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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 178 134
Rank change year-on-year -72 -44 -1
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 159 288 778
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 2.04% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 8.25% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 136 244 689
10th Percentile £26,875 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.70% +0.44%
75th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,875 £85,000
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 2,333 3,489 7,222
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.73% 24.70% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 2,412 6,198
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £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 £82,438 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 6 May 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 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.03%) CMS
3 7 (4.40%) Confluence
3 7 (4.40%) nginx
4 5 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.26%) Apache
6 2 (1.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.63%) JBoss
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.52%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.65%) AWS
2 54 (33.96%) Azure
3 21 (13.21%) SaaS
4 18 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (10.06%) GitHub
5 16 (10.06%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.03%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.03%) Serverless
7 7 (4.40%) GCP
8 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.52%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.03%) Firewall
2 5 (3.14%) Broadband
3 3 (1.89%) HTTP
3 3 (1.89%) RTP
3 3 (1.89%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.89%) VoIP
3 3 (1.89%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.26%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.26%) SAN
4 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.63%) DNS
5 1 (0.63%) LAN
5 1 (0.63%) SSL
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (30.82%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (26.42%) SQL Server
3 29 (18.24%) MongoDB
4 23 (14.47%) NoSQL
5 19 (11.95%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.81%) Power BI
7 11 (6.92%) MariaDB
8 10 (6.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (3.14%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.89%) Tableau
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.26%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 34 (21.38%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) GitLab
2 6 (3.77%) JIRA
3 5 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.52%) Vite
5 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.26%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.26%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.26%) JMeter
6 2 (1.26%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.26%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) git-flow
7 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Finance
4 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.66%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.77%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
7 4 (2.52%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Advertising
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Law
9 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (42.77%) Developer
2 35 (22.01%) PHP Developer
3 22 (13.84%) Senior
4 20 (12.58%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 15 (9.43%) C# Developer
6 15 (9.43%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Azure Developer
7 14 (8.81%) C# Software Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate C# Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate Software Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 14 (8.81%) SQL Developer
8 12 (7.55%) Analyst
9 11 (6.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.45%) CSS
2 36 (22.64%) HTML
2 36 (22.64%) Laravel
3 27 (16.98%) RESTful
4 25 (15.72%) jQuery
5 23 (14.47%) React
6 18 (11.32%) Vue
7 17 (10.69%) Node.js
8 14 (8.81%) JSON
9 13 (8.18%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.18%) HTML5
9 13 (8.18%) REST
10 12 (7.55%) CSS3
11 11 (6.92%) .NET
11 11 (6.92%) XML
12 10 (6.29%) Kafka
13 8 (5.03%) Symfony
14 7 (4.40%) LEMP Stack
15 6 (3.77%) Django
16 5 (3.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.06%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.92%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.66%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.03%) NHS
6 7 (4.40%) IoT
7 6 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.14%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.52%) PropTech
9 4 (2.52%) Replication
9 4 (2.52%) Smart Home
9 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.26%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.01%) Linux
2 9 (5.66%) Ubuntu
2 9 (5.66%) Windows
3 5 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) CentOS
4 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.96%) Agile
2 34 (21.38%) Software Engineering
3 33 (20.75%) CI/CD
4 32 (20.13%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (18.24%) Microservices
6 28 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (16.35%) DevOps
8 24 (15.09%) Computer Science
8 24 (15.09%) Mentoring
8 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.47%) Data Modelling
10 19 (11.95%) MVC
10 19 (11.95%) OOP
10 19 (11.95%) Test Automation
11 17 (10.69%) OO
11 17 (10.69%) TDD
12 16 (10.06%) Open Source
13 14 (8.81%) API Design
13 14 (8.81%) BDD
13 14 (8.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 84 (52.83%) SQL
2 57 (35.85%) PHP
3 41 (25.79%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.13%) Java
5 27 (16.98%) Python
6 26 (16.35%) C#
7 19 (11.95%) TypeScript
8 17 (10.69%) C++
9 15 (9.43%) PowerShell
10 10 (6.29%) T-SQL
11 9 (5.66%) Bash
12 4 (2.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.89%) C
13 3 (1.89%) Go
13 3 (1.89%) Scala
14 2 (1.26%) Korn
14 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Degree
2 19 (11.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.14%) HNC
4 5 (3.14%) HND
4 5 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (8.18%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.92%) QA
4 5 (3.14%) SLA
5 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.52%) HL7
5 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.52%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (1.26%) GDPR
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.63%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 29 (18.24%) Docker
2 17 (10.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.14%) vSphere
5 3 (1.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.89%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.66%) Terraform
3 6 (3.77%) Ansible
4 4 (2.52%) Argo
5 3 (1.89%) Grafana
5 3 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.63%) Graylog
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.40%) Oracle
3 6 (3.77%) Cisco
3 6 (3.77%) VMware
4 5 (3.14%) Meraki
4 5 (3.14%) SAP
4 5 (3.14%) Synology
4 5 (3.14%) Veeam
5 4 (2.52%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.89%) Apple
6 3 (1.89%) BT
6 3 (1.89%) Databricks
6 3 (1.89%) Mitel
6 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.26%) Dell
7 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.26%) Splunk
7 2 (1.26%) Zend
8 1 (0.63%) Juniper