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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 144 121
Rank change year-on-year -80 -23 +13
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 172 311 807
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.42% 2.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.66% 9.08% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 146 273 682
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,400 £36,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £63,438 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £81,250
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 2,245 3,424 7,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.45% 26.69% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 2,421 6,126
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £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 £91,202 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -8.00%

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 31 March 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 12 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.23%) CMS
3 6 (3.49%) nginx
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.33%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.33%) Confluence
6 3 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.16%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.58%) Apache
8 1 (0.58%) JBoss
8 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.58%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.33%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.67%) AWS
2 69 (40.12%) Azure
3 27 (15.70%) SaaS
4 18 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.30%) GitHub
5 16 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (8.14%) GCP
7 9 (5.23%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.23%) Serverless
8 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.65%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.33%) DigitalOcean
11 4 (2.33%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.74%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) Firewall
1 3 (1.74%) HTTP
1 3 (1.74%) RTP
1 3 (1.74%) Unified Communications
1 3 (1.74%) VoIP
1 3 (1.74%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.58%) LAN
2 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.58%) SAN
2 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.49%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (26.74%) SQL Server
3 28 (16.28%) NoSQL
4 27 (15.70%) MongoDB
5 22 (12.79%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.30%) Power BI
7 13 (7.56%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (5.23%) MariaDB
11 8 (4.65%) DynamoDB
12 6 (3.49%) Tableau
13 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.74%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.16%) Big Data
14 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (24.42%) Git
2 11 (6.40%) JIRA
3 7 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.33%) git-flow
4 4 (2.33%) Vite
5 3 (1.74%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.74%) JMeter
5 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.16%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.58%) GitLab
7 1 (0.58%) JUnit
7 1 (0.58%) Mocha
7 1 (0.58%) Mockito
7 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 46 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.79%) Finance
4 16 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.23%) Law
6 5 (2.91%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.33%) Retail
7 4 (2.33%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.74%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.16%) Advertising
9 2 (1.16%) Automotive
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 93 (54.07%) Developer
2 34 (19.77%) PHP Developer
3 24 (13.95%) Senior
4 23 (13.37%) Software Developer
5 22 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (12.21%) C# Developer
7 18 (10.47%) Graduate
7 18 (10.47%) Graduate Developer
7 18 (10.47%) Graduate Software Developer
8 17 (9.88%) Software Engineer
9 16 (9.30%) Azure Developer
9 16 (9.30%) C# Software Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Graduate C# Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 16 (9.30%) SQL Developer
10 14 (8.14%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.40%) Analyst
11 11 (6.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (34.88%) CSS
2 42 (24.42%) HTML
3 36 (20.93%) Laravel
4 28 (16.28%) React
5 26 (15.12%) RESTful
6 23 (13.37%) jQuery
7 21 (12.21%) Node.js
8 20 (11.63%) .NET
9 17 (9.88%) Vue
10 15 (8.72%) AngularJS
11 14 (8.14%) REST
12 13 (7.56%) JSON
13 12 (6.98%) Symfony
14 9 (5.23%) Kafka
14 9 (5.23%) XML
15 8 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (4.07%) HTML5
17 6 (3.49%) CodeIgniter
17 6 (3.49%) CSS3
17 6 (3.49%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.05%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.23%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.07%) IoT
5 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.91%) NHS
5 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) PropTech
6 3 (1.74%) Replication
6 3 (1.74%) Smart Home
6 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.51%) Linux
2 14 (8.14%) Windows
3 8 (4.65%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.33%) CentOS
6 3 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.74%) Rocky
7 2 (1.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (42.44%) Agile
2 44 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.51%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (19.19%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (18.60%) Microservices
6 32 (18.60%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.86%) Mentoring
8 28 (16.28%) Computer Science
8 28 (16.28%) MVC
8 28 (16.28%) OOP
9 26 (15.12%) Data Modelling
9 26 (15.12%) OO
10 25 (14.53%) DevOps
10 25 (14.53%) Test Automation
11 19 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.88%) Open Source
12 17 (9.88%) TDD
13 16 (9.30%) User Experience
13 16 (9.30%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (52.33%) SQL
2 68 (39.53%) PHP
3 50 (29.07%) JavaScript
4 38 (22.09%) Java
5 35 (20.35%) C#
6 29 (16.86%) Python
7 23 (13.37%) TypeScript
8 21 (12.21%) C++
9 16 (9.30%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.81%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.65%) Bash
12 3 (1.74%) C
12 3 (1.74%) Go
12 3 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.74%) Scala
12 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.58%) Korn
13 1 (0.58%) Perl
13 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (20.93%) Degree
2 24 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.14%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.16%) HNC
8 2 (1.16%) HND
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.81%) QA
4 6 (3.49%) SLA
5 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.74%) HL7
6 3 (1.74%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (1.16%) GDPR
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (16.86%) Docker
2 14 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.33%) vSphere
4 3 (1.74%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.72%) Ansible
3 12 (6.98%) Terraform
4 4 (2.33%) Argo
5 3 (1.74%) Grafana
5 3 (1.74%) Nagios
5 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) Graylog
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) SAP
3 9 (5.23%) Oracle
4 5 (2.91%) VMware
5 4 (2.33%) Apple
5 4 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.74%) BT
6 3 (1.74%) Cisco
6 3 (1.74%) Databricks
6 3 (1.74%) Mitel
6 3 (1.74%) Splunk
6 3 (1.74%) Zend
7 2 (1.16%) Google
7 2 (1.16%) Meraki
7 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Synology
7 2 (1.16%) Veeam
8 1 (0.58%) Foundry