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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 143 115
Rank change year-on-year -86 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 168 351 774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 2.42% 2.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.82% 9.03% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 143 255 671
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,813 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%

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 2,147 3,885 6,840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.82% 26.75% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,386 5,865
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,052 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 March 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 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.36%) CMS
3 6 (3.57%) nginx
4 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.38%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (1.19%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.19%) WordPress
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.81%) AWS
2 72 (42.86%) Azure
3 29 (17.26%) SaaS
4 18 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 17 (10.12%) GitHub
6 16 (9.52%) GCP
6 16 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.76%) Serverless
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.38%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) HTTP
2 3 (1.79%) RTP
2 3 (1.79%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.79%) VoIP
2 3 (1.79%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) DHCP
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) IPv6
3 1 (0.60%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.98%) SQL Server
2 38 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (17.86%) MongoDB
4 26 (15.48%) NoSQL
5 24 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.52%) Power BI
7 13 (7.74%) BusinessObjects
8 12 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (4.76%) DynamoDB
10 8 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.76%) MariaDB
11 6 (3.57%) Tableau
12 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.19%) Big Data
14 2 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (25.60%) Git
2 10 (5.95%) JIRA
3 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.98%) git-flow
5 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.38%) Vite
6 3 (1.79%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.79%) JMeter
6 3 (1.79%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.19%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Mocha
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
8 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 54 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Finance
4 15 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.95%) Law
6 7 (4.17%) Automotive
7 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.38%) Marketing
7 4 (2.38%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.79%) Billing
8 3 (1.79%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (53.57%) Developer
2 32 (19.05%) PHP Developer
3 26 (15.48%) Senior
4 25 (14.88%) Software Developer
5 22 (13.10%) C# Developer
6 19 (11.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (11.31%) Graduate
6 19 (11.31%) Graduate Developer
6 19 (11.31%) Graduate Software Developer
7 17 (10.12%) C# Software Developer
7 17 (10.12%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Azure Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Graduate C# Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 16 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.52%) SQL Developer
9 14 (8.33%) Support Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.93%) CSS
2 37 (22.02%) HTML
3 31 (18.45%) Laravel
4 28 (16.67%) React
5 26 (15.48%) .NET
6 24 (14.29%) RESTful
7 23 (13.69%) jQuery
8 19 (11.31%) Node.js
9 16 (9.52%) Vue
10 15 (8.93%) AngularJS
11 14 (8.33%) REST
12 13 (7.74%) Symfony
13 12 (7.14%) JSON
14 9 (5.36%) Kafka
14 9 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.76%) XML
16 7 (4.17%) CodeIgniter
17 6 (3.57%) CakePHP
17 6 (3.57%) Django
17 6 (3.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.57%) IoT
6 5 (2.98%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.79%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.79%) Replication
7 3 (1.79%) Smart Home
7 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.24%) Linux
2 12 (7.14%) Windows
3 6 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.79%) CentOS
5 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.79%) Rocky
6 2 (1.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.43%) Agile
2 49 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (24.40%) CI/CD
4 35 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 34 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (18.45%) Mentoring
6 31 (18.45%) Microservices
7 30 (17.86%) MVC
8 29 (17.26%) Data Modelling
8 29 (17.26%) OOP
8 29 (17.26%) Test Automation
9 28 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 27 (16.07%) DevOps
11 26 (15.48%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (15.48%) OO
12 24 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (13.10%) User Experience
14 17 (10.12%) TDD
15 16 (9.52%) Clean Code
15 16 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (53.57%) SQL
2 73 (43.45%) PHP
3 50 (29.76%) JavaScript
4 41 (24.40%) C#
5 37 (22.02%) Java
6 27 (16.07%) Python
7 26 (15.48%) TypeScript
8 22 (13.10%) C++
9 17 (10.12%) PowerShell
10 11 (6.55%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.76%) Bash
12 4 (2.38%) Go
13 3 (1.79%) C
13 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.79%) Scala
13 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.79%) Swift
14 1 (0.60%) Korn
14 1 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (22.62%) Degree
2 24 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) MCSE
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) QA
2 12 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.55%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.55%) SLA
4 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.79%) HL7
4 3 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (18.45%) Docker
2 12 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 15 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.33%) Ansible
3 10 (5.95%) Terraform
4 4 (2.38%) Argo
5 3 (1.79%) Nagios
6 2 (1.19%) Grafana
6 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.95%) SAP
3 8 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (2.38%) Apple
5 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.79%) BT
5 3 (1.79%) Databricks
5 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.79%) Mitel
5 3 (1.79%) Splunk
5 3 (1.79%) Zend
6 2 (1.19%) Google
6 2 (1.19%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) Dell
7 1 (0.60%) Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce