RDBMS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 379 410
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 -45
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 43 216 273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.64% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 2.80% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 37 74 149
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,199 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £78,750 £109,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -3.57%

All Database and 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 3,491 7,722 10,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.22% 22.85% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,414 6,198 7,181
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

RDBMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RDBMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RDBMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RDBMS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

RDBMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
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 5 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 3 (6.98%) GemFire
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.65%) OpenEdge
4 1 (2.33%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) dbt
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Matillion
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 14 (32.56%) NoSQL
3 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.30%) MariaDB
4 4 (9.30%) MySQL
4 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.98%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.98%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (6.98%) Redis
6 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.65%) Big Data
6 2 (4.65%) Metadata
6 2 (4.65%) OLTP
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.65%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.33%) Airbyte
7 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Ant
2 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (4.65%) WebSpeed
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Front Office
5 3 (6.98%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Back Office
6 2 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Billing
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Senior
3 10 (23.26%) Architect
3 10 (23.26%) Data Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Domain Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Data Architect
5 6 (13.95%) Software Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Development Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Java Development Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Java Server Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) Spring
4 5 (11.63%) Kafka
4 5 (11.63%) Middleware
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET
5 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (9.30%) HTML
5 4 (9.30%) Symfony
5 4 (9.30%) WinForms
6 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.98%) JSON
6 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.65%) Bootstrap
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (4.65%) HTML5
7 2 (4.65%) Web Services
7 2 (4.65%) XML
8 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (9.30%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.98%) Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Equities
4 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.65%) Acoustics
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.88%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Unix
2 10 (23.26%) Windows
3 4 (9.30%) CentOS
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Design Patterns
2 11 (25.58%) Agile
2 11 (25.58%) Data Modelling
2 11 (25.58%) Open Source
2 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
3 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
3 10 (23.26%) Mentoring
3 10 (23.26%) Microservices
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.93%) Logical Data Model
4 9 (20.93%) Physical Data Model
4 9 (20.93%) Web Development
5 8 (18.60%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (18.60%) Data Architecture
5 8 (18.60%) IT Strategy
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Data Design
6 7 (16.28%) Data Strategy
6 7 (16.28%) Line Management
6 7 (16.28%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) C#
2 10 (23.26%) Java
2 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.63%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) C++
4 4 (9.30%) PHP
5 3 (6.98%) C
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) Fortran
6 2 (4.65%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) OpenEdge ABL
6 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Progress 4GL
6 2 (4.65%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) ProC
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (9.30%) vSphere
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) VMware
3 3 (6.98%) Solace
3 3 (6.98%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft