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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 226 182
Rank change year-on-year -34 -44 -25
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 147 206 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.46% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.30% 5.90% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 97 156 463
10th Percentile £36,400 £41,687 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,200 £86,460 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 2,333 3,489 7,222
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.73% 24.70% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 2,412 6,198
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,438 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 6 May 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 7 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.04%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.04%) CMS
4 2 (1.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Drupal
5 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.41%) AWS
2 35 (23.81%) Azure
3 19 (12.93%) Pulumi
4 16 (10.88%) GCP
5 11 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub
8 7 (4.76%) dbt
8 7 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.08%) Serverless
10 4 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.72%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.04%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.33%) Broadband
2 5 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.72%) DHCP
3 4 (2.72%) DNS
3 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (19.05%) RDBMS
3 27 (18.37%) NoSQL
4 21 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 19 (12.93%) MySQL
6 12 (8.16%) Oracle Database
7 11 (7.48%) MongoDB
7 11 (7.48%) Power BI
8 10 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (5.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.76%) Metadata
11 5 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.40%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.04%) FileMaker
12 3 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.36%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 31 (21.09%) Git
2 19 (12.93%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.76%) GitLab
4 6 (4.08%) Selenium
5 4 (2.72%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.04%) JIRA
6 3 (2.04%) JUnit
7 2 (1.36%) MSTest
7 2 (1.36%) Postman
7 2 (1.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (15.65%) Finance
4 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.76%) Retail
6 5 (3.40%) Banking
6 5 (3.40%) Law
6 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.72%) Front Office
8 3 (2.04%) Aviation
8 3 (2.04%) Back Office
8 3 (2.04%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.04%) Marketing
9 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.36%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Developer
2 39 (26.53%) Data Engineer
3 29 (19.73%) Lead
4 21 (14.29%) Senior
5 16 (10.88%) Analyst
6 13 (8.84%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.44%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.44%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.08%) Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Applications Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Applications Support
10 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Systems Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (12.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (12.24%) CSS
3 18 (12.24%) HTML
3 18 (12.24%) REST
4 15 (10.20%) React
5 14 (9.52%) .NET
6 11 (7.48%) Kafka
6 11 (7.48%) Node.js
7 10 (6.80%) PySpark
8 8 (5.44%) Django
9 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.76%) FastAPI
9 7 (4.76%) Vue
10 6 (4.08%) Classic ASP
10 6 (4.08%) Flask
11 5 (3.40%) Laravel
11 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.40%) Spring
11 5 (3.40%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.08%) CUDA
3 6 (4.08%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.72%) CCTV
5 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.04%) Blog
6 3 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.36%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.05%) Linux
2 19 (12.93%) Unix
3 7 (4.76%) Windows
4 4 (2.72%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.61%) Agile
1 45 (30.61%) DevOps
2 39 (26.53%) Analytics
2 39 (26.53%) CI/CD
2 39 (26.53%) Data Modelling
3 36 (24.49%) Containerisation
4 34 (23.13%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.09%) ETL
7 30 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (19.73%) Performance Optimisation
9 28 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (17.69%) Data Engineering
11 25 (17.01%) Data Architecture
12 24 (16.33%) GitOps
12 24 (16.33%) Mentoring
13 22 (14.97%) Cost Optimisation
13 22 (14.97%) Software Engineering
14 20 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (13.61%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.90%) SQL
2 62 (42.18%) Python
3 47 (31.97%) JavaScript
4 38 (25.85%) Java
5 21 (14.29%) Go
6 19 (12.93%) Bash
7 14 (9.52%) PHP
8 13 (8.84%) C#
9 7 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.08%) Delphi
10 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.72%) Pascal
11 4 (2.72%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.36%) Bicep
12 2 (1.36%) Ruby
12 2 (1.36%) Scala
12 2 (1.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) AWS Certification
2 19 (12.93%) Degree
3 12 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.88%) GDPR
2 16 (10.88%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.36%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (0.68%) HL7
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (30.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.81%) Terraform
3 22 (14.97%) Prometheus
4 21 (14.29%) Ansible
4 21 (14.29%) Argo
5 19 (12.93%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.68%) SCCM
7 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.29%) Google
2 21 (14.29%) Oracle
3 11 (7.48%) Databricks
4 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.68%) Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.68%) Palantir
5 1 (0.68%) Perforce
5 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) Solace