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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 184 171
Rank change year-on-year -84 -13 -53
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 201 281 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.70% 2.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.37% 9.70% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 171 231 364
10th Percentile £33,125 £25,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,867 £33,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £70,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £77,350
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -4.87%

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 3,157 2,897 5,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.50% 17.55% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 2,056 3,675
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,189 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £134,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 30 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 (3.98%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) WordPress
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Moodle
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 98 (48.76%) AWS
2 67 (33.33%) Azure
3 25 (12.44%) GitHub
4 19 (9.45%) SaaS
5 11 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
5 11 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.98%) GCP
6 10 (4.98%) Serverless
7 8 (3.98%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.49%) Stripe
10 4 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) Broadband
2 7 (3.48%) Firewall
3 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) SAN
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (41.79%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (24.38%) MongoDB
3 43 (21.39%) SQL Server
4 37 (18.41%) Relational Database
5 27 (13.43%) NoSQL
6 18 (8.96%) MariaDB
7 10 (4.98%) Power BI
8 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.99%) Metadata
9 6 (2.99%) Tableau
10 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.99%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.99%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.99%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.99%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Git
2 14 (6.97%) GitLab
3 11 (5.47%) JIRA
4 9 (4.48%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Mocha
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Public Sector
3 31 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.94%) Finance
5 18 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.46%) Health Technology
7 12 (5.97%) Law
8 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.49%) Legal
9 4 (1.99%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.49%) Local Government
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.00%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (39.80%) Developer
2 48 (23.88%) Senior
3 45 (22.39%) Software Engineer
4 35 (17.41%) PHP Developer
5 31 (15.42%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 18 (8.96%) C# Developer
7 18 (8.96%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Software Developer
12 12 (5.97%) Graduate
13 11 (5.47%) Architect
13 11 (5.47%) C# Software Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Senior C# Developer
15 9 (4.48%) Consultant
16 8 (3.98%) Graduate C# Developer
16 8 (3.98%) Graduate Software Developer
16 8 (3.98%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.84%) CSS
2 51 (25.37%) HTML
3 41 (20.40%) React
4 38 (18.91%) RESTful
5 34 (16.92%) .NET
5 34 (16.92%) Laravel
6 29 (14.43%) Node.js
7 27 (13.43%) jQuery
8 20 (9.95%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.95%) Vue
9 17 (8.46%) REST
10 15 (7.46%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.97%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.97%) CSS3
12 13 (6.47%) Entity Framework
12 13 (6.47%) HTML5
13 12 (5.97%) Terraform
14 11 (5.47%) ASP.NET
15 10 (4.98%) Spring
16 8 (3.98%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.47%) NHS
4 12 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.99%) Replication
7 5 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.49%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.99%) PropTech
8 4 (1.99%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.49%) Blog
9 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.49%) IoT
9 3 (1.49%) PMI
9 3 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.00%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.41%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.48%) Windows
4 5 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) CentOS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.80%) Agile
2 75 (37.31%) Software Engineering
3 59 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (27.36%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.89%) Microservices
6 42 (20.90%) DevOps
7 38 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (17.91%) Mentoring
9 33 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (13.93%) OOP
11 26 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (11.94%) Clean Code
12 24 (11.94%) Computer Science
12 24 (11.94%) Scrum
12 24 (11.94%) Web Development
13 23 (11.44%) Coaching
14 22 (10.95%) AI
14 22 (10.95%) Code Quality
15 21 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (10.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (46.77%) SQL
2 84 (41.79%) JavaScript
3 51 (25.37%) PHP
4 50 (24.88%) C#
5 45 (22.39%) Java
6 32 (15.92%) Python
7 30 (14.93%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.97%) C++
9 8 (3.98%) Ruby
10 7 (3.48%) Go
10 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.49%) Bash
11 5 (2.49%) Rust
12 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.49%) Perl
14 1 (0.50%) Korn
14 1 (0.50%) Scala
14 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (20.90%) Degree
2 17 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.49%) HNC
6 5 (2.49%) HND
7 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 8 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.48%) HL7
4 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.99%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.49%) vSphere
4 2 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.48%) Grafana
3 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.99%) Ansible
5 3 (1.49%) Plesk
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Graylog
Vendors
1 20 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.46%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 8 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (2.99%) Cisco
5 6 (2.99%) VMware
6 5 (2.49%) Meraki
6 5 (2.49%) Synology
6 5 (2.49%) Veeam
7 4 (1.99%) Databricks
7 4 (1.99%) IBM
7 4 (1.99%) Informatica
7 4 (1.99%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.00%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Sony
8 2 (1.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) UiPath
9 1 (0.50%) New Relic