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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 191 169
Rank change year-on-year -67 -22 -38
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 208 278 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.68% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.61% 9.25% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 178 231 379
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £34,905
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £77,100
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,750 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.27% -1.40% -5.73%

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 3,145 3,004 5,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.73% 18.16% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,525 2,048 3,867
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,795 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.39% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,861
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.51%

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 18 August 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 8 (3.85%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) WordPress
3 4 (1.92%) Apache
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Moodle
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 105 (50.48%) AWS
2 70 (33.65%) Azure
3 25 (12.02%) GitHub
4 18 (8.65%) SaaS
5 11 (5.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.81%) GCP
6 10 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.81%) Serverless
7 8 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.40%) Stripe
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) Broadband
2 8 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.96%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.96%) SAN
5 1 (0.48%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) LAN
5 1 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.48%) SSL
5 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (41.83%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 48 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 39 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 28 (13.46%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.65%) MariaDB
6 9 (4.33%) Power BI
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.37%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.88%) Metadata
8 6 (2.88%) Tableau
9 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.92%) Ataccama
10 4 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.92%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.92%) TIBCO EBX
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (17.79%) Git
2 14 (6.73%) GitLab
3 11 (5.29%) JIRA
4 9 (4.33%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Mocha
7 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 33 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.50%) Finance
5 18 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.21%) Health Technology
7 12 (5.77%) Law
8 5 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.40%) Legal
9 4 (1.92%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.44%) Local Government
10 3 (1.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Advertising
11 2 (0.96%) Billing
11 2 (0.96%) Games
11 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 2 (0.96%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (40.87%) Developer
2 50 (24.04%) Senior
3 45 (21.63%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.27%) PHP Developer
5 31 (14.90%) Lead
6 22 (10.58%) C# Developer
7 20 (9.62%) Senior Developer
8 18 (8.65%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (8.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Graduate
10 16 (7.69%) Software Developer
11 15 (7.21%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Azure Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Graduate C# Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 12 (5.77%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (35.10%) CSS
2 54 (25.96%) HTML
3 43 (20.67%) React
4 39 (18.75%) RESTful
5 35 (16.83%) .NET
6 34 (16.35%) Laravel
7 31 (14.90%) jQuery
8 29 (13.94%) Node.js
9 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.62%) Vue
10 17 (8.17%) REST
11 15 (7.21%) .NET Core
12 14 (6.73%) .NET Framework
12 14 (6.73%) CSS3
12 14 (6.73%) HTML5
13 13 (6.25%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.81%) ASP.NET
14 10 (4.81%) Spring
15 9 (4.33%) Kafka
16 8 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) NHS
3 12 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.88%) Replication
6 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.40%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.92%) PropTech
7 4 (1.92%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.44%) Blog
8 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) PMI
8 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.96%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.27%) Linux
2 10 (4.81%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.37%) Windows
4 5 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.38%) Agile
2 75 (36.06%) Software Engineering
3 61 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.15%) Microservices
6 41 (19.71%) DevOps
7 39 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 34 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (15.38%) OOP
11 30 (14.42%) Computer Science
12 26 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 26 (12.50%) Web Development
13 25 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (12.02%) Scrum
14 24 (11.54%) MVC
15 23 (11.06%) AI
15 23 (11.06%) Coaching
16 21 (10.10%) Event-Driven
16 21 (10.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 99 (47.60%) SQL
2 87 (41.83%) JavaScript
3 56 (26.92%) PHP
4 53 (25.48%) C#
5 46 (22.12%) Java
6 30 (14.42%) Python
7 29 (13.94%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.69%) C++
9 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.85%) Ruby
10 6 (2.88%) Bash
11 5 (2.40%) Go
12 4 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.44%) Perl
13 3 (1.44%) Rust
14 2 (0.96%) Korn
15 1 (0.48%) Scala
15 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (23.56%) Degree
2 21 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.40%) HNC
6 5 (2.40%) HND
7 4 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.21%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.21%) QA
2 8 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.37%) HL7
4 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.88%) SLA
5 4 (1.92%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (0.96%) GDPR
6 2 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (18.27%) Docker
2 7 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
5 3 (1.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.77%) Terraform
3 7 (3.37%) Grafana
4 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.92%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) Plesk
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Graylog
Vendors
1 20 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.25%) Oracle
3 9 (4.33%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.85%) Google
5 6 (2.88%) Cisco
5 6 (2.88%) VMware
6 5 (2.40%) Meraki
6 5 (2.40%) Synology
6 5 (2.40%) Veeam
7 4 (1.92%) Databricks
7 4 (1.92%) IBM
7 4 (1.92%) Informatica
7 4 (1.92%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) Dell
9 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.96%) Sony
9 2 (0.96%) Splunk
9 2 (0.96%) UiPath