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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 214 147
Rank change year-on-year -40 -67 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 136 237 605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.57% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.39% 5.92% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 91 129 489
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,124 £39,717
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +6.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £57,547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.91% -8.29%

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 2,127 4,001 6,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 26.49% 24.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 2,420 5,739
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,738 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,052 £50,649 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £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 26 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 (3.68%) Anypoint
1 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.68%) CMS
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.21%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.47%) Confluence
4 2 (1.47%) Mendix
5 1 (0.74%) Drupal
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.85%) AWS
2 39 (28.68%) Azure
3 19 (13.97%) Pulumi
4 16 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (10.29%) GitHub
6 10 (7.35%) GCP
7 7 (5.15%) dbt
7 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.41%) Boomi
8 6 (4.41%) SaaS
8 6 (4.41%) Serverless
9 5 (3.68%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.68%) Workato
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.21%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (2.21%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.97%) Broadband
2 6 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.68%) DNS
4 4 (2.94%) DHCP
4 4 (2.94%) VPN
4 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.74%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.79%) RDBMS
3 27 (19.85%) NoSQL
4 25 (18.38%) MySQL
5 21 (15.44%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.15%) Metadata
7 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.41%) Power BI
8 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.94%) FileMaker
9 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.21%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.74%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 26 (19.12%) Git
2 19 (13.97%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.15%) JIRA
4 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.94%) Selenium
6 3 (2.21%) JUnit
7 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.47%) GitLab
7 2 (1.47%) Postman
7 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) Mockito
8 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.97%) Law
4 18 (13.24%) Finance
5 12 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.35%) Legal
7 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.68%) Retail
9 4 (2.94%) Marketing
10 3 (2.21%) Banking
11 2 (1.47%) Front Office
11 2 (1.47%) German Language
12 1 (0.74%) Advertising
12 1 (0.74%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Electronics
12 1 (0.74%) French Language
12 1 (0.74%) Local Government
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Developer
2 25 (18.38%) Lead
3 19 (13.97%) Analyst
4 17 (12.50%) Senior
5 14 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Architect
8 9 (6.62%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.88%) IT Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Team Leader
9 8 (5.88%) Web Developer
10 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.41%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Junior
11 6 (4.41%) Support Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.85%) CSS
2 26 (19.12%) HTML
3 22 (16.18%) .NET
3 22 (16.18%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (16.18%) React
4 19 (13.97%) OpenTelemetry
5 18 (13.24%) REST
6 16 (11.76%) Node.js
6 16 (11.76%) Vue
7 15 (11.03%) AngularJS
8 11 (8.09%) JSON
8 11 (8.09%) SOAP
8 11 (8.09%) Web Services
9 10 (7.35%) .NET Core
9 10 (7.35%) RESTful
10 9 (6.62%) Laravel
11 8 (5.88%) XML
12 7 (5.15%) Spring
12 7 (5.15%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.94%) CCTV
6 4 (2.94%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.21%) Blog
7 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.21%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.47%) CMDB
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.47%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.26%) Linux
2 24 (17.65%) Unix
3 9 (6.62%) Windows
4 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.47%) Agile
2 49 (36.03%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (35.29%) DevOps
4 37 (27.21%) Containerisation
5 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
5 30 (22.06%) Mentoring
6 25 (18.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (16.18%) High Availability
9 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.44%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.71%) Cost Optimisation
10 20 (14.71%) Scrum
10 20 (14.71%) Task Automation
11 19 (13.97%) Budget Control
11 19 (13.97%) Data Modelling
11 19 (13.97%) GitOps
11 19 (13.97%) Product Management
11 19 (13.97%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 61 (44.85%) SQL
3 54 (39.71%) Python
4 41 (30.15%) Java
5 26 (19.12%) C#
6 22 (16.18%) Go
7 19 (13.97%) Bash
8 18 (13.24%) PHP
9 10 (7.35%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.88%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.41%) Delphi
12 5 (3.68%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.94%) Pascal
14 2 (1.47%) Ruby
14 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.74%) Dart
15 1 (0.74%) Groovy
15 1 (0.74%) R
15 1 (0.74%) Rust
15 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 16 (11.76%) Degree
3 12 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.15%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.29%) QA
2 11 (8.09%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.35%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) HL7
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (30.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.32%) Terraform
3 21 (15.44%) Ansible
3 21 (15.44%) Argo
4 20 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 19 (13.97%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.21%) Grafana
7 2 (1.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (16.18%) Google
2 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.29%) Oracle
4 6 (4.41%) Informatica
4 6 (4.41%) MuleSoft
4 6 (4.41%) SAP
4 6 (4.41%) Talend
5 5 (3.68%) Dell
5 5 (3.68%) Epicor
5 5 (3.68%) IBM
5 5 (3.68%) IFS
5 5 (3.68%) Infor
5 5 (3.68%) Jitterbit
5 5 (3.68%) SnapLogic
5 5 (3.68%) Software AG
5 5 (3.68%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.68%) Workday
6 2 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (1.47%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.47%) Red Hat