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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 178 138
Rank change year-on-year -70 -40 -11
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 179 305 770
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 2.05% 2.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.13% 9.35% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 154 250 665
10th Percentile £26,875 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £35,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,625 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -7.05%

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 2,512 3,261 7,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.98% 21.91% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,920 2,179 6,249
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,795 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 6 June 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 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.47%) Confluence
3 7 (3.91%) CMS
4 6 (3.35%) nginx
5 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.12%) Apache
6 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.12%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.12%) WordPress
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.56%) Moodle
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.60%) AWS
2 68 (37.99%) Azure
3 23 (12.85%) GitHub
4 22 (12.29%) Power Platform
5 20 (11.17%) SaaS
6 16 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.03%) Serverless
8 8 (4.47%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.79%) GCP
10 5 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.23%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.68%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Broadband
1 8 (4.47%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) RTP
2 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.68%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.68%) VoIP
2 3 (1.68%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.12%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (40.78%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (29.61%) MongoDB
3 43 (24.02%) SQL Server
4 36 (20.11%) NoSQL
5 21 (11.73%) Relational Database
6 20 (11.17%) Power BI
7 13 (7.26%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.91%) Tableau
10 6 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.35%) Metadata
11 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (18.99%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.91%) GitLab
2 7 (3.91%) JIRA
3 3 (1.68%) Vite
4 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.12%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.56%) JMeter
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.29%) Finance
5 11 (6.15%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.35%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.79%) Legal
9 4 (2.23%) Retail
9 4 (2.23%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.68%) Local Government
10 3 (1.68%) Marketing
10 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (37.43%) Developer
2 38 (21.23%) Software Engineer
3 32 (17.88%) PHP Developer
4 25 (13.97%) Senior
5 17 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (9.50%) Lead
5 17 (9.50%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 16 (8.94%) Graduate
7 15 (8.38%) Software Developer
8 14 (7.82%) Analyst
9 12 (6.70%) Azure Developer
9 12 (6.70%) C# Developer
9 12 (6.70%) C# Software Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate C# Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate Software Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 12 (6.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.28%) CSS
2 43 (24.02%) RESTful
3 37 (20.67%) HTML
4 34 (18.99%) Laravel
5 30 (16.76%) jQuery
6 26 (14.53%) Node.js
7 23 (12.85%) React
8 21 (11.73%) Vue
9 14 (7.82%) .NET
9 14 (7.82%) JSON
10 13 (7.26%) CSS3
10 13 (7.26%) HTML5
10 13 (7.26%) REST
11 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.15%) XML
12 9 (5.03%) Spring
13 7 (3.91%) Kafka
14 6 (3.35%) LEMP Stack
14 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
15 5 (2.79%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.59%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.03%) NHS
5 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.35%) IoT
7 5 (2.79%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.79%) Replication
7 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.23%) PropTech
8 4 (2.23%) Smart Home
8 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.68%) Blog
9 3 (1.68%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.12%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.11%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.35%) Windows
4 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.66%) Agile
2 58 (32.40%) Software Engineering
3 41 (22.91%) Microservices
4 35 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (18.44%) Mentoring
6 32 (17.88%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (17.88%) CI/CD
7 30 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (15.08%) Computer Science
8 27 (15.08%) Open Source
9 26 (14.53%) Coaching
9 26 (14.53%) TDD
10 23 (12.85%) Data Modelling
10 23 (12.85%) DevOps
11 21 (11.73%) OOP
12 19 (10.61%) MVC
13 17 (9.50%) Containerisation
13 17 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.50%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (51.40%) SQL
2 59 (32.96%) JavaScript
3 57 (31.84%) PHP
4 46 (25.70%) Java
5 30 (16.76%) Python
6 29 (16.20%) C#
7 19 (10.61%) C++
8 17 (9.50%) TypeScript
9 16 (8.94%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.59%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.47%) Bash
12 4 (2.23%) Go
12 4 (2.23%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.68%) C
13 3 (1.68%) Perl
13 3 (1.68%) Ruby
14 2 (1.12%) Korn
15 1 (0.56%) Scala
15 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (20.11%) Degree
2 22 (12.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.79%) HNC
4 5 (2.79%) HND
4 5 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.26%) QA
4 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.79%) SLA
5 4 (2.23%) HL7
5 4 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.23%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.68%) GDPR
7 2 (1.12%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (16.76%) Docker
2 15 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.79%) vSphere
5 3 (1.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.68%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (12.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.35%) Terraform
3 5 (2.79%) Ansible
4 4 (2.23%) Argo
4 4 (2.23%) Grafana
4 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.68%) Plesk
6 1 (0.56%) Graylog
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.59%) Oracle
3 6 (3.35%) Cisco
3 6 (3.35%) VMware
4 5 (2.79%) Meraki
4 5 (2.79%) Synology
4 5 (2.79%) Veeam
5 4 (2.23%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.68%) BT
6 3 (1.68%) Mitel
6 3 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) Dell
7 2 (1.12%) Google
7 2 (1.12%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) SAP
7 2 (1.12%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.56%) Zend