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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 204 175
Rank change year-on-year -56 -29 -15
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 139 208 619
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.57% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.00% 6.30% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 95 154 477
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,512 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £72,375
90th Percentile £82,000 £84,919 £85,000
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 2,317 3,303 7,231
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.08% 24.99% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,422 6,232
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £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 18 April 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 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Anypoint
2 4 (2.88%) CMS
2 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (1.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) Mendix
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.01%) AWS
2 41 (29.50%) Azure
3 19 (13.67%) Pulumi
4 17 (12.23%) GCP
5 12 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (7.91%) GitHub
7 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.04%) dbt
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.88%) Boomi
9 4 (2.88%) iPaaS
9 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.88%) Serverless
9 4 (2.88%) Workato
10 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.16%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.67%) Broadband
2 5 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.88%) DHCP
3 4 (2.88%) DNS
3 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) Firewall
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.46%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (21.58%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.42%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.39%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.07%) MySQL
6 12 (8.63%) Oracle Database
7 8 (5.76%) Power BI
8 7 (5.04%) Metadata
8 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.16%) FileMaker
11 3 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.72%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Git
2 19 (13.67%) Jaeger
3 6 (4.32%) Selenium
4 4 (2.88%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.88%) JIRA
5 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) JUnit
6 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 2 (1.44%) MSTest
6 2 (1.44%) Postman
6 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.55%) Finance
3 22 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Law
6 5 (3.60%) Banking
6 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.88%) Front Office
7 4 (2.88%) Legal
8 3 (2.16%) Aviation
8 3 (2.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.44%) Back Office
10 1 (0.72%) Electronics
10 1 (0.72%) French Language
10 1 (0.72%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Police
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.62%) Data Engineer
2 34 (24.46%) Developer
3 28 (20.14%) Lead
4 18 (12.95%) Senior
5 11 (7.91%) Analyst
5 11 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Team Leader
9 7 (5.04%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.04%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Web Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Junior
11 5 (3.60%) Senior Applications Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.83%) Elastic Stack
1 22 (15.83%) REST
2 19 (13.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 17 (12.23%) CSS
3 17 (12.23%) HTML
4 16 (11.51%) React
5 15 (10.79%) .NET
6 12 (8.63%) Node.js
7 9 (6.47%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.47%) Kafka
7 9 (6.47%) PySpark
7 9 (6.47%) SOAP
7 9 (6.47%) Vue
8 8 (5.76%) Django
9 7 (5.04%) FastAPI
9 7 (5.04%) JSON
9 7 (5.04%) RESTful
9 7 (5.04%) Web Services
10 6 (4.32%) Flask
10 6 (4.32%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.32%) CUDA
3 6 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.32%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.60%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.88%) CCTV
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.16%) Blog
6 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.16%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.44%) Replication
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.02%) Linux
2 23 (16.55%) Unix
3 7 (5.04%) Windows
4 4 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.13%) Agile
2 42 (30.22%) DevOps
3 37 (26.62%) Containerisation
3 37 (26.62%) Data Modelling
3 37 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.90%) Analytics
5 33 (23.74%) CI/CD
6 32 (23.02%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (20.86%) ETL
7 29 (20.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 27 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
10 24 (17.27%) Data Architecture
10 24 (17.27%) Data Engineering
11 23 (16.55%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (15.83%) Cost Optimisation
13 20 (14.39%) High Availability
13 20 (14.39%) Roadmaps
13 20 (14.39%) Task Automation
14 19 (13.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.48%) SQL
2 63 (45.32%) Python
3 51 (36.69%) JavaScript
4 41 (29.50%) Java
5 21 (15.11%) Go
6 19 (13.67%) Bash
7 18 (12.95%) C#
8 15 (10.79%) PHP
9 7 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.32%) Delphi
11 4 (2.88%) Pascal
11 4 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.44%) Bicep
12 2 (1.44%) Ruby
12 2 (1.44%) Scala
13 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.72%) R
13 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) AWS Certification
2 18 (12.95%) Degree
3 12 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.47%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 19 (13.67%) GDPR
3 11 (7.91%) QA
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) HL7
4 2 (1.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (30.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (29.50%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.18%) Terraform
3 22 (15.83%) Prometheus
4 21 (15.11%) Argo
5 20 (14.39%) Ansible
6 19 (13.67%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.72%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.55%) Oracle
3 21 (15.11%) Google
4 10 (7.19%) Databricks
5 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 4 (2.88%) Dell
6 4 (2.88%) Epicor
6 4 (2.88%) IBM
6 4 (2.88%) IFS
6 4 (2.88%) Infor
6 4 (2.88%) Informatica
6 4 (2.88%) Jitterbit
6 4 (2.88%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.88%) SnapLogic
6 4 (2.88%) Software AG
6 4 (2.88%) Talend
6 4 (2.88%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.88%) Workday
7 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
134 hybrid/remote Relational Database jobs