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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 195 147
Rank change year-on-year -59 -48 -2
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 134 274 620
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.77% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.21% 6.78% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 87 124 505
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,236 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,206 £57,501
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +6.44% -4.17%
75th Percentile £66,875 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £91,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -6.77%

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 2,159 4,042 6,735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.16% 26.07% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,425 5,766
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 20 February 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 (3.73%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.73%) CMS
2 3 (2.24%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.49%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Mendix
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.27%) AWS
2 36 (26.87%) Azure
3 19 (14.18%) Pulumi
4 16 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.45%) GitHub
7 10 (7.46%) GCP
8 7 (5.22%) dbt
8 7 (5.22%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.48%) Boomi
9 6 (4.48%) SaaS
9 6 (4.48%) Serverless
10 5 (3.73%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.73%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.73%) Workato
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.24%) Firebase
12 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.18%) Broadband
2 5 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.99%) DNS
4 3 (2.24%) DHCP
4 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 3 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.75%) Firewall
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.37%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (22.39%) RDBMS
3 27 (20.15%) NoSQL
4 26 (19.40%) MySQL
5 18 (13.43%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.22%) Metadata
7 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.48%) Power BI
8 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.99%) FileMaker
8 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.24%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
11 1 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (19.40%) Git
2 19 (14.18%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.99%) Selenium
6 3 (2.24%) JUnit
7 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.49%) GitLab
7 2 (1.49%) Postman
7 2 (1.49%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.75%) Mockito
8 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (14.93%) Finance
4 19 (14.18%) Law
5 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Legal
6 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.73%) Marketing
7 5 (3.73%) Retail
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Electronics
9 2 (1.49%) Front Office
9 2 (1.49%) German Language
9 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) French Language
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (35.07%) Developer
2 25 (18.66%) Lead
3 18 (13.43%) Analyst
4 17 (12.69%) Senior
5 11 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.46%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.72%) Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.97%) Team Leader
8 8 (5.97%) Web Developer
9 7 (5.22%) IT Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Junior
10 6 (4.48%) Tester
11 5 (3.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) CSS
2 26 (19.40%) HTML
3 24 (17.91%) React
4 22 (16.42%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (15.67%) .NET
6 19 (14.18%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (13.43%) REST
8 17 (12.69%) Node.js
9 16 (11.94%) Vue
10 15 (11.19%) AngularJS
11 12 (8.96%) JSON
12 11 (8.21%) RESTful
12 11 (8.21%) SOAP
12 11 (8.21%) Web Services
13 10 (7.46%) .NET Core
14 9 (6.72%) Laravel
14 9 (6.72%) XML
15 7 (5.22%) Next.js
15 7 (5.22%) Spring
15 7 (5.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.22%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.99%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.24%) Blog
7 3 (2.24%) CCTV
7 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) CMDB
8 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.49%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.75%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.63%) Linux
2 24 (17.91%) Unix
3 8 (5.97%) Windows
4 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.99%) Agile
2 49 (36.57%) DevOps
3 47 (35.07%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (27.61%) Containerisation
5 31 (23.13%) CI/CD
5 31 (23.13%) Mentoring
6 26 (19.40%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (17.16%) High Availability
9 22 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (16.42%) Roadmaps
10 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (14.93%) Cost Optimisation
11 20 (14.93%) Scrum
11 20 (14.93%) Task Automation
12 19 (14.18%) Budget Control
12 19 (14.18%) GitOps
12 19 (14.18%) Product Management
12 19 (14.18%) Resource Management
12 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.76%) JavaScript
2 61 (45.52%) SQL
3 56 (41.79%) Python
4 40 (29.85%) Java
5 25 (18.66%) C#
6 23 (17.16%) Go
7 19 (14.18%) Bash
8 18 (13.43%) PHP
9 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
10 9 (6.72%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.73%) Delphi
11 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.24%) Pascal
13 2 (1.49%) Ruby
13 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.75%) Dart
14 1 (0.75%) Groovy
14 1 (0.75%) R
14 1 (0.75%) Rust
14 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) AWS Certification
2 16 (11.94%) Degree
3 13 (9.70%) Security Cleared
4 12 (8.96%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.94%) QA
2 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.22%) GDPR
4 3 (2.24%) HL7
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (31.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.64%) Terraform
3 21 (15.67%) Ansible
3 21 (15.67%) Argo
4 20 (14.93%) Prometheus
5 19 (14.18%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.24%) Grafana
7 2 (1.49%) SCCM
8 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Google
2 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.21%) Oracle
4 7 (5.22%) SAP
5 6 (4.48%) Informatica
5 6 (4.48%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.48%) Talend
6 5 (3.73%) Dell
6 5 (3.73%) Epicor
6 5 (3.73%) IBM
6 5 (3.73%) IFS
6 5 (3.73%) Infor
6 5 (3.73%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.73%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.73%) Software AG
6 5 (3.73%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.73%) Workday
7 2 (1.49%) Databricks
7 2 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.49%) Red Hat