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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 133 108
Rank change year-on-year -81 -25 +18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 176 410 787
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.56% 2.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.25% 10.06% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 144 268 696
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,125 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 2,133 4,076 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.47% 25.50% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,418 5,768
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 3 February 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 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.55%) CMS
2 8 (4.55%) nginx
3 7 (3.98%) Apache Solr
4 6 (3.41%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.27%) Confluence
6 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.57%) IIS
8 1 (0.57%) JBoss
8 1 (0.57%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.48%) Azure
2 72 (40.91%) AWS
3 28 (15.91%) SaaS
4 19 (10.80%) GitHub
5 17 (9.66%) GCP
6 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.68%) Serverless
9 9 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.70%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) HTTP
2 3 (1.70%) RTP
2 3 (1.70%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.70%) VoIP
2 3 (1.70%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 30 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (13.07%) MongoDB
3 23 (13.07%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.52%) NoSQL
5 13 (7.39%) BusinessObjects
6 12 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.25%) Power BI
8 10 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (5.11%) MariaDB
10 8 (4.55%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.41%) Tableau
12 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.70%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (26.14%) Git
2 12 (6.82%) JIRA
3 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.84%) git-flow
5 4 (2.27%) Vite
6 3 (1.70%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.70%) JMeter
6 3 (1.70%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.14%) Mocha
7 2 (1.14%) webpack
8 1 (0.57%) GitLab
8 1 (0.57%) Mockito
8 1 (0.57%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.57%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.05%) Finance
3 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.82%) Law
5 7 (3.98%) Automotive
5 7 (3.98%) Marketing
6 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Billing
8 3 (1.70%) Front Office
8 3 (1.70%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.14%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (60.80%) Developer
2 34 (19.32%) PHP Developer
3 26 (14.77%) Graduate
3 26 (14.77%) Graduate Developer
4 25 (14.20%) Senior
5 23 (13.07%) Software Developer
6 21 (11.93%) C# Developer
7 20 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (9.66%) Senior Developer
9 16 (9.09%) IT Graduate
10 14 (7.95%) Support Engineer
11 13 (7.39%) Azure Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Graduate C# Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Graduate Software Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 13 (7.39%) SQL Developer
12 12 (6.82%) Analyst
13 10 (5.68%) C# Software Developer
14 9 (5.11%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (36.93%) CSS
2 40 (22.73%) .NET
3 38 (21.59%) HTML
4 34 (19.32%) Laravel
5 32 (18.18%) jQuery
5 32 (18.18%) React
6 26 (14.77%) Node.js
7 23 (13.07%) ASP.NET
8 19 (10.80%) REST
9 17 (9.66%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.09%) Vue
11 15 (8.52%) Symfony
12 13 (7.39%) RESTful
13 10 (5.68%) JSON
14 9 (5.11%) CodeIgniter
14 9 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.55%) CakePHP
15 8 (4.55%) Kafka
16 7 (3.98%) .NET Core
17 6 (3.41%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.98%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.84%) IoT
5 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.70%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.70%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Smart Home
7 2 (1.14%) Social Media
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.73%) Linux
2 17 (9.66%) Windows
3 9 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.27%) Unix
6 3 (1.70%) Android
6 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.70%) CentOS
6 3 (1.70%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.70%) Rocky
7 2 (1.14%) Solaris
7 2 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.16%) Agile
2 67 (38.07%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (27.84%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.57%) OO
5 40 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (22.16%) MVC
7 36 (20.45%) OOP
8 32 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 32 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (18.18%) DevOps
9 29 (16.48%) Software Engineering
10 28 (15.91%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.77%) Data Modelling
11 26 (14.77%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.50%) Microservices
13 21 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (11.93%) User Experience
14 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
15 19 (10.80%) AI
16 16 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.86%) PHP
2 77 (43.75%) SQL
3 59 (33.52%) JavaScript
4 51 (28.98%) C#
5 34 (19.32%) Java
6 32 (18.18%) Python
6 32 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 29 (16.48%) C++
8 14 (7.95%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.55%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.98%) Bash
11 6 (3.41%) Go
12 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.70%) C
13 3 (1.70%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.70%) Scala
13 3 (1.70%) Swift
14 2 (1.14%) R
15 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (23.30%) Degree
2 32 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) MCSE
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) QA
2 10 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.98%) SLA
5 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.70%) HL7
5 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (22.73%) Docker
2 8 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Ansible
3 15 (8.52%) Terraform
4 4 (2.27%) Argo
5 3 (1.70%) Nagios
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.68%) SAP
3 8 (4.55%) Oracle
4 3 (1.70%) Apple
4 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.70%) BT
4 3 (1.70%) Databricks
4 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.70%) Google
4 3 (1.70%) Mitel
4 3 (1.70%) Splunk
4 3 (1.70%) Zend
5 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.14%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Informatica
6 1 (0.57%) IONA
6 1 (0.57%) RedGate
6 1 (0.57%) Talend