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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 251 187
Rank change year-on-year +4 -64 -32
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 181 189 584
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.21% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.46% 5.77% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 122 149 437
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,124 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%

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 2,800 3,273 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.74% 20.92% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 2,200 6,105
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £47,500 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 26 June 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 5 (2.76%) Apache
1 5 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.66%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) Drupal
5 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Moodle
5 1 (0.55%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.55%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.04%) AWS
2 41 (22.65%) Azure
3 23 (12.71%) Power Platform
4 17 (9.39%) GCP
5 12 (6.63%) Pulumi
6 10 (5.52%) GitHub
6 10 (5.52%) Serverless
7 8 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.87%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.76%) dbt
10 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.76%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.50%) Broadband
2 5 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.21%) DHCP
3 4 (2.21%) DNS
3 4 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.21%) VPN
4 2 (1.10%) Intranet
5 1 (0.55%) Firewall
5 1 (0.55%) LAN
5 1 (0.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (25.41%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (16.57%) SQL Server
3 27 (14.92%) RDBMS
4 23 (12.71%) NoSQL
4 23 (12.71%) Power BI
4 23 (12.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (11.60%) MySQL
6 14 (7.73%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.18%) Oracle Database
8 8 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.21%) Metadata
10 4 (2.21%) Tableau
11 3 (1.66%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (23.20%) Git
2 12 (6.63%) Jaeger
3 7 (3.87%) GitLab
4 6 (3.31%) JIRA
5 5 (2.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.10%) Bower
6 2 (1.10%) JUnit
6 2 (1.10%) MSTest
6 2 (1.10%) Selenium
7 1 (0.55%) CMake
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.55%) Maven
7 1 (0.55%) Mockito
7 1 (0.55%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.55%) Valgrind
General
1 47 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.81%) Finance
4 11 (6.08%) Retail
5 10 (5.52%) Law
6 8 (4.42%) Marketing
7 7 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.31%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.76%) Banking
9 5 (2.76%) Health Technology
9 5 (2.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.66%) Aviation
10 3 (1.66%) Back Office
10 3 (1.66%) Front Office
11 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.10%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (35.36%) Developer
2 35 (19.34%) Data Engineer
3 31 (17.13%) Senior
4 28 (15.47%) Analyst
5 26 (14.36%) Lead
6 18 (9.94%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (7.18%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.63%) Systems Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Applications Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Architect
10 8 (4.42%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.87%) Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Senior Applications Developer
12 6 (3.31%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.13%) CSS
2 30 (16.57%) HTML
3 27 (14.92%) React
4 23 (12.71%) REST
5 16 (8.84%) Kafka
6 15 (8.29%) Node.js
7 14 (7.73%) FastAPI
8 13 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (6.63%) .NET
9 12 (6.63%) jQuery
9 12 (6.63%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (6.08%) Flask
10 11 (6.08%) Vue
11 10 (5.52%) Spring
12 9 (4.97%) HTML5
12 9 (4.97%) PySpark
13 8 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.42%) Web Services
14 7 (3.87%) RESTful
15 6 (3.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.31%) CUDA
4 6 (3.31%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.21%) CCTV
5 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.21%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.66%) Blog
6 3 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.66%) Replication
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.47%) Linux
2 12 (6.63%) Unix
3 8 (4.42%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.94%) CI/CD
2 49 (27.07%) Analytics
3 44 (24.31%) Data Modelling
4 43 (23.76%) Agile
5 38 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (20.44%) DevOps
6 37 (20.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (18.23%) Containerisation
9 31 (17.13%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (17.13%) Decision-Making
9 31 (17.13%) ETL
10 30 (16.57%) Software Engineering
11 29 (16.02%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (14.92%) Data Engineering
13 26 (14.36%) Microservices
14 25 (13.81%) Mentoring
15 24 (13.26%) Data Architecture
16 23 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (12.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.07%) SQL
2 60 (33.15%) Python
3 52 (28.73%) JavaScript
4 33 (18.23%) Java
5 18 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 15 (8.29%) PHP
7 14 (7.73%) Bash
8 13 (7.18%) C#
8 13 (7.18%) Go
9 5 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.76%) VBA
10 4 (2.21%) Delphi
10 4 (2.21%) Pascal
10 4 (2.21%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.66%) R
12 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) ABAP
13 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.55%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.81%) Degree
2 16 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.63%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.87%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.10%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.92%) Data Quality
2 22 (12.15%) GDPR
3 20 (11.05%) QA
4 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (25.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (20.44%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.68%) Terraform
3 16 (8.84%) Ansible
3 16 (8.84%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.63%) Argo
4 12 (6.63%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.36%) Oracle
3 16 (8.84%) Google
4 9 (4.97%) Databricks
5 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.10%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.55%) Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.55%) Solace
6 1 (0.55%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.55%) TippingPoint