MySQL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MySQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 143 135
Rank change year-on-year -72 -8 -62
Permanent jobs citing MySQL 299 776 928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.53% 2.17% 2.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.39% 9.76% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 245 646 796
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% +2.73%

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 3,562 7,951 9,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.23% 22.26% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 6,262 6,517
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £106,125 £101,185
UK median annual salary £61,375 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -10.16% +6.67%

MySQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MySQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MySQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MySQL.

MySQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MySQL over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

MySQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.02%) Confluence
2 13 (4.35%) Apache Solr
3 12 (4.01%) CMS
4 10 (3.34%) WordPress
5 9 (3.01%) IIS
5 9 (3.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.34%) Apache
7 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) SPSS
4 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Magento
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 128 (42.81%) AWS
2 101 (33.78%) Azure
3 33 (11.04%) SaaS
4 28 (9.36%) GCP
5 25 (8.36%) Power Platform
6 20 (6.69%) Cloudflare
7 19 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.35%) PaaS
8 18 (6.02%) Power Automate
8 18 (6.02%) Serverless
9 17 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.69%) GitHub
9 17 (5.69%) IaaS
10 16 (5.35%) Azure AI
10 16 (5.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (5.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (5.35%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.03%) DNS
2 21 (7.02%) Firewall
3 18 (6.02%) VPN
4 16 (5.35%) SD-WAN
4 16 (5.35%) WAN
5 6 (2.01%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.01%) IPsec
5 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.34%) Internet
7 2 (0.67%) Multicast
7 2 (0.67%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.33%) RFID
8 1 (0.33%) RTP
8 1 (0.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (29.43%) SQL Server
2 56 (18.73%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.03%) NoSQL
3 30 (10.03%) Relational Database
4 23 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.69%) Power BI
5 21 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.35%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.68%) Redis
8 8 (2.68%) MariaDB
9 7 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.34%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.01%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (2.01%) Couchbase
10 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (36.12%) Git
2 18 (6.02%) JIRA
3 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket
3 9 (3.01%) NUnit
3 9 (3.01%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.68%) Jasmine
5 7 (2.34%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.01%) webpack
7 5 (1.67%) Maven
7 5 (1.67%) PHPUnit
8 4 (1.34%) Gradle
9 3 (1.00%) GitLab
9 3 (1.00%) Grunt
9 3 (1.00%) Subversion
10 2 (0.67%) git-flow
10 2 (0.67%) Mocha
10 2 (0.67%) Vite
11 1 (0.33%) Babel
11 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.75%) Finance
3 22 (7.36%) Games
4 16 (5.35%) Retail
5 15 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.68%) Law
7 11 (3.68%) Marketing
8 10 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.34%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.67%) Banking
9 5 (1.67%) Social Housing
9 5 (1.67%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.34%) Advertising
10 4 (1.34%) Local Government
11 3 (1.00%) Electronics
12 2 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (58.53%) Developer
2 58 (19.40%) Senior
3 47 (15.72%) PHP Developer
4 43 (14.38%) Graduate
4 43 (14.38%) Graduate Developer
5 42 (14.05%) IT Graduate
6 41 (13.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 36 (12.04%) Senior Developer
8 27 (9.03%) C# Developer
9 26 (8.70%) Software Engineer
10 22 (7.36%) Architect
11 18 (6.02%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (5.69%) .NET Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Graduate C# Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 15 (5.02%) SQL Developer
14 14 (4.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (4.01%) Software Developer
15 12 (4.01%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (35.79%) CSS
2 80 (26.76%) .NET
3 69 (23.08%) HTML
4 64 (21.40%) React
5 57 (19.06%) ASP.NET
6 56 (18.73%) jQuery
7 44 (14.72%) RESTful
8 41 (13.71%) Node.js
8 41 (13.71%) Vue
9 34 (11.37%) Laravel
10 28 (9.36%) AngularJS
10 28 (9.36%) REST
11 22 (7.36%) LAMP
11 22 (7.36%) Web Services
12 20 (6.69%) Spring Boot
13 19 (6.35%) Spring
14 17 (5.69%) Symfony
15 16 (5.35%) Kafka
16 14 (4.68%) Jest
16 14 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.69%) NHS
3 16 (5.35%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.35%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.01%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.01%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.68%) IoT
6 8 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.34%) Online Games
8 6 (2.01%) Legacy Code
8 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.67%) Smart Home
10 4 (1.34%) FMCG
10 4 (1.34%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.37%) Linux
2 9 (3.01%) Windows
3 7 (2.34%) CentOS
4 6 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Debian
6 2 (0.67%) Rocky
6 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (41.81%) Agile
2 103 (34.45%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (25.75%) CI/CD
4 70 (23.41%) MVC
5 61 (20.40%) Computer Science
6 59 (19.73%) OOP
7 57 (19.06%) DevOps
8 56 (18.73%) OO
9 50 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 47 (15.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 47 (15.72%) Software Engineering
11 39 (13.04%) B2B
11 39 (13.04%) Microservices
12 36 (12.04%) E-Commerce
13 31 (10.37%) Analytics
14 29 (9.70%) Migration
15 25 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (8.36%) Roadmaps
15 25 (8.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (41.81%) PHP
2 114 (38.13%) JavaScript
3 98 (32.78%) SQL
4 86 (28.76%) Java
5 72 (24.08%) C#
6 55 (18.39%) Python
7 50 (16.72%) TypeScript
8 43 (14.38%) C++
9 25 (8.36%) PowerShell
10 16 (5.35%) Bicep
11 7 (2.34%) Go
12 6 (2.01%) Bash
12 6 (2.01%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.34%) Perl
14 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.67%) C
15 2 (0.67%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 67 (22.41%) Degree
2 53 (17.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.36%) DBS Check
4 16 (5.35%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.68%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.34%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.69%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) GDPR
3 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) GMP
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (17.73%) Docker
2 16 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.67%) KVM
6 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.33%) Corosync
6 1 (0.33%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.03%) Terraform
3 17 (5.69%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (4.01%) Ansible
5 8 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.01%) Grafana
7 5 (1.67%) Argo
8 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.67%) Nagios
8 2 (0.67%) Puppet
8 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.33%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.33%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.33%) Icinga
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) logstash
9 1 (0.33%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.33%) Pacemaker
9 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.35%) Databricks
2 16 (5.35%) Meraki
3 13 (4.35%) Google
4 11 (3.68%) Rollbar
5 9 (3.01%) Oracle
6 8 (2.68%) SAP
7 7 (2.34%) VMware
8 6 (2.01%) Twitter
9 5 (1.67%) Adobe
9 5 (1.67%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.67%) Informatica
9 5 (1.67%) New Relic
9 5 (1.67%) Talend
10 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.34%) Sage
10 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.34%) WooCommerce
11 3 (1.00%) RedGate
12 2 (0.67%) Zoho