MySQL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 134 136
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 -64
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 286 799 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 2.36% 2.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.76% 10.33% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 242 694 898
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,438 £71,991 £76,133
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £91,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

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 3,263 7,737 10,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.82% 22.86% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 6,233 7,238
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,199 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MySQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL.

MySQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MySQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

MySQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.59%) Apache Solr
2 15 (5.24%) CMS
2 15 (5.24%) nginx
3 14 (4.90%) Confluence
4 6 (2.10%) WordPress
5 4 (1.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.35%) SPSS
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.70%) Odoo
1 2 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (42.31%) AWS
2 80 (27.97%) Azure
3 36 (12.59%) GCP
4 25 (8.74%) GitHub
5 21 (7.34%) Serverless
6 16 (5.59%) SaaS
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.15%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.15%) npm
12 8 (2.80%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.45%) Slack
13 7 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.10%) ChatGPT
15 4 (1.40%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.29%) DNS
2 14 (4.90%) HTTPS
3 12 (4.20%) IPsec
3 12 (4.20%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.10%) Firewall
5 4 (1.40%) Internet
6 3 (1.05%) SSH
6 3 (1.05%) VPN
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) HTTP
7 2 (0.70%) Multicast
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (26.57%) SQL Server
2 56 (19.58%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 28 (9.79%) MongoDB
5 23 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.59%) Couchbase
7 10 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.80%) MariaDB
9 7 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.45%) Power BI
10 6 (2.10%) Big Data
10 6 (2.10%) Redis
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.40%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.05%) Pentaho
13 3 (1.05%) Tableau
14 2 (0.70%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 95 (33.22%) Git
2 16 (5.59%) JIRA
3 14 (4.90%) webpack
4 11 (3.85%) GitLab
5 10 (3.50%) Grunt
6 9 (3.15%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.45%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.45%) Maven
8 6 (2.10%) Gradle
9 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.05%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.05%) Subversion
10 3 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.70%) Babel
11 2 (0.70%) git-flow
11 2 (0.70%) Mocha
11 2 (0.70%) Vite
12 1 (0.35%) Gatling
12 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.35%) TestRail
General
1 88 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.73%) Finance
3 19 (6.64%) Games
4 17 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.20%) Retail
8 11 (3.85%) Law
9 8 (2.80%) Electronics
9 8 (2.80%) Marketing
10 7 (2.45%) Social Housing
10 7 (2.45%) Tech for Good
11 6 (2.10%) Banking
12 4 (1.40%) Local Government
12 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.70%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.70%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.70%) iGaming
13 2 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 165 (57.69%) Developer
2 69 (24.13%) Senior
3 53 (18.53%) PHP Developer
4 40 (13.99%) Senior Developer
5 36 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 32 (11.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (10.49%) Graduate
7 30 (10.49%) Graduate Developer
7 30 (10.49%) IT Graduate
8 23 (8.04%) C# Developer
9 17 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.94%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.90%) Senior PHP Developer
11 12 (4.20%) Lead
12 10 (3.50%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.50%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) Agile C# Developer
13 9 (3.15%) Graduate C# Developer
13 9 (3.15%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (30.42%) CSS
2 75 (26.22%) .NET
2 75 (26.22%) React
3 68 (23.78%) HTML
4 50 (17.48%) Laravel
5 49 (17.13%) Vue
6 45 (15.73%) Node.js
7 43 (15.03%) jQuery
7 43 (15.03%) RESTful
8 40 (13.99%) AngularJS
9 36 (12.59%) ASP.NET
10 26 (9.09%) Symfony
11 23 (8.04%) LAMP
11 23 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (8.04%) Web Services
12 21 (7.34%) Kafka
13 19 (6.64%) REST
14 17 (5.94%) Spring
15 16 (5.59%) Spring Boot
16 15 (5.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.94%) IoT
4 10 (3.50%) Legacy Code
4 10 (3.50%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.45%) Smart Home
7 6 (2.10%) Mobile Games
7 6 (2.10%) Molecular Biology
7 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.05%) EPoS
11 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.84%) Linux
2 11 (3.85%) CentOS
3 7 (2.45%) Windows
4 6 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.75%) Android
5 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.05%) Debian
7 3 (1.05%) Unix
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.70%) AIX
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (37.06%) Agile
2 97 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (22.73%) DevOps
3 65 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 58 (20.28%) CI/CD
5 56 (19.58%) OO
6 55 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (19.23%) MVC
7 52 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 51 (17.83%) OOP
9 40 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 39 (13.64%) E-Commerce
11 38 (13.29%) Microservices
12 30 (10.49%) Clean Code
13 27 (9.44%) B2B
13 27 (9.44%) Test Automation
14 24 (8.39%) User Experience
15 21 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence
15 21 (7.34%) Mentoring
15 21 (7.34%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 143 (50.00%) PHP
2 108 (37.76%) JavaScript
3 67 (23.43%) Java
4 65 (22.73%) SQL
5 58 (20.28%) C#
6 56 (19.58%) Python
7 47 (16.43%) TypeScript
8 34 (11.89%) C++
9 9 (3.15%) Bash
9 9 (3.15%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.45%) Go
11 6 (2.10%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.75%) Perl
12 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.05%) C
13 3 (1.05%) Delphi
14 2 (0.70%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (19.93%) Degree
2 44 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.34%) QA
2 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) Dublin Core
3 2 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) GMP
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) NCSC
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (20.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.40%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) KVM
4 2 (0.70%) Postfix
4 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (17.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.44%) Terraform
3 20 (6.99%) Ansible
4 9 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.80%) Grafana
6 7 (2.45%) Argo
6 7 (2.45%) Kustomize
7 6 (2.10%) Nagios
8 2 (0.70%) Nessus
8 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.20%) Google
3 11 (3.85%) Oracle
4 8 (2.80%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.45%) New Relic
5 7 (2.45%) Twitter
6 6 (2.10%) Sawtooth Software
6 6 (2.10%) VMware
7 5 (1.75%) SAP
8 3 (1.05%) Borland
8 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.05%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.70%) IBM
9 2 (0.70%) Informatica
9 2 (0.70%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.70%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.70%) Talend
9 2 (0.70%) Zoho