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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 148 112
Rank change year-on-year -37 -36 -9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 245 439 637
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.54% 2.21% 2.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.43% 9.64% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 201 275 550
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.62%

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 2,349 4,555 5,470
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.74% 22.93% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 2,753 4,381
10th Percentile £35,325 £39,250 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.44%

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 5 November 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 14 (5.71%) Apache Solr
2 13 (5.31%) Confluence
3 8 (3.27%) CMS
3 8 (3.27%) IIS
4 6 (2.45%) WordPress
5 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.22%) Apache
6 3 (1.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.41%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.22%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.31%) Azure
2 87 (35.51%) AWS
3 38 (15.51%) SaaS
4 22 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (7.35%) Cloudflare
7 18 (7.35%) PaaS
8 17 (6.94%) GitHub
8 17 (6.94%) Power Automate
9 16 (6.53%) GCP
9 16 (6.53%) IaaS
10 15 (6.12%) Azure AI
10 15 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (6.12%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.90%) Serverless
12 8 (3.27%) npm
13 6 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.94%) DNS
2 15 (6.12%) Firewall
2 15 (6.12%) SD-WAN
2 15 (6.12%) VPN
2 15 (6.12%) WAN
3 3 (1.22%) Broadband
4 1 (0.41%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.41%) IPsec
4 1 (0.41%) IPv6
4 1 (0.41%) RFID
4 1 (0.41%) RTP
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (37.55%) SQL Server
2 41 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (11.43%) MongoDB
4 27 (11.02%) Relational Database
5 26 (10.61%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (9.39%) NoSQL
7 19 (7.76%) Power BI
8 15 (6.12%) Data Lake
9 13 (5.31%) BusinessObjects
10 9 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.67%) MariaDB
10 9 (3.67%) Redis
11 7 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.86%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.45%) Tableau
13 5 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.63%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 76 (31.02%) Git
2 26 (10.61%) JIRA
3 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.86%) NUnit
3 7 (2.86%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.45%) Jasmine
5 5 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.63%) git-flow
6 4 (1.63%) Mocha
7 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.22%) webpack
8 2 (0.82%) JUnit
8 2 (0.82%) Mockito
9 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.41%) GitLab
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.37%) Finance
3 19 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.12%) Law
5 12 (4.90%) Marketing
6 7 (2.86%) Front Office
6 7 (2.86%) Games
6 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.45%) Automotive
7 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.04%) Retail
9 4 (1.63%) Advertising
10 3 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.22%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.82%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.41%) Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (58.37%) Developer
2 43 (17.55%) Graduate
2 43 (17.55%) Graduate Developer
3 37 (15.10%) IT Graduate
4 34 (13.88%) Senior
5 33 (13.47%) PHP Developer
6 25 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (9.80%) C# Developer
8 23 (9.39%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.94%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.53%) Analyst
11 15 (6.12%) Architect
11 15 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (5.71%) Graduate C# Developer
12 14 (5.71%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 14 (5.71%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 14 (5.71%) SQL Developer
13 13 (5.31%) Support Engineer
14 12 (4.90%) Azure Developer
14 12 (4.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (40.00%) CSS
2 73 (29.80%) .NET
3 56 (22.86%) HTML
4 51 (20.82%) ASP.NET
5 48 (19.59%) jQuery
5 48 (19.59%) React
6 32 (13.06%) Node.js
7 29 (11.84%) Laravel
8 22 (8.98%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.98%) Vue
9 21 (8.57%) RESTful
10 20 (8.16%) REST
11 16 (6.53%) Symfony
12 13 (5.31%) CSS3
12 13 (5.31%) HTML5
13 11 (4.49%) CakePHP
13 11 (4.49%) CodeIgniter
14 9 (3.67%) .NET Core
14 9 (3.67%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.94%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.53%) NHS
3 14 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.90%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.04%) Online Games
8 4 (1.63%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.63%) Clustering
8 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.22%) FMCG
9 3 (1.22%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.22%) Social Media
9 3 (1.22%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.51%) Linux
2 21 (8.57%) Windows
3 15 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.45%) Unix
5 3 (1.22%) Android
5 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) CentOS
6 2 (0.82%) Rocky
6 2 (0.82%) Solaris
6 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (51.02%) Agile
2 93 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 66 (26.94%) OO
5 64 (26.12%) MVC
6 52 (21.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 51 (20.82%) OOP
8 48 (19.59%) AI
8 48 (19.59%) Computer Science
9 45 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (18.37%) DevOps
10 34 (13.88%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.43%) API Management
11 28 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.02%) Microservices
13 26 (10.61%) Analytics
14 25 (10.20%) Test Automation
15 24 (9.80%) High Availability
16 23 (9.39%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 111 (45.31%) SQL
2 108 (44.08%) PHP
3 95 (38.78%) JavaScript
4 81 (33.06%) C#
5 59 (24.08%) Java
6 47 (19.18%) TypeScript
7 42 (17.14%) C++
7 42 (17.14%) Python
8 24 (9.80%) PowerShell
9 15 (6.12%) Bicep
10 7 (2.86%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.63%) Perl
13 3 (1.22%) Bash
13 3 (1.22%) Go
13 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.22%) R
13 3 (1.22%) Swift
14 2 (0.82%) VB
15 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (23.67%) Degree
2 48 (19.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (8.16%) DBS Check
4 15 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.08%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.67%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.35%) QA
2 6 (2.45%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.45%) SLA
3 4 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) HL7
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (15.10%) Docker
2 15 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) KVM
3 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Corosync
4 1 (0.41%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (8.16%) Terraform
2 16 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (5.31%) Ansible
5 4 (1.63%) Grafana
6 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.82%) Nagios
8 1 (0.41%) Argo
8 1 (0.41%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.41%) Icinga
8 1 (0.41%) Pacemaker
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.12%) Databricks
2 15 (6.12%) Meraki
3 10 (4.08%) SAP
4 9 (3.67%) Rollbar
5 6 (2.45%) Google
5 6 (2.45%) Oracle
6 5 (2.04%) Informatica
6 5 (2.04%) RedGate
6 5 (2.04%) Sage
6 5 (2.04%) Talend
7 4 (1.63%) WooCommerce
8 3 (1.22%) Adobe
8 3 (1.22%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.22%) VMware
9 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) IONA
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Zend