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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 161 142
Rank change year-on-year -95 -19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 126 326 627
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.07% 2.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.93% 8.06% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 84 121 514
10th Percentile £32,575 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £61,206 £57,524
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +6.40% -4.13%
75th Percentile £68,438 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £84,717
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 2,124 4,044 6,809
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.21% 25.71% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 2,417 5,791
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,500 £73,250
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 10 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 6 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.97%) Anypoint
2 5 (3.97%) CMS
3 3 (2.38%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.59%) Confluence
4 2 (1.59%) Mendix
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Luigi
5 1 (0.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Shopify
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.62%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 19 (15.08%) Pulumi
4 16 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.32%) GitHub
7 11 (8.73%) GCP
8 7 (5.56%) dbt
9 6 (4.76%) Boomi
9 6 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.76%) SaaS
9 6 (4.76%) Serverless
10 5 (3.97%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.97%) Workato
11 4 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.38%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (2.38%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.08%) Broadband
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.59%) DHCP
3 2 (1.59%) VPN
3 2 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.79%) Firewall
4 1 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 27 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 24 (19.05%) MySQL
5 19 (15.08%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.56%) Metadata
7 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.17%) FileMaker
8 4 (3.17%) Power BI
9 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
11 1 (0.79%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 22 (17.46%) Git
2 19 (15.08%) Jaeger
3 7 (5.56%) JIRA
4 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.17%) Selenium
6 3 (2.38%) JUnit
7 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.59%) GitLab
7 2 (1.59%) Postman
7 2 (1.59%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.79%) Mockito
8 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (15.87%) Finance
4 19 (15.08%) Law
5 10 (7.94%) Legal
5 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Marketing
7 5 (3.97%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Electronics
9 2 (1.59%) Front Office
9 2 (1.59%) German Language
9 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (33.33%) Developer
2 23 (18.25%) Lead
3 17 (13.49%) Analyst
3 17 (13.49%) Senior
4 12 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.35%) Team Leader
8 7 (5.56%) Architect
8 7 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.56%) Web Developer
9 6 (4.76%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.76%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.76%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.76%) Tester
10 5 (3.97%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.05%) CSS
2 23 (18.25%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (18.25%) HTML
2 23 (18.25%) React
3 20 (15.87%) .NET
4 19 (15.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 19 (15.08%) REST
5 17 (13.49%) Node.js
6 16 (12.70%) Vue
7 15 (11.90%) AngularJS
8 13 (10.32%) JSON
9 12 (9.52%) RESTful
10 11 (8.73%) SOAP
10 11 (8.73%) Web Services
11 10 (7.94%) .NET Core
12 9 (7.14%) Laravel
12 9 (7.14%) XML
13 7 (5.56%) Spring
13 7 (5.56%) Spring Boot
14 6 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.35%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.17%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.38%) Blog
6 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.59%) CCTV
7 2 (1.59%) CMDB
7 2 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.40%) Linux
2 24 (19.05%) Unix
3 7 (5.56%) Windows
4 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.94%) Agile
2 47 (37.30%) DevOps
3 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (29.37%) Containerisation
5 30 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 30 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 26 (20.63%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (18.25%) High Availability
8 23 (18.25%) Roadmaps
9 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (15.87%) Software Engineering
10 20 (15.87%) Task Automation
11 19 (15.08%) Budget Control
11 19 (15.08%) Cost Optimisation
11 19 (15.08%) GitOps
11 19 (15.08%) Product Management
11 19 (15.08%) Resource Management
11 19 (15.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 57 (45.24%) SQL
3 55 (43.65%) Python
4 40 (31.75%) Java
5 24 (19.05%) C#
6 23 (18.25%) Go
7 19 (15.08%) Bash
8 15 (11.90%) PHP
9 10 (7.94%) TypeScript
10 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.97%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.17%) Delphi
13 3 (2.38%) Ruby
14 2 (1.59%) Pascal
14 2 (1.59%) Scala
14 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.79%) Bicep
15 1 (0.79%) Dart
15 1 (0.79%) Groovy
15 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (15.87%) AWS Certification
2 16 (12.70%) Degree
3 12 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.11%) QA
2 8 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.56%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) HL7
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 28 (22.22%) Terraform
3 22 (17.46%) Ansible
4 21 (16.67%) Argo
5 20 (15.87%) Prometheus
6 19 (15.08%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.38%) Grafana
8 2 (1.59%) SCCM
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Google
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) Oracle
4 7 (5.56%) SAP
5 6 (4.76%) Informatica
5 6 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.76%) Talend
6 5 (3.97%) Dell
6 5 (3.97%) Epicor
6 5 (3.97%) IBM
6 5 (3.97%) IFS
6 5 (3.97%) Infor
6 5 (3.97%) Jitterbit
6 5 (3.97%) SnapLogic
6 5 (3.97%) Software AG
6 5 (3.97%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.97%) Workday
7 2 (1.59%) Databricks
7 2 (1.59%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat