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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 146 116
Rank change year-on-year -76 -30 +17
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 174 305 825
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 2.34% 2.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.53% 9.09% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 152 265 691
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,065 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -7.08% -1.74%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,998 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,414 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.88% +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 2,310 3,356 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.33% 25.79% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 2,436 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £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 £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 11 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 (7.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.17%) CMS
3 6 (3.45%) Confluence
3 6 (3.45%) nginx
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.15%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.15%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) Apache
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.98%) AWS
2 65 (37.36%) Azure
3 28 (16.09%) SaaS
4 19 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.62%) GitHub
7 11 (6.32%) GCP
8 9 (5.17%) Serverless
9 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.30%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) Firewall
2 3 (1.72%) HTTP
2 3 (1.72%) RTP
2 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.72%) VoIP
2 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.15%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.15%) SAN
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 46 (26.44%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (14.37%) NoSQL
4 24 (13.79%) MongoDB
5 17 (9.77%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.20%) Power BI
7 13 (7.47%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.75%) MariaDB
9 10 (5.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
12 6 (3.45%) Tableau
13 5 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
15 2 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 33 (18.97%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) JIRA
3 6 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.30%) Vite
5 3 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.72%) git-flow
5 3 (1.72%) JMeter
5 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.15%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.37%) Finance
4 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.60%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (2.30%) Retail
7 4 (2.30%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.15%) Advertising
9 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 89 (51.15%) Developer
2 41 (23.56%) PHP Developer
3 25 (14.37%) Software Developer
4 22 (12.64%) Senior
5 21 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (11.49%) C# Developer
6 20 (11.49%) Graduate
6 20 (11.49%) Graduate Developer
6 20 (11.49%) Graduate Software Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Azure Developer
7 18 (10.34%) C# Software Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Graduate C# Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 18 (10.34%) SQL Developer
8 17 (9.77%) Software Engineer
9 14 (8.05%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 12 (6.90%) Support Engineer
11 11 (6.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (35.63%) CSS
2 42 (24.14%) HTML
2 42 (24.14%) Laravel
3 29 (16.67%) jQuery
4 27 (15.52%) React
5 26 (14.94%) RESTful
6 18 (10.34%) Vue
7 17 (9.77%) Node.js
8 15 (8.62%) .NET
8 15 (8.62%) JSON
9 13 (7.47%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.90%) REST
10 12 (6.90%) Symfony
11 11 (6.32%) HTML5
11 11 (6.32%) XML
12 10 (5.75%) CSS3
12 10 (5.75%) Kafka
13 6 (3.45%) Django
13 6 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.60%) NHS
5 6 (3.45%) IoT
6 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.30%) PropTech
7 4 (2.30%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.72%) Replication
8 3 (1.72%) Smart Home
8 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.26%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Windows
3 10 (5.75%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.30%) CentOS
4 4 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.72%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.72%) Rocky
6 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (41.38%) Agile
2 38 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (19.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (17.82%) Computer Science
6 29 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 29 (16.67%) MVC
7 28 (16.09%) Mentoring
8 27 (15.52%) Microservices
8 27 (15.52%) OOP
9 25 (14.37%) Data Modelling
9 25 (14.37%) Software Engineering
10 24 (13.79%) DevOps
10 24 (13.79%) OO
11 19 (10.92%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.20%) OO PHP
12 16 (9.20%) Open Source
12 16 (9.20%) Visualisation
13 15 (8.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 97 (55.75%) SQL
2 69 (39.66%) PHP
3 46 (26.44%) JavaScript
4 38 (21.84%) Java
5 33 (18.97%) C#
6 24 (13.79%) Python
7 23 (13.22%) C++
7 23 (13.22%) TypeScript
8 17 (9.77%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.75%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.17%) Bash
11 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.72%) C
12 3 (1.72%) Go
12 3 (1.72%) Scala
12 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 39 (22.41%) Degree
2 26 (14.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.75%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) HNC
6 4 (2.30%) HND
7 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.60%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) HL7
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.30%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.15%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 25 (14.37%) Docker
2 17 (9.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.87%) vSphere
4 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.72%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.32%) Terraform
3 10 (5.75%) Ansible
4 4 (2.30%) Argo
5 3 (1.72%) Grafana
5 3 (1.72%) Nagios
5 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Graylog
6 1 (0.57%) Plesk
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.75%) SAP
3 8 (4.60%) Oracle
4 6 (3.45%) VMware
5 5 (2.87%) Cisco
6 4 (2.30%) Apple
6 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.30%) Meraki
6 4 (2.30%) Synology
6 4 (2.30%) Veeam
7 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.72%) BT
7 3 (1.72%) Databricks
7 3 (1.72%) Mitel
7 3 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.72%) Splunk
7 3 (1.72%) Zend
8 2 (1.15%) Dell
8 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) Juniper
84 hybrid/remote MySQL jobs