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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 238 179
Rank change year-on-year -20 -59 -24
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 148 200 589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.38% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.15% 5.79% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 98 149 461
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,124 £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% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,600 £87,750 £87,500
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 2,405 3,454 7,277
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.11% 23.76% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,827 2,331 6,203
10th Percentile £37,950 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £96,539
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 13 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 6 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.03%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Drupal
5 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.49%) AWS
2 38 (25.68%) Azure
3 18 (12.16%) Pulumi
4 15 (10.14%) GCP
5 12 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.41%) GitHub
8 7 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.05%) dbt
9 6 (4.05%) Serverless
10 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.70%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.03%) DigitalOcean
13 2 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.35%) BrowserStack
13 2 (1.35%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.89%) Broadband
2 5 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.70%) DHCP
3 4 (2.70%) DNS
3 4 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.97%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.24%) RDBMS
3 26 (17.57%) NoSQL
4 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
5 20 (13.51%) MySQL
6 13 (8.78%) MongoDB
7 12 (8.11%) Oracle Database
7 12 (8.11%) Power BI
7 12 (8.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.73%) Metadata
10 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.38%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.38%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.03%) FileMaker
12 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.35%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 34 (22.97%) Git
2 18 (12.16%) Jaeger
3 7 (4.73%) GitLab
4 3 (2.03%) JIRA
5 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.35%) MSTest
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.54%) Finance
2 23 (15.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.41%) Retail
5 6 (4.05%) Law
6 5 (3.38%) Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.70%) Front Office
7 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.03%) Aviation
8 3 (2.03%) Back Office
8 3 (2.03%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.03%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (29.73%) Developer
2 38 (25.68%) Data Engineer
3 28 (18.92%) Lead
4 24 (16.22%) Senior
5 19 (12.84%) Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.41%) Systems Developer
10 7 (4.73%) Team Leader
11 6 (4.05%) Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Applications Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Applications Support
11 6 (4.05%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.19%) CSS
2 20 (13.51%) HTML
3 19 (12.84%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (12.84%) REST
4 18 (12.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (11.49%) React
6 15 (10.14%) .NET
7 12 (8.11%) Node.js
8 11 (7.43%) Kafka
9 10 (6.76%) PySpark
10 7 (4.73%) FastAPI
11 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.05%) Classic ASP
11 6 (4.05%) Vue
12 5 (3.38%) Django
12 5 (3.38%) HTML5
12 5 (3.38%) jQuery
12 5 (3.38%) Laravel
12 5 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.38%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.05%) CUDA
3 6 (4.05%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.70%) CCTV
4 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.03%) Blog
5 3 (2.03%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.35%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.24%) Linux
2 18 (12.16%) Unix
3 7 (4.73%) Windows
4 4 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.05%) DevOps
2 42 (28.38%) Agile
3 41 (27.70%) CI/CD
4 39 (26.35%) Analytics
4 39 (26.35%) Data Modelling
5 35 (23.65%) Containerisation
6 33 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (21.62%) ETL
8 31 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (17.57%) Data Engineering
12 25 (16.89%) Data Architecture
12 25 (16.89%) GitOps
13 24 (16.22%) Software Engineering
14 23 (15.54%) Mentoring
15 22 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (14.19%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.59%) SQL
2 54 (36.49%) Python
3 48 (32.43%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.62%) Java
5 18 (12.16%) Bash
5 18 (12.16%) Go
6 14 (9.46%) C#
7 12 (8.11%) PHP
8 9 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.70%) Delphi
10 4 (2.70%) Pascal
10 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.35%) Bicep
11 2 (1.35%) Scala
11 2 (1.35%) VBA
12 1 (0.68%) Dart
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) AWS Certification
1 19 (12.84%) Degree
2 12 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.08%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.24%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.49%) GDPR
3 16 (10.81%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (31.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.97%) Terraform
3 21 (14.19%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.51%) Ansible
5 19 (12.84%) Argo
6 18 (12.16%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.03%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.68%) SCCM
8 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.51%) Google
2 20 (13.51%) Oracle
3 11 (7.43%) Databricks
4 1 (0.68%) Foundry
4 1 (0.68%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.68%) Palantir
4 1 (0.68%) Perforce
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.68%) SAP
4 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.68%) Solace