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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 190 142
Rank change year-on-year -55 -48 -17
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 192 288 735
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.83% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.71% 8.87% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 167 235 621
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -6.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +0.95% -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 2,861 3,248 7,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 20.63% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 2,181 6,071
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £43,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 June 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 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.13%) CMS
2 6 (3.13%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.60%) nginx
4 4 (2.08%) WordPress
5 2 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Moodle
6 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.04%) Elementor
2 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.00%) AWS
2 77 (40.10%) Azure
3 26 (13.54%) SaaS
4 22 (11.46%) GitHub
5 21 (10.94%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.73%) Serverless
8 9 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.17%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.60%) GCP
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.08%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (2.08%) PaaS
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.77%) Broadband
2 8 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (1.56%) HTTP
3 3 (1.56%) RTP
3 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.56%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.56%) VoIP
3 3 (1.56%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.04%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.04%) SAN
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (42.19%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (29.17%) MongoDB
3 43 (22.40%) SQL Server
4 36 (18.75%) NoSQL
5 24 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 19 (9.90%) Power BI
7 14 (7.29%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (3.13%) Metadata
10 6 (3.13%) Tableau
11 5 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.08%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (18.23%) Git
2 11 (5.73%) GitLab
3 9 (4.69%) Claude Code
3 9 (4.69%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.04%) Vite
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) JMeter
5 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 31 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.46%) Finance
5 14 (7.29%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.60%) Legal
7 5 (2.60%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.08%) Retail
8 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.56%) Local Government
9 3 (1.56%) Marketing
9 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.56%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.04%) Advertising
10 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 67 (34.90%) Developer
2 48 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 31 (16.15%) PHP Developer
4 29 (15.10%) Senior
5 23 (11.98%) Lead
6 20 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (8.85%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (8.33%) Graduate
9 15 (7.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 14 (7.29%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.77%) Analyst
12 12 (6.25%) Azure Developer
12 12 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate C# Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (6.25%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 12 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.17%) CSS
2 49 (25.52%) RESTful
3 37 (19.27%) HTML
4 31 (16.15%) jQuery
5 30 (15.63%) Laravel
6 28 (14.58%) Node.js
7 26 (13.54%) React
8 22 (11.46%) .NET
9 20 (10.42%) Vue
10 17 (8.85%) REST
11 16 (8.33%) JSON
12 14 (7.29%) XML
13 12 (6.25%) CSS3
13 12 (6.25%) HTML5
14 10 (5.21%) AngularJS
14 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET
14 10 (5.21%) Spring
15 7 (3.65%) Spring Boot
16 6 (3.13%) Kafka
16 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.25%) NHS
3 11 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.21%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.17%) Replication
5 8 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.60%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.08%) IoT
8 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.08%) PropTech
9 3 (1.56%) Blog
9 3 (1.56%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.56%) Smart Home
9 3 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.88%) Linux
2 10 (5.21%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.13%) Windows
4 5 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.06%) Agile
2 69 (35.94%) Software Engineering
3 49 (25.52%) Microservices
4 45 (23.44%) CI/CD
5 39 (20.31%) Mentoring
6 38 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (16.67%) DevOps
10 31 (16.15%) Computer Science
11 30 (15.63%) TDD
12 29 (15.10%) Coaching
12 29 (15.10%) Open Source
13 22 (11.46%) AI
13 22 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (10.94%) Data Modelling
15 20 (10.42%) API Design
16 19 (9.90%) OOP
17 18 (9.38%) MVC
17 18 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.04%) SQL
2 66 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 54 (28.13%) PHP
4 50 (26.04%) Java
5 37 (19.27%) C#
6 33 (17.19%) Python
7 19 (9.90%) C++
7 19 (9.90%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.81%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.21%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.17%) Bash
11 5 (2.60%) Ruby
12 4 (2.08%) Go
12 4 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.56%) C
13 3 (1.56%) Perl
14 2 (1.04%) Korn
15 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (21.35%) Degree
2 22 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.60%) HNC
4 5 (2.60%) HND
4 5 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.81%) QA
4 7 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.13%) HL7
6 5 (2.60%) SLA
7 4 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.08%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (1.56%) GDPR
9 2 (1.04%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 34 (17.71%) Docker
2 15 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.60%) vSphere
5 3 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.56%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.65%) Terraform
3 5 (2.60%) Ansible
4 4 (2.08%) Argo
4 4 (2.08%) Grafana
4 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.56%) Plesk
6 1 (0.52%) Graylog
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.73%) Oracle
3 6 (3.13%) Cisco
3 6 (3.13%) VMware
4 5 (2.60%) Meraki
4 5 (2.60%) Synology
4 5 (2.60%) Veeam
5 4 (2.08%) Databricks
5 4 (2.08%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.56%) BT
6 3 (1.56%) Mitel
6 3 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.04%) Dell
7 2 (1.04%) Google
7 2 (1.04%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) Splunk
8 1 (0.52%) Palantir
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow