Hybrid/Remote Relational Database Job Trends

Relational Database
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 295 177
Rank change year-on-year +32 -118 -23
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 214 133 444
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.79% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.76% 4.96% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 152 110 190
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,625 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Relational Database 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 3,168 2,680 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.71% 15.89% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,450 1,843 3,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,425
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £139,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Relational Database
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Relational Database
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Relational Database salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Relational Database
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 4 (1.87%) Apache
1 4 (1.87%) IIS
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Notion
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (0.93%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.47%) Finacle
2 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.05%) AWS
2 54 (25.23%) Azure
3 34 (15.89%) GitHub
4 31 (14.49%) Power Platform
5 23 (10.75%) Serverless
6 21 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.01%) GCP
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.67%) SaaS
11 8 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (3.27%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.27%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (33.64%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (25.70%) SQL Server
3 39 (18.22%) MySQL
4 29 (13.55%) Power BI
5 18 (8.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.01%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.61%) RDBMS
8 10 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.67%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (3.27%) Tableau
12 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.80%) Oracle Database
13 5 (2.34%) Redis
13 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (1.87%) Ataccama
14 4 (1.87%) ClickHouse
14 4 (1.87%) IBM InfoSphere
14 4 (1.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (28.97%) Git
2 9 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.74%) GitLab
3 8 (3.74%) JIRA
4 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Bower
5 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) NUnit
5 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.47%) CMake
6 1 (0.47%) Mocha
6 1 (0.47%) MSTest
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 74 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (17.76%) Finance
4 24 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
6 19 (8.88%) Law
7 15 (7.01%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.14%) Marketing
9 8 (3.74%) Retail
10 7 (3.27%) Banking
11 5 (2.34%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.34%) Legal
11 5 (2.34%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.87%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.93%) Back Office
14 2 (0.93%) Front Office
14 2 (0.93%) Games
14 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 94 (43.93%) Developer
2 53 (24.77%) Senior
3 28 (13.08%) Senior Developer
3 28 (13.08%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.15%) Analyst
5 25 (11.68%) Lead
6 22 (10.28%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.94%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.01%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.07%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.61%) .NET Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Senior C# Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Systems Developer
13 8 (3.74%) Consultant
13 8 (3.74%) SQL Developer
14 6 (2.80%) C# .NET Developer
14 6 (2.80%) Technical Leader
14 6 (2.80%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.83%) React
2 49 (22.90%) CSS
3 45 (21.03%) HTML
4 41 (19.16%) REST
5 39 (18.22%) .NET
6 26 (12.15%) AngularJS
6 26 (12.15%) Node.js
7 22 (10.28%) RESTful
8 21 (9.81%) Spring
9 20 (9.35%) .NET Core
9 20 (9.35%) .NET Framework
9 20 (9.35%) Entity Framework
10 17 (7.94%) Vue
11 16 (7.48%) jQuery
12 14 (6.54%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.54%) Terraform
12 14 (6.54%) Web Services
13 12 (5.61%) Kafka
13 12 (5.61%) PySpark
14 11 (5.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.34%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.87%) PMI
8 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.40%) CMDB
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.40%) NHS
9 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.93%) Replication
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.74%) Linux
1 8 (3.74%) Windows
2 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.93%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.65%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.45%) Software Engineering
3 73 (34.11%) Agile
4 54 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 50 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (21.03%) Data Modelling
8 43 (20.09%) Analytics
9 42 (19.63%) AI
10 40 (18.69%) DevOps
11 37 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (16.36%) Microservices
13 30 (14.02%) Decision-Making
14 28 (13.08%) Clean Code
14 28 (13.08%) Code Quality
14 28 (13.08%) Collaborative Working
14 28 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.62%) Mentoring
15 27 (12.62%) Scrum
16 26 (12.15%) OO
Programming Languages
1 117 (54.67%) SQL
2 62 (28.97%) JavaScript
3 50 (23.36%) Python
4 38 (17.76%) C#
4 38 (17.76%) Java
5 32 (14.95%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.67%) PHP
7 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.34%) R
7 5 (2.34%) VBA
8 3 (1.40%) Clojure
8 3 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.40%) Haskell
8 3 (1.40%) Lisp
8 3 (1.40%) OCaml
8 3 (1.40%) Rust
9 2 (0.93%) C
9 2 (0.93%) Dart
9 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (16.82%) Degree
2 23 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.21%) QA
3 20 (9.35%) GDPR
4 7 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (24.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.80%) Ansible
2 6 (2.80%) Grafana
3 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.81%) Oracle
3 15 (7.01%) Databricks
4 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.87%) Google
5 4 (1.87%) IBM
5 4 (1.87%) Informatica
5 4 (1.87%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.40%) Sage
6 3 (1.40%) SAP
7 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.93%) Telerik
8 1 (0.47%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.47%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Solace
8 1 (0.47%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.47%) TippingPoint