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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 240 179
Rank change year-on-year -3 -61 -21
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 155 198 582
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.36% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.35% 6.08% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 106 148 456
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,188 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £89,125 £88,125
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 2,442 3,255 7,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 22.28% 22.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,854 2,153 6,240
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,118 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,150 £100,000
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 25 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 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.94%) CMS
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Drupal
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.65%) JBoss
5 1 (0.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.77%) AWS
2 37 (23.87%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) Pulumi
4 16 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 15 (9.68%) GCP
6 9 (5.81%) GitHub
7 8 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.16%) Serverless
8 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.23%) dbt
10 5 (3.23%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.94%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.13%) Broadband
2 5 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.58%) DHCP
3 4 (2.58%) DNS
3 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.58%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.65%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (24.52%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (18.06%) RDBMS
3 26 (16.77%) NoSQL
4 25 (16.13%) SQL Server
5 21 (13.55%) MySQL
6 16 (10.32%) Power BI
7 15 (9.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (8.39%) MongoDB
9 12 (7.74%) Oracle Database
10 8 (5.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.87%) Metadata
12 5 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (23.23%) Git
2 18 (11.61%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.52%) GitLab
4 3 (1.94%) JIRA
5 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.29%) MSTest
5 2 (1.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.48%) Finance
2 24 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.81%) Retail
5 8 (5.16%) Law
6 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.23%) Banking
8 4 (2.58%) Front Office
8 4 (2.58%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.58%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.94%) Aviation
9 3 (1.94%) Back Office
9 3 (1.94%) Legal
9 3 (1.94%) Marketing
10 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
11 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (30.32%) Developer
2 37 (23.87%) Data Engineer
3 28 (18.06%) Lead
4 23 (14.84%) Senior
5 21 (13.55%) Analyst
6 13 (8.39%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.10%) Systems Developer
8 9 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.16%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.52%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.87%) Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Applications Developer
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Applications Support
12 5 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.48%) CSS
2 21 (13.55%) HTML
2 21 (13.55%) REST
3 19 (12.26%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (11.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (11.61%) React
5 14 (9.03%) Node.js
6 13 (8.39%) .NET
7 11 (7.10%) Kafka
8 10 (6.45%) PySpark
9 9 (5.81%) jQuery
10 8 (5.16%) HTML5
11 7 (4.52%) FastAPI
11 7 (4.52%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (3.87%) Classic ASP
13 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.23%) Django
13 5 (3.23%) Laravel
13 5 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
13 5 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.87%) CUDA
3 6 (3.87%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.58%) CCTV
5 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.58%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.94%) Blog
6 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.29%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.06%) Linux
2 18 (11.61%) Unix
3 7 (4.52%) Windows
4 4 (2.58%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.10%) Data Modelling
2 41 (26.45%) Analytics
3 40 (25.81%) Agile
3 40 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.16%) DevOps
5 36 (23.23%) Containerisation
6 35 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (21.29%) ETL
8 32 (20.65%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (17.42%) Performance Optimisation
10 27 (17.42%) Software Engineering
11 26 (16.77%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (16.77%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (16.13%) Data Architecture
12 25 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (16.13%) GitOps
13 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
14 22 (14.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 69 (44.52%) SQL
2 55 (35.48%) Python
3 50 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 31 (20.00%) Java
5 19 (12.26%) Bash
6 18 (11.61%) Go
7 14 (9.03%) C#
8 12 (7.74%) PHP
9 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.58%) Delphi
11 4 (2.58%) Pascal
11 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.94%) R
13 2 (1.29%) Bicep
13 2 (1.29%) Scala
13 2 (1.29%) VBA
14 1 (0.65%) Dart
14 1 (0.65%) Rust
14 1 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) AWS Certification
1 19 (12.26%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.29%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.71%) Data Quality
2 19 (12.26%) GDPR
3 14 (9.03%) QA
4 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.29%) WCAG
6 1 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.65%) HL7
System Software
1 47 (30.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (25.16%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.94%) Terraform
3 21 (13.55%) Prometheus
4 20 (12.90%) Ansible
5 18 (11.61%) Argo
5 18 (11.61%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.94%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.65%) SCCM
7 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.84%) Oracle
3 21 (13.55%) Google
4 11 (7.10%) Databricks
5 1 (0.65%) Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir
5 1 (0.65%) Perforce
5 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.65%) Solace