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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 162 129
Rank change year-on-year -68 -33 +3
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 162 291 818
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 2.17% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.96% 8.72% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 143 249 698
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £82,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 2,329 3,336 7,239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.01% 24.93% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 2,427 6,246
10th Percentile £37,425 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 23 April 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 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.94%) CMS
3 7 (4.32%) nginx
4 6 (3.70%) Confluence
5 5 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (3.09%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.23%) Apache
7 2 (1.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.62%) JBoss
8 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.53%) AWS
2 61 (37.65%) Azure
3 23 (14.20%) SaaS
4 18 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (9.88%) Power Platform
6 15 (9.26%) GitHub
7 10 (6.17%) GCP
8 8 (4.94%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.94%) Serverless
9 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.47%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.32%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) HTTP
2 3 (1.85%) RTP
2 3 (1.85%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.85%) VoIP
2 3 (1.85%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.23%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.23%) SAN
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) SSL
4 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (29.01%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (27.16%) SQL Server
3 24 (14.81%) NoSQL
4 23 (14.20%) MongoDB
5 15 (9.26%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.64%) Power BI
7 10 (6.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (5.56%) MariaDB
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.94%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.70%) DynamoDB
12 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (2.47%) Tableau
14 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
15 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (19.14%) Git
2 7 (4.32%) JIRA
3 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.47%) Vite
5 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.23%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.23%) git-flow
6 2 (1.23%) JMeter
6 2 (1.23%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.23%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Finance
3 12 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.94%) Health Technology
5 4 (2.47%) Law
5 4 (2.47%) Retail
5 4 (2.47%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.85%) Social Housing
7 2 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.62%) Automotive
8 1 (0.62%) Front Office
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (47.53%) Developer
2 41 (25.31%) PHP Developer
3 23 (14.20%) Software Developer
4 21 (12.96%) Senior
5 19 (11.73%) C# Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Azure Developer
6 18 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.11%) SQL Developer
7 15 (9.26%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 12 (7.41%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (35.19%) CSS
2 40 (24.69%) Laravel
3 39 (24.07%) HTML
4 28 (17.28%) jQuery
5 26 (16.05%) RESTful
6 23 (14.20%) React
7 17 (10.49%) Vue
8 16 (9.88%) Node.js
9 14 (8.64%) JSON
10 12 (7.41%) AngularJS
10 12 (7.41%) HTML5
11 11 (6.79%) .NET
11 11 (6.79%) CSS3
11 11 (6.79%) Kafka
11 11 (6.79%) REST
11 11 (6.79%) XML
12 10 (6.17%) Symfony
13 7 (4.32%) LEMP Stack
13 7 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.70%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.79%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.94%) NHS
5 6 (3.70%) IoT
6 5 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.47%) PropTech
7 4 (2.47%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.85%) Replication
8 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.85%) Smart Home
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.84%) Linux
2 10 (6.17%) Ubuntu
2 10 (6.17%) Windows
3 4 (2.47%) CentOS
3 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.85%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.85%) Rocky
5 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.89%) Agile
2 33 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (17.90%) CI/CD
3 29 (17.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (17.28%) Computer Science
5 27 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 26 (16.05%) MVC
6 26 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (15.43%) Microservices
7 25 (15.43%) Software Engineering
8 24 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 24 (14.81%) OOP
9 23 (14.20%) DevOps
10 20 (12.35%) OO
11 19 (11.73%) Test Automation
12 17 (10.49%) TDD
13 16 (9.88%) Open Source
14 15 (9.26%) OO PHP
15 14 (8.64%) BDD
15 14 (8.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (55.56%) SQL
2 64 (39.51%) PHP
3 42 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 36 (22.22%) Java
5 29 (17.90%) C#
6 26 (16.05%) Python
7 21 (12.96%) C++
7 21 (12.96%) TypeScript
8 15 (9.26%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.17%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.56%) Bash
11 4 (2.47%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.85%) C
12 3 (1.85%) Go
12 3 (1.85%) Scala
13 2 (1.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (21.60%) Degree
2 23 (14.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.47%) HNC
5 4 (2.47%) HND
5 4 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.62%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.32%) QA
4 5 (3.09%) SLA
5 4 (2.47%) HL7
5 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.47%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 24 (14.81%) Docker
2 17 (10.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.09%) vSphere
4 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.85%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.17%) Terraform
3 9 (5.56%) Ansible
4 4 (2.47%) Argo
5 3 (1.85%) Grafana
5 3 (1.85%) Nagios
5 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.62%) Graylog
6 1 (0.62%) Plesk
6 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.32%) Oracle
2 7 (4.32%) SAP
3 6 (3.70%) VMware
4 5 (3.09%) Cisco
5 4 (2.47%) Apple
5 4 (2.47%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.47%) Meraki
5 4 (2.47%) Synology
5 4 (2.47%) Veeam
6 3 (1.85%) BT
6 3 (1.85%) Databricks
6 3 (1.85%) Mitel
6 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.85%) Zend
7 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.23%) Dell
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
8 1 (0.62%) Palantir