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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 130 108
Rank change year-on-year -58 -22 +26
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 194 444 592
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 2.49% 2.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.81% 10.16% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 164 296 513
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,188 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,700 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £59,063 £69,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Database and 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 2,201 4,370 4,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 24.51% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 2,713 3,944
10th Percentile £35,854 £39,800 £39,654
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +15.51% -2.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £93,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 December 2025.

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 (5.15%) Apache Solr
2 8 (4.12%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) CMS
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.55%) nginx
6 2 (1.03%) WordPress
7 1 (0.52%) Apache
7 1 (0.52%) IIS
7 1 (0.52%) JBoss
7 1 (0.52%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.30%) Azure
2 69 (35.57%) AWS
3 23 (11.86%) SaaS
4 17 (8.76%) GCP
5 16 (8.25%) GitHub
6 13 (6.70%) Serverless
7 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.12%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.09%) npm
11 5 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.55%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.55%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.54%) SQL Server
2 35 (18.04%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (10.82%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 16 (8.25%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.73%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (6.19%) BusinessObjects
7 12 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.12%) DynamoDB
9 8 (4.12%) MariaDB
10 6 (3.09%) Power BI
10 6 (3.09%) Tableau
11 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.06%) Redis
13 3 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (23.71%) Git
2 20 (10.31%) JIRA
3 7 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.58%) git-flow
5 4 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.55%) Mocha
6 3 (1.55%) webpack
7 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.03%) GitLab
7 2 (1.03%) JMeter
7 2 (1.03%) JUnit
7 2 (1.03%) Mockito
7 2 (1.03%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.98%) Finance
3 19 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.76%) Law
5 8 (4.12%) Front Office
6 7 (3.61%) Automotive
6 7 (3.61%) Marketing
7 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.06%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.55%) Billing
9 3 (1.55%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.03%) Advertising
10 2 (1.03%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 119 (61.34%) Developer
2 34 (17.53%) PHP Developer
3 33 (17.01%) Graduate
3 33 (17.01%) Graduate Developer
4 25 (12.89%) Software Developer
5 24 (12.37%) Senior
6 23 (11.86%) IT Graduate
7 21 (10.82%) C# Developer
8 17 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (8.76%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.22%) Analyst
9 14 (7.22%) Support Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) Azure Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Graduate C# Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Graduate Software Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 13 (6.70%) SQL Developer
11 10 (5.15%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.64%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (39.18%) CSS
2 48 (24.74%) .NET
3 42 (21.65%) HTML
4 39 (20.10%) jQuery
5 36 (18.56%) React
6 30 (15.46%) ASP.NET
6 30 (15.46%) Laravel
7 25 (12.89%) Node.js
8 19 (9.79%) AngularJS
8 19 (9.79%) Symfony
9 18 (9.28%) REST
10 14 (7.22%) CodeIgniter
11 13 (6.70%) CakePHP
12 12 (6.19%) RESTful
13 11 (5.67%) Vue
14 9 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.12%) Kafka
16 7 (3.61%) CSS3
16 7 (3.61%) HTML5
17 6 (3.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.19%) Virtual Team
3 11 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.58%) IoT
5 5 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.55%) Social Media
7 3 (1.55%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.03%) Clustering
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.03%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.53%) Linux
2 19 (9.79%) Windows
3 12 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.58%) Unix
5 3 (1.55%) Android
5 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.55%) CentOS
5 3 (1.55%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.55%) Rocky
5 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.03%) Solaris
6 2 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.58%) Agile
2 79 (40.72%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (27.32%) OO
4 51 (26.29%) MVC
5 46 (23.71%) CI/CD
6 41 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (20.62%) OOP
8 39 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (19.07%) Computer Science
10 33 (17.01%) DevOps
11 27 (13.92%) Software Engineering
12 26 (13.40%) Microservices
12 26 (13.40%) Test Automation
13 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.82%) AI
15 20 (10.31%) Containerisation
15 20 (10.31%) User Experience
16 18 (9.28%) Data Modelling
17 16 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (8.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 93 (47.94%) PHP
2 88 (45.36%) SQL
3 71 (36.60%) JavaScript
4 64 (32.99%) C#
5 41 (21.13%) Java
6 40 (20.62%) TypeScript
7 33 (17.01%) C++
7 33 (17.01%) Python
8 8 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.06%) Go
10 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.55%) Bash
11 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.55%) R
11 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) Swift
12 2 (1.03%) Perl
12 2 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (23.20%) Degree
2 37 (19.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.22%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.52%) MCSE
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.76%) QA
2 7 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.09%) SLA
4 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) HL7
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (18.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.25%) Terraform
3 15 (7.73%) Ansible
4 4 (2.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Nagios
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.64%) SAP
3 8 (4.12%) Oracle
4 3 (1.55%) Apple
4 3 (1.55%) Databricks
4 3 (1.55%) Google
4 3 (1.55%) Zend
5 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.03%) Informatica
5 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.03%) RedGate
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
5 2 (1.03%) Talend
5 2 (1.03%) VMware
6 1 (0.52%) IONA
6 1 (0.52%) Sage
6 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) WooCommerce