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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 258 194
Rank change year-on-year -16 -64 -33
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 189 185 483
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.12% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.32% 5.77% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 139 149 357
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,620 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,992 3,209 6,027
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.85% 19.48% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,148 4,899
10th Percentile £36,552 £36,249 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,795 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.66% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.76%

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 21 July 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 (2.65%) Apache
1 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.59%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.53%) Drupal
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Moodle
5 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.63%) AWS
2 49 (25.93%) Azure
3 25 (13.23%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.58%) GCP
5 14 (7.41%) GitHub
6 12 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.35%) Serverless
7 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.70%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.17%) SaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Broadband
2 5 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.12%) DHCP
3 4 (2.12%) DNS
3 4 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.12%) VPN
4 2 (1.06%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.22%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 30 (15.87%) MySQL
4 25 (13.23%) Power BI
5 23 (12.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (10.05%) MongoDB
7 16 (8.47%) RDBMS
8 14 (7.41%) Oracle Database
9 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.17%) Tableau
12 5 (2.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
13 4 (2.12%) Metadata
14 3 (1.59%) Ataccama
14 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.59%) IBM InfoSphere
14 3 (1.59%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 49 (25.93%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) GitLab
3 6 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Bower
4 2 (1.06%) JUnit
4 2 (1.06%) MSTest
4 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) CMake
5 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) Mockito
5 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) Valgrind
General
1 51 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.81%) Finance
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.29%) Marketing
6 10 (5.29%) Retail
7 9 (4.76%) Law
8 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.17%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.65%) Banking
10 5 (2.65%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.65%) Legal
11 4 (2.12%) Back Office
12 3 (1.59%) Aviation
12 3 (1.59%) Front Office
13 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (36.51%) Developer
2 40 (21.16%) Senior
3 35 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 29 (15.34%) Analyst
5 23 (12.17%) Lead
6 20 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.88%) Data Analyst
10 12 (6.35%) Systems Developer
11 9 (4.76%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.23%) Consultant
12 8 (4.23%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.70%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.70%) Architect
14 6 (3.17%) Data Analytics Analyst
14 6 (3.17%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
14 6 (3.17%) Marketing Analytics Data Analyst
14 6 (3.17%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.46%) REST
2 32 (16.93%) CSS
3 31 (16.40%) HTML
3 31 (16.40%) React
4 23 (12.17%) Node.js
5 17 (8.99%) Kafka
6 14 (7.41%) FastAPI
6 14 (7.41%) Vue
7 13 (6.88%) .NET
8 12 (6.35%) jQuery
8 12 (6.35%) RESTful
8 12 (6.35%) Spring
9 11 (5.82%) Flask
10 10 (5.29%) PySpark
10 10 (5.29%) Web Services
11 9 (4.76%) HTML5
11 9 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (3.70%) Laravel
13 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.17%) CUDA
5 6 (3.17%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.65%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.12%) CCTV
7 4 (2.12%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.59%) Replication
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.06%) Blog
9 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.94%) Linux
2 8 (4.23%) Windows
3 4 (2.12%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.51%) CI/CD
2 51 (26.98%) Analytics
3 45 (23.81%) Data Modelling
4 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (21.16%) Software Engineering
6 39 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (19.05%) Agile
8 33 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (16.93%) Decision-Making
9 32 (16.93%) ETL
10 31 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (16.40%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (16.40%) Microservices
11 30 (15.87%) DevOps
12 27 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 27 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (12.70%) AI
13 24 (12.70%) Data Architecture
14 22 (11.64%) Containerisation
14 22 (11.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (50.26%) SQL
2 51 (26.98%) Python
3 48 (25.40%) JavaScript
4 30 (15.87%) Java
5 22 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.99%) PHP
7 14 (7.41%) C#
8 6 (3.17%) VBA
9 5 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.12%) Delphi
10 4 (2.12%) Pascal
10 4 (2.12%) R
10 4 (2.12%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.06%) Bash
12 2 (1.06%) Scala
13 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.53%) Dart
13 1 (0.53%) Go
13 1 (0.53%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.23%) Degree
2 16 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.06%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.87%) Data Quality
2 23 (12.17%) GDPR
3 21 (11.11%) QA
4 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.06%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (22.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.17%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) Ansible
3 4 (2.12%) Grafana
3 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.53%) SCCM
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.81%) Oracle
3 11 (5.82%) Databricks
4 5 (2.65%) Google
5 3 (1.59%) IBM
5 3 (1.59%) Informatica
5 3 (1.59%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (0.53%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.53%) Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.53%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.53%) Palantir
7 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.53%) Solace
7 1 (0.53%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.53%) TippingPoint