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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 195 131
Rank change year-on-year -49 -64 -2
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 166 296 771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.96% 2.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.83% 8.64% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 144 235 682
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,438 £37,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -7.08% +0.04%
75th Percentile £70,313 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £84,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.08%

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 2,431 3,427 7,331
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.97% 22.70% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,839 2,308 6,224
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £97,500
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 19 May 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 11 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.22%) CMS
2 7 (4.22%) Confluence
3 6 (3.61%) nginx
4 5 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.20%) Apache
6 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (45.18%) AWS
2 59 (35.54%) Azure
3 19 (11.45%) GitHub
4 18 (10.84%) SaaS
5 17 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.24%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.82%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.22%) Serverless
8 6 (3.61%) GCP
9 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.41%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.20%) PaaS
12 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.82%) Firewall
2 7 (4.22%) Broadband
3 3 (1.81%) HTTP
3 3 (1.81%) RTP
3 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.81%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.81%) VoIP
3 3 (1.81%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.35%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (25.30%) MongoDB
3 41 (24.70%) SQL Server
4 30 (18.07%) NoSQL
5 21 (12.65%) Relational Database
6 15 (9.04%) Power BI
7 12 (7.23%) MariaDB
8 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.81%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.81%) Tableau
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (21.69%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) GitLab
3 6 (3.61%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.81%) Vite
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.64%) Finance
5 10 (6.02%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.61%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.41%) Retail
7 4 (2.41%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (40.36%) Developer
2 35 (21.08%) PHP Developer
3 30 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.46%) Senior
5 17 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (10.24%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 16 (9.64%) Software Developer
7 15 (9.04%) Lead
8 14 (8.43%) Analyst
9 13 (7.83%) C# Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Azure Developer
10 12 (7.23%) C# Software Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate C# Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate Software Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 12 (7.23%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (30.12%) CSS
2 38 (22.89%) RESTful
3 37 (22.29%) HTML
4 36 (21.69%) Laravel
5 26 (15.66%) Node.js
6 24 (14.46%) jQuery
7 23 (13.86%) React
8 21 (12.65%) Vue
9 14 (8.43%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.43%) HTML5
9 14 (8.43%) JSON
9 14 (8.43%) REST
10 13 (7.83%) CSS3
11 12 (7.23%) .NET
12 11 (6.63%) XML
13 8 (4.82%) Kafka
14 7 (4.22%) Symfony
15 6 (3.61%) LEMP Stack
15 6 (3.61%) Spring
16 5 (3.01%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.63%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.42%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.82%) NHS
6 7 (4.22%) IoT
7 6 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.61%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.01%) Raspberry Pi
8 5 (3.01%) Replication
9 4 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.41%) PropTech
9 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.41%) Smart Home
10 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.20%) Blog
11 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.20%) Robotics
11 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.48%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Ubuntu
3 7 (4.22%) Windows
4 5 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.34%) Agile
2 47 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 36 (21.69%) Microservices
4 32 (19.28%) CI/CD
5 30 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (18.07%) Mentoring
6 28 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (15.06%) DevOps
7 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (13.86%) Computer Science
8 23 (13.86%) Open Source
8 23 (13.86%) TDD
9 22 (13.25%) Coaching
10 21 (12.65%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.84%) Test Automation
12 17 (10.24%) MVC
12 17 (10.24%) OO
12 17 (10.24%) OOP
13 15 (9.04%) Containerisation
14 14 (8.43%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 86 (51.81%) SQL
2 55 (33.13%) PHP
3 51 (30.72%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.89%) Java
5 29 (17.47%) Python
6 25 (15.06%) C#
7 19 (11.45%) TypeScript
8 15 (9.04%) C++
8 15 (9.04%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.02%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.22%) Bash
11 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.81%) C
12 3 (1.81%) Go
13 2 (1.20%) Korn
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (1.20%) Scala
14 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (18.67%) Degree
2 18 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.01%) HNC
4 5 (3.01%) HND
4 5 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.81%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 12 (7.23%) QA
4 5 (3.01%) SLA
5 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.41%) HL7
5 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.41%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 28 (16.87%) Docker
2 16 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.01%) vSphere
5 3 (1.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.81%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (12.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.22%) Terraform
3 4 (2.41%) Ansible
3 4 (2.41%) Argo
4 3 (1.81%) Grafana
4 3 (1.81%) Plesk
4 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Graylog
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.61%) Cisco
2 6 (3.61%) Oracle
2 6 (3.61%) VMware
3 5 (3.01%) Meraki
3 5 (3.01%) Synology
3 5 (3.01%) Veeam
4 4 (2.41%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.81%) BT
5 3 (1.81%) Mitel
5 3 (1.81%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.81%) SAP
6 2 (1.20%) Apple
6 2 (1.20%) Databricks
6 2 (1.20%) Dell
6 2 (1.20%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.20%) Zend
7 1 (0.60%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.60%) OpenAI