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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 137 111
Rank change year-on-year -52 -26 +20
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 198 452 605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 2.34% 2.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.00% 9.98% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 170 291 522
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £39,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +1.81%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,375 £84,964 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Database and 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 2,200 4,530 5,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.56% 23.47% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 2,798 4,123
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,662
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 1 December 2025.

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 (6.57%) Apache Solr
2 8 (4.04%) CMS
3 7 (3.54%) Confluence
4 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.52%) nginx
7 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.01%) WordPress
8 1 (0.51%) Apache
8 1 (0.51%) IIS
8 1 (0.51%) JBoss
8 1 (0.51%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.97%) Azure
2 67 (33.84%) AWS
3 23 (11.62%) SaaS
4 16 (8.08%) GCP
5 15 (7.58%) GitHub
6 13 (6.57%) Serverless
7 8 (4.04%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.54%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.03%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.03%) npm
10 5 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) DHCP
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) IPv6
2 1 (0.51%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (37.37%) SQL Server
2 34 (17.17%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.10%) MongoDB
5 17 (8.59%) NoSQL
6 16 (8.08%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
7 11 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.04%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.04%) MariaDB
9 5 (2.53%) Power BI
9 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.53%) Tableau
10 4 (2.02%) Redis
11 3 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (23.23%) Git
2 19 (9.60%) JIRA
3 6 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.53%) git-flow
5 4 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.52%) Mocha
6 3 (1.52%) webpack
7 2 (1.01%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.01%) GitLab
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 2 (1.01%) Mockito
7 2 (1.01%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Vite
General
1 77 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.70%) Finance
3 19 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.08%) Law
5 8 (4.04%) Front Office
5 8 (4.04%) Marketing
6 7 (3.54%) Automotive
7 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.52%) Billing
8 3 (1.52%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.01%) Advertising
9 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 123 (62.12%) Developer
2 41 (20.71%) Graduate
2 41 (20.71%) Graduate Developer
3 35 (17.68%) PHP Developer
4 31 (15.66%) IT Graduate
5 25 (12.63%) C# Developer
6 24 (12.12%) Software Developer
7 22 (11.11%) Senior
8 17 (8.59%) Azure Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Graduate C# Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.59%) SQL Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Analyst
9 14 (7.07%) Support Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Graduate Software Developer
11 10 (5.05%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (40.40%) CSS
2 56 (28.28%) .NET
3 46 (23.23%) jQuery
4 38 (19.19%) HTML
5 37 (18.69%) ASP.NET
6 34 (17.17%) React
7 27 (13.64%) Laravel
8 26 (13.13%) Node.js
9 20 (10.10%) REST
10 17 (8.59%) Symfony
11 16 (8.08%) AngularJS
12 13 (6.57%) CodeIgniter
13 12 (6.06%) CakePHP
14 11 (5.56%) RESTful
15 10 (5.05%) Vue
16 9 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (3.54%) Kafka
18 6 (3.03%) .NET Core
18 6 (3.03%) .NET Framework
18 6 (3.03%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.52%) Social Media
5 3 (1.52%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.01%) Clustering
6 2 (1.01%) IoT
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.18%) Linux
2 22 (11.11%) Windows
3 15 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.53%) Unix
5 3 (1.52%) Android
5 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.52%) CentOS
5 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.52%) Rocky
5 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.01%) Solaris
6 2 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (54.04%) Agile
2 85 (42.93%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (30.30%) OO
4 55 (27.78%) MVC
5 48 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 48 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (23.74%) OOP
7 45 (22.73%) Computer Science
8 40 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (15.15%) DevOps
10 26 (13.13%) Microservices
10 26 (13.13%) Software Engineering
10 26 (13.13%) Test Automation
11 25 (12.63%) AI
12 23 (11.62%) Containerisation
13 22 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 19 (9.60%) User Experience
15 16 (8.08%) Data Modelling
15 16 (8.08%) Scrum
16 15 (7.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 97 (48.99%) PHP
2 92 (46.46%) SQL
3 72 (36.36%) C#
4 71 (35.86%) JavaScript
5 49 (24.75%) Java
6 41 (20.71%) C++
7 35 (17.68%) TypeScript
8 34 (17.17%) Python
9 8 (4.04%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (1.52%) Go
12 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.52%) R
12 3 (1.52%) Swift
13 2 (1.01%) Perl
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
13 2 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (26.77%) Degree
2 45 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.59%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.03%) SLA
4 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.01%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (19.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.07%) Ansible
2 14 (7.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) Grafana
3 3 (1.52%) Nagios
4 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.04%) Oracle
2 8 (4.04%) SAP
3 3 (1.52%) Apple
3 3 (1.52%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.01%) Databricks
4 2 (1.01%) Informatica
4 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.01%) RedGate
4 2 (1.01%) Sage
4 2 (1.01%) Splunk
4 2 (1.01%) Talend
4 2 (1.01%) VMware
4 2 (1.01%) Zend
5 1 (0.51%) IONA
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) WooCommerce