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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 208 161
Rank change year-on-year -88 -47 -40
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 171 229 450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 1.39% 2.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.43% 8.82% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 138 184 285
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,375 £88,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 3,148 2,595 4,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.63% 15.70% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,396 1,775 2,933
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,163 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.20%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £132,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 12 October 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 5 (2.92%) WordPress
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) Moodle
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Elementor
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (54.97%) AWS
2 61 (35.67%) Azure
3 26 (15.20%) GitHub
4 13 (7.60%) GitHub Copilot
4 13 (7.60%) SaaS
5 11 (6.43%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.85%) GCP
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.09%) Serverless
8 5 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.92%) Stripe
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.60%) Broadband
2 2 (1.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.17%) Firewall
2 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (45.03%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (31.58%) MongoDB
3 40 (23.39%) Relational Database
4 34 (19.88%) SQL Server
5 25 (14.62%) NoSQL
6 11 (6.43%) MariaDB
6 11 (6.43%) Power BI
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.09%) Metadata
8 6 (3.51%) Tableau
9 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.34%) Ataccama
10 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.34%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (2.34%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (2.34%) Redis
10 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.34%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 37 (21.64%) Git
2 15 (8.77%) GitLab
3 12 (7.02%) Claude Code
4 9 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) ESLint
7 1 (0.58%) Mocha
7 1 (0.58%) Postman
7 1 (0.58%) Storybook
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 45 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.98%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.70%) Finance
5 17 (9.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.02%) Law
7 7 (4.09%) Health Technology
8 6 (3.51%) Marketing
9 5 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.92%) Legal
10 4 (2.34%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.75%) Local Government
12 2 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.17%) Billing
12 2 (1.17%) Games
12 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.17%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.58%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.58%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 62 (36.26%) Developer
2 47 (27.49%) Senior
2 47 (27.49%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) Lead
4 20 (11.70%) PHP Developer
5 19 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
7 14 (8.19%) C# Developer
8 13 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (7.02%) Architect
10 11 (6.43%) Senior C# Developer
11 10 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.68%) Analyst
12 8 (4.68%) DBA
12 8 (4.68%) Software Developer
13 7 (4.09%) Administrator
13 7 (4.09%) Consultant
13 7 (4.09%) Graduate
13 7 (4.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (28.65%) CSS
2 41 (23.98%) RESTful
3 38 (22.22%) HTML
3 38 (22.22%) React
4 33 (19.30%) .NET
5 27 (15.79%) Node.js
6 21 (12.28%) Laravel
7 18 (10.53%) REST
7 18 (10.53%) Vue
8 16 (9.36%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.77%) .NET Core
10 14 (8.19%) .NET Framework
10 14 (8.19%) jQuery
11 13 (7.60%) Entity Framework
12 11 (6.43%) ASP.NET
13 10 (5.85%) Spring
14 9 (5.26%) CSS3
14 9 (5.26%) Terraform
15 8 (4.68%) Ruby on Rails
15 8 (4.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.68%) Virtual Team
5 7 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.92%) NHS
6 5 (2.92%) Replication
6 5 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.75%) Blog
8 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.17%) IoT
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.17%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
2 6 (3.51%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.78%) Agile
2 78 (45.61%) Software Engineering
3 61 (35.67%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 47 (27.49%) Microservices
6 40 (23.39%) DevOps
7 39 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 29 (16.96%) AI
10 28 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (14.62%) Code Quality
11 25 (14.62%) OOP
12 24 (14.04%) Clean Code
12 24 (14.04%) Scrum
13 23 (13.45%) Web Development
14 22 (12.87%) Coaching
14 22 (12.87%) SDLC
14 22 (12.87%) TDD
15 18 (10.53%) Event-Driven
15 18 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (43.86%) JavaScript
2 73 (42.69%) SQL
3 45 (26.32%) C#
4 40 (23.39%) Java
5 37 (21.64%) PHP
6 33 (19.30%) Python
7 31 (18.13%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.68%) Go
8 8 (4.68%) Ruby
9 7 (4.09%) C++
10 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.51%) Rust
11 4 (2.34%) Bash
12 3 (1.75%) Perl
13 1 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Degree
2 15 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.58%) HNC
7 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.70%) QA
2 14 (8.19%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.34%) HL7
6 2 (1.17%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (1.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (22.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.51%) Grafana
3 3 (1.75%) Ansible
3 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.17%) Plesk
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.94%) Oracle
3 10 (5.85%) Google
3 10 (5.85%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.34%) Databricks
4 4 (2.34%) IBM
4 4 (2.34%) Informatica
4 4 (2.34%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.17%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.17%) Sony
5 2 (1.17%) Splunk
5 2 (1.17%) UiPath
6 1 (0.58%) Meraki
6 1 (0.58%) New Relic
6 1 (0.58%) Sage
6 1 (0.58%) Synology
6 1 (0.58%) Veeam
6 1 (0.58%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce