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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 130 107
Rank change year-on-year -74 -23 +18
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 182 437 600
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 2.55% 2.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.45% 10.27% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 153 290 524
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £87,500 £84,717
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.38%

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 2,155 4,257 4,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.23% 24.87% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,603 2,596 3,971
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,688 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -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 31 December 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 10 (5.49%) Apache Solr
2 9 (4.95%) Confluence
3 6 (3.30%) CMS
4 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.20%) nginx
6 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.10%) WordPress
8 1 (0.55%) IIS
8 1 (0.55%) JBoss
8 1 (0.55%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (41.21%) Azure
2 67 (36.81%) AWS
3 23 (12.64%) SaaS
4 17 (9.34%) GCP
5 14 (7.69%) GitHub
6 12 (6.59%) Serverless
7 8 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.65%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.65%) Firebase
12 3 (1.65%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) DHCP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (33.52%) SQL Server
2 33 (18.13%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.09%) Relational Database
4 18 (9.89%) MongoDB
5 14 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
7 12 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.40%) DynamoDB
9 8 (4.40%) MariaDB
10 6 (3.30%) Power BI
10 6 (3.30%) RDBMS
10 6 (3.30%) Tableau
11 3 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.65%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.65%) Redis
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 43 (23.63%) Git
2 18 (9.89%) JIRA
3 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.75%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.75%) git-flow
5 4 (2.20%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.65%) Mocha
6 3 (1.65%) webpack
7 2 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.10%) GitLab
7 2 (1.10%) JMeter
7 2 (1.10%) JUnit
7 2 (1.10%) Mockito
7 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.10%) Vite
8 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.58%) Finance
3 19 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.24%) Law
5 8 (4.40%) Front Office
6 7 (3.85%) Automotive
6 7 (3.85%) Marketing
7 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.20%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.65%) Billing
9 3 (1.65%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.10%) Advertising
10 2 (1.10%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (59.34%) Developer
2 33 (18.13%) PHP Developer
3 29 (15.93%) Graduate
3 29 (15.93%) Graduate Developer
4 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 24 (13.19%) Software Developer
5 21 (11.54%) C# Developer
6 19 (10.44%) IT Graduate
7 17 (9.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (8.79%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.69%) Support Engineer
10 13 (7.14%) Analyst
10 13 (7.14%) Azure Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Graduate C# Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 13 (7.14%) SQL Developer
11 10 (5.49%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.95%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.46%) CSS
2 44 (24.18%) .NET
3 40 (21.98%) HTML
4 35 (19.23%) jQuery
5 32 (17.58%) React
6 29 (15.93%) Laravel
7 26 (14.29%) ASP.NET
8 24 (13.19%) Node.js
9 19 (10.44%) AngularJS
10 18 (9.89%) REST
11 17 (9.34%) Symfony
12 12 (6.59%) CodeIgniter
12 12 (6.59%) Vue
13 11 (6.04%) CakePHP
13 11 (6.04%) RESTful
14 9 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.40%) Kafka
16 7 (3.85%) CSS3
16 7 (3.85%) HTML5
17 6 (3.30%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.40%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.75%) IoT
4 5 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.65%) Social Media
5 3 (1.65%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.10%) Clustering
6 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.10%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.68%) Linux
2 19 (10.44%) Windows
3 12 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.75%) Unix
5 3 (1.65%) Android
5 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.65%) CentOS
5 3 (1.65%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.65%) Rocky
5 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.10%) Solaris
6 2 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (50.55%) Agile
2 75 (41.21%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (25.82%) OO
4 46 (25.27%) CI/CD
5 45 (24.73%) MVC
6 39 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (19.78%) OOP
8 33 (18.13%) Computer Science
9 30 (16.48%) DevOps
10 26 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 25 (13.74%) Test Automation
12 24 (13.19%) Microservices
13 23 (12.64%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.99%) Containerisation
15 19 (10.44%) Data Modelling
15 19 (10.44%) User Experience
16 17 (9.34%) AI
16 17 (9.34%) ETL
17 16 (8.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (46.70%) PHP
2 82 (45.05%) SQL
3 66 (36.26%) JavaScript
4 58 (31.87%) C#
5 36 (19.78%) Java
6 35 (19.23%) TypeScript
7 31 (17.03%) Python
8 29 (15.93%) C++
9 7 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.75%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.20%) Bash
11 4 (2.20%) Go
11 4 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.65%) R
12 3 (1.65%) Scala
12 3 (1.65%) Swift
13 2 (1.10%) VB
14 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (22.53%) Degree
2 33 (18.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.59%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.30%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (20.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.79%) Terraform
3 15 (8.24%) Ansible
4 3 (1.65%) Grafana
4 3 (1.65%) Nagios
4 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.49%) SAP
3 6 (3.30%) Oracle
4 3 (1.65%) Apple
4 3 (1.65%) Databricks
4 3 (1.65%) Google
4 3 (1.65%) Zend
5 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.10%) Informatica
5 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.10%) RedGate
5 2 (1.10%) Splunk
5 2 (1.10%) Talend
5 2 (1.10%) VMware
6 1 (0.55%) IONA
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) WooCommerce