Hybrid/Remote RDBMS Job Trends

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 380 469
Rank change year-on-year -9 +89 -34
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 31 45 122
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 1.37% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9 36 63
10th Percentile £51,000 £46,250 £46,199
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,011 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,600 £107,500 £81,850
UK median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +0.71% +14.37% -9.32%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

RDBMS 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 2,512 3,273 7,471
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 21.85% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,920 2,190 6,274
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,013
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,795 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDBMS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

RDBMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RDBMS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

RDBMS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

RDBMS
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) AWS
2 18 (58.06%) Pulumi
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) Broadband
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 20 (64.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (58.06%) Jaeger
General
1 18 (58.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Police
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Lead
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Team Leader
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Data Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 3 (9.68%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (58.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (16.13%) React
3 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
3 4 (12.90%) Flask
3 4 (12.90%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) FHIR
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) React Native
4 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Linux
1 18 (58.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Continuous Integration
1 20 (64.52%) DevOps
1 20 (64.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (61.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 18 (58.06%) Agile
3 18 (58.06%) Budget Control
3 18 (58.06%) Containerisation
3 18 (58.06%) Cost Optimisation
3 18 (58.06%) GitOps
3 18 (58.06%) High Availability
3 18 (58.06%) Mentoring
3 18 (58.06%) Product Management
3 18 (58.06%) Resource Management
3 18 (58.06%) Roadmaps
3 18 (58.06%) Task Automation
4 5 (16.13%) AI
4 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.13%) ETL
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (16.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
3 18 (58.06%) Bash
3 18 (58.06%) Go
3 18 (58.06%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (58.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (64.52%) Terraform
2 18 (58.06%) Ansible
2 18 (58.06%) Argo
2 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 18 (58.06%) Kustomize
2 18 (58.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft