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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 207 172
Rank change year-on-year -64 -35 -52
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 189 239 474
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.47% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.92% 8.70% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 156 195 306
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,984 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £84,982
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.08%

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 3,193 2,746 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.12% 16.83% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 1,915 3,284
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £38,825
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -5.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,100 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

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 18 September 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 7 (3.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) WordPress
3 3 (1.59%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) Moodle
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 94 (49.74%) AWS
2 63 (33.33%) Azure
3 25 (13.23%) GitHub
4 17 (8.99%) SaaS
5 12 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (5.29%) GCP
6 10 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.76%) Serverless
8 7 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.65%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.65%) Stripe
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.59%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) Broadband
2 6 (3.17%) Firewall
3 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) SAN
4 1 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (25.93%) MongoDB
3 38 (20.11%) Relational Database
4 36 (19.05%) SQL Server
5 24 (12.70%) NoSQL
6 16 (8.47%) MariaDB
7 10 (5.29%) Power BI
8 7 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (3.17%) Metadata
9 6 (3.17%) Tableau
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.12%) Ataccama
10 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.12%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.12%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (2.12%) Redis
10 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.12%) TIBCO EBX
11 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (18.52%) Git
2 15 (7.94%) GitLab
3 11 (5.82%) Claude Code
4 10 (5.29%) JIRA
5 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) ESLint
7 1 (0.53%) Mocha
7 1 (0.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Storybook
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 45 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.63%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Finance
5 17 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.35%) Health Technology
6 12 (6.35%) Law
7 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.65%) Legal
8 4 (2.12%) Marketing
8 4 (2.12%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.59%) Local Government
10 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 2 (1.06%) Games
10 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.06%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (40.21%) Developer
2 47 (24.87%) Senior
3 46 (24.34%) Software Engineer
4 31 (16.40%) PHP Developer
5 30 (15.87%) Lead
6 19 (10.05%) Senior Developer
7 18 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (8.99%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 16 (8.47%) C# Developer
10 14 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Architect
11 11 (5.82%) Senior C# Developer
12 10 (5.29%) Software Developer
13 9 (4.76%) Consultant
13 9 (4.76%) Graduate
14 8 (4.23%) C# Software Developer
15 7 (3.70%) Analyst
15 7 (3.70%) EPR Consultant
16 6 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (31.75%) CSS
2 47 (24.87%) HTML
3 41 (21.69%) React
4 38 (20.11%) RESTful
5 34 (17.99%) Laravel
6 33 (17.46%) .NET
7 29 (15.34%) Node.js
8 24 (12.70%) jQuery
9 21 (11.11%) Vue
10 19 (10.05%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.52%) REST
12 15 (7.94%) .NET Core
12 15 (7.94%) CSS3
13 14 (7.41%) .NET Framework
13 14 (7.41%) HTML5
14 13 (6.88%) Entity Framework
15 11 (5.82%) ASP.NET
16 10 (5.29%) Spring
16 10 (5.29%) Terraform
17 8 (4.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.29%) NHS
5 8 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.65%) Replication
9 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.12%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (2.12%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.59%) Blog
10 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.59%) PropTech
10 3 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.06%) PMI
11 2 (1.06%) Robotics
11 2 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.52%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.17%) Windows
4 4 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.27%) Agile
2 76 (40.21%) Software Engineering
3 60 (31.75%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 43 (22.75%) Microservices
6 42 (22.22%) DevOps
7 38 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (18.52%) Mentoring
9 32 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (13.76%) OOP
11 25 (13.23%) AI
11 25 (13.23%) Clean Code
12 24 (12.70%) Code Quality
12 24 (12.70%) Scrum
13 23 (12.17%) Web Development
14 22 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (11.64%) Coaching
15 21 (11.11%) OO
16 20 (10.58%) SDLC
16 20 (10.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.44%) SQL
2 81 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 47 (24.87%) PHP
4 46 (24.34%) C#
5 40 (21.16%) Java
6 31 (16.40%) TypeScript
7 29 (15.34%) Python
8 9 (4.76%) C++
9 8 (4.23%) Ruby
10 7 (3.70%) Go
11 6 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.65%) Bash
12 5 (2.65%) Rust
13 3 (1.59%) Perl
14 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.53%) Korn
15 1 (0.53%) Scala
15 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (18.52%) Degree
2 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.12%) HNC
6 4 (2.12%) HND
7 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.99%) QA
2 14 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.70%) HL7
5 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.06%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (20.11%) Docker
2 5 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.12%) vSphere
4 2 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.17%) Grafana
3 4 (2.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.59%) Plesk
4 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.94%) Oracle
3 10 (5.29%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.23%) Google
5 5 (2.65%) Cisco
5 5 (2.65%) VMware
6 4 (2.12%) Databricks
6 4 (2.12%) IBM
6 4 (2.12%) Informatica
6 4 (2.12%) Meraki
6 4 (2.12%) Synology
6 4 (2.12%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.12%) Veeam
7 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.06%) Sony
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) UiPath
8 1 (0.53%) Sage