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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 157 127
Rank change year-on-year -91 -30 +7
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 156 287 794
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 2.13% 2.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 8.81% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 138 243 690
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £65,938 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £76,625 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 2,290 3,257 7,205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.63% 24.18% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 2,395 6,195
10th Percentile £36,325 £37,500 £37,042
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 29 April 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.13%) CMS
3 7 (4.49%) Confluence
3 7 (4.49%) nginx
4 5 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.28%) Apache
6 2 (1.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.64%) JBoss
7 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (46.79%) AWS
2 58 (37.18%) Azure
3 21 (13.46%) SaaS
4 19 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 14 (8.97%) GitHub
7 8 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.13%) GCP
8 7 (4.49%) Serverless
9 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.56%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) Firewall
2 3 (1.92%) HTTP
2 3 (1.92%) RTP
2 3 (1.92%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.92%) VoIP
2 3 (1.92%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.28%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.64%) LAN
4 1 (0.64%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.49%) PostgreSQL
1 46 (29.49%) SQL Server
2 23 (14.74%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.10%) MongoDB
4 14 (8.97%) Power BI
4 14 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (5.77%) MariaDB
7 7 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.21%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.92%) Tableau
12 2 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (18.59%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.21%) JIRA
3 4 (2.56%) Vite
4 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.28%) JMeter
5 2 (1.28%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.64%) git-flow
6 1 (0.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.10%) Finance
3 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.13%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.56%) Retail
6 4 (2.56%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.92%) Law
7 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.92%) Social Housing
8 2 (1.28%) Advertising
8 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Automotive
9 1 (0.64%) Front Office
9 1 (0.64%) Games
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (46.15%) Developer
2 40 (25.64%) PHP Developer
3 22 (14.10%) Software Developer
4 19 (12.18%) C# Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Azure Developer
5 18 (11.54%) C# Software Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate C# Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate Software Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Senior
5 18 (11.54%) SQL Developer
6 17 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (10.90%) Software Engineer
7 15 (9.62%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 12 (7.69%) Support Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (34.62%) CSS
2 37 (23.72%) Laravel
3 36 (23.08%) HTML
4 28 (17.95%) jQuery
5 25 (16.03%) RESTful
6 21 (13.46%) React
7 16 (10.26%) Vue
8 15 (9.62%) Node.js
9 14 (8.97%) JSON
10 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 12 (7.69%) HTML5
11 11 (7.05%) CSS3
11 11 (7.05%) REST
11 11 (7.05%) XML
12 10 (6.41%) Kafka
13 9 (5.77%) .NET
13 9 (5.77%) Symfony
14 7 (4.49%) LEMP Stack
15 6 (3.85%) Django
16 5 (3.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.05%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.77%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.13%) NHS
6 6 (3.85%) IoT
7 5 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.21%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.56%) PropTech
8 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.92%) Replication
9 3 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.92%) Smart Home
10 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.28%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (23.08%) Linux
2 10 (6.41%) Ubuntu
2 10 (6.41%) Windows
3 5 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
4 3 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.82%) Agile
2 33 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (17.31%) CI/CD
3 27 (17.31%) Computer Science
4 26 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (16.03%) Mentoring
5 25 (16.03%) MVC
6 24 (15.38%) OOP
6 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 23 (14.74%) Data Modelling
7 23 (14.74%) Microservices
8 21 (13.46%) DevOps
9 19 (12.18%) OO
9 19 (12.18%) Test Automation
10 17 (10.90%) TDD
11 16 (10.26%) Open Source
12 14 (8.97%) BDD
12 14 (8.97%) Coaching
12 14 (8.97%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 90 (57.69%) SQL
2 61 (39.10%) PHP
3 41 (26.28%) JavaScript
4 36 (23.08%) Java
5 28 (17.95%) C#
6 26 (16.67%) Python
7 21 (13.46%) C++
8 18 (11.54%) TypeScript
9 15 (9.62%) PowerShell
10 10 (6.41%) T-SQL
11 9 (5.77%) Bash
12 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.92%) C
13 3 (1.92%) Go
13 3 (1.92%) Scala
13 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (22.44%) Degree
2 22 (14.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) HNC
4 5 (3.21%) HND
4 5 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.85%) QA
4 5 (3.21%) SLA
5 4 (2.56%) HL7
5 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.56%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.28%) GDPR
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (14.74%) Docker
2 18 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.21%) vSphere
5 3 (1.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.92%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.77%) Terraform
3 7 (4.49%) Ansible
4 4 (2.56%) Argo
5 3 (1.92%) Grafana
5 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.28%) Nagios
7 1 (0.64%) Graylog
7 1 (0.64%) Plesk
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.49%) Oracle
3 6 (3.85%) Cisco
3 6 (3.85%) SAP
3 6 (3.85%) VMware
4 5 (3.21%) Meraki
4 5 (3.21%) Synology
4 5 (3.21%) Veeam
5 4 (2.56%) Apple
5 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.92%) BT
6 3 (1.92%) Databricks
6 3 (1.92%) Mitel
6 3 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.28%) Dell
7 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.28%) Splunk
7 2 (1.28%) Zend
8 1 (0.64%) Foundry