 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (19.54%) Degree
2 24 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.15%) HNC
9 2 (1.15%) HND
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.17%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.30%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.72%) HL7
7 2 (1.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (16.09%) Docker
2 14 (8.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.72%) vSphere
4 2 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.05%) Ansible
3 11 (6.32%) Terraform
4 4 (2.30%) Argo
5 3 (1.72%) Grafana
5 3 (1.72%) Nagios
5 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Graylog
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.75%) SAP
3 9 (5.17%) Oracle
4 4 (2.30%) Apple
4 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.30%) VMware
5 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.72%) BT
5 3 (1.72%) Cisco
5 3 (1.72%) Databricks
5 3 (1.72%) Mitel
5 3 (1.72%) Splunk
5 3 (1.72%) Zend
6 2 (1.15%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Meraki
6 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.15%) Synology
6 2 (1.15%) Veeam
7 1 (0.57%) Foundry
84 hybrid/remote MySQL jobs