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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 259 196
Rank change year-on-year -14 -63 -39
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 191 178 441
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.08% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.26% 5.58% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 140 144 321
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,840 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £83,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 3,049 3,189 5,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.96% 19.32% 20.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 2,138 4,479
10th Percentile £36,275 £35,854 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% -0.80%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,751 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -4.00%

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 27 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 6 (3.14%) Apache
1 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.57%) CMS
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Moodle
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.27%) AWS
2 51 (26.70%) Azure
3 25 (13.09%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.95%) GCP
5 14 (7.33%) GitHub
6 12 (6.28%) Serverless
7 11 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.62%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.62%) SaaS
12 4 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Broadband
2 5 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.09%) DHCP
3 4 (2.09%) DNS
3 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.09%) VPN
4 2 (1.05%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.89%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (20.94%) SQL Server
3 33 (17.28%) MySQL
4 25 (13.09%) Power BI
5 23 (12.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (9.95%) MongoDB
7 15 (7.85%) RDBMS
8 14 (7.33%) Oracle Database
9 12 (6.28%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.14%) Tableau
11 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.09%) Ataccama
12 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.09%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (2.09%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (27.75%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) GitLab
3 6 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.05%) Bower
4 2 (1.05%) JUnit
4 2 (1.05%) MSTest
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) CMake
5 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.52%) Maven
5 1 (0.52%) Mockito
5 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 50 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.14%) Finance
4 15 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.24%) Law
6 10 (5.24%) Marketing
7 9 (4.71%) Retail
8 8 (4.19%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.14%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.62%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.62%) Legal
11 4 (2.09%) Back Office
12 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.57%) Banking
12 3 (1.57%) Front Office
12 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.05%) Aviation
13 2 (1.05%) Games
13 2 (1.05%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 71 (37.17%) Developer
2 41 (21.47%) Senior
3 33 (17.28%) Data Engineer
4 29 (15.18%) Analyst
5 23 (12.04%) Lead
6 22 (11.52%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.90%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.81%) Data Analyst
10 12 (6.28%) Systems Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Consultant
12 8 (4.19%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Applications Support
14 6 (3.14%) Architect
14 6 (3.14%) Marketing Analyst
14 6 (3.14%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
14 6 (3.14%) Senior Applications Developer
14 6 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.32%) CSS
1 35 (18.32%) REST
2 34 (17.80%) HTML
3 33 (17.28%) React
4 23 (12.04%) Node.js
5 17 (8.90%) .NET
6 15 (7.85%) Kafka
7 14 (7.33%) Vue
8 13 (6.81%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.81%) Spring
9 12 (6.28%) jQuery
9 12 (6.28%) RESTful
10 11 (5.76%) Flask
10 11 (5.76%) PySpark
11 10 (5.24%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.24%) Web Services
12 9 (4.71%) HTML5
12 9 (4.71%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (3.14%) Laravel
13 6 (3.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.14%) CUDA
5 6 (3.14%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.62%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.09%) CCTV
7 4 (2.09%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.57%) Replication
9 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.28%) Linux
2 8 (4.19%) Windows
3 4 (2.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.60%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.75%) Analytics
3 46 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.56%) Data Modelling
5 42 (21.99%) Software Engineering
6 40 (20.94%) Agile
7 39 (20.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (17.80%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (16.23%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (16.23%) Decision-Making
11 30 (15.71%) DevOps
11 30 (15.71%) ETL
12 29 (15.18%) Microservices
13 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (13.61%) AI
14 26 (13.61%) Data Engineering
15 25 (13.09%) Data Architecture
16 23 (12.04%) Computer Science
16 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.79%) SQL
2 51 (26.70%) JavaScript
3 50 (26.18%) Python
4 29 (15.18%) Java
5 20 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.42%) C#
7 16 (8.38%) PHP
8 6 (3.14%) VBA
9 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.09%) Delphi
10 4 (2.09%) Pascal
10 4 (2.09%) R
10 4 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.05%) Bash
12 2 (1.05%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.52%) Go
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 30 (15.71%) Degree
2 16 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 23 (12.04%) GDPR
3 22 (11.52%) QA
4 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (1.05%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 41 (21.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.47%) Terraform
3 4 (2.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.57%) Grafana
4 3 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (26.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.66%) Oracle
3 12 (6.28%) Databricks
4 4 (2.09%) Google
4 4 (2.09%) IBM
4 4 (2.09%) Informatica
4 4 (2.09%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.57%) SAP
6 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.52%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.52%) Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir
7 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Solace
7 1 (0.52%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.52%) TippingPoint