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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 223 183
Rank change year-on-year -23 -40 -22
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 149 206 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.45% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 5.97% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 97 155 466
10th Percentile £36,400 £41,599 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,500 £72,483
90th Percentile £80,200 £86,668 £87,500
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 2,351 3,452 7,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.88% 24.27% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,379 6,213
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,008
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 £81,250 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,875 £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 8 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 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.01%) CMS
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Drupal
5 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.24%) AWS
2 37 (24.83%) Azure
3 19 (12.75%) Pulumi
4 16 (10.74%) GCP
5 12 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.70%) dbt
7 7 (4.70%) GitHub
7 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.03%) Serverless
9 4 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.68%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.01%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.45%) Broadband
2 5 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.68%) DHCP
3 4 (2.68%) DNS
3 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (18.79%) RDBMS
3 27 (18.12%) NoSQL
4 21 (14.09%) MySQL
5 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
6 13 (8.72%) MongoDB
7 12 (8.05%) Oracle Database
7 12 (8.05%) Power BI
8 11 (7.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (5.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.70%) Metadata
11 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.36%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.36%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.01%) FileMaker
13 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.34%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 32 (21.48%) Git
2 19 (12.75%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.70%) GitLab
4 4 (2.68%) Selenium
5 3 (2.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.34%) MSTest
6 2 (1.34%) Postman
6 2 (1.34%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.11%) Finance
2 24 (16.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.70%) Retail
5 6 (4.03%) Law
6 5 (3.36%) Banking
6 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Front Office
8 3 (2.01%) Aviation
8 3 (2.01%) Back Office
8 3 (2.01%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.01%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.34%) Legal
9 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) French Language
10 1 (0.67%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Developer
2 39 (26.17%) Data Engineer
3 29 (19.46%) Lead
4 23 (15.44%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Analyst
6 13 (8.72%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Applications Developer
8 9 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.04%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.37%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.03%) Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Applications Developer
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Applications Support
10 6 (4.03%) Systems Developer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.42%) Elastic Stack
1 20 (13.42%) HTML
2 19 (12.75%) CSS
2 19 (12.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 19 (12.75%) REST
3 17 (11.41%) React
4 15 (10.07%) .NET
5 11 (7.38%) Kafka
5 11 (7.38%) Node.js
6 10 (6.71%) PySpark
7 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.37%) Vue
8 7 (4.70%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.03%) Classic ASP
9 6 (4.03%) Django
10 5 (3.36%) Laravel
10 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.36%) SQLAlchemy
11 4 (2.68%) Flask
11 4 (2.68%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) CUDA
3 6 (4.03%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.68%) CCTV
5 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.68%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.01%) Blog
6 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.67%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.79%) Linux
2 19 (12.75%) Unix
3 7 (4.70%) Windows
4 4 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.20%) Agile
1 45 (30.20%) DevOps
2 40 (26.85%) CI/CD
3 39 (26.17%) Analytics
3 39 (26.17%) Data Modelling
4 35 (23.49%) Containerisation
5 34 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.81%) ETL
8 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (19.46%) Performance Optimisation
10 28 (18.79%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (17.45%) Data Engineering
11 26 (17.45%) GitOps
12 25 (16.78%) Data Architecture
13 24 (16.11%) Mentoring
14 22 (14.77%) Cost Optimisation
14 22 (14.77%) Software Engineering
15 21 (14.09%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (14.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.30%) SQL
2 60 (40.27%) Python
3 49 (32.89%) JavaScript
4 36 (24.16%) Java
5 21 (14.09%) Go
6 19 (12.75%) Bash
7 14 (9.40%) C#
7 14 (9.40%) PHP
8 7 (4.70%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.68%) Delphi
10 4 (2.68%) Pascal
10 4 (2.68%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.34%) Bicep
11 2 (1.34%) Ruby
11 2 (1.34%) Scala
11 2 (1.34%) VBA
12 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.67%) R
12 1 (0.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) AWS Certification
1 20 (13.42%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (12.08%) QA
3 17 (11.41%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (30.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.49%) Terraform
3 22 (14.77%) Prometheus
4 21 (14.09%) Ansible
4 21 (14.09%) Argo
5 19 (12.75%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.01%) Grafana
7 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.67%) SCCM
7 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.09%) Google
3 19 (12.75%) Oracle
4 11 (7.38%) Databricks
5 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) Foundry
6 1 (0.67%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir
6 1 (0.67%) Perforce
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) Solace