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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 211 160
Rank change year-on-year -86 -51 -46
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 173 234 472
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 1.39% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 8.77% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 142 188 299
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,625 £33,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.49%

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 3,155 2,669 4,831
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.68% 15.84% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 1,836 3,060
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,802 £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% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £138,750
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 4 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 6 (3.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.31%) WordPress
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) Moodle
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 95 (54.91%) AWS
2 64 (36.99%) Azure
3 26 (15.03%) GitHub
4 13 (7.51%) GitHub Copilot
4 13 (7.51%) SaaS
5 10 (5.78%) GCP
5 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.05%) Serverless
7 5 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.89%) Stripe
8 4 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) Broadband
2 5 (2.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (45.09%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (30.06%) MongoDB
3 39 (22.54%) Relational Database
4 37 (21.39%) SQL Server
5 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.51%) MariaDB
7 10 (5.78%) Power BI
8 7 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.47%) Metadata
9 6 (3.47%) Tableau
10 5 (2.89%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.31%) Ataccama
11 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.31%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.31%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (2.31%) Redis
11 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.31%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.73%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (19.08%) Git
2 15 (8.67%) GitLab
3 12 (6.94%) Claude Code
4 9 (5.20%) JIRA
5 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.16%) 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 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.70%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.72%) Finance
5 17 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.94%) Law
7 8 (4.62%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Marketing
9 4 (2.31%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.73%) Local Government
11 2 (1.16%) Billing
11 2 (1.16%) Games
11 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.16%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 63 (36.42%) Developer
2 49 (28.32%) Senior
3 48 (27.75%) Software Engineer
4 28 (16.18%) Lead
5 21 (12.14%) PHP Developer
6 19 (10.98%) Senior Developer
7 18 (10.40%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) C# Developer
9 14 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Architect
10 11 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (6.36%) Senior C# Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Graduate
13 8 (4.62%) C# Software Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Consultant
14 7 (4.05%) Analyst
14 7 (4.05%) DBA
14 7 (4.05%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 6 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (28.90%) CSS
2 39 (22.54%) RESTful
3 38 (21.97%) React
4 37 (21.39%) HTML
5 33 (19.08%) .NET
6 27 (15.61%) Node.js
7 22 (12.72%) Laravel
8 19 (10.98%) Vue
9 18 (10.40%) REST
10 17 (9.83%) AngularJS
10 17 (9.83%) jQuery
11 15 (8.67%) .NET Core
12 14 (8.09%) .NET Framework
13 13 (7.51%) Entity Framework
14 11 (6.36%) ASP.NET
15 10 (5.78%) Spring
16 9 (5.20%) Terraform
17 8 (4.62%) CSS3
17 8 (4.62%) Ruby on Rails
17 8 (4.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.67%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.47%) NHS
6 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.89%) Replication
7 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.73%) Blog
8 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.73%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.16%) IoT
9 2 (1.16%) Robotics
9 2 (1.16%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.92%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.89%) Windows
4 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.66%) Software Engineering
2 78 (45.09%) Agile
3 60 (34.68%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (31.79%) CI/CD
5 47 (27.17%) Microservices
6 39 (22.54%) DevOps
7 38 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (20.81%) Mentoring
9 29 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (15.61%) AI
11 26 (15.03%) OOP
12 25 (14.45%) Code Quality
13 24 (13.87%) Clean Code
13 24 (13.87%) Scrum
14 23 (13.29%) Web Development
15 22 (12.72%) Coaching
15 22 (12.72%) TDD
16 20 (11.56%) SDLC
17 18 (10.40%) Event-Driven
17 18 (10.40%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 75 (43.35%) SQL
2 72 (41.62%) JavaScript
3 46 (26.59%) C#
4 41 (23.70%) Java
5 37 (21.39%) PHP
6 32 (18.50%) Python
7 30 (17.34%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.20%) C++
9 8 (4.62%) Ruby
10 7 (4.05%) Go
10 7 (4.05%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.89%) Bash
11 5 (2.89%) Rust
12 3 (1.73%) Perl
13 1 (0.58%) Korn
13 1 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (19.08%) Degree
2 15 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.47%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.73%) HNC
6 3 (1.73%) HND
7 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) QA
2 14 (8.09%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.89%) HL7
4 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (22.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.73%) vSphere
4 1 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 23 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.47%) Grafana
3 3 (1.73%) Ansible
3 3 (1.73%) Plesk
3 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.67%) Oracle
3 10 (5.78%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.62%) Google
5 4 (2.31%) Databricks
5 4 (2.31%) IBM
5 4 (2.31%) Informatica
5 4 (2.31%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco
6 3 (1.73%) Meraki
6 3 (1.73%) Synology
6 3 (1.73%) Veeam
6 3 (1.73%) VMware
7 2 (1.16%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.16%) Sony
7 2 (1.16%) Splunk
7 2 (1.16%) UiPath
8 1 (0.58%) HP
8 1 (0.58%) New Relic