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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 144 110
Rank change year-on-year -27 -34 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 228 443 626
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.49% 2.26% 2.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.75% 9.94% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 202 278 538
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £27,438 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +1.81%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%

All Database and 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 2,339 4,455 5,329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.31% 22.74% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,800 2,715 4,258
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 19 November 2025.

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 14 (6.14%) Apache Solr
2 10 (4.39%) Confluence
3 9 (3.95%) CMS
4 7 (3.07%) IIS
5 6 (2.63%) WordPress
6 5 (2.19%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.75%) nginx
8 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.44%) Apache
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.44%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.86%) Azure
2 73 (32.02%) AWS
3 23 (10.09%) SaaS
4 19 (8.33%) GitHub
5 16 (7.02%) Cloudflare
5 16 (7.02%) GCP
6 13 (5.70%) Serverless
7 8 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.07%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.07%) npm
9 6 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.32%) Firebase
12 3 (1.32%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) Broadband
2 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) DHCP
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.44%) IPsec
3 1 (0.44%) IPv6
3 1 (0.44%) RFID
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (40.79%) SQL Server
2 41 (17.98%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (11.40%) Relational Database
4 25 (10.96%) MongoDB
5 24 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (9.21%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.70%) BusinessObjects
8 9 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.95%) MariaDB
9 7 (3.07%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.63%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.19%) Power BI
11 5 (2.19%) Redis
11 5 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.19%) Tableau
12 4 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 58 (25.44%) Git
2 22 (9.65%) JIRA
3 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.63%) NUnit
4 6 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.19%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.19%) git-flow
5 5 (2.19%) Jasmine
5 5 (2.19%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.32%) Mocha
6 3 (1.32%) webpack
7 2 (0.88%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.88%) JMeter
7 2 (0.88%) JUnit
7 2 (0.88%) Mockito
7 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) GitLab
8 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.61%) Finance
3 21 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.58%) Law
5 10 (4.39%) Marketing
6 7 (3.07%) Front Office
6 7 (3.07%) Games
6 7 (3.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.63%) Automotive
8 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Advertising
10 3 (1.32%) Billing
10 3 (1.32%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.32%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 148 (64.91%) Developer
2 48 (21.05%) Graduate
2 48 (21.05%) Graduate Developer
3 38 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 37 (16.23%) IT Graduate
5 30 (13.16%) Senior
6 29 (12.72%) C# Developer
7 23 (10.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.09%) Senior Developer
8 22 (9.65%) Software Developer
9 19 (8.33%) Graduate C# Developer
9 19 (8.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 19 (8.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 19 (8.33%) SQL Developer
10 17 (7.46%) Azure Developer
11 14 (6.14%) Analyst
11 14 (6.14%) Support Engineer
12 13 (5.70%) Graduate Software Developer
13 12 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.82%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (43.86%) CSS
2 72 (31.58%) .NET
3 53 (23.25%) HTML
4 52 (22.81%) jQuery
5 50 (21.93%) ASP.NET
6 42 (18.42%) React
7 29 (12.72%) Laravel
8 27 (11.84%) Node.js
9 22 (9.65%) AngularJS
10 20 (8.77%) RESTful
11 19 (8.33%) REST
11 19 (8.33%) Vue
12 17 (7.46%) Symfony
13 12 (5.26%) CSS3
13 12 (5.26%) HTML5
14 11 (4.82%) CakePHP
14 11 (4.82%) CodeIgniter
15 9 (3.95%) .NET Core
15 9 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.14%) Virtual Team
3 13 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.19%) Online Games
7 4 (1.75%) Clustering
8 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.32%) Social Media
8 3 (1.32%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.67%) Linux
2 22 (9.65%) Windows
3 15 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.19%) Unix
5 3 (1.32%) Android
5 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.32%) CentOS
5 3 (1.32%) Rocky
5 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.88%) Solaris
6 2 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (51.32%) Agile
2 96 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (29.82%) MVC
4 66 (28.95%) OO
5 55 (24.12%) OOP
6 53 (23.25%) CI/CD
6 53 (23.25%) Computer Science
7 48 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (14.47%) DevOps
9 30 (13.16%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.72%) AI
11 26 (11.40%) Microservices
12 25 (10.96%) Mentoring
12 25 (10.96%) Test Automation
13 23 (10.09%) Containerisation
14 20 (8.77%) ETL
14 20 (8.77%) High Availability
14 20 (8.77%) Scrum
15 18 (7.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 113 (49.56%) PHP
2 102 (44.74%) SQL
3 90 (39.47%) JavaScript
4 86 (37.72%) C#
5 59 (25.88%) Java
6 47 (20.61%) C++
7 41 (17.98%) TypeScript
8 36 (15.79%) Python
9 9 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.32%) Bash
12 3 (1.32%) Go
12 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.32%) R
12 3 (1.32%) Swift
13 2 (0.88%) Perl
13 2 (0.88%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (26.75%) Degree
2 53 (23.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) MCSE
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.89%) QA
2 7 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.63%) SLA
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) HL7
4 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (16.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (8.77%) Terraform
2 17 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Nagios
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.95%) SAP
3 7 (3.07%) Rollbar
4 6 (2.63%) Google
4 6 (2.63%) Oracle
5 5 (2.19%) Informatica
5 5 (2.19%) RedGate
5 5 (2.19%) Talend
6 4 (1.75%) WooCommerce
7 3 (1.32%) Adobe
7 3 (1.32%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.32%) Sage
8 2 (0.88%) Apple
8 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) Splunk
8 2 (0.88%) VMware
9 1 (0.44%) Databricks
9 1 (0.44%) Zend