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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 291 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 -126 -8
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 214 133 447
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.82% 1.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.66% 4.92% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 157 111 191
10th Percentile £39,591 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 3,215 2,706 4,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.07% 16.75% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 1,881 3,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 23 September 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 4 (1.87%) Apache
1 4 (1.87%) IIS
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.93%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.47%) Finacle
3 1 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 70 (32.71%) AWS
2 58 (27.10%) Azure
3 33 (15.42%) GitHub
4 30 (14.02%) Power Platform
5 22 (10.28%) Serverless
6 21 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.94%) GCP
8 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.74%) SaaS
13 7 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (3.27%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.27%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.93%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (32.71%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (25.70%) SQL Server
3 38 (17.76%) MySQL
4 28 (13.08%) Power BI
5 20 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (7.01%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.14%) RDBMS
8 10 (4.67%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.21%) Oracle Database
9 9 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (3.27%) Tableau
12 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (1.87%) Ataccama
14 4 (1.87%) IBM InfoSphere
14 4 (1.87%) Metadata
14 4 (1.87%) Redis
14 4 (1.87%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 62 (28.97%) Git
2 8 (3.74%) GitLab
2 8 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.74%) JIRA
3 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.40%) JUnit
4 2 (0.93%) Bower
4 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.93%) Maven
4 2 (0.93%) Mockito
4 2 (0.93%) MSTest
4 2 (0.93%) NUnit
4 2 (0.93%) Selenium
4 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.47%) CMake
5 1 (0.47%) Mocha
5 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 71 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (18.22%) Finance
3 22 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.88%) Law
5 15 (7.01%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.14%) Marketing
7 9 (4.21%) Retail
8 8 (3.74%) Banking
9 6 (2.80%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.34%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.34%) Legal
11 4 (1.87%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.40%) Back Office
12 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.93%) Front Office
13 2 (0.93%) Games
13 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 90 (42.06%) Developer
2 53 (24.77%) Senior
3 29 (13.55%) Senior Developer
4 27 (12.62%) Data Engineer
4 27 (12.62%) Software Engineer
5 25 (11.68%) Lead
6 24 (11.21%) Analyst
7 14 (6.54%) Software Developer
8 13 (6.07%) C# Developer
8 13 (6.07%) Data Analyst
9 12 (5.61%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Senior C# Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Systems Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.74%) Consultant
12 8 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.27%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.80%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.90%) CSS
1 49 (22.90%) React
2 45 (21.03%) HTML
3 43 (20.09%) REST
4 38 (17.76%) .NET
5 26 (12.15%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.15%) Node.js
6 20 (9.35%) Spring
7 19 (8.88%) .NET Core
7 19 (8.88%) .NET Framework
7 19 (8.88%) Entity Framework
7 19 (8.88%) RESTful
8 16 (7.48%) jQuery
8 16 (7.48%) Terraform
9 15 (7.01%) Vue
10 13 (6.07%) PySpark
10 13 (6.07%) Spring Boot
10 13 (6.07%) Web Services
11 12 (5.61%) Kafka
12 11 (5.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.07%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.34%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.40%) CMDB
8 3 (1.40%) CUDA
8 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.40%) NHS
8 3 (1.40%) Replication
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.93%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.21%) Windows
2 8 (3.74%) Linux
3 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.59%) CI/CD
2 74 (34.58%) Software Engineering
3 70 (32.71%) Agile
4 55 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (22.43%) Data Modelling
7 46 (21.50%) Analytics
7 46 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (18.69%) DevOps
9 39 (18.22%) AI
10 37 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (16.82%) Microservices
12 30 (14.02%) Decision-Making
12 30 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (13.55%) Clean Code
14 27 (12.62%) Code Quality
14 27 (12.62%) Mentoring
15 26 (12.15%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (12.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 117 (54.67%) SQL
2 61 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 52 (24.30%) Python
4 38 (17.76%) C#
5 37 (17.29%) Java
6 32 (14.95%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.74%) PHP
8 6 (2.80%) VBA
9 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.87%) R
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Bash
12 2 (0.93%) C
12 2 (0.93%) Clojure
12 2 (0.93%) Haskell
12 2 (0.93%) Lisp
12 2 (0.93%) OCaml
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
12 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (17.76%) Degree
2 23 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 26 (12.15%) QA
3 24 (11.21%) GDPR
4 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.93%) WCAG
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (23.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.34%) Ansible
2 5 (2.34%) Grafana
3 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.75%) Oracle
3 16 (7.48%) Databricks
4 4 (1.87%) Google
4 4 (1.87%) IBM
4 4 (1.87%) Informatica
4 4 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.87%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.40%) Sage
5 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.40%) SAP
6 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.93%) Telerik
7 1 (0.47%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.47%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Solace
7 1 (0.47%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.47%) TippingPoint