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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 133 112
Rank change year-on-year -73 -21 +13
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 171 429 632
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 2.62% 2.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.22% 10.40% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 143 284 558
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 2,080 4,125 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.84% 25.20% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 2,458 4,426
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,093
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 13 January 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 7 (4.09%) Apache Solr
1 7 (4.09%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) nginx
2 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.34%) CMS
3 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.35%) AWS
2 68 (39.77%) Azure
3 23 (13.45%) SaaS
4 17 (9.94%) GCP
5 14 (8.19%) GitHub
6 12 (7.02%) Serverless
7 8 (4.68%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.68%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.75%) Firebase
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (32.16%) SQL Server
2 32 (18.71%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 17 (9.94%) MongoDB
5 13 (7.60%) BusinessObjects
5 13 (7.60%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.68%) DynamoDB
9 8 (4.68%) MariaDB
10 6 (3.51%) Power BI
10 6 (3.51%) Tableau
11 5 (2.92%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.75%) Redis
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 39 (22.81%) Git
2 15 (8.77%) JIRA
3 7 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.92%) git-flow
5 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.75%) Vite
7 2 (1.17%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.17%) GitLab
7 2 (1.17%) JMeter
7 2 (1.17%) JUnit
7 2 (1.17%) Mocha
7 2 (1.17%) Mockito
7 2 (1.17%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.17%) webpack
8 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.60%) Law
5 7 (4.09%) Automotive
5 7 (4.09%) Marketing
6 6 (3.51%) Front Office
7 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.34%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.75%) Billing
10 2 (1.17%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.17%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 103 (60.23%) Developer
2 33 (19.30%) PHP Developer
3 26 (15.20%) Graduate
3 26 (15.20%) Graduate Developer
4 24 (14.04%) Senior
4 24 (14.04%) Software Developer
5 21 (12.28%) C# Developer
6 16 (9.36%) IT Graduate
6 16 (9.36%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (8.19%) Support Engineer
9 13 (7.60%) Azure Developer
9 13 (7.60%) Graduate C# Developer
9 13 (7.60%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 13 (7.60%) Graduate Software Developer
9 13 (7.60%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 13 (7.60%) SQL Developer
10 11 (6.43%) Analyst
11 10 (5.85%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (5.26%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.01%) CSS
2 41 (23.98%) .NET
3 38 (22.22%) HTML
4 32 (18.71%) jQuery
4 32 (18.71%) React
5 28 (16.37%) Laravel
6 23 (13.45%) ASP.NET
6 23 (13.45%) Node.js
7 19 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 17 (9.94%) REST
9 15 (8.77%) Symfony
10 13 (7.60%) Vue
11 11 (6.43%) RESTful
12 10 (5.85%) CodeIgniter
13 9 (5.26%) CakePHP
13 9 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.68%) Kafka
15 6 (3.51%) .NET Core
15 6 (3.51%) AWS CDK
15 6 (3.51%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.70%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.09%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.92%) IoT
6 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.75%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.17%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.17%) Smart Home
8 2 (1.17%) Social Media
9 1 (0.58%) Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.58%) Replication
9 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.13%) Linux
2 16 (9.36%) Windows
3 9 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.34%) Unix
5 3 (1.75%) Android
5 3 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.75%) Rocky
5 3 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.17%) Solaris
6 2 (1.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.88%) Agile
2 70 (40.94%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (25.15%) CI/CD
4 42 (24.56%) OO
5 40 (23.39%) MVC
6 36 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (19.30%) OOP
9 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
9 30 (17.54%) DevOps
10 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
11 25 (14.62%) Microservices
11 25 (14.62%) Test Automation
12 23 (13.45%) Mentoring
13 20 (11.70%) User Experience
14 19 (11.11%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.94%) Containerisation
16 16 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (9.36%) ETL
16 16 (9.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.78%) PHP
2 78 (45.61%) SQL
3 60 (35.09%) JavaScript
4 55 (32.16%) C#
5 34 (19.88%) Java
5 34 (19.88%) TypeScript
6 27 (15.79%) Python
7 26 (15.20%) C++
8 7 (4.09%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.92%) Bash
9 5 (2.92%) Go
9 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.75%) Scala
10 3 (1.75%) Swift
10 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.17%) R
11 2 (1.17%) VB
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (22.22%) Degree
2 30 (17.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.58%) MCSE
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) SLA
3 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.75%) HL7
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (20.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.17%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.36%) Terraform
3 15 (8.77%) Ansible
4 3 (1.75%) Grafana
4 3 (1.75%) Nagios
4 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.85%) SAP
3 6 (3.51%) Oracle
4 3 (1.75%) Apple
4 3 (1.75%) Databricks
4 3 (1.75%) Google
4 3 (1.75%) Zend
5 2 (1.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.17%) Splunk
5 2 (1.17%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) IONA
6 1 (0.58%) RedGate
6 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) Talend