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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 150 119
Rank change year-on-year -73 -31 +9
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 174 308 810
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.39% 2.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.67% 9.02% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 149 269 683
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,988 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,957 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.71% +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 2,270 3,413 7,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.42% 26.52% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,676 2,444 6,177
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,075 £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 £80,060 £90,822 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.16%

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 4 April 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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.17%) CMS
3 6 (3.45%) nginx
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.87%) Confluence
4 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.15%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.15%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) Apache
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.30%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.13%) AWS
2 66 (37.93%) Azure
3 29 (16.67%) SaaS
4 18 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 17 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (9.20%) GitHub
7 13 (7.47%) GCP
8 10 (5.75%) Serverless
9 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.30%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Firewall
2 3 (1.72%) HTTP
2 3 (1.72%) RTP
2 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.72%) VoIP
2 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.57%) SAN
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.01%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (25.86%) SQL Server
3 27 (15.52%) NoSQL
4 26 (14.94%) MongoDB
5 20 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.20%) Power BI
7 13 (7.47%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (4.60%) DynamoDB
11 8 (4.60%) MariaDB
12 6 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (3.45%) Tableau
13 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (20.69%) Git
2 9 (5.17%) JIRA
3 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.30%) git-flow
4 4 (2.30%) Vite
5 3 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.72%) JMeter
5 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.15%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.57%) JUnit
7 1 (0.57%) Mockito
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.22%) Finance
4 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.02%) Health Technology
5 7 (4.02%) Law
6 4 (2.30%) Retail
6 4 (2.30%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.72%) Social Housing
8 2 (1.15%) Advertising
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Front Office
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (52.87%) Developer
2 38 (21.84%) PHP Developer
3 23 (13.22%) Software Developer
4 22 (12.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (12.64%) Senior
5 19 (10.92%) C# Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate Developer
6 18 (10.34%) Graduate Software Developer
7 17 (9.77%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Azure Developer
8 16 (9.20%) C# Software Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate C# Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 16 (9.20%) SQL Developer
9 13 (7.47%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 13 (7.47%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (35.06%) CSS
2 43 (24.71%) HTML
3 41 (23.56%) Laravel
4 29 (16.67%) React
5 27 (15.52%) RESTful
6 26 (14.94%) jQuery
7 20 (11.49%) Node.js
8 18 (10.34%) Vue
9 17 (9.77%) .NET
10 14 (8.05%) AngularJS
10 14 (8.05%) JSON
11 13 (7.47%) REST
12 12 (6.90%) Symfony
13 11 (6.32%) Kafka
14 10 (5.75%) HTML5
14 10 (5.75%) XML
15 9 (5.17%) CSS3
16 7 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (3.45%) Django
17 6 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Cloud Native
1 19 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.02%) IoT
4 7 (4.02%) NHS
5 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.72%) PropTech
7 3 (1.72%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (1.72%) Replication
7 3 (1.72%) Smart Home
7 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.54%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.30%) CentOS
4 4 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.72%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.72%) Rocky
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (41.38%) Agile
2 39 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (18.39%) CI/CD
5 31 (17.82%) Microservices
6 29 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 29 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 27 (15.52%) MVC
7 27 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 26 (14.94%) Data Modelling
8 26 (14.94%) DevOps
8 26 (14.94%) OOP
9 25 (14.37%) OO
10 21 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.20%) Open Source
12 16 (9.20%) TDD
12 16 (9.20%) Visualisation
13 15 (8.62%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.60%) SQL
2 68 (39.08%) PHP
3 47 (27.01%) JavaScript
4 38 (21.84%) Java
5 33 (18.97%) C#
6 25 (14.37%) Python
6 25 (14.37%) TypeScript
7 21 (12.07%) C++
8 16 (9.20%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.75%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.60%) Bash
11 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.72%) C
12 3 (1.72%) Go
12 3 (1.72%) Scala
12 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.57%) Korn
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (20.69%) Degree
2 24 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.72%) HNC
8 3 (1.72%) HND
8 3 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.17%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) HL7
5 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.30%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (14.94%) Docker
2 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.30%) vSphere
4 3 (1.72%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.32%) Ansible
2 11 (6.32%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Argo
4 3 (1.72%) Grafana
4 3 (1.72%) Nagios
4 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Graylog
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.75%) SAP
3 9 (5.17%) Oracle
4 5 (2.87%) VMware
5 4 (2.30%) Apple
5 4 (2.30%) Cisco
5 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.72%) BT
6 3 (1.72%) Databricks
6 3 (1.72%) Meraki
6 3 (1.72%) Mitel
6 3 (1.72%) Splunk
6 3 (1.72%) Synology
6 3 (1.72%) Veeam
6 3 (1.72%) Zend
7 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.57%) Dell
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry